Evening star., 1925-03-22

leap of his country schooling had i'm
posed. He finished fourth in a class
of 90. But he had time to be a huge
enjoy the rough and tumble Of cam
pus life enormously and to play center
rush on the foot ball team. He
weighed 800 then and his six-footfour
made him a landmark. There is a
story OF a little opponent who had the
ingenuity to dart between the legs of
the colossus at center, for a handy
gain. and the tale concludes that Sar-
gent was incapacitated for pursuit by
his own hilarity over the method OF
attack
He was 81 at graduation. and he
meant 70 be teacher. He went home
and got married that Summer to
lovely girl named Mary Gordon. While
he was waiting for school terms to
commence. William c. Stickney, one
of the rising lawyers of the State.
suggested that Sargent study law in
his ONCE. So the bridegroom grad
uate moved into his fsther-in-lsw's
house and Mr.. Stickney gave him desk
room. Three years later he was ad-
mitted to the Vermont bar and to part
nership with his employer.
Mr.. Stickney became governor. He
made his junior partner one of his
secretaries. and that let him into the
innards of politics in Vermont He
has never been outside since, though
his has often been an influence that
was felt only at the center of the
political situation.
He won reputation as States at
torney for Windsor County a quarter
century ago by his success in catching
and convicting pair of notorious
murderers of a local sheriff. Col
Coolidge. as a deputy. served most of
the writs he issued.
Ten years later he had the same job
on a Statewide scale when he was
elected the first attorney general of
Vermont in 1908, and again in 1910.
His work carried him to the far cor
ners of Vermont. and the fame of his
bulk, his appetite and his canniness
with juries spread throughout the
State. He used to drive his span of
black Morgans to the courts within a
days ride of Ludlow, and into dis
tricts but infrequently accessible by
the rather incidental railroad service
He had to put up at farmhouses and
small inns, and at all of them he is
viIdly remembered. He would drive
in at wayside farms perhaps late in
the evening. after long day. order
supper and kick off his shoes while he
waited. Then. after a meal to stag
ger even a Vermont farm wife. he
would lie down for a cat nap full
length on the sitting room floor.
Home from these legal jaunts. he
put on old clothes and worked around
the garden, Or. II he could snatch a
day or two clear, he would hitch up
his Morgans and drive tho family out
to the old farm, dozen miles from
Ludlow, where he loved to rusticate in
camp he had largely constructed
himself. Here his intimate friends
were often entertained. It was the
base for fishing trips. He loves to
fish and is an expert marksman.
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Busy as he has been all his life, he
is a comfortable man who knows how
TO drop TIE WOiiu . business 1Or a
days boyish play. Perhaps that ac-
counts for his tremendous capacity
for work. Often he works in his cozy
den until in the morning. But be-
tween stacks of work he has snatches
of ease that he hugely enjoys. His
work has taken him to Boston, New
York and Washington. He has repre-
sented his State in it's long standing
boundary dispute with New Hamp-