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by a well-planned regimen of bodily exercise. of comes a gymnasium over Every to his morning in house his and the neighborhood proprietor puts him

from the eighth judicial circuit, is ﬁfty He one “progressive" took yearspart, old,school however, and is of credited Republicanism. in the decision to the

through a lot of gymnastic exercises, winding up with a massage. This is to get the Chief Justice in trim for his

of the Circuit Court of Appeals for his Circuit, sustaining the position of the Government in the litigation with the Standard Oil Company. A former Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, he is regarded as a high authority in

hard day's work.

A favorite walk of his is around the khite Lot, the name for the big open space back of the White House grounds. Here the big form of the Chief Justice '5 often to be seen walking around the

lot at his rapid pace, sometimes circling

land cases.

Mr. Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar, formerly of the Supreme Court of Georgia, is ﬁfty-three years old, and is

the route several times during an after

generally regarded as a man of conser

noon. This he does to obtain needed exercise. Often on such walks his lips are moving. In such cases he is analyz

vative tendencies. He has been one of the leaders of the Southern bar since he

ing precedents.

ognized strength of mind and character. Of the nine members of the present

“For," to quote Charles Willis Thomp son, “ﬁnished and elegant as his opinions always sound when they are handed down, he does not read them from manu script. as do the other Justices. ‘He is like,’ said one of the court clerks,

‘Justice Gray, who would read the title of a case and then throw his glasses down and deliver the rest of the opinion as if it were something on which he was formulating his views as he went along. He was a wonder, and Justice White is like him.’ ” A United States Senator has said that Mr. White's opinions are classics in dic

left the state bench, and is a man of rec

bench, Mr. Taft has already named four

(Lurton, Hughes, Van Devanter, Lamar). Justices Holmes and Day were appointed by President Roosevelt. Justice Mc Kenna was named by President Mc

Kinley.

Justice White was appointed

by President Cleveland. Justice Harlan, who will be seventy-eight years of age

on June 1, was appointed by President Hayes thirty-three years ago. Justice Harlan keeps a mind of remarkable vigor for a man of his advanced years. The next in age on the bench is Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who will be

tion, and models of what decisions should

seventy in a few weeks, but whose mind

be. This Senator said that he took a keen joy in the mere reading of a White decision, because of the pleasure in fol

is as fresh and active as ever. This is the powerful tribunal with which no other court of the world ranks in majesty and in power, and which is now called

lowing its masterly arrangement and its perfect style. Mr. Justice Willis Van Devanter of Cheyenne, Wyo., who was promoted

upon to decide a group of momentous

cases involving the powers granted the federal Government by the Constitution.