Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-22

faculty of Columbian University in this city
he has been more than lecturer on law
and an authority upon legal questions. He
has come into the life of the great body OF
students with whom he has been brought
into contact. Not only do the students
love the name of Harlan because of the
cordial relations that exist between them,
but the justice takes no greater interest in
any of the duties that he has taken upon
himself than in those that bring him into
contact with the students. He likes young
men. and being himself a young man in his
views of the affairs of life, finds no diff
Guilty in maintaining a relation of friend
ship with them.
There is no out-of-door sport that is not
familiar to Mr.. Harlan. Not only has he
always taken an interest in such sports,
but he has been an ardent participant in
many of them. At his summer home in
Murray Bay, Canada he is known as an
earnest golf player, and was, for time, the
president of the golf club which boasts
many fine players He loves physical ex-
ercse of any kind. Although he lives three
ago he walked daily to and from the Capt.
tol during the sessions of the court
No Thought of Retiring.
Although another birthday will be his
seventyfourth, his retirement would be re-
garded as a distinct loss to the court be-
cause of his natural ability. vigorous Amer
constitutional questions that have come be-
fore him.
Being asked when he intends to resign
from the bench, his reply was that he did
not know, that he had never taken that
question up for consideration Just at this
time he felt like sticking at his post, but
now and then strong feeling comes over
him to throw aside all work and pass the
remainder of his days in absolute quiet.
or how hn coil 10
have time to prepare a book of reminis-
cences." This book, if ever completed, will
cover practically all of his life, including
his experiences in the civil war and his &C
quaintance with the men of that war.
Mr.. Harlan is kentuckian by birth, and
although born within a slave state both
he and his father were strong friends of
freedom during the days when to be an
abGiitionist even in the north indicated very
sturdy courage The Harlans were slave
owners, and the father of Mr.. Justice Har-
Ian possessed large number of human
chattels by inheritance. The father early
grew to abhor the traffic in human beings.
Owned Slave Against His Will.
An interesting story is told of the single
experience of Justice Harlan as the owner
of slave. That ownership came about
in curious manner Before the close of
the war, and after the time of his mar
riage, a colorcd woman who had known
his family came to him and asked him to
purchase her
Why said Mr. Harlan, Il never owned
n slave in my life, and L opposed to
slavery"
Aunt Charlotte was not to be put off so
easily. She said she had to be owned by
some one, and insisted that she would
prove a worthy servant. Mr.. Harlan was
about to go to housekeeping and agreed
to buy Charlotte and to employ her as his
cook. He was in warm sympathy with
the Union cause. having at that time served
in the army, and was confident that 1t
would not be long before the slave he was
about to purchase would be free through
the success of the Union cause. So he pur-
chased the slave for SIPS the low price
being an evidence of the slender thread
by which the institution of slavery was
held at that time. The savory viands that
Charlotte could concoct are a pleasant
that still fingers with him.
Son of the Blue Grass State.
Mr.. Harlan was born June /, 1888, in