Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1923, Page 77

THE SUNDAY ST. AR, WASHINGTON, D. O, APRIL 22, 1923—PART 5. 5" MAY “SEE” WITH NOSE OR FINGERS [Supreme Court and Its Justices | In Days Following the Civil War ¥ People Who Are Unable to Use Natural Sight Obtain Hope From Science Which Finds [ “Eyes” All Over the Body—Myriad Little Cells Which May Be Cultivated Furnish Basis for | Claims Which Grow Out of Experiments Performed in Presence of Experts at Paris Hospital, | Use of Hypnotism Is One Factor in Work That Has Been Done—Condition Produced Is Like | ‘That Due to Ordinary Concentration of Mind. BY ARTHUR BENINGTON. OPE of sight for the blind came flashing across the At- lantic a few weeks ago when the cables brought a brief ac- count of the extraordinary discovery by Louis Farigoule of eves all over the body, with which after a little tralning men can see at least fairly well. The announcement was received with & certain amount of incredulity, for no anatomist had ever before heard of such secondary eves. Buta detalled account of Farigoule's dem- onstration, written by Dr. Jean La- badie, is now at hand. and reading it certainly jolts one's incredulity, if indeed It does not convince one of the truth of the facts alleged by the dis- coverer. M. Farlgoule is a graduate in phil- osophy and a former student in the science branch of the normal school. Under the pscudonym of Jules Ro- mains he Al known as poet, d novelist He has demonstrated his discovery at the Cochin Hospital, Paris, before iany of the leading physicians and oculists in France, and the recital of the facts observed at these seances is attested by the names of Dr. Catonet, chief of the hospital; Dr. de Saint- Martin, opthalmologist of the Tou- louse hospitals; Prof. Legrand, Drs. Stevenard, Foubert, Fombeurre, etc.— all of whom are well known in France. M. Farigoule gave a special demon- stration for Dr. Jean Labuadie, one of the best writers on scientific topics, and a few others. And Dr. Labadie contributes & long and important article upon it to L'Illustration. The man used for this demonstra- tion was not blind, but perfectly nor- mal and well educated. He was not a “medium,” for there is nothing of the occult or the so-called supernor- mal about the new theory of extra- retinal sight. Only a trained person can be used for demonstrating it, because. If such power of sight exists in all of us, it is latent and we know not how to exercise it until we have been trained in its use. M. Farigoule explains that the im- portant fact which fs brought out by his discovery is the necessity of “patient education after a difficult awakening of a latent function of our organism, or the transposition of this function from a special condition such as somnambulism into the ordi- nary state of clear knowledge. M. Farigoule begins by hypnotizing his subj, but gradually relaxes his artificial hypnosis until the sub- jects have learned to place them- selves into this condition. He says we all hypnotize ourselves every time that we concent e on a aect or thought, and It is just this natural condition that he works to bring about. M. Farigoule his subject by the eyelids with opaque paper, with white adhesive silk placed horizon- tally and vertically crosswise, a band of black eilk padded with cotton bat- ting, and a palr of big spectacles made of lead covering all. The lead stops the passage of any X-rays that might possibly be present. others blindfold sealing has sue R. LABADIE'S description of the demonstration is as follows: M. Farigoule asks us to arrange in a glass frame in any way we like six or seven bits of paper with designs of colors of different sorts on them, selected from about 200 which he has brought with him. This combi- nation of seven terms out of 200 makes the possibility of their being guessed one In six quadriliions. and this without regard to the diverse colors. **This is only a preliminary prac- tice test says M. Farigoule. “The subject takes the holder, feels it, brings it close to his cheeks and especially to his nostrils. This which he runs over the glass with his index finger slowly and indicates the designs one after another say- ing: “T see un envelope—blue outline— on a vyellow background—a red square—a blue square with rose spots—excuse me, old rose; a dark- blue frame surrounding a big green spot with a violet lozenge in the center—the figure § in violet—the figure 7 in black.' . Humorist as Expert On Ideal Parenthood REPRODUCTION OF PAINTING OF IRVIN S. COBB AND DAUGHTER. BY IRVIN 8. COBB. ‘HERE are so many angles to this subject of the responsibil- ities of parenthood, I hardly know where to begin. I am certain that did I undertake to go thoroughly into it I shouldn’t know where to stop. 1t is pretty generally understood— and conceded—that the best authorli- ties on the science of rearing off- spring are those who have never had any. In this fleld they are the pro- fessionals. Not being hampered by children of their own, they naturally have more time to devote to the task of telling other people how to rear the children that these other people have or have had or expect to have. As compared with them, I merely am an amateur. But if I were trying to sum up in & paragraph or two my views on