duty,' to dwell upon the compensations of every disappointment, and to preserve, as far as possible, an equable and enjoying spirit. Moments of gloom and despondency fall to the lot of all, especially of the sensitive, but such moments and thoughts are for seclusion, not for society. He was not without his sorrows; but he strove to keep them to himself, so as not to overshadow with them the happiness of others. Even in solitude and meditation he studied to banish moroseness and melancholy from his thoughts, not only as being injurious, but unchristian. At once cheerful by temperament and by principle, he sought not only to do his duty, but to enjoy it, and to accept life as a favor granted and not a penalty imposed. Happy indeed, is he

'That can translate the stubborness of fortune

Into so quiet and so sweet a style.'"

Judge Story's life was a marvel of honesty and simplicity; his triumph through the medium of his unconquerable industry and determination, in the study of the law, which at first was the most disagreeable of tasks, to an inexpressible love for it, worthy the emulation of those many students who fail to realize what perseverance can accomplish, and how labor may be converted into exquisite pleasure.

CH.

HENRY MOORE TELLER.

THE

'HE father of this distinguished Lawyer and Senator from the Centennial State, was a farmer of Dutch descent and was born in Schenectady, New York, in February, the first year of the present century. His mother,

who still survives her husband, is a native of Vermont, in which State she still resides.

Henry Moore Teller, their son, like the majority of our public men, was not born in affluence. He, as have many others who have attained distinction in the Councils of the Nation and at the Bar, was compelled to teach school during a portion of his young manhood to enable him to procure an education.

His parents resided in Granger, Alleghany county, New York, where he was born, on the 23d of May, 1830. He received a good academic education, but while in attendance at the institution, at intervals was a teacher himself, in order to procure means to aid in the further prosecution of his studies. Having completed his academic course, and not possessing the means to enter college, he at once commenced to read law in the office of Judge Martin Grover, and was admitted to the Bar, on attaining his twenty-eighth year, in January, 1658, at Binghampton, in his native State.

Shortly after he began the practice he was affected with an attack of the Western fever, and moved to Morrison, Whitesides county, Illinois, which at that time was considered in the far-west. He remained there in the practice of his profession for three years and a few