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Benjamin Knevals, law partner of President Arthur; Hon. Wayne MacVeigh, ex- Attor ney-General of the United States; Judge Bil lings, of the United States District Court of Louisiana; Henry Robinson, ex-Governor of Connecticut; Charlton T. Lewis; E. C. Stedman, the poet; Benjamin K. Phelps, of New York; George W. Smalley, the English correspondent; and Isaac Bromley, of the New York Tribune. In 1857 Mr. Shiras was married to Lillie E. Kennedy, daughter of Robert T. Kennedy, an old and influential citizen of Pittsburg. His wife is still living, together with two sons, George Shiras, 3d, and W. K. Shi ras, prominent young members of the Alle gheny County Bar.

On July 19, 1892, President Harrison nomi nated him for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on July 26 following the nomination was confirmed by the Senate. He took the oath of office on Oct. 10, 1892, and at once assumed the duties of Associate Justice. In personal appearance and general ad dress Mr. Shiras is a man calculated to attract attention. He is tall and slender, standing nearly six feet high, with an agree able open countenance, dark hair, and dark side whiskers. He is at once dignified and amiable; and many of the younger members of the bar will bear testimony to his uniform kindness and courtesy.

A STROLLER S CONFESSION. By Wendell P. Stafford. "No larceny of things affixed to the soil." — Law Dictionaries. '

"HE farmer, leaning beside his fence, Believed my book a rogue's pretence,

For I did not read its briefest word, — Yet all its rhymes in his brook I heard.

I lay an hour by the southern wall And watched the sun-bright apples fall I rifled his meadows, green and gold, Of more than his bulky barns would hold.

And I met him again by the gate, at night, But my hands were empty, my pockets light; And he could not see, in the dusk of day, That I bore the best of his farm away.