this topie, I should say that a joint obli- gation rests- upon parent and child alike. Either of them should strive to mold his or her life and acts in such a way as to retain the affection and the respect and the confidence of the other. I do not believe this calls so much for discipline as it calls for co-operation and an honest effort on the part of the senior member to get upon a basis of complete and proper understanding with the junior of the old established firm of Parent & Child. ‘We cannot rule the lives of others. To undertake to do so is, in my belief, a mistake. But we can seek, largely by example, to guide into good chan- nels the lives of those who will bear our names and the strain of our blood in the next generation. That's & suf- ficient job for any man or any woman, and to my way of thinking, a most laudable one. clusively through Nocth American Newsparer Alliance, All rights xn:rvi.) he does for five or six minutes, after NO POSSIBILITY OF DIRECT VISION, EVEN IF SIMPLY BLINDFOLDED. “M. Farigoule then invites us to vary the experiment as we will. One of us goes aside and draws, without letting any of the others know, three different signs in three colors on Whatman paper. He returns the paper to the subject, who replied |atter several seconds: ‘A black 3, a | blue 4, a rose 67 “It is exactly correct. “Untl] this moment every object presented has been known to at least one of those present, 8o it was pos- sible to invoke & ‘thought transmis- sion.' We decided to pick at random, without looking at it, & leaf from the mass of a calendar that hung upon the wall. Then we go into the dark room and place the leaf under the frame and return this to the subject without looking at it. No one in the room knowing the date on the leaf from the calendar, no thought trans- mission can now be invoked. “Thus It is done. I hand the frame to the subject, who soon replies cor- rectly: ‘Sunday, May 20’ The man who had detached the leaf cries: “Why, I thought I had picked down near the end of the year!' This re- mark banishes finally the hypothes of mental intercommunication. “We pass on to the use of an In- strument devised by M. Farigoule. He calls it a ‘peep show.” It Is like a tiny stage, with electric lights in the celling, shaded by a black screen. On the stage, in a groove, ‘scenery'— playing cards, for example—can be set. The subject with the peep show in his hands must describe to us what he sees there. “I install & queen of clubs, the deuce of clubs and the 8 of diamonds. “These objects are placed in the three dimensions of space, and not frmerely in two, as in the glazed frame. Naturally, he is not permitted to feel with his fingers. “I observe, besides, that In the po- sition in which the subject holds the ‘stage’ not one direct visual ray could pass between the object and his eye even If his eye, Instead of being sealed, were simply velled with an ordinary bandage, even if he could use the hollow inevitably left by the bandage at the root of the nose, as children 4o when playing blind man's buft. “I wait, as usual, several seconds for the response. Here it is: ‘I see— a jack of clubs—another club—a 2— and an 8 of diamonds.’ *x %% {1 E stage is now placed upon a chair, more than a yard distant from the subject. An operator at the far end of the room turns the light on and off with no regularity. “The subject puts out his arm as it seeking to locate something In space. Having touched the outer edge of the box, he begins to follow the fluctuations of the light—'out, ‘on,” etec. He recognizes the cards in the light. I place a ground glass in front of the ‘stage’; he recognises the lighted condition, but says he can no longer the cards. “This group of methodical though summary experiments shows that the subject sees form and colors In space. “To clear up this Qquestion of ‘paroptic’ colored vision, we hand the subject a card of samples on which the colors are arranged in spots of uniform shape and graduated from the deepest to the lightest tone. ““What 4o you see?” asks one of us. “'One would say a “spot of blood™’ “It is really a mark made dy a carmine crayon. “In experiments with reading an open book the subject says: ‘I see an L—1I see a G—GIE-L'ENER-L'ENER- GIE - L'ENERGIE - DE - RO-TATION." And these words situated In the mid: dle of the page have nothing special about tiem; they are even less visl- ble than certain sentences that pass unnoticed. Paroptic vision seems to proceed by successive perception, as 1f a luminous finger were moving over the page and the subject's attention were directed to this pencil of light and gulding it, using It as a broom to sweep away the surrounding shadow, but the conquest of light is made only point by point and mnot synoptically. M. Farigoule has for fifteen years been making such experiments and thinking out what they mean. There is no space here to go into the de- talls bf the theory his work has led him to adopt. It is, however, briefly, that we all are endowed with organs of sight besides our eyes and that these are similar to those of worme roaches and some of the leeches— that is, a multitude of minute nerve cells under the skin, each with the power of seeing, at least to some ex- tent. There wre certaln nerve termi- nations, first