the most advanced instruction in instrumental music. Devoted to the art for its own sake, she declined all such overtures, to perfect herself in the science of musical composition, which she is now (1899) doing in New York City, under the instruction of William Mason, doctor of music, famed throughout the world as an author in that department of musical literature, the intimate friend of Paderewski, and a teacher who receives as pupils only those who are beyond instruction in execution. While so engaged, she gives recitals on occasion in the most artistic and fashionable residences of the metropolis, where she is an honored guest, for her personal worth as well as her professional ability. At the elegant parental home in Carthage, Missouri, a spacious and beautifully furnished music room has been set apart for her use. The ceiling bears, in fresco, harmonious decorations, representative of antique instruments and cherub choirs, and the paintings and engravings are all in keeping with the purposes to which the apartment is devoted. The family is held in high regard by the people of Carthage, who cherish deep pride in claiming, as of their own community, a lady who is recognized as one of the most accomplished musicians in Missouri, and in the country.

Johnson, Charles Philip, one of the most eminent criminal lawyers of the Western bar, was born in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois, January 18, 1836, son of Henry and Elvira (Fouke) Johnson. In the paternal line, he is descended from Pennsylvania ancestors, and in the maternal line from Virginia ancestors. His parents were pioneer settlers in Illinois, and Chas. P. Johnson was reared and educated in that State, completing his scholastic studies at McKendree College. As a boy he learned the printer's trade, and when seventeen years old, started a newspaper, which he published at Sparta, Illinois, for over a year. When he was nineteen years old he came to St. Louis and began reading law under the preceptorship of Judge William C. Jones and Attorney General R. F. Wingate. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and began practicing in that city, taking an active part at the same time, in the "Free Soil" political movement of that period. Nature had endowed him with the gift of eloquence and he almost immediately be

came one of the most attractive orators connected with this movement, and a trusted lieutenant of Frank P. Blair, who was the recognized leader of the Missouri forces arrayed against the extension of slavery. In 1859 he was elected city attorney of St. Louis, on the ticket headed by Oliver D. Filley, and in the campaign of 1860 he was an active and enthusiastic supporter of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. When the clashing of interests and ideas between the North and the South finally culminated in civil war, he was among the Unionists of St. Louis who gave prompt and emphatic expression to their sentiments by enlisting in the Union Army, and early in 1861 he was mustered into the Third Regiment of Missouri Infantry as a lieutenant. This regiment was enlisted for three months, and during his term of service therein Mr. Johnson helped to recruit and organize the famous Eighth Missouri Regiment of Infantry, which he was deputized to tender to President Lincoln. He tendered the services of this regiment to the President in person, and upon his return to St. Louis was elected major of the regiment. His lack of military knowledge caused him to decline this position. In 1862 he was tendered a congressional nomination by a portion of the Republican party, which refused to support General Frank P. Blair, but this nomination he declined. At the ensuing election, however, he was chosen a member of the State Legislature and became a recognized leader in the House of Representatives. He served on the committee on emancipation, and, after failing to persuade the leaders of the pro-slavery party to accept President Lincoln's proposition to pay the slave-owners who had remained faithful to the Union for the emancipation of their slaves, he took an advanced position in favor of immediate and unconditional emancipation, and introduced the bill providing for the calling of a State convention to consider that subject. As a member of this Legislature, Mr. Johnson was also distinguished for his able championship of the interests of B. Gratz Brown, who was a candidate for the United States Senate and who was elected at the end of a prolonged and exciting contest. In 1864 Mr. Johnson was a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by reason of the independent candidacy of Samuel Knox. In 1865 he opposed, on ac

count of its intolerant and proscriptive provisions, the adoption of what became known as the "Drake Constitution," submitted to the people for indorsement by the convention which had framed it. On this issue he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Legislature, and served in that body during the adjourned session of 1865-6. In the fall of 1866 he was appointed circuit attorney for the city and County of St. Louis by Governor Thomas C. Fletcher, and in 1868 he was elected to the same position on the Republican ticket, and served in that capacity during the six years following. While holding this office Mr. Johnson developed those great powers, as an advocate, which have since given him such wide celebrity and so large a practice as a criminal lawyer. Missouri inaugurated the Liberal Republican movement, which swept over the country and resulted in the nomination of Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown, respectively, for President and Vice President in 1872. Mr. Johnson became a leader in this movement, and in 1872 was elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri on the ticket headed by Silas Woodson. