Law: Layman Ruggles

Lately the Honorable William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, was moved to write a letter to a man unlettered in the law. In closing this letter, which was made public last week, Judge Taft said, "You could do no more important work for the body social and politic than this. As one in the community I write to thank you."

The gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and...

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