Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — A Story and a Moral. [ARTICLE]

A Story and a Moral.

Springfield Republican. A cnief-justice of a large State, sixty* two years old, with sixteen years of creditable Judicial service behind him and a fair prospect ofanother term before him, is in about assecure a position as American politics offer; and seven years ago this was the place I. P. Christiancy held when he consented to become a candidate of the coalition in the Michigan Legislature opposed to Zach. Chandler. The old man, Who bad lived for twenty years fn a little town in a quiet way, reading his diclslons once a week and presiding - over a still court, came into the Washington whirlpool to shamble unnoticed about tbe Senate chamber,to shout himself hoarse in a great hustle and to pass headachy days after long sessions of tho Senate. He aged astonishingly and the $5,000 a year, which bad looked big when he was getting $4,00i) as Chief Justice, slipped through his fingers like water. The old man, wonted to early hours and simple village manners, was unutterably bored by Washington society, and when a bright-eyed, white-throated young ran her fingers through his thin locks he married her. His years have been full of trouble ever since. To economize and to get back his mortgaged house he let Chandler have the seat in the Senate, Jud went to Peru. There he has lost is reputation as a public man. His divorce suit has riddled his private character. For months he has been a public mock. Now his room has been broken open and s tot of jewelry he had taken in trust stolen. As Solon, the Greek philosopher said, “Bet on no man’s luck until he is boxed.”