New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-04

By WALTON WILLIAMS.

81 ed States supreme court
49, bench on Oct. 10 he will be
the youngest member OF the court.
Governor Hughes is forty-eight years
old, and the youngest member next to
him. Justice Moody, is eight years his
senior. OF the other members of our
highest judicial tribunal Chief Justice
Fuller and Justice Harlan are each
seventy-seven, or nearly thirty years
older than Hughes. Justice Holmes is
sixty-nine, Justice McKenna sixty-sev-
en-, Justice Lurton sixty-six, Justice
White sixty-five and Justice Day six
ty-one. The average age of the JUS
tees, including Hughes, will thus be
trif1e over sixty-fve years, or sew
enteen years older than the governor
himself. Justice Hughes will have
twenty-five years to serve before he
reaches the age Of voluntary retire
ment, and if he lives to the age Of
Marshall, fancy, Field and others of
the great justices Of the past he will
be on the bench over thirty years. or
till very nearly the middle of the
twentieth century.
Should Justice Moody recover his
health and take his place at the be-
ginning of the October term of court
there will be full bench for the first
time in more than a year. Owing to
Moody's illness and the deaths Of JUS
tees Peckham and Brewer the court
has met during the present season
often with only seven members and
sometimes with only six.
The supreme court that convenes in
October will be distinguished body
aside from its own peculiar fame
Among it's members will be three for
mer cabinet officers, McKenna, Day
and Moody; one former United States
senator, White; one noted law writer
and chief justice of the Massachu-
setts court, Holmes; one circuit Judge
that served with President Taft, Lur-
ton; one former governor Of the EN-
pire State and presidential possibility,
Hughes, and two white haired jurists
who have gained fame through long
service in the supreme court itself,
Fuller and Harlan Geographically
there will be two members from Mas
sachusetts and one each from New
York, Ohio. Illinois. Kentucky, Tennes-
see. Louisiana and California. Po-
liticaIly the court will stand six Re
publicans and three Democrats Two
of the justices. White and Lurton,
were soldiers in the Confederate army.
and two more, Harlan and Holmes,
fought in the Union army.
Graduated at Thirteen.
| Governor Hughes is a son of Bap-
list minister. From the time Of his
birth in Glens Falls, N. Y, on April
Il, 1862, until his father was called to
New York city from Newark, N. j.,
about twelve years later, the family
was more or less on the move. His
mother had been schoo lteacher be-
fore her marriage, and, realizing the
+ disadvantages that child labors I'M
der in getting an education first at this
school and then at that. she decided to
teach the boy herself.
! In the one year that he went to pub
lie school in Newark and during his
brief public school career in New York,
| ending with his graduation at the age
Of thirteen, he showed a proficiency
beyond his years in mathematics and
a memory for figures that proved as
tonishing to his teachers. While at
Colgate university then Madisonl and
later on at Brown university, where he
graduated In 1881, he was frequently