V . ■ / c/z/j/-f^l' v ;.. \ .-**■.. ' TF^z/jncz aD-niß/unvz/i, ■ X . ';/f'' :a ?/ P&CKHAI2, AGZD C? HOZPWS, AG£D G7 At (he present time three of the United States supreme court justices are eligible to retirement, and within the period of the incumbency of the next president two more will reach the ago limit when they may retire upon pension if they so wish to do. This opens up an interesting condition and brings within the scope of possi bility, if not probability, that the suc cessor to President Roosevelt may have the privilege of filling five va cancies, which constitutes a majority -of the membership of the highest ju dicial body in the United States. If such were the privilege of the next president and he were Democratic in stead of Republican it would change completely the political character of the tribunal, and for the first time since the civil war give the Democrats & majority. Politics is not supposed to cut much figure in that high tribunal, but po litical parties, none the less, have con siderable pride and concern in seeing men of their own faith wearing the ermine, and the close decisions in a number of great legal and constitu tional questions within the last de cade make the personnel of the court a matter of concern for the future. Three of the nine members of the court are now Democrats—Chief Jus tice Fuller, appointed during Mr. Cleveland's first term; Justice White and Justice Peckham. both appointed during his second term. Five of the justices will be eligible for retirement before March 4, 1913, when the next presidential administration will have come to an end. All but two of these —Justices Fuller and Peckham— were appointed as Republicans. There is a double qualification essen tial for retirement, involving not only 70 years of age, but ten years of serv ice on the tribunal. Chief Justice Fuller is 75, and has been eligible for retirement since February 11, 1903, but, being devoted to his high office, he has never indicated anj intention of relinquishing the honor. Justice Harlan, the ranking associ ate, who lias been a member of the court over 30 years and has just passed his seventy-fifth mile tone, lias been eligible for retirement s nee June 1, 1903 —more than five years Justice Brewer has been eligible a year, hav ing passed his seventieth bir hday on June 20, 1907. Justice Peck iam ban now served on the court 13 yi-ars, and will be 70 on November P., 190.\ so that on the Sunday immediately I >llowin& the coming presidential eleetii n there will be four members of the tribunal who may allow either presiden Roose velt or his successor to designate their successors. The fifth member of the court who will be eligible for retirement under the president to be chosen in Novem ber is Justice Holmes. Although he is one of the newer members of the court, being President Roosevelt s first appointee, he will be 70 on Ms.rch 8, 1911, and will have rounded out his tenth year on the tribunal on becem ber 4. 1912. He will therefore p >ssess the right of retiring just thn e months before the end of the next president's term. As a rule, members of the sui reme court are not prone to retire the mo ment they have a chance. Must of the justices have died in harness. Since the civil war only seven justices have taken advantage of th> retire ment clause, although there h. ve been 20 appointees. There are row only two living in retirement—Jusices Brown and Shiras. When eligible' for retirement each member of the court becomes a law unto himself. A no table instance was that of the late Ju»- tice Field, who spent 34 years on the supreme bench He could have re tired any 'tma after the middle of Cleveland's first term, but. waited until the first session of the court after the inauguration of President McKinJey, in 1897, and then gave way for the ap pointment of Attorney General Mc- Kenna. This was Mr. McKinley's only selection to fill a vacancy in the court, and it placed a Republican jurist in a Democratic seat on the bench. Justice Field was a noted Democrat, who had several times been spoken of as a possible candidate for the presi dency, and the statement that he did not want a Democratic president to till his place by appointment may seem strange. Nevertheless, Justice Field, just before his retirement, gave his friends to undestand that he did not purpose to allow President Cleve land to have the pleasure of appoint ing his successor on the bench if he could help it. Justice Field and his friends believed that he was badly treated by President Cleveland when Chief Justice Waite died. Petitions came from all parts of the land and many legal organizations passed reso lutions asking that Justice Field be made Chief Justice Waite's successor, but President Cleveland passwyj over him and chose the present ctuef jus tice. Except for this Justice Field would undoubtedly have resigned to ward the end of Cleveland's second term, and there would now be four in stead of three Democrats on the su preme bench. Justice Strong, who was appointed by President Grant in IS7O, though eligible for retirement iu ISB3, retained his place on the bench nine years