Connecticut western news., 1902-05-22


 witness or lmpeaches him. If man has an interest in farm and is litigat- ing about 1t. judges consider that fact. Interest, like lnfamy. impeaches. And there is no interest like the love of power and the ambition for office. In the play of King Henry yIII.' Vol sey's standard of human excellence is too high
 'My robe
 And my integrity to heaven is all"
 Judge Llnney as a spoIisman.
 During the Fifty-ffth congress in making a speech on the pension appro- priations Judge Linney showed himself anything but a civil service advocate. He said:
 There is no way of maintaining a party organization except by giving your friends the offices. The late dis. tinguished Judge Pearson of my state. the father of my colleague, once admin istered this rebuke to Judge Armfeld. one of the best representatives of legal thought In our state: Judge Armfield had selected a witness from the camp of the enemy, and that witness had de- ceived him. and he asked for a new hearing upon the ground that the wit ness had deceived and betrayed him. The court declined to grant a new hear ing. and Judge Pearson said. The man who goes to the camp of the enemy for a recruit and catches a traitor Is not entitled to the respect or sympathy of this court"
 A stude nt of History.
 Linney Is a student of the history and characters of antiquity. In the fol- lowing excerpt from the "spoilsman" speech be Eliminates the life of Esop:
 Public duties, like the manly toll that makes glorious a nations life, can not always be well performed by those possessing education and nothing else. Besides. 1t often happens that the best informed men. the men of deeds rather than those of pretensions, are those to whom an appointment to some impor- tant post operates as a sort of inspira- ton. Some of the greatest lives with which God has ever blessed this world were poor men, in the humblest walks of life. who would never think of ap- bearing in the presence of the high places of science and literature-mcn like lEsop and President Lincoln. the one a slave. the other too poor to pay his expenses to Washington after the love and admiration of his fellow citl- zens had called him to the presidency.
 "1Esop was born a slave at Ammo nius, In Phrygia the Greater about the year 623 R. c. His head was long. nose short and fiat, lips thick, a humpback, dark complexion. a large belly and bowlegs. His still greater intirmity was that his speech was slow and mar ticulate and very obscure. He was a slave, and when Zenas offered to sell him to a merchant the merchant burst into laughter, saying, Had l not been convinced by his voice. I should have taken him for blown bladder This merchant. however. afterward. In Ephesus, offered three slaves for sale Cantor. Grammaticus and Esop. In order to sell his slaves we'll he dressed Cantor and Grammatieus in fine cloth ing; but, supposing that no art could improve Esop. he dressed him in sack cloth.
 Development of Esop.
 .'The eminent philosopher. Xanthus, accompanied by his scholars, attended this slave market Looking at the two fine looking slaves, he found the price t marked upon Grammaticus to be 5000 halfpence. The philosopher said, T win not buy a slave rated at so high a price But, finding the price of Esop to be almost nothing. at the earnest so- licitation of his scholars, who wanted a plaything. he bought Esop, and the boys paid for him. The first question put to Esop was, 'Of what place are you a nativeT I am a negro said Esop. Where were you bornr Of my mother I did not ask that said Xanthus, but what place were you born inr My mother never informed me- What can you performY Moth ing replied Esop.
 This was all a civil service examina- ton could have brought out of Esop. Yee after a few years contact with the students of philosophy this lnarticulate | negro possessed both eloquence and el- 1 ocution. Yes. in this deformed body was set the largest soul, within which the most refulgent gems glittered and sparkled far beyond anything the phi | losopher Xanthus or his scholars ever knew. What did 1t? Contact with oth- CTS mainly. He could not stand com petitive examination and was bought to satisfy the curiosity of the school. boys"
 Further on in the same speech Lin ney again used Judge Armfield to Illus trate a point he was making against the irony of the civil service examina. | ton system. Here 1t Is:
 Spelling Is one of the requirements, and a man would have to spell proper | ly according to the books before he could be admitted. Suppose that test was applied generally. Judge Arm field. one of the very best and ables, lawyers in my state. spells God with a 'j,' and a little T at that. Yet he is the leader of the best legal thought In that great state and this day the equal of any living American"
 1 A Popular Orator.
 Judge Linney has come to be a popu. lar orator at the camphres of the Grand Army of the Republic. which Is anoth. CT illustration of the great generosity of the American people. Our great civ. il war is over, thank the Lord! CHAMP CLARK.