ant and worn wooden shoes; I would rather have
lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing
purple in the amorous kisses of the autumn sun; I would rather have been
that poor peasant, with my wife by my side knitting as the day died out of
the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me; I would
rather have been this man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the
dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial personation of force and
murder known as Napoleon the Great.

The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While

President Roosevelt Calls Our Supreme Bench the Most
Dignified and Powerful Court in the World--Professor Peabody
Describes the German Kaiser as a Man of Peace--Chancellor
MacCracken Discusses Teaching as a Profession for College
Graduates--Ex-Secretary Herbert Denies that the Confederate
Soldiers Were Rebels--With Other Notable Expressions of
Opinion from Speakers Entitled to a Hearing.

_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT STANDS FOR.

The Members of Our Highest Tribunal
Have to Be Not Only Jurists but
Constructive Statesmen.

Justice Brown, of the Supreme Court of the United States, has retired from
active service. Before he laid aside the robes of his office a dinner was
given in his honor by the bar of the District of Columbia, and on this
occasion short speeches were delivered by several prominent men, including
President Roosevelt, who said:

In all the world--and I think, gentlemen, you will acquit me
of any disposition to needless flattery--there is no body of
men of equal numbers that possesses the dignity and power
combined that inhere in that court over which, Mr. Chief
Justice, you preside. Owing to the peculiar construction of
our government, the man who does his full duty on that court
must of necessity be not only a great jurist, but a great
constructive statesman.

The Men and the Tradition.

It has been our supreme good fortune as a nation that we
have had on that court, from the beginning to the present
day, men who have been able to carry on in worthy fashion
the tradition which has thus made it incumbent upon the
members of the court to combine in such fashion the
qualities of the great jurist and of the constructive
statesman.

Mr. Justice, we Americans are sometimes accused of paying