discovered by Ranvier and hitherto supposed to be a part of the organs of touch, which M. Fari- goule believes to be microscopic and primitive eyes. He calls them “ocelles.” They contain a crystalline refracting cell, set in a sort of lens like a retina, terminating in & nerve fiber, which he bellieves to be a sort of optic nerve as well as one of the sense of touch. EE HESE “ocelles” are found in mil- lions. According to Farigoule, | their myriad tmages, each crude and | impertect, are co-ordinated in tRe | mind, just as the two images formed By our two eves are co-ordinated, and Tesult in u single fairly perfect pic- ture. Much has been written about | “centers” of sight. of apeech, etc., in | the brain, but experience in the great war taught anatomists that they must modify, perhaps discard, all their |ideas about centers; for they saw | many men lose large quantities of the substance of their brains and yet continue to behave normally in every | respect. No one can say certainly in | what part of the brain or spinal cord | the “center” for sight exists, if even | 1t exists at all. Farigoule's theory is | that optical centers may exist all over NERVE TERMINATIONS IN MEMBRANE OF THE HUMAN NOSE. GROUP OF OCELLES IN DEPRESSION AT LEFT. the body. Thus we, If trained to it, might “see” with our fingers or with our noses! | It seems that the membranes of the | nose are extraordinarily rich in ocelles. This may mean a elose link- ing of the sense of sight, smell and touck. Many blind men have spoken and written of that sense which enables them to percelve obstacles and thus| to find their way about. Children in homes for the blind have been pic- tured playing like any children in groves of trees. It may be that Louls Farigoule has found the explanation of this mysterious sense and that It may exist in all of us, lying dormant for want of use, and awaiting only education to serve as & substitute for our eyes. A Curious Frog. HE New York Zoological Soclety possesses a rematkable African frog that is able to utter audible sounds while under water. It is call- ed the smooth-clawed frog (Xenopus loevis), and obtains its name from the curious black claws, very sharp, of the forefeet. Extremely large web- ‘bed hind feet enable the frog to swim as easily as a fish. The smooth-claw- ed frog Is found in nearly all parts of Africa, and Is exclusively aquatic, for it is not able to move about when out of water. The tadpole grows a pair of long tentacles that hang from the corners of the mouth. Attend- ants at the aquarlum in New York have heard the curious metallic call at a distance of thirty or forty feet, when the frogs were at the bottom of their tank, under two feet of ‘water. Most Useful Animal. IN the opinion of an official of the government In Alaska, Provideace seems to have adapted the reindeer to the peculiar conditions of Arctic life and made him at once the best helper to man in the transportation of supplies, the surest source of animal f0od, and the producer of the warmest _clothing. is_horns and hoofs furnish the best material for the making of glue, his hair, on aoccount of its extrems lightness, is the best for use in the construction of life-saving sapparatus, and he also furnishes the possibilities for ll{l’. and wealth-producing indus- tries. Insects’ Senses ANY eminent naturalists have de- leved that the bright colors of flowers serve to attract insscts. A Belgian Investigator disagress with this opinion, and thinks that the sense of smell is the one chiefly con- cerned In causing insects to frequent certaln flowers. He finds that the removal of tl brilllant petals of flowers to which Insects ars accus- tomed to resort does not decrease the frequency of thelr visits, and, on the other hand, that when honey is placed Soentioon, Theccts Immedietely Dot g8, to flock to them. ' \ BY W. H. SMITH. HORTLY after coming out of the Army in 1865 1 was given & place among the attaches of the Supreme Court at Washington. My epecial duty was to do the “Oh, yea" stunt; that {s declaring Wwith solemn form and ceremony that the court was ready to listen to the wait- ing lawyers, and then later in the day to announce that the court was tired and wanted to quit. When I Teceived the appeintment I felt highly e at the idea of being attached to “the highest judi- clal tribunal In the world,” and it was with a distinct feeling of awe that I for eome time performed my special duties, but it did not take me iong to find out that although a man might be 80 learned in the law, and occupy among his fellows s0 exalted a position as to make him worthy of a place on this great tribunal, he still carried with him the little foibles and pecullarities that had distinguished him as @ private citizen. The court at that Ume was com- posed of Chlef Justice Chase and Justices Wayne, Nelson, Grier, Clif- ford, Swayne, Miller, Davis and Fields. They were all large men physically, Flelds being perhaps the lightest in welght, vet he would have pulled down 180 pounds, while Clifford's welght would have reached nearly 300 pounde, if it would not ®ave gone beyond that mark. They were all big mentally, there | not being a light-welght among| them. Justice Wayne was the oldest in years and in length of service. Our | government under