longer, until his death, in 1802. The important bearings of this year's presidential election upon the personnel of the court revives the fact that there was a somewhat similar condition during the last national cam paign. Chief Justice Fuller and Jus tice Harlan were both eligible for re tirement in 1904, and it was then evi dent that before the end of President Roosevelt's present term three other members of the court —Justices Brew er, Brown and Peckham—would like wise possess that right. One of these five eiigibles—Justice Brown —did re tire, making way for Mr. Moody's ap pointment, but the four others have remained. WANTED TO BE A MASCOT. Small Boy Sent on a Three Weeks' Tramp by Illinois Humorist. When 11-year-cld William Sanders arrived in St. Louis the other even ing the soles were worn from his shoes and his feet were bloody. He had been on the road three weeks and he had come all the way from Itockport, 111. Some mendacious person had told William that the Hrowns would pay the right kind of a boy SI,OOO to be their mascot, and he came over to apply for the job. It remained for the man in charge of the house of detention to disillusionize him. But the point is, William got here. In our opinion, William has enough grit and pertinacity to get there at any thing he undertakes. He has several things to learn, but one of these days, with a little judg ment, he will select the road he wants to travel, and then travel it to tho end. He will make up his mind what he wants to be, and then be it. The qualities that brought William all the way to St. Louis with his bare feet on the ground and bloody are the qualities that carry men furthest on the road to success—- a single pur pose with everlasting pluck being be hind it. These will not, it is true, carry a man to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; but only a very little judgment is required to select one of the many roads to sub stantial success. The main thing Is to stay with it.—St. Louis Post-Dis patch. 1 believe thet in a game of hearts a girl should be willin' to let a young I man hold bar hand. ORDERED JOYOUS FUNERAL IN WILL LOUISVILLE MILLIONAIRE MADE PROVISION FOR ENTERTAIN MENT OF MOURNERS. INSTRUCTIONS CARRIED OUT Had Good Things to Eat and Concert Going On While He Was Cre mated lntermission for Champagne Drinking. Kansas City.—Most peculiar of all wills is that of William P. Norton, millionaire of Louisville, which has been filed here. The Norton estate, valued approxi mately at $4,000,000, was in several states. The Kansas City property in cluded the Manhattan hotel, at Eighth street and Woodland avenue, and oth er property at Forty-first street and Woodland avenue. The Kansas City realty is valued at about $50,000. It was necessary to file the will in Kansas City in order that the execut ors might properly administer that part ot the estate here. Norton owned the Auditorium the ater in Louisville besides many other pieces of valuable real estate. Be cause the city authorities of Louisville did not agree with him in his ideas of a "wide open" town he became dissat isfied with the city where he lived so many years and wiiere he amassed a fortune. This dissatisfaction and his peculiar ideas are exemplified in the words of part of his will, which fol lows : "In case I should die in Louisville, in which dead town I have been buried alive for so many years, I wish a spe cial Pullman car to be engaged to carry my body to Cincinnati, 0., for cremation at the crematory in that city, taking along the receptaole for my ashes which will bo found in my private office. I wish the buffet of the Pullman which will carry my body to Cincinnati to be well stocked with nice things, both to eat and drink, so that my friends who will do me the honor to see me well started on my last and long 'journey to that bourne from which no traveler returns' may They Made Merry at the Funeral. not want for anything to ease their hunger or to slake their thirst. "Ae it takes about two hours to cre mate a body, and while my body is undergoing the process of cremation, I wish my executors to engage, at the cost of S2OO, the Bellsteflt Concert band of 40 musicians, the best in Cin cinnati, to render a fine concert pro gram, composed of my favorite musi cal selections, a copy of said program to be found in the same envelope which contains this, my will. "It will be noticed in the concert program that there are two intermis sions of 15 minutes each, and during said intermissions I wish my friends who will be witnesses to invite the musicians to join with them in drink ing my 'bon voyage' in champagne, several cases of which will be sent to the crematory from the buffet car. My ashes are to be placed in the bronze urn on top of the family monument in the cemetery. It is my desire that there be no religious services of any kind." The will was filed here by J. P. Houlehan, a real estate dealer in the New England building, Norton's agent in Kansas City. In leaving his family home to two cousins Norton provided that his suite of rooms in the home were to be locked up and never disturbed. No one was to occupy them. He