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ersonal Ch by the attendant footer and a light William G judge Willsonoy the dignified the pulled a shoulders than 220 said court 1S a six walked through door later off the not moment overcon )\-|v\ of avoirdupois well of or a knit less pounds Then President chairmar Anthracite Arbi disappeared the in Phil he holds attendant Judge George Gray, of tration Roosevelt's commi the where a ssion into room in government building of the court adelphia United part circuit vear the continued States uncrossed his e and gs Durndest Here Wilmington man work 1 he for is ever ran across running « of wn the to from between coal hus meetings strike tle around spell Bet 11 tonight to commission and causing looked you he’ll he generally does too 1 when | for a breathing here till 10 or And 'l have kicking, mind works." flitted stay stay, ain’t he resignation just telling you how A look of attendant’s “Came hard and having spoiled—but acro the face first nice we're used summer 1 only and before that 1 summer to rest in at working little that vacation to 1t way plans Why rest, our now last days' the judge all two got a few to But the have the time used whole up in came one were morning about think of us beginning to of a months vacation and said Well usual but I don't there's here it for adjourning feel that 1 much but | summer.’ “And, summer, the rest looked cake Is pretty near the fall whil I'm all July till to do it be have time court ought S0 work we'll 1o done sorry, gUuess 1o sit do you Kknow, the even when it and the the judge Lord, how he rushed up Never had so clean a docket before in my recollection, and I've been here At this twinkled “Let tell jndge did last summer “A beer filter wis infringement of patent about a filte about judge's time. Then the hench, lost *vnu democratic “USuppose we men, here it is it to grabbed judge was sat all and and of wilted, hottest us lawyers was and as cool of ice piled through cases twenty years Juncture the attendant's eyes me you one of the things laughed up befor Each evidenee, the hie case him had the dozen talked the '8 in and lawyers shoved under lunch ind until ‘em nos« the his smile around leaned Judicial dignity of his, and said some lunch, gentle room, and and about judge over in have the on in go court with the after over, finish y. case 4, the roared filter each he W by lawyer he and represented, stern Edith Sess AVERAGE Londoner believes New York City to be inhabited by fierce, «Copyright, 12, fons Tupper. man-eating animals painted, whooping savages In much the same fashion the average easterner looks upon the great west as merely the resort of murderous Apaches howling wildcats and hissing rattlesnakes He knows something of Chicago and St. Louis, a very little of Denver, still less of Salt Lake City, and absolutely nothing of the life of the plains and the mountains and And the people who dwell there—their habits, manners appearance, hopes, aims ambitions, loves and hates—are a sealed book to the New York or Boston cockney, Once in a while a man like Gates comes out of the with a rush and a whirl, bringing with him some of the breeziness west of the Rockirs, and stirs things up enough In the east to make the languid orientals of the Atlantic coast open their eyes and say “*Who the deuce is this man? But as a rule easterners are ve ry provin cial. They are prone to think that Boston New York and Philade Iphia bouna the wonderful uni the prosperous cities forget the thou k-witted, foresee- men who are daily shaping moulding the destiny of that marvel- Of our country known to us vaguely “west,"" western all the and and p verse They quite forget chain of bustling in the thriving They quite sands of alert, keen, gui ing and ous west intelligent section easterners The and as the business man hus is first 8" He g Energetic lookout last time, a ats, lives leep ) thing business the time for a and good for on for a he yet finds and fellows., It for relaxation kindly means entertaining interest his in so difficult the not clerks and will see you and listen co arts project But he and concise and then by no prominent business The about 1o see a man in west in the east hedged westerner $0 closely flunkics. He vour by ously to expects you T 1o che out The weste know S look like a granger treet point He can politician the slickest all ecarth as the He¢ give dine finance [ world on may Wall in a he may An not It he the sway editor is incisive, brilliant ibs. He end of epi powerful his pen with the he is just that s busines ites L wasp, but clever a8 administrative hren of as as as the eastern p of the West are men aracteristics of Judge George we'll get some beer tell he conductor ind show your honor the child’s only how our filter four and a half, and works.' SAVe e hree dol Then they all lat gathered around a \nd Spdihick iy, table and while ved h three they ate, the judg dollar not by h also watched the