the Constitution | was but one year old when James M. | Wayne first saw the light, and he was | nearing the fourscore mark at the | time of which I am writing. Nearly his entire life after reaching sdult age had been spent In the service of the public In one capacity or another. As a member of the national House of Representatives he had been one of the most distinguished. It was during the reign of Jacksom, and he had been one of the most ardent and devoted supporters of Old Hickory in his fight agalnst nullification. In 1835 that grand old warrior appointed him one of the justices of the Su- | preme Court. He had & high and| prominent forehead, a large nose and mouth, and, notwithstanding his great | age, a Meavy head of hair which he | always kept brushed with the great- | est care. He always pald close attention to | the arguments of attorneys, fre-| quently making copious notes. He seldom Interrupted an argument by asking a question, and when he did 0 it was in the most courteous man- | ner. In fact, he was courteous with every one. I recall an incident dis- | playing thie. One night I was sent! by the Chief Justice with a mescage to Justice Wayne, who lived, T be- lieve, on H street west of 16th. His daughter happened to be In the hall when the servant opened the door, | and on being informed I had a mes- | sage for the justice she told me I would find him in his library. He was engaged at his desk and | when I tapped on the door spoke up | with irritation, Members Were All Large Physically—They Faced Many New Questions Growing-Out of Conflict—Some of Their Characteristics De- scribed—Two Who Ate Candy During Ses- sions—Varying Effects of Crowded Court. How a Biblical Expert Met His Match—A Story About Gen. Butler. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \ “CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE W. S DIGNITY PERSONIFIED.” long white hair hanging down to his shoulders. Like Justice Wayne, he was born in the latter part of the elghteenth century, but was still physically vigorous. His judictal opin- fons always ranked high with the members of the bar and with his asso- olates on the bench. He was & man of large lesrning apart from the law and in disposition was always kindly and courteous to every one. With the employes of the court | Justice Miller was the most popular, |1n this respect ranking with Justices ! Swayne and Davis. He was one of the new members of the court, having been appointed by President Lincoln in 1862. He originally adopted the medical profession and was gradu- ated from Transylvania University in 1838. He practiced medicine for sev- eral years and then turned his atten- ticn to the law. In politics he was one of the first to aid in forming the republican party. He had not long been on the bench befors he estab- lished & reputation as a great jurist. As one writer sald, he was “logic; learned, wise, robust, rugged, simple and honest.” It has been said of him that he wrote more opinions of the court than any other member, and | more opintons in construction of ths | Constitution than any judge who had ever sat in the Supreme Court. His opinfons were always so clearly ex- pressed that no one was ever in doubt {as to their meaning or as to the points he decided. He always had a kindly smile and greeting for all the employes of the court and never fall ed to thank any of them for a service. The pages fairly adored him and | would spring with alacrity when he signaled for one of them. * ¥ ¥ X USTICE FIELD was the only merm ber of the court who wore a full beard. He wasdecidedly the “Adgets” member and was disposed to be fault- finding with the attaches, and rarely failed to complain of some neglect the part of the pages. A full lobby always affected him but in a differ- ent manner from the way it acted on | Justice Clifford. With an empty lob- {bY he usually sat back in his chair { with an appearauce of listening to the argument of the attorney, but let the | 10bby Al up an a change would come. |He was sure to grow nervous and | fidgety. Selzing a pad of paper and | pencil, he would make out a list of books |and send a page to the library. On | the return of the page with arms full |of books, Mr. Field would seize upon {them, turn the pages rapidly, and | trequently with conslderable noise | throw the books on the floor, and |then make out another long list | This he would keep up until the lobby “Mr. Crler, adjourn the court.” With|height and otherwise large phyuicllly.:bec.me apparently empty, when he that the justices were aroused from | They both loved candy. and it was no|would once more lean back in his their drowsy state and looked their| approval. | The other time when the court overstayed its time was a graceful act of courtesy to one of the oldest | and most distinguished lawyers of the country, who was in a very feeble state of health. Thomas Ewing. who had served as Secretary of the Treas- | ury in one cabinet and as Secretary of the Interior in another, was mak- unusual thing for one or the other of theni to send a page out for a dime's worth of the old-fashioned stick candy and the two to munch it while listening to the argument. They frequently grew tired of sitting and would stand for a time, leaning against one of the heavy pillars back of the seats of the court. Swayne was perhaps the heavier of the two, with “How often have Y I'€ &n argument before the court.