to turn each sentence over and over until I get it in shape to suit me, and then to repeat it to myself until it is thoroughly impressed on my mind, and then to go on to the next sentence; so that when I am through with my preparation, I not only know what I am going to say, but the very gesture that will accompany every word of it. You will find it difficult at first to do that, but you can soon train yourself to it."--Advice to a young man: April, 1893, Green Bag.

Tilt With Conkling in the United States Senate.

"If the Senator from New York accuses me of bad faith, I say to the Senator from New York he is guilty of a falsehood, and I repel it with all the contempt I feel for the author."-Lamar.

"Should the Senator from Mississippi, in the presence of the Senate, charge me by intimation with telling a falsehood, I would denounce him as a blackguard, a coward, and a liar."-Conkling.

"I have only to say to the Senator from New York, he understood me correctly. I said precisely the word he understood me. I beg pardon of the Senate for it; but my language was such as no good man would deserve, and no brave man would wear." -Lamar.

Indian Policy.

"The only alternative now presented to the American Indian race is speedy entrance into the pale of American civilization, or absolute extinction,

After incorporating into our body politic four millions of blacks in a state of slavery, and investing them with citizenship and suffrage, we need not strain at the gnat of two hundred and sixty thousand Indians."—While Secretary of Interior.

Worked Hard on His Decisions.

"Writing out a decision costs me two or three times the labor it costs a facile worker. Now, there's Judge Blatchford-he can take a record, master it, and" (with a quick gesture), "there is the whole thing -the decision produced in the time that it takes me to determine how I shall set about approaching the case."-In a conversation with Walter B. Hill: April, 1893, Green Bag.

Longed for House of Representatives.

"While Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Fewell said to him, 'Colonel Lamar, this is no place for you; you ought-you will wear yourself out at this drudgery. I will tell you where you ought to be, and where our people need you, and need you badly!' 'Where?' he asked, exhibiting some interest. 'In the House.' Mr. Fewell answered. "There is your place, there is where you ought to be,-to lead. We have no leader in that body, and things are going to the bow-wows there.' 'Instantly,' says Fewell, 'he was the Lamar of old. His eyes blazed; his countenance cast off its almost perpetual shadow; he rose to his feet and glared about him with the manner

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of a prisoner who was called to break his bonds. He swept his arms through the air, and said with great but suppressed animation, 'You are right, by There is where I would like to be. If I were there, I would mash some of those fellows. I'd teach them some sense.' Then he recalled himself, and resumed his seat and his tired look. The light faded from his eyes, his frame became limp; a clerk came in with my letter; Lamar signed it. 'Good-by,' I said. 'Good-by,' he responded. We shook hands. I never saw him again.""—Walter B. Hill in April, 1893, Green Bag.

A Justiceship His Ambition.

It was the ambition of Lamar's life to wind up his career as a Justice of the Supreme Court. While he was Secretary of War, Mr. Cleveland sent for him to talk to him about the position. Mr. Lamar showed so much interest in the matter, such boyish delight, that the President concluded then and there to gratify the goal of his ambition, and accordingly appointed him to succeed Mr. Justice Woods.

Little Practice Before Coming to Bench.

"Lamar was called to the Supreme Bench after a career of extraordinary vicissitudes, in which the life of the camp and the battlefield, alternated with that of the forum and the hustings; almost without probation as a legal practitioner, but with a thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of great affairs

of state and with a well-earned National renown as an orator, statesman, and leader of men.”—Atty. Gen'l Olney-remarks on death of Justice Blatchford.

Hard Worker, Forgetful and Hearty Eater.

He was a hard worker, sometimes continuing for twenty-four hours at a stretch. He was not regular at his meals, and was liable to take his lunch at ten o'clock in the morning, four in the afternoon, or eleven at night, as the case might be; and he often forgot his meals altogether. Colonel Jonas, tells an incident while Lamar was in the United States Senate. He met Lamar coming out of the Senate chamber one evening with a most disgusted look. He said: "I am sick, and am going up into Maryland for two or three days." Colonel Jonas, who was his private secretary, knowing his habits, asked him if he had had his lunch. Lamar replied that he had not, that he became interested in something, and forgot all about it. Jonas asked him if he had eaten any breakfast, and Lamar replied no, that he had intended to breakfast at the Senate, but was so busy he had not done so. Upon further inquiry it was found that he had no supper the night before, for some reason, and it was now about seven o'clock on the evening following. Mr. Jonas said: "It is easy to see what is the matter with you, Senator. You are not sick. You are only hungry, and weak. You have not eaten anything for two days, and it is no wonder that you feel badly." They repaired to a res

taurant, where Lamar ate nine hard boiled eggs, washing them down with two bottles of ginger ale, and when he got through, said he felt tip-top."

Fond of Literature, etc.

He was fond of literature and the arts, poetry and flowers, and could quote from the poets, classic and modern, almost ad libitum.

Sought to Overthrow the Nation and in Thirty Years Was on the Supreme Bench.

“Lamar was an important personage in the Confederate Government, having been its diplomatic agent to Russia, France and England, as well as Colonel in the army. He was a man of deep convictions, broad mind and unusual moral courage. His eulogy on Sumner, shortly after the latter's death, startled the South, and aroused at first the indignation of his constituents; but he conquered their prejudices in the end. His action in 1877, in voting against inflation in the teeth of instructions from the Legislature that had made him Senator, was another remarkable act that seemed at the time certain to cost him his seat; but again he converted his constituency, and was returned without opposition. He was Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland, and when he died, was a member of the United States Supreme Court. That the man who was sent abroad to secure the recognition of foreign nations for the Confederacy, should less than thirty years later have