on the identical spot where he, too, fell.

Burr fled the country.

Three years afterwards, he was arrested for treason in trying to found an
independent State within the borders of the United States. He was tried
and found not guilty.

After some years spent abroad he returned and took up the practise of law
in New York. He was fairly successful, lived a modest, quiet life, and
died September Fourteenth, Eighteen Hundred Thirty-six, aged eighty years.

Hamilton's widow survived him just one-half a century, dying in her
ninety-eighth year.

So passeth away the glory of the world.

DANIEL WEBSTER

Not many days ago I saw at breakfast the notablest of all your
notabilities, Daniel Webster. He is a magnificent specimen. You
might say to all the world, "This is our Yankee-Englishman; such
links we make in Yankeeland!" As a logic fencer, advocate or
Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first
sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion; the
amorphous, craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice
of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown;
the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of
silent Berserker rage that I remember of in any other man. "I
guess I should not like to be your nigger!"
--Carlyle to Emerson

[Illustration: DANIEL WEBSTER]

Those were splendid days, tinged with no trace of blue, when I attended
the district school, wearing trousers buttoned to a calico waist. I had
ambitions then--I was sure that some day I could spell down the school,
propound a problem in fractions that would puzzle the teacher, and play
checkers in a way that would cause my name to be known throughout the
entire township.

In the midst of these pleasant emotions, a cloud appeared upon the horizon
of my happiness. What was it? A Friday Afternoon, that's all.

A new teacher had been engaged--a woman, actually a young woman. It was
prophesied that she could not keep order a single day, for the term
before, the big boys had once arisen and put out of the building the man
who taught them. Then there was a boy who occasionally brought a dog to
school; and when the bell rang, the dog followed the boy into the room and
lay under the desk pounding his tail on the floor; and everybody tittered
and giggled until the boy had been coaxed into taking the dog home, for if
merely left in the entry he