to serve his master. "Well, here is ten dollars; you go and get your dinner and a ticket, and while you're gone I'll write a note for you to take to Carpenter." In a few minutes the young man returned, Ryan handed him the message, and instructed him to give it to Carpenter as soon as he got over there, no matter what he was doing. Arriving at Beloit the bearer of the errand learned at the hotel that Carpenter was at the court house. He hurried over there and found him in the midst of an argument to the jury; but remembering instructions, sidled up to the clerk, who reached over, pulled Carpenter's coat-tail and handed him the missive. The young man in the meantime had hurried back to the depot to catch the only returning train. Carpenter, seeing by the envelope the message was from his office, excused himself to the jury, opened and read: "My Dear Carpenter: Please keep this damned fool out of my office. Yours, Ryan." It so amused the great advocate, who never could resist a good joke, that he read it to the jury, and as may be imagined, there was general hilarity there for a few minutes.

DAVID SCHENCK, NORTH CAROLINA.

(1835-)

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, March 24, 1835, of Swiss extraction. His ancestors, who were Mennonites, having been banished for religious opinions, came to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1709, and his great grandfather, Michael Schenck, immigrated to North Carolina about 1790. Mr. Schenck was educated at the High School of Silas C. Lindslay, an eminent scholar, studied law with Honorable Haywood C. Guion, and graduated at the Law School of Chief Justice R. M. Pearson, beginning practice in 1857. In 1858 he was solicitor of Gaston county, and in 1860, of Lincoln county. He was the youngest delegate in 1861 to the State convention which passed the ordinance of Secession. Was elected Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, in 1874, and rode nearly all the State circuits and gained an enviable reputation as a jurist. At double his judicial salary, he became General Counsel, 1881, of the Richmond and Danville Railroad syndicate, supervising a thousand miles of road.

While in this position he was tendered the Justiceship of the Supreme Court of the State, but declined

it.

As a criminal lawyer, in the early part of his life, he obtained so large a practice that he was obliged to limit it to his physical capacity. His argument in the State Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the States regulating freight rates, stamped him as a profound thinker and, at once, put him in the front rank of corporation lawyers. His practice in that court has been large and lucrative, and his opinions are received with the greatest consideration. He is also an author, publishing in 1889, "North Carolina1790-81," a historical volume of five hundred pages, and in 1884, "Railroad Law in North Carolina," the edition being quickly exhausted. He is now consulting counsel of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system, and president of the "Guilford Battle Ground Company." In 1878 the University of North Carolina conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., and various historical societies in the Union have elected him as honorary member. In church relations he is an ar dent Episcopalian, and devout in his duties as a Christian and churchman.

LORD SELBORNE (SIR ROUNDELL PALMER),

ENGLAND.

(1812)

The greatest code reformer of England. The Right Honorable Roundell Palmer, Doctor of Civil Law, Privy Councillor. He is the second son of the Rev. William Palmer, rector of Mixbury, England, where the son was born November 27, 1812. He was educated at Rugby, Winchester and at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating at twenty-two with first class honors, gaining the Chancellor's prize for Latin verse, the Newdigate prize for English verse, and the Ireland scholarship. He was elected to fellowship in the Magdalen College, the year of his graduation, and obtained the Eldon Law Scholarship. He was made Master of Arts and admitted to the bar in 1837. Represented Plymouth in Parliament in 1847, made Queen's Counsel in 1849, Solicitor General in 1861, under Lord Palmerston, and Attorney General in 1863. He refused the Chancellorship under Gladstone in 1868, because of some differences upon Irish church questions; represented the government in the Alabama Claims in 1871, and was made Chan

cellor in 1872-the Irish question being settled—and this without ever having held a judicial position. He brought forward and carried through in 1873 the Judicature Act, by which Great Britain adopted the code procedure and abandoned its old system of a thousand years. He was awarded by the American Bar Association during one of its recent sessions a gold medal for eminent services in the cause of legal reform. He went out of office in 1874, but was reappointed Chancellor in 1880.

He does not possess the versatility and genius for law possessed by Cairns or Bethell, but he was left out of no big case in Lincoln's Inn, or any important appeal to the House of Lords. He gained a solid reputation as a judge. His decision in Morris v. the Earl of Aylesford, being the leading case on catching bargains with heirs and reversioners. He is painstaking, exhaustive, industrious, solid and highly religious. He edited in 1862 "The Book of Praise, From the Best English Hymn Writers," and in 1878, “Liturgical History of the Reformed English Church." He has the highest reputation for all the domestic virtues, having for his motto, Palma virtuti (the palm to virtue).