HOW TO GET STRONG
in fearless courage in following his positive convictions. He has performed many unpopular judicial acts; but no one has doubted his sincerity of purpose. Before he became a judge he had shown a strong and active interest in politics; as Presiding Justice his judgments have quite as frequently, and quite as severely, defeated the claims of his former associates as of their adversaries. He has been as raggedly honest as he has been blunt."—New York Tribune, June 9, 1897.
One of his associates, Mr. Justice Barrett, referring to the portrait of the Presiding Justice, said: "It speaks to us of a masterful mind in a giant frame; of extraordinary capacity for work; of great integrity of mind; of natural ability of a high order; of sound common -sense; and, above all, of ingrained fairness. A man of vigor and commanding personality. That face, gentlemen, is no respecter of persons. That hand—that powerful hand—that seems so well fitted to wield the sword of justice; is it a hand in which you would put a Damascus blade; or would you not rather fit it adequately with one of the great rapiers wielded by one of the giants of the past?"—New York Law Journal, June 9, 1897.
And strength, sturdiness, virility to match that hand are written all over him—a man full of vitality, stronger of make than ninety-five out of every hundred, no matter what their work may be; on the judgment-seat at Athens, with Socrates before him discussing death by the hemlock; or Demosthenes arguing some question of lasting concern to the nation; he would have looked as much at home, and a born judge, as any of his august associates.
And we are fortunate in having from his own pen a suggestion of some of the means by which this masculine man has kept up the unusual vigor with which he was born, and which is written all over others near of kin to him. For, in reply to our inquiry as to what he had done to so maintain his vigor, he wrote as follows:
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