Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-26

and Is .decended from Euelishsstock in both lines. His great grandfa- ther In the paternal line fought in the battle of Kings Mountain. and his uucle under Jackson at New Orleans. In 1886 his father moved to Marshall county, Mississippi, where the son grew to mans estate, laboring on q farm until he attained his majority. He is a self-made man; his wages as a farm-hand were hoarded until suf- ficient to defray the expenses of a polite and academic education, which he acquired at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1S41, '42 and '43."
 After two years private study of legal textbooks he was admitted to the bar in 1S46, in Mississippi, and immediately immigrated to Texas with view to practice his profes- sion, but the war fever seized him and he enlisted in theeelebrated Jack Hays first Texas mounted regiment, in which he served during the Mexi- Sth V di pdt ttSt llus uss iu tnC oulelG of Monterey. In the fall of 1S47 he came to Arkansas, and in January. lS4S, opened an office in Princeton, Dallas county. He soon became popdlar, and ia February. 1s49, and again in 1851, was elected prosecut- ing attorney of his judicial circuit, Tn August, 1858, he was elected cir cult judge for four years. h 1860 he was eleetor for the State at large on the Breckenridge and Lane ticket. He was a non-oombatent during the war between the States, but aided and abetted the southern cause in sympathy and prayer for success. Ia 1866 he represented Bradley coun- l ty in the legislature. Whsn the State was free from carpet-bag rule in 1874, he was elected judge of the tenth circuit, and in 1878 was re-ele- cted, serving on the bench twelve years in the aggregate. A lifelong Methodist and Democrat. with strong prohibition tendencies graft ed on these vigorous original stalks, indicate an uncompromising com bination of creeds. He is what the
 world calls eccentric, with little dan ger of the verdict being eversed. An indutrious and laborious life has pre-
 vented the eoeial drafts of society from being honored to much extent. Constant employment and the scored resources of his own nature furnish ali the diversion his iron organism requires. In these, as in all other things, he is quite self-sustaining l Necessity, in early life, admonished him of the sin of prodigality, and
 aught him the value of thrift and wisdom of economy, and these in turn made him rich and inde- pendent.
 'Stern and austere as the relentless hills of North Carolina, on which his ancestors grew, his resolve and de- termination admit of no limitation ]! short of success. The inspirat tion of that soil imparts wisdom as ripe with financial sagaeity as Adam Smith was when he unbosemed hin- self in his Wealth of Nations.' Or thodox Methodism, one of his polar stars, stimulated his conscience from an early age and guarded bis rigid | system of economy from the seduc- tion of quest ionable methods in the acquisition of wealth. Quaint, hon. est, sincere, religious, he makes no compromise with vice. If he had the power he would convert and utilize the tremendous energies of the wine bowl. deploy It's victims and place them in the line of apostolic success sion and perpetuity. His popularity does not spring from the guild, but outside and independent of it.
 Whit to Do Until the Doctor Strives.