|heavy cheeks, while Davis wore a told you T must not be interrupted He Was in very feeble health. At 4| beard under his chin. In all dealings when at work?" thinking ft was the | ©'Clock the chief justice In a kindly| with the attorneys they were ex- matd. Discovering who it was, he|Voice asked him to suspemd for a|tremely courteous and seldom inter- quickly got up from the tadle and moment or two. After consulting| rupted by questions. During an ar- apologized for his hasty speech in|With the several justices, he turned | gument they would frequently whis- the kindest and most manner. The next day at the court- | COUrt recognized the feeble condition | to some point made by the considerate | to Mr. Ewing and remarked that the | per together, us if calling attention| torney. room, he again expressed his regret|Of his health and that he had not| They were great companions Off the for the incident of the night before. * % % % USTICE WAYNE was of Southern birth, but held steadfastly to the | Union when the South undertook to seceds. He was regarded by his as- | soclates on the bench and by the members of the bar practicing before the court as one of the most learned in the law, specially of admiraity. He | delivered the opinion of the court in the celerated Vallandigham case, In which he held the appellate power of the Supreme Court did not extend to a review by certiorari of the proceed- ings of a military commission ordered by a general officer of the army. It was regarded at the time as bdeing one of the most exhaustive exposi- tions of the right of the government to maintain itself by military trials in cases of civillans In time of war, rendered by any court. At the close of the civil war the court found {tself burdened with many cases opening up many new questions as to the powers of the government, among them being the rights of neu- trals involved in blockade running, rights of citizens as against military power, test oaths, ete. But I started out to tell something of the foibles and peculiarities of the Justices and of some of the attorneys appearing before the court, rather than personal sketches of the justices themseives. On the bench Chiet Justice Chase was dignity personified, as, in fact, he was everywhere. He held that the | position of chief justice of the Su- preme Court was the most exalted station under the government, and he carried out that bellef in presiding over the court. No matter how long, dull and prosy an attorney might be in presenting his argument, the chief justice never displayed any impa- tience, but to all outward appearance paid the closest attention In presiding he always leansd for- ward over his desk, never resting himeel? as some of the justices fre- quently did, by lolling bdack In the great armchairs. The chief justice seldom asked questions of the attor- neys, but when he did it was only to make more clear some statement. He made coplous notes. He was ever prompt In opening the sessions of the court, and, as a rule, was equally prompt In olosing at the hour ap- pointed. Duriag my service with the court I mever knew him to fail but twice when & 0°clodk came o request the attorney who might de speaking to suspend as the hour of adjourn- ment had come. One ot these was unintentional, and was the only time I ever knew the chief Justice to be abrupt. An attor- ney from Florida was making a long, dry and prosy argument in & block- ade running case, In a monotonous tone of voite that would have put an sarthquake to sleep. Tt was & very hot day, end the court room was uacomfortable In every way. I would not say the Sustioes were all dosing, but they had every appear- ance of dolng ¥o. Four o'clock cam aend passed, the chiet justice giving .0 signs of know- ing it. I waited about five minutes, and then, golag up dehind him, whis- persdl to him that it was past the hour of adjournment. He quickly raised up and, without walting to re- quest the attorney to suspend, sald: completed his argument, and rather| than put him to the necessity of| another day's attendance would re-| main and let him complete his argu- | ment at that time. Mt. Ewing, with tears in his eyes, acknowledged the kindness of the, him. This was the last appearance man before that court. During a sitting of the court it was the habit of Justice Grier to sit with his eyes closed, and the thought was often expressed by members of | 7 1" / bench and nearly always arrived at the Capitol together. It was a rare occasion when they did not leave to- gether. Nathan Clifford was, in avoirdupols, the largest one of the justices. His mouth was of rather pecullar shape, | court and the unusual courtesy shown as if it were ready to dispute with some one. When the lobby was ap- | of the venerable lawyer and states- | proximately empty he would sit lean- ing back in his chair, looking as if he were taking little interest in the proccedings. But let the lobby fill up and then would come a marked change. Leaning forward, he would “BUTLER AROSE AND BEGAN ARRANGING HIS PAPERS.” the bar and attendants in the lobby that the aged justice was dozing, but such was not the