The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-18

morning and out every night. Never | theless, Q year or so later, Noah Web ster, the author of the dictionary, who | studied law with him, said he had then one of the largest practices in New England, and that he had from one thousand to fifteen hundred cases on his books all the time.
 Ellsworth was hard student, and his father designed him for minister. 1 He did not get along well, however, at Yale, and afterwards went to Princeton. He was real college boy in his actions and delighted to defy the professors. At one time the stu dents were prohibited from wearing their hats within the college yard. Ellsworth was called before the fac- ulty for violating this rule. He made his own defense and this was that a hat, as defined by the dictionaries, was composed of two parts, the crown and the brim. He had torn the brim of of his hat and had only worn the crown. AS his head covering had no brim it could not be called hat, and hence he was not guilty. His defense was SO ingenious that the faculty let him off without punishment.
 Shortly after he graduated his father found that he was not cut out for
 preacher, and allowed him to study
 law. He began the study in debt, and during the first part of his law stud
 ies he cut wood enough to release him.
 self from his obligations. He was at
 the head of the Connecticut bar before
 he entered politics, and he was one of
 the most remarkable politicians of his
 day. It was of him, while he was in
 the senate, that Aaron Burr said that
 eff Oliver Ellsworth brought in res-
 olution in which was the name of God,
 and he should spell the name with
 two d's, it would take the senate three
 weeks to consider as to whether they
 could rightly expunge the extra let
 teri"
 He was a very efficient foreign min-
 ister, and he made one of the ablest of
 our chief justices. His greatness was
 largely the result of hard work. He
 was once asked as to the secret of his
 intellectual power, and he replied that early in life he discovered that he had
 no imagination. He analysed his mind
 and found that his qualities were such
 that he was greatly disappointed and
 discouraged. He determined to study one subject at time, and not to aban-
 don it until it was fully mastered. He
 said that his success in his profession
 came, he thought, from his having
 given his attention to the main points
 of a case and leaving the minor ones to shift for themselves.
 EllsYorth was 8 man of strong
 memory, and he had great power of concentration of mind. At times, , when he had an important matter to , consider, he would retire to his lodg- ings and walk up and down the floor, unconscious of anything except the matter about which he was thinking During this time his lips would be in
 constant motion, and an indistinct ut terance would be kept up until he B arrived at his conclusions. He was I addicted to snuff taking, and at these 3 times, says one of his friends, he would take, on the average, 8 pinch of snuff l per minute, but the moment he ar- 8 rived at conclusion his mind seemed , to find instant relief. He dismissed . the subject and gave himself up to r amusement.
 g Oliver Ellsworth was fine- looking !, man. Tall and commanding, he was s dignified without being naughty. His t countenance was grave and serious, his forehead was high and broad, and y his eyes blue and penetrating. His 8 features were regular but not hand
 some. He was modest and unassum- t ing, and extremely sociable in his f nature. He was good talker, and he if often became so interested in his con- versation at the tea table that he :, would take cup after cup of his favor- . ite beverage without apparently mo- {. ticing the number he was taking. r He was especially fond of children, 8 and after his hardest work upon his cases he delighted in amusing himself a with them. In his early lite, when he a was going through his hardest studies, g he daily spent some time in caressing o his neighbors' children, and was dis t appointed when any circumstance pre- s vented this accustomed intercourse. n He liked to have children in his study, D and he drew pictures for them. He e kept his heart young until he died, and this was on the 26th of November, - 1907, when he was sixty three years e old.
 r John Marshall was secretary of state }. in John Adams cabinet, and when v Chief Justice Ellsworth resigned, and a Jay refused to again take the position, n President Adams appointed Marshall.
 Marshall was at this time forty five
 years old. He was tall, meagre, and e emaciated, and one authority says that r his joints were SO loosely connected : as to make him appear disqualified for
 any exertion of the body. He was a