furtously blushin filters at work WiTe O When the beer had bl bl all run through ! ity th well the nductor lean ov wasn't begun 4 cat the a ! until all the beet he came WaS gone hrough the car and And that lunch remark - didn’t cost the judge Wouldn't that a cent jar yvou Noever Let me pay for laughed so much i this said the com my life imd 1 didn plainant when the have the heart to time came for set collect far tlement It is in his law No ' b oflice in Wilmington pleased to pay for and between clients | protested the that the judge like defendant bluffing to wap ancedots every bit as much with old friend as thy other fellow Ihese oflic e in his desire to ap in i insignificant pear generous be looking old brick fore the judge building, and to get “The judge lot into them L pros them wrangle for peetive client mu a while, then spoke climb up a dark up in his judicial virway to the ‘ voice, but there was ond floor On a twinkle in hiz through the outer eyes door of the office Guess you need the visitor will a referee, don't you? find two great Yes? Well, I'll de rooms, dingy, smell cide the case as im ing of row after row partially as 1 can of worn law books As you both seem hiding the walls, and extremely anxiou heated according to to part with the the style of twenty $10.20 that the bill five years ago, with calls for, I and the a mantl fireplac rest of us will p nd a stove L RO O O DG OROE UL GRAY, CHAIRMAN OF THIZ ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE PHARING: tucae busl pocketbooks and 2 o o Ness quarters witn reneroualy permit COMMISSION—Photo Taken for The B the judge are two each of ycu to pay half the bill madam of hi children— Andrew who hear his Then the judge got back on the bench \h, why ~what haltingly a it the grandfather name, and George ir Both and was as dignified as ever again.' mother objected seriously to stifling her are everal years under 30 and both ar Gray likes to tell a story especially conscience at the supreme moment centrusted more and more by their father if it has a fact for foundation, and his fa Pretty big to riding for nothing, 1 with the firm's busines vorite has to do with the rule of railroad said, madam. How old i he Judge Gray father lived his day at companiecs that only children under 6 years Who —~oh—how old? Why weetly, Newcastl that pic turesque town where of age can ride free why Juli is ju and the mother voice they have a whipping post and a park given One day when he was going from his home died away to a murmur to the people by William Pean, and where to Washington, while he was still a sen ‘How old did you 1y, madam wecording ¢ the late Levi 1 1. one of ator, Mr. Gray overhcard this conversation Silence for a moment; then a shrill voi Delaware's famou lawyer they don't between the conductor and the occupants of piped up do anything except it on barrel and the seat behind him I guess mamma forgot what p tid mix tobacco juice with the wairer of the Pretty big girl to be traveling frec to tell you He said FFor heaven ke, Delaware Ien as Seen Through the Eye who have made their money Perhaps it is record in that camp. Th wmnot be said Such an catrage is unknown in the toughe that very fact that makes them such of many civilized towns of the cast Per western communit i fo l!l:1‘|‘||\|l. competitors 1o the astern sonally, I have received mor urtesy and The westerner does not leer into the fa money Kings, most of whom have inherited chivalry in La Plata cr Cripple Creck tha f women on the street He is not waiting their vast wealth metimes en Broadway The western man on a corner for a woman to coms up, only But what about the ordinary, everyday docs not us anity or foul language ! to follow and pa her and grin odiousl: western man? He is veally the subject of fore women In many castern cities the over his shoulder at her s a matter of this study What is be like? How does he woman passerby hears frightful werds from fact, while the westerner is adorably au differ from his eastern vrethren? What is men in trains, on buats, on street corner lacious in many respect e is somewhat his attitude toward tinnd where women woman? 1Is he as in are concerned, and telligent, fascinating thrusts no unwel chivalrous and at come attentions o1 tractive as the every But on the day man of the east? er hand, should I know this is a 4 woman require a delicate topic one sistance of any sort to be approached no - one is mor with humility and hivalrous in protf prayer. So, in the fering it With a first place, I wish to curious comminglin disclaim any preju of brusquenes and dice against any timidity the western class of men. There man flies to the aid are good fellows in of a woman in di every walk of 1ife tress The western man I'he writer wia as | have noted him once traveling op is not so self-satis- lo eastern train fied as the eastern A poor woman man The castern enger was $1 man has remained f her fare at home, where he would have been pu has been