Evening star., 1893-10-07

mer home will be at Southampton l.. ].
He has Just finished building large cottage
there. His house Is surrounded by six acres
or ground, ard the lot has frontage of
ooO rect. The cottage Is a two-story and
attic building, with wide verandas running
around the front and sides. 1t is made of
clap boards and shingles. and has cost all
told about 10000. 1t contains over a score
OF rooms. anu II has a most elaborate sys-
tenn of subsoil drainage. All the sewerage
from the house runs off into a great tank
400 feet away from it, 1t is here reduced
To pulp. and by means of a siphCn and a
large number of subterranean drains car
ried OF into the soil The house itself Is
lighted by electricity, and one of its promi-
nent features Is big hall, with a number
or large rooms opening into II.
Blne-BlOoded Justices.
Speaking of blue-blooded justices, Justice
Stephen j. Field can trace his ancestry
back to the flood. One of his grandfathers
was in the revolutionary army as a captain
and his father went to school with the
father of William NJ Evarts. His three
brothers all became famous and the family
has for the past fifty years been one of the
most noted in the country. Justice Harlan
belongs to one of the Oldest families in
Kentucky and his father was attorney gen.
eral OF that state at the time of his death.
Howell Jackson is also blue blooded. and
Justice Brown comes from one of the
Brown families of New England, which is
noted for Its famous men. He was born at
Lee, Mass, and / am not sure, but think
one or his connections was John Brown,
the revolutionist of HIS. This man was
sent to Canada by our forefathers to ex-
cite the people TO revolt. He went around
pretending to buy horses, but in reality
talking up the revolution which afterwards
resulted In the war of independence. He
afterwards went with Ethan Allen on his
expedition to Canada and he was for a time
under Benedict Arnold. He did not like
a nd lAfe l.
would prove traitor, as he did. Justice
Shiras comes of good Pennsylvania stock
ana MS mother was the daughter of the
Rev @. L. Peabody, one of the most IA
nous preachers Of his day
Queer Condolences About Supreme
Court Justices.
Some queer thirgs have happened to the
men on the Supreme bench. 1t is strange
that Justices Shires, Brewer and Brown
should have gone to school at Yale at the
same time and in the same class They
graduated together in 1855 and Shiras won
the Hadley prize of that year. 1t is strange
that Justice Stephen j. Field and Justice
Brewer should both spend the earliest part
OF their lives in Asia Minor and should come
together in the highest court OF the land.
stephen j. Field went to Asia Minor when
ne was nfteen years old to visit his sister
who had married a missionary, and he
stayed there until he practically ACQUIRED
the oriental languages. He Is now one of
the best linguists on the bench and he can
speak a half dozen different tongues and
read more Justice Brewer was born in
smyrna, the same place to which Stephen
j. Field went. and not more than a year or
so after he left. His father was a famous
missionary. who was the first one of the
american preachers to volunteer to 60 to
Smyrn"- He established the first news
pape- that was ever published In that city
and he introduced schools and the print
ing press. HE was graduate of Yale and
writer as Well as preacher. editor and
teacher. 1t was he who married the sister
OF Stephen j. Field. and 1t is a curious
thing that uncle and nephew thus sit side
oy side ON the bench of this the highest
court IN the land. 1t is queer that Shiras
F1eld Brewer and Hornblower should ali
De the sons of preachers and strange that
Hornoiower should have been educated i'm
the law by his uncle, Justice Bradley and
50 soon succeed MIN after Bradley's death
EARLY Lives of Our Famous judges,
see IL stated that Justice Uor,b,ower
Is the youngest man, with the exception of
Justice Story. who has ever been appointed
TO the Supreme bench. This is a mistake
hornblower Is forty-two and Judge Story
was ten years younger at the time of his
appointment and William johnson of South
carolina. who was appointed by Thomas
Jenerson was only thirty-three years of
age lie stayed On the bench thirty wears
and If Hornblower lives that long he Will
get just SOOOO0 out of Uncle Sans treas
ury. Among the other young justices of
the Supreme Court Bushrod Washington
the nephew OF George. took his seat on the
supreme bench at thi-ty-sx years of age
and he stayed there for thirty-one years
Thomas Todd of Kentucky, who was an
pointed at fOrty-two being exactly the
same age as Justice Horn blower remained
nineteen years. and Joseph A. Campbell of
tennessee was also forty-two, living only
eight years after his appointment while
Benjamin r. Curtis of Massachusetts sery-
ed only six years. As to the present lust
ices Harlan of Kentucky was forty-four
when he was appointed, Gray was fifty
three, Brewer hfty-two, Brown fifty-fou-
and Chief Justice Fuller ifty-five when they
nrSt took their seats on the Supreme bench
Justice Field was forty-seven and he has
been on the bench for thi-ty-two years.
which. at $4,000 year. would equal $500 OoO
There is no telling how long a man will
live after he has been appointed to the
Supreme bench. here Is no softer snap in
Uncle Sans gift than that of the Supreme
Court justice. and skeleton appointed to
the Supreme bench is liable to fatten up
and last generation.
A Story of Chief Justice Taney.
Take, for Instance, Chief Justice Taney
He was as thin as a rail when he was ap-
pointed and he seemed to be just on the
edge of the grave. No one thought he
was appointed fifty-nine of the leading
lawyers of the United States laid their
plans to become his successor. He lived
Just twenty seven years after that time
and he died at eighty-seven. Just before he
was appointed a lawyer wanted to get him
to try case. The case had been in the
courts long time and two of his lawyers
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