had a most pleasing manner and was uniformly courteous and gentle. His heart was full of the milk of human kindness, and his knowledge of human nature enabled him to select with marvelous certainty jurors who would readily respond to his own sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, as well as for the "erring brother." His success in obtaining verdicts of "Not Guilty" was never surpassed by any practitioner in this State. He was indeed a great advocate, and in fact a most eloquent and convincing orator. Homer's description of the oratory of Ulysses might in a measure be applied to Charles P. Johnson:

"But when he speaks, what elocution flows,

Soft as the fleeces of descending snows."

He has gone to his reward, but behind him he has left foot-prints that aspiring lawyers will do well to follow.

"His life was gentle, and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "That was a man!'"

MISS CAROLINE S. HOPKINS, PIONEER TEACHER, DIES AT 94.

Miss Caroline S. Hopkins, for more than fifty years a teacher in the Chicago schools, died in her 94th year, September 13, 1923, at the home of Mrs. William I. Morgan, 2249 Ridge avenue, Evanston. Miss Hopkins was born in Bloomfield, Conn., September 19, 1829. At one time she taught in the Dearborn seminary, a fashionable Chicago boarding school for girls, more than half a century ago.

ILLINOIS OLDEST WOMAN IS DEAD AT
AGE OF 112.

Mrs. Mary Vermett, said to have been the oldest woman in Illinois, is dead at the home of her son, Richard, in Hebron, Illinois, aged 112 years and 9 months. Mrs. Vermett was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1810, and came to America with her parents when 15 years old.

J. H. KINGSLEY, CHICAGO FIREMAN OF 1871, DIES IN WAUKEGAN, AGE 92 YEARS.

J. H. Kingsley, 92 years of age, was a member of the Chicago Fire Department at the time of the great fire in 1871, and also served in the Civil War with Illinois troops. Later he was an engineer with the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. Mr. Kingsley died at his home in Waukegan, October 16, 1923. His only daughter, Mrs. Adeline Morey, has been a teacher in the Waukegan Primary School for forty years.

CAPTAIN JOHN A. WALL, NEWSPAPER EDITOR, DIES.

Captain John A. Wall, 87 years old, veteran of the Civil War and the Nestor of Mt. Vernon newspapermen, died at Mount Vernon, Illinois, December 9th, 1923. Captain Wall in his active days published papers at Salem, Pinckneyville, Marion, Carbondale, Cairo, Coulterville, Benton and Mount Vernon, Illinois, and at Cape Girardeau, Mo. He served with distinction in the Civil War and was severely wounded in the battle of Stone River. In 1909, at the age of 73, he published a history of Jefferson County in one large volume. When the late John S. Borgan started the Jeffersonian in August, 1851, the first paper published in Jefferson County, Mr. Wall, then a boy of 15, assisted in the mechanical department.