petted, ca off the train at night ressed, pampered by had it not been for the women of hi yanothe woman. Not family and, inciden- Loma i the tally, by the women cred o help her of other families Had this incident ¢ The western man, as curred on a wester a rule broke away n, ev man i from the east when the ir would ha a boy truck out for lashed a roll of hill himself got plenty ind told her to hely of hard work and herself hard knocks, no pet The eastern ma ting to speak of, and often a magi did not grow uj p reature, ph fancying himself the ally N only man on earth 1dre h : He is more deferen intellig ‘ tial and chivalrou i f to woman-—perhaj ble and becausi he know iing quali e less But h lack ma In th w 1 1 l roughest mining | 1 he amps of the far 1 h weel, a woman who f | nd “ nth respects herself i haj n respected by every EDITH SESSIONS TUIPER N EASTE WOMAN WHO ADMIRES WESTERN ¢ ! her man, however bad his MEN ho 1oil leey Gray It was while the our Vet located Newcastl where Andrew Gray | s man of aMuence, that hi ( G . veral year tfter he left b (TR i W chool, in I8t ira I th teenti of the entirve 1 of Delawar by h I tul conduct of wha well known lawyer in th had lool upon as a hopele cai fo he et A tarmer had taken a load of his pi » Wilming ind while wre 1 RO runk, Whe he retutned home 1 was trenzied with hiquor and while notl 1 his wife He was caught red hand no one dreamed that any de I feed could or would be I Bu hen the farmer trial wa calle George Gray came forward as lawyer for the detendant and placed witness after w ness on the d to prove that his cli was beastly drunk when he Killed his wit that no one had ever heard him mal threat against her and that, a far a they knew, the couple had lived peacefully together I'hen Mr. Gray made a deduction that startled the older lawyer I'he de fendant was crazy when he Killed his wife and the drink had made him crazy B¢ cause he was crazy at the time he wa incapable of premeditating the deed, which was not and could not have been the e sult. of any ill-feeling between the coupls because they had lived happily together Therefore the defendant had Killed his wite while not in the possession of his reasor and, therefore, was not guilty of murder I'he jury held the young lawyer log to be good law and acquitted the de fendant After that trial Lawyer Gray did no have to wait long bet en client ind he at once became a leading member of the Hen and Chicken state bar Until he moved to Wilmington, when the courts were there in the early S0 Judge Gray's Newcastle homie was a rallying place for all the out-of-town lawyers whil the courts were in session I'o quote one who, like Judge Gray, followed Justice Wil mington We used to get together on the Judge porch and relate experiences and there was always something refreshing for everyone after a hard day's work The judge was a genial host, a typical Dela warcan, sir."” )Iluuln»w' porch Former Senator on Mr Judge the classmates of Mr Boston road the Years after Judge pliment senate often Mr foregath ered the went Gray's Higgins and Both were knew cach other Harvard there, Mi when Higgins boys 1o Law Higgins the latter reached him the introduced school and went ahead Gray Mr station law and met later and him school, in Gray introducir the United returned the Mr States com by to the Higgine of of an Eastern Woman dark canyons and under the who delves at timberline and dreams above the snow, has both iy Mother Earth whispers her secrets, to him the mountains speak, The Broadway ranchero; the Fifth avenu Zona miner—what greater one typifies overripe refinement of civilization the other primitive and strenuous sleeps stars » him dearest the swell flaneur, Mexican the Ari contrasts? The the veneer cmbodies the emotion of e On Broadway, Fifth avenue, Beacon stree behold cheeked in the replica of the silk hat tan gloves, gard: on lapel These fety the or Chestnut street, one may pink purple groomed, dre H the frock colored most irre perfe other clegant men proachably or tion of taste, one aray trousers coat shirt chrysanthemum flower of very of the whols bored, cynical, overcivilized Compare with them the over the range on He 1s alert devil whits waistcoat nia are or the pick eastern bunch—languid unpictures man who his Mexican nervou comes flying mu tang reckle chaps v lurid the cool, intrepid pieturesque H jingle may-care gli handker brown ten and hief throat back bold like a the que life with tied, reveals brim of the the tanned silver loosely the from shapely gsombrero forchead sit his flap the animal of the tatue and expressive ey In every Centaur bhody there is ex m of iressed the joy of The the easterner is Possibly that LI west of wket of vement lithe head W alive to h blase explain hrew donned h litior F erners come from the of the ex 1 erner civilization and primitive cor e we ind The ind e driver very h fellow 1 ever vowas a He que in thorough ilk ha 1 like a bhorrow« nd rdenia he w 100K« costume