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 406 STORKS er, especially of impending storms. Every na- tion of the civilized world, including China and Japan, now has national offices for collecting and utilizing meteorological observations. As a general rule, the warning signal, whether it be the drum or cone as in England, or the flags and lights adopted in other countries, is intended to announce merely that the chances are that there will soon be a dangerous high wind in the neighborhood of the station. STORKS, Riehard Salter, an American clergy- man, born in Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21, 1821. He graduated at Amherst college in 1839, and at Andover theological seminary in 1845, and was ordained pastor of the Harvard Congrega- tional church, Brookline, Mass. In 1846 he became pastor of the church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y., which post he still retains (1876). He was associate editor of the " In- dependent 5 ' newspaper from its commence- ment in 1848 to 1861. He has published a report on the revision of the English version of the Bible undertaken by the American Bible society ; " Graham Lectures, on the Wisdom, Power, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Constitution of the Human Soul " (New York, 1856) ; and lectures on " The Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes" (1875). STORY, a central county of Iowa, intersected by Skunk river ; area, 550 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 11,651. The surface is undulating and the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 131,022 bushels of wheat, 390,395 of In- dian corn, 97,938 of oats, 25,066 of potatoes, 13,730 tons of hay, 8,918 Ibs. of wool, 132,249 of butter, and 5,751 gallons of sorghum mo- lasses. There were 1,580 horses, 2,253 milch cows, 4,021 other cattle, 3,185 sheep, and 5,388 swine. The Chicago and Northwestern railroad passes through the capital, Nevada. STORY. I. Joseph, an American jurist, born in Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 18, 1779, died in Cambridge, Sept. 10, 1845. He graduated at Harvard college in 1798, and studied law in Marblehead. In 1801 he removed to Salem and was admitted to the bar. He soon ac- quired a lucrative practice and the warm friend- ship of some of the leading federalists, though he was a republican. In 1804 he published a volume of poems containing " The Power of Solitude " and some smaller pieces, but it was not successful. From 1805 to 1808 he was a member of the lower house of the legislature of Massachusetts, and took a very active part as the principal leader on the republican side ; but in two of the measures which he espoused, he acted upon purely independent grounds. The first was a bill to increase, and to estab- lish on a permanent basis, the salaries of the justices of the supreme judicial court, which was passed by his exertions in 1807. The other was a bill (1808) to establish a court of chancery for the state ; but this did not suc- ceed. In the same year he defended the em- bargo as the only measure which the adminis- tration of Jefferson could have adopted, short STORY of a declaration of war, without submitting to the ignominious restrictions on American com- merce by the belligerent powers. He had writ- ten in 1806 the celebrated " Memorial of the Inhabitants of Salem relative to the Infringe- ments on the Neutral Trade of the United States," addressed to the president and to con- gress. In the autumn of 1808 he was elected to congress from the Essex district. In op- position to the administration he exerted him- self to procure a repeal of the embargo, upon the ground that he had originally supported it as a temporary measure, and that it had ac- complished its real purpose. He left congress before the repeal was consummated, but not before he had largely contributed to bring it about, and Jefferson attributed the repeal almost wholly to his exertions. Declining a reelection to congress, he was again chosen to a seat in the state legislature in 1810, and in January, 1811, he was elected speaker of the house. On Nov. 18, 1811, he received the ap- pointment of asiociate justice of the supreme court of the United States; and on Jan. 17, 1812, he resigned the office of speaker. In 1820 he was a member of the convention for the revision of the state constitution. His principal services in that body related to the tenure and the compensation of the judiciary, the apportionment of the house of representa- tives, and the property basis of the senate. The original constitution contained a clause authorizing the legislature to increase the sala- ries of the judges of the supreme judicial court. A motion was made and suddenly carried to insert the words " or dimmish." The recon- sideration and rejection of this amendment were produced by a powerful and brilliant argument by Judge Story, which commanded the assent of more than two thirds of the con- vention. In 1829 Judge Story was appointed professor of law in Harvard university, on a foundation established by Nathan Dane, for the delivery of lectures on the law of nature, the law of nations, commercial and maritime law, federal law, and federal equity; and for the rest of his life he resided in Cambridge. The law school of which he now became the head immediately attracted students from all parts of the United States. In his consti- tutional views he was of the school of "Wash- ington and Marshall, upholding what he con- sidered as the just powers of the Union, with- out encroaching upon the rights of the states. His works comprehend " Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States " (3 vols. 8vo, 1833); "Commentaries on the Con- flict of Laws " (1834) ; " Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence" (2 vols. 8vo, 1836) and "Equity Pleadings" (1838); and treatises on the law of bailments, agency, partnership, bills of exchange, and promissory notes. All of these works have passed through many edi- tions. Judge Story was gifted with great colloquial powers, and his social qualities in private life largely added to the influence of