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Of your services here; there be many that come In terror and trembling, all stricken and dumb, To the High Court of Mercy. No refuge, no friend; Cut off in their sins, unprepared for the End, Not a word can they utter. For these might you speak, Your eloquence in defense of the weak. "You Prince of all Quibblers, whatever the blame Attaches to you, at his own little game Have you beaten St. Peter, yea, talked him to sleep. First judgment reversed, pass along with the Sheep." The lawyer bowed humbly and turned to obey; Just then he awoke, and the broad shining day Illumined his chamber with many a beam. He wept, when he found it was only a dream. Kiowa, Kans.

James M. Morton, Jr., to Succeed Judge Dodge JAMES M. MORTON, Jr., son of Mr. Justice Morton of the Massa chusetts Supreme Judicial Court, was appointed by President Taft Aug. 9, United States Judge for the district of of Massachusetts, succeeding District Judge Frederic Dodge, who has just been made federal Circuit Judge suc ceeding the late Judge Schofield. There was no doubt with regard to the ex pected confirmation by the Senate of this most acceptable nomination, which was made as the President's personal selection rather than at the request of the Massachusetts Senators. Mr. Morton, who has held no public office except that of Chairman of the Police Board of Fall River, comes of the celebrated Morton family noted in Massachusetts for having supplied Gov ernor Morton and other men eminent on the bench of Massachusetts, Mr. Morton's father having been on the state Supreme bench since 1890. The original ancestor in this country was George Morton, who came from Eng land to Plymouth in 1623.

James Madison Morton, Jr., was born in Fall River on Aug. 24, 1869, a son of Justice James M. Morton of that city and Emily Frances (Canedy) Morton. He received his early education in the public schools and was graduated from the Fall River high school in 1886. After spending a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Harvard and was graduated from that institu tion, cum laude, in 1891. He then took course in the Harvard Law School and on his graduation in 1894 received the degrees of A.M. and LL.B. He repre sented the law school and was the law orator at the Commencement exercises in 1894. Mr. Morton was admitted to the state bar at the spring sitting of the Supreme Court in Taunton in 1894 and began the practice of his profession in Fall River in the following June, in partnership with Andrew J. Jennings, who had been his father's partner before the latter's appointment to the bench in 1890.