Show American Girl Inspires to Greatness ness Rufus its D. D Isaacs Failure in Early Life Li Becomes Eminent Lawyer Lord Chief Justice of England and Finally Finally Final Final- ly 1 Ambassador to United States flY 11 JAY JA WILLIAMS Staff Corr Correspondent of lie Universal Service Tho The following Is tho the second l of ot a serica se- se rica Ics of or sketches of oC the allied lors dorR and ministers in ton ItIs It Itis Its Is s the Intention to portray portra tho the human side Ido o of tho tue representatives of or the tho countrIes countries coun- coun trIes rles associated in common cause causo against ng the scourge now typified cl b by Germany I GREtI TIU I THE CAUL g. OK OF It r A 1 1 N C. C Rufus Rums Daniel Isaacs is Earl of ot ReadIng Read Read- Ing ng British ambassador amb to the United States Slates British hi high h commissioner to tho the United States and tho possessor of or most ever every other honor that England can an bestow upon one of or her foremost cl cItizens To tho the uninitiated it might appear that hat a person of or such consequence would necessarily have to adopt an all air b befitting his hi high h station but to tho lie initiated this Is not the tho case The Karl Earl Earlor or of f Reading toda today is much the same Fame kind tind of or person peron that young rounE Rufus Isan s must have o been many years a ago go o when ho ran awa away from home and shipped hipped before the mast nast on tho old Blair Atholl when she carried a Car cargo o oot ot of f coal from Cardiff to Rio de IC Janeiro War ar is said to be a time to try tn mens men's souls couls to the tho gold thu hu alloy II And BO tiO It happens that wC v e e know now that Lord Reading Ica must mut bo tic true truo blue lue for ho started climbing long before beor be- be fore or ore the war var and climbed all tho fast fast- er cr r. r it seems Hems In tho the stirring times the tho world has seen been In the last four our years earl Washington knows Lord Reading as ashe the he most democratic of or men lie holds ho tho most important post outside the tue British empire ho has established personal personal per- per onal contact with President Wilson Ilson 1 Not a D. few days ago o Lord Reading TIc tho ho diplomat mind you you climbed climbed into a muddy m out dugout on the western front and nd while tho the bl big guna boomed he told old some American soldiers that the people eople of or tho the United States were behInd behind be- be hInd them and that some somo day In tho the I I near car future Germany would foci the tho tremendous power of or her latest enem ene- ene m in ny The reports from abroad said ald f ld It was as tho the time an any ambassador ever ver addressed troops at the front but buthen then hen It must be remembered that Rufus Hufus Isaacs was the tho ambassador When a n. man takes a n part In history and and a 1 leading part persons part persons like to know now about him The Tho Earl of ot Reading Readings Is s a Jew Somehow It seems necessary dont don't characterize charac- charac to o sa say thle this though wo Woodrow Wilson lIson as a nan lan or William Howard Taft Tart as alii a Unitarian He lie was WIB born in 1860 1560 the tho second son Ion of or a n London I on tm merchant and ship hip broker and until ho lie was past SO 30 O year earn ear old it looked as if It his hiie chief bent hent bentin hentIn In n this world orld was to become a n failure In n everything e ho he set out to do Trio irie I. I He un tili ii Son SonHo n Ho lIo didn't lit lit-co school though his parents Intending that he hc should hould SUI sur- ced eced his father rather In business did their best cst to give 1 0 him an exceptional education edu- edu atlon cotlon lIe He wU sent gent to Brussels to study tudy French to Germany German to study stud German and was brought back to tongland England to finish at Cambridge C e This his however ho wa was when young Isaacs Iaac balked He lie haul hall had enough of or school chool lIe he reckoned and he sought the lair Blair Atholl Tho rho long trip to Rio con- con him that ho lie had made a mistake mis- mis take ko in choosing a life and ho 10 tried tl to dC l It but hut some horn borny horn horn- handed seaman nabbed abbed him anti and th tim j next time he h to land was wa In Cal Cal- Suffice to say aj it was not until unI until un un- I til thu Blair Atholl returned to Eng Eng- land that young Isaacs Is finally got ot ota ota a away a v. v Once aice homo home again a aln and probably a l trifle subdued by hl his hla experiences oila on oil ona ona a coal cargo carEo carrier Rufus w went nt willingly will wiil Ins Iy to Magdeburg Germany German