Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-03-07

meanest coward on earth Is the coward
who Hest is one of the epigrams that JUS
tice Jerome one day hurled at a witness
In his court. 1t is related that the Of
Tending witness promptly changed his tes-
timony and told the truth.
Jerome, the man, scarcely looks the
part of the politician militant. He Is 43
years old and looks younger. He is of
good height, but slender. His face is
rather thin and narrow. 1t is the face of
the student, the man of intellect, rather
than the face OF the fighter. But true
physical courage is marked In the firm
chin, the thin lips and the flash of the
keen gray eyes The man of good blood
and gentle breeding is marked In every
line of his face, and his manner. unstudied
and unaffected. is that of the man who
knows men and appreciates them at their
true worth.
In all things Justice Jerome is essen
TALLY a man of action. He has that ner-
vous, restless temperament under the
spell OF which no man is content unless
he Is doing things or getting things done.
Action is the watchword of his existence.
as well as the secret OF his success In
politics. When red tape bars his way he
tears Il to shreds. When conventional
tiles and precedents would delay work
and results. ne brushes them aside as so
many cobwebs. that may be good to look
at, but are mere entanglements In the life
of action. He possesses to marked de-
gree the fortunate faculty of fixing his
mind on one thing at a time. When he
works 1t is with all the strength and en-
ergy of his nature. When he plays or
rests work is forgotten.
Justice Jerome owns country home at
| Lakeville. Conn. and II Is country home
| in the true sense of the word. His house
| is some distance from the town. built on
a slight hill and surrounded by woods.
IL f, cell, 10 70 erafR n nO
In the basement OF his country home he
| has fitted up a very complete machine
| shop. There is a steam engine, mass OF
| shafting, belts and pulleys and all man
ner of small lathes saws. files and other
modern machines for carpenter and cab
met work. He turns golf balls equal to
| the best trade-marked article and pre-
| sents them to his friends This machine
| shop is his playroom, and there he spends
| as much of his leisure time as possible.
| He has invented things In this workshop,
none of them patented as yet, none In
| general use, but to his friends he some
| times confides the secret ambition that he
| had rather be the inventor of some great
| labor-saving machine or device-some-
| thing of practical benefit to mankind
| than to win any kind of political victory.
This aggressive, outspoken politician
| militant, who won thousands of votes by
defying party leaders and all political
| presidents, has a very human side, so
human, in fact. that it is entirely unro-
mantle. He has wife and one child, a
boy - years old. They are the people
of his social world If they are happy
| he is content. The boy is his pet and
companion. During his whirlwind cam
paign the boy accompanied him several
times to daylight meetings, and the Judge
would not begin speech until 'Chinkey,
| as the lad is nicknamed, had seat or
standing room on the platform. "-lAins-
lees Magazine.