remembered his cook, his secretary and other faith ful employes with bequests of from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO. His physician re ceived $13,000 to be spent in studying in New York and Europe. Norton was a bachelor. His life was insured for $115,000. His will provided that after the bequests were paid the rest of his estate should be converted into a trust fund to estab lish a P>aptist home for orphans in Louisville. At the beginning of the will are stanzas of poetry from Prior, Byron and Shakespeare. It is all in the same strain as this, which was quoted from Prior: Who breathos must suffer, and who thinks must mourn: And so alone is blest who ne'er was born. The executors of the estate have carried out their instructions to the letter, WRECKS SOCIAL AT GLIMPSE OF "GHOST" CHEF, MISTAKING GIRL IN WHITE FOR WRAITH CREATES HAV *C. Findlay, O.—Most of the church so cial was hanging to Dirk Postis when he stumbled out of the door. He had seen a high society ghost, and at the hour of going to press the probabili ties are that he is running yet. Postis is a chef at a local hotel and his social career has been restricted. The ad vance accounts of tlie social, particu larly in regard to the booth where candy kisses were to be sold, caused him to lay aside his white paper cap for a brief whirl of excitement. He got it. Postis made for the booth where the candy kisses were sold. The Portis Fled Panic-Stricken. church building was in a romantic half light, the illumination being furnished by Japanese lanterns. Strands of gayly colored cord con nected the booths and lines of bunt ing ran up to the roof. The scheme of decorations, in other words, was tied together. Postis smilingly dick ered for a half-pound of candy kisses. All that is appropriate to say when one is buying candy kisses was on tap because the girls back of the booth were according to Postis' style of beauty. Turning half around he saw a young woman dressed in white. Some sort of a mantilla was draped from her head and Postis thought it was a ghost. In a second he was on his way. His foot caught in a tablecloth and amid screams and the overturn ing of lights, Postis had wrecked the candy kiss department. Yelling in terror as though the ghost was at his heels, he continued through the church, bunting, flags, candy, cake, watermelon, fancy work, all follow ing as the string which apparently connected the stands was pulled tight. The deaconesses' table and the fortune teller's tent were wrecked. Postis in his hurry forgot his candy kisses. He will have a hard time getting them, as the social's assets were swept in a heap after he had broken up the party. IRATE PAPAS SEEK TATTOOER. "Jim" Squid Decorates Beach Belles, Shocking Parents. Atlantic City, N. J. —"Jim" Squid, ex sailorman and expert handler of India ink "points," is in hiding from irate fathers and brothers of a score of fair bathing maids since the latter proudly appeared on the beach the other day with tattoo marks on their fair arms and shoulders. Spectators perched in beach chairs gasped when they saw the first girl swing up the beach bearing on her rounded upper arm an entwined anchor and cable, and the surprise became a shock when it was discovered that other beach maidens had adopted the fad of having their arras marked with various devices. At first glance it was supposed that the marks, which ranged from the anchor to hearts pierced with arrows, were merely painted on, but when it was discovered that the marks were needled in and practically indelible there was a general stampede among parents to discover the artist. Several doting fathers began at once to search for "Jim" Squid. It. is said that the old sailorman had a small shop in the Howery section of the board walk, and that he has taken in several hundred dollars in carrying out his "art." $3,000 for a Cup of Coffee. Plymouth, Mass.—For a cup of cof fee which she once gave to a stranger, Mrs. Harvey Hartlett of Wellingsley has received $3,000. The gift is from Mrs. P. Lilley of New York city. Many years ago while waiting for a train at the Kneeland street station of the Old Colony railroad Mrs. Bart lett's sympathy was aroused by the sight, of an elderly woman, who was traveling alone and who appeared to be ill. Mrs. Hartlett went to a lunch room and got a cup of coffee for her. Mrs. Lilley, as she proved to be, did not forget the kindness, and has since sent Mrs. Hartlett numerous gifts. The most recent remembrance is $3,000 worth of stock in a New York manufacturing company paying eight per cent, dividends. Owed Longevity to Fruit. "Continually eating apples and other fruit" helped Mrs. Ann Hulsizer ot | Ohio well along toward 107 before ahe died. NEW YORK WOMAN WHO HAD SON ARRESTED John A. Van Rensselaer, aged 34, a stock broker, has been arrested in New York for writing threatening letters to his mother, .Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and thus trying to compel her to give him money. The young man admitted writing the letters, and his friends are of tiie opinion that his mind is unbalanced. He has been committed to a sanitarium for medical ob servation. HE WAS FACING A "DRY" DAY. Thirsty Man, True to Promise, Really in Desperate Straits. Charles M. Schwab, at the reception that he gave to the American Boiler- Makers during their convention in De troit, said that among his many mil lionaire friends all were honest, and that he did not know of a single Amer ican millionaire who had made his money dishonestly. "But the millionaire looms big," said Mr. Schwab, "and everybody wants to find fault with him. We are as anxious to find flaws in our millionaires as old Bill Lush of Loretto was to find special occasions. . " 'Yes, sir,' said Hill one night, 'I faithfully promised my wife 37 years ago never to take more than three drinks except on special occasions. Friday was my birthday, Saturday was Decoration day, Sunday my brother in-law concluded a visit to us, Monday we had fine weather after a long wet spell, to-morrow my oldest girl's new direetoire dress comes home; only to day, durn it, I can't think of anything special.' " Protecting the Miners. The American miner has been the object at one time and another of con siderable sentimental sympathy, to which he has probably paid very little attention. The establishment of a ROUTE OF THE FLEET AND TWO CHIEF OFFICERS CKHIC.OE. J A /p rijj^ £CJ*A;.C,A±C P, rrY tS/'LV r A an C o cc. A. n FRASCISC(P\ iW/M V— HONOLULU% ! t / / ILCORAL j I™ A,] AUCKLAND In every foreign port the fleet touches Uncle Sam's sailor lads will be feted to repletion. At Sydney, Australia, where the fleet will arrive August 20, they are planning to spend $500,000. A half a million for seven days' en tertainment promises a princely reception. When the vessels return to Amer ica they will have traveled 42,500 miles—almost twice the length of the equator. government experiment station for the study of mine explosives is a much more practical kind of interest, it is to be hoped that the European exam ple will be followed to the full extent of prohibiting the use of explosives that are proved unnecessarily danger ous and strictly limiting the amount of any explosive that can bo used un der given conditions. —Boston Tran script. Had the Symptom. Soiled Samuel —Wot's diss disease dey call hydrophobia? Rumpled Robert —It comes from bein' bit by a dog, an' de symptom is fear o' water. Soiled Samuel —Youse sure o' dat? Rumpled Robert —'Course I am. Wot you turnln' pale for? Soiled Samuel —I'm tryin' tor think when 1 wuz bit by a dog. Baseball Fans. "Dear me!" remarked the perspiring old lady who was making her first visit te a baseball game. "I don't see how people can tell such terrible fibs." "What now, auntie?" asked the city niece, in surprise. "Why, the paper stated that there were thousands of 'fan.;' out here every afternoon and I sun suffering witli ilie heat and ca:fin i one." ALSO A DISTINGUISHED MAN. Baseball Spectator Not Behind Players in Distinction. Baseball is a chronic complaint of Senator Crane. When he was gov ernor of Massachusetts he took his entire staff out for a drive, and sur prised them by having the rigs pull up at an open field and announcing there was to be a baseball game. Two nines were chosen and the game be gan. Pretty soon somebody came along the road. "What teams are they?" he asked of one of the drivers.' "Why, that man pitching Is the gov ernor of Massachusetts," the driver re plied. "The one catching is the lieu tenant governor. The first baseman is a congressman, the second baseman is the judge advocate general." "Say," interrupted the passerby, "perhaps you would like to know who I am. I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." Curious Fishing Methods. The natives living along the Pan- Lung river have an odd method of fishing. Two dugout boats are used, each about 30 feet long, with two men with long poles, one in the bow, the other at the stern, punting the boat along. They stretch a long rope made of bamboo and plaited grass, about a hundred yards long, and weighted about every ten yards with big stones. This they let, down into the water, and the fish are frightened toward the bank. The divers then jump in three at a time, remaining down about 20 seconds. They carry gaffs about 18 inches long, with cords attached. When ihey strike a fish thuy let go the gaft' and the fish is hauled up into the boat. A big fire is lighted on the river bank for the men to warm themselves. Easy. Mrs. Carrie Nation, arrested in Pittsburg, said that she had been ar rested o'i times. "I try to do good," she told a report er. "In trying to do good I take life hard. Some folks, most folks, in fact, take it easy—as easy as the new hired girl wanted to take her new place. " 'Everything goes by clockwork here,' the mistress said to this girl, 'By clockwork, mind you. You get up at six, you dine at 12, and you goto bed at ten.' '"Well, if that's all,' said the girl with a smile, 'I think I can manage It.*" Done in Style. "What is that fearful din?" "That is a duel between Count Ftßashi and Prince de &VJ.SS. Being prevented by social engagements from attending in person tUey have seat phonographs.
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