where here ho he was his fathers father's agent for tor three years ean Upon his return to London he us became becam a stock broker and once more failure claimed him hIm hImas as her own Five years cars of or stead steady losses showed ed him that the tho brokerage business re required ro- ro an aptitude that he did not pos pos- sass ness It is true that to his hi fellow fellow- tello members on tho the exchange e ho he was waa known as a clever boxer er and a n. person who vho wo we would say sai a carried a n. stitt stift wallop in either mitt yet et these thes' same name fellow tellow members never obtained any conversational material regarding th the ups clean that Rufus Huus Isaacs must have thought about but never nover mado made Ill Ills Deliverer r Arrives Arrive It was waa at this point In life when nhen the future looked s that he hemet hemet hemet met an American girl who had lately come to London with her father tather a merchant She as tas as Alice Edith Cohen Cohon and their nCI acquaintance quickly grow Erow Into love lo They became engaged ng and an forthwith Miss Cohen advised her futuro futuro fu- fu turo husband to study I law lw but at firsth first h ho thought It toll folly to attempt at his ago age e to master a new profession proCessIon She persisted and she hc won Tho The future futuro Earl Barl of ot Reading studied at nt night and with him studied Miss Cohen It is unnecessary to ea say that tho thio Countess of ot Reading Is the young oung woman who ho r read ad law under tinder a sputterIng sputtering sputtering gas light lIs-ht back in 1886 1856 and who became Mrs Irs In ISS the tho same year ear her husband was admitted to practice From rom that date until the present Lord Readings Headings career reads rend like a n romance of or American political life lite In ten years ears ho was a kings king's counsel and hold IbId the largest practice in all nil Eng Eng- land lIe He became the lie greatest trial layer lawyer in the thc Island empire empIre empIre-a a shrewd shrew calculating barrister who set the tho style in all t things legal lesal Before Booro he attained fame the thc trial la lawyers lawyer's chief as asset asso et in obtaining handsome retainer la lay Ina in ina ina a basso i fundo voice an c ca o and an ity to squelch a witness with a t tingle single look Rufus Isaacs hancs changes ell all lie was waa even e polite ever con considerate and he ho always f won his cases or mado muo his clients te foci feel 1 extremely ex ex- satisfied over o the outcome Make Ink Jury happy Indeed there thoro is a stor story told that in his first case a libel suit ho lie talked the jur Jury into such an easy casy friendly oo good humor that the they a as assessed l lila his client only 1000 whereas the thc latt latter r full fully expected to be adjudged adjudged ad ad- judged guilty guilt to tho the tune tuno of at twenty times that sum Lord nen Reading Is a n fast tast antI and hard worl worker el In his early days as a a. lawyer law he lie arose nrose at C 6 and kept going at at ae top top speed until 7 in the tho e evening Even E then lien his da day was wag not complete for 0 II It ItIs Is said that man many he lie took tool hi his books and anti briefs to bed with him Onetime One time lime hw h managed e by b working seven se teen hours a t din day for tor a i 1 stretch of or a week weel or more to win two different cases cales at the thc Fame same time At the age e of or H 44 4 he lie entered parliament parlia parlia- ment as a liberal at 50 rO he lie was so solicitor so- so general ra and six Ill l months month later ho was as attorney general In 1910 he lie was as knighted and ma made e privy counselor and amid knight 1 commander of ot the Victorian order and In iii 1912 All 11 precedents of ot he the British constitution worn vere broken to tomake maJ make mahe e him a n. member of ot the th th cabinet Then Thon ho lie became lord chief justice justice the highest honor ever er bestowed on a manof man o of his race In England England and and nd and this year car saw him in this country countr as tho the British a ambassador mba a sa d or There is only one more thing to tell tall about this oils remarkable roan man and ac accounts accounts accounts ac- ac counts vary r 1 regarding reK r It Some Sonic say sa that lie he is a rate first bridge player and others other den deny it In fact there is III isa a a. etor story that while In I England n land ho he Is the regular fourth at the tho royal roal bridge fe because because now now this Is 16 on only onh hearsay hear hear- say say say-ho ho Is the tIme only man who plays jila's as I poorly as all the king |