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inquire whether I am to preach for a kettleful of potatoes, or half a kettleful.' And mother said, 'Well, while you are about it, you may as well preach for a kettleful.' Mr. Jaquith then began, taking for his text that passage of the sacred Scriptures which com pares the Gospel to the waters of the run ning river, and he pointed out that both were inexhaustible and everlasting, and illustrated by saying that one might dip a pailful of water from the river to slake the thirst of his animals, 'but the river would run on uncliminished, and so it is with the Gospel. There is enough Gospel to save the souls of all the living in the world, and then there would be just as much left.' " Thus as he was nearing the end of his life's journey, he gave the dia logue and vividly recalled what I have re

lated, and much more of the details of this scene of his childhood days, which quite likely had not been in his mind for more than seventy years. Fearing that I might tax his strength too much, I rose and said, "I must go." "What?" he said, "You are not going now, are you?'' I replied, "Yes, I must hold Court to-mor row, and I think I had better go." "Well,'' said he, "go out and hold your Court, and deal justly by all men; and, if on the morrow I find myself healed, and restored to youth and strength I shall attend your Court." Thus near the end, and as he stood upon the verge of the valley, he employed a happy, optimistic and poetic figure of speech, to convey the idea in his mind, that with him dissolution and transition were at hand.

NOTE. — Harry Bingham died at Littleton, N.H.jSept. 12, 1900. He was born in Concord,Vt., March 30, 1821, being descended from Thomas Bingham, 3d, who came from England to Nor wich, Conn. Judge Bingham was educated in the academy at Lyndon, Vt., and at Dartmouth Col lege, graduating from the latter in 1843. Later he studied law in Concord and Lyndon, Vt., and with Harry Hibbard, at Bath, N. H. He was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire in 1846, and in the same year began the practice of his profession in Littleton, N. H., where he had ever since resided. The late Honorable George A. Bingham, twice a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp shire, was a brother. And the present Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who at one time was a Judge in Ohio, is also a brother. Probably no contemporary lawyer in the State has been engaged in the trial of so many important cases as Mr. Bingham, prominent among them being the celebrated Concord railroad cases and the investigation into the adminis tration of President Bartlett of Dartmouth College. Mr. Bingham was from his youth a Jeffersonian Democrat. In 1861 he was elected to rep

resent Littleton in the legislature, and was reelected seventeen times. He also served two terms in the State Senate, 1883-1887. He was twice nominated for Congress and seven times named by his party's representatives in the legis lature for the United States Senate. He was a delegate to the national conventions of 1872, 1880, 1884 and 1892, and candidate for elector in 1864, 1868, 1888 and 1896. He was named Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1874 by Governor Weston, but was defeated by divi sion in the Council. In 1880 he declined an appointment to the New Hampshire Supreme Court tendered him by Governor Head. He was a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1876 and chairman of the committee on legislative department. Dartmouth College conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1880. He was a member of many learned societies, and, from 1893 until his death, was president of the Grafton and Coos Bar Association. Of late years he had made many important contributions to political, philosophical and historical litera ture. He was one of the gold Democrats who steadfastly refused from the first to support the Chicago platform.