wit and humor runs through his speech, and these with all the pathos his case will permit, combine to make his always eloquent pleas more effective. His favorite attitude while addressing a jury is to brace his broad shoulders against the clerk's desk, his hands deeply thrust into his trousers pockets, seldom making gestures.

Happily married in early life to a lady in whom are united the accomplishments which please, and the qualities that inspire esteem, with three children to bless his home, he enjoys life as he deserves at his age. At forty, though he lived liberally, he was so well fixed financially, all his own hard earnings, that he could have retired from business had he so chosen, but his life has been ever a toilsome one, and he will continue to labor in the cause of those who require his great services, to the end.

In 1884, he was nominated by the third party organization for the Presidency and of course was defeated, as he expected to be, when he accepted it. He had become dissatisfied with the policies of the old parties and conceived an idea of reformation, to which he still adheres. The third party organizations are greatly indebted to his great ability in the formulation of their creeds and discipline, and he is ever ready to bestow upon them his hearty approval of their efforts, and even in the decline of life, almost at its close, he readily raises his voice for their success and advancement.

He has written a book embracing his personal memoirs, which is soon to be placed upon the market, and many are looking forward in anxious anticipation to its perusal. His own work will so fully and graphically portray his military and public career, that it is thought quite unnecessary to attempt a portrayal of it in this short sketch-suffice it to say, that the taint of dishonor has never lurked about him; no suspicion has ever rested upon him; no challenge has ever been made of his sincerity, his honesty of purpose, or his transactions

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in business life. He has lived a long and honorable life and filled a great and unexampled career, and when his life shall have closed, his name will be unsullied, and his memory will live on as one of the most remarkable characters in American history.

HENRY CLAY CALDWELL.

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BY WARREN WATSON.

T is a suggestive fact that the profession of the law, more than any other avenue of human advancement, has always despised such adventitious circumstances as birth and fortune and bestowed its honors upon talent and industry alone. That the great lawyers of the English race, and especially of our branch of it, have come almost solely from the cottage and farm rather than from the mansions of wealth and ease, may be accounted for by the circumstance that no other pursuit in life requires a more remorseless sacrifice of personal tranquility, or a more thorough devotion to a single object. It has been often said that the law is a jealous mistress and permits no rivals. Those whose inclinations, and means to gratify them, induce the mingling of other pursuits and distractions with the study and practice of the law, can rarely hope to rise beyond mediocrity, whatever their talents or their eminence in other walks of life. It is for this reason that he whose early struggles and necessities force him to select his profession with care, and pursue it with assiduity and toil, is usually, in the end, advanced over rivals more favored by fortune and family influence.

Henry C. Caldwell is one of the most notable examamples, to be found in the annals of the bar of this country, of the triumph of intellect and industry over grave and discouraging obstacles. He springs from a Scotch-Irish ancestry-a strain that