case, for no one could tell more of the argument than Justice Grier. It seemed to flit into his mind and fasten itself there. In all cases arising out of the civil war where the powers of the government were in question Justice Grier uni- formly upheld the contentlon of the government. His opinlons were mod- els for clearness of style. Otherwise than listening with closed eyes he had no visible foidble, His face was always clean shaven and everything adout his personal appearance in apple-ple order. * Kok % 'USTICES SWAYNE and Davis occu- pled the two seats at the extreme right of the chief justice and in per- sonal appearance wers much alike. Theysere each more than six feet In fire a question at the attorney who was speaking, and, hardly walting for an answer, would shoot at him another, and then turn toward the lobby with a broad smile, as if to say, “Did you see how I got him?" As long as the lobby remained full this by-play would go on, but when the lobby emptied Clifford would sink back in his seat as it no longer in- terested In what was golng on. Jus- tice Clifford was often referred to by members of the bar as “the greatdis- referring to his many dis- senting opinions. Justice Nelson was the quiet mem- ber of the court. He always sat well back in his chair, paying close atten- tion, but rarely making a note or asking a question. He was the short- est of the justices. He wore whiskers on his cheek bones, extending around his throat under i: heavy chin, and high forehead and| {chair and resume attention to the | speaker. | Many of the attorneys who prac- ticed before the court had their pe- | culiarities as well as the justic |As the arguments were always on | questions of law there were but few attempts at eloquence. As a rule the {attorney addressing the court stood by the table on which his papers and books were placed, but I recall one |occasion when the attorney left the table and during his argument paced !up and down in front of the seats of | the justices, as if addressing & jury. | This was Reverdy Johnson of Mary land, and he poured forth ome of the most eloquent pleadings ever | heard in that or any other court. It was a case wherein a common-law marriage was the principal issue, and Mr. Johnson was appearing for the woman and her children. When he | spoke of the devotion of the woman {his one eve would flash and his voice !would change from deep pathos to intense indignation. Although more than half a century has passed since I listened to that epeech, not & word of it nor a tone of his voice has been forgotten. Among the attorneys most fre- | quently appearing before the court {at that time were, besides Mr. John- |son, Jere. Black, Caleb Cushing. David Dudley Field and Benjamin Curtis, who had formerly been a member of the court. Others appear- ing less frequently were Willlam M Evarts, Gen. Garfleld, Henry Stanberry and Ben. Butler. I can recall heartng Robert J. Walker of Mississippi, Charles O'Connor of New York, Mat- thew Carpenter, and Lyman Trum- bull. Of all these I delighted most to hear Johnson, Jere. Black and Benjamin Curtis. In all his argu- ments Black quoted freely f{rom Shakespeare and the Bible. It 1s doubtful If any member of the court |or of the bar was as familiar with {the Bible as was Black. When he | was to speak he always chose a spot | nearest to where the great South Carolinian, John C. Calhoun, occupied | & seat when a member of the Senate, while Reverdy Johnson's favorite po- | sition when addressing the court was | where it was sald Webster stood when delivering his famous reply to Hayne. Black was rather tall of figure, and |1t was said wore @ wig. Whether that |was 80 or not his hair was alwars black and shiny. He had a round, full voice, speaking, it was eaid, as if he had "mush in his mouth” T recall one occasion when he met his match in quoting from the Bible, and was floored to the amusement of the other attorneys and of the members of the court. The question at issue was the right of the government to exclude papers or other matter from the mails, Black appearing in opposition to the government. In his argument he freely quoted from both Shake speare and the Book of Books, to sus tain his position. Attorney General Speed began his reply with the following words “Good, patient, righteous old Job once orled out, ‘Oh, that mine enemy had written a book!" Iam in a better position than was that good old saint. for mine enemy has written a book.” He then held up before the court a small volume of the decisions of the attorney general made when Black held that position. From it he read a lengthy opinion whersin Mr. Black had maintained the right even of a postmaster to refuse to receive or de- liver certain papers. The bar enjoyed this reply of the attorney general, while several members of the court ylelded to the temptation to reveal a broad smile. * %k k¥ \URTIS had the sweetest voice I ever heard In a public speaker. It was so musical, and his diction was %0 clear that he could make the driest legal argument & delight to hear. Mr. Johnson's voice was full, like that of Black, but his enunciation was much more distinct. I never heard Garfield before the court but once, and can testify to the fact that he was grace (Continusd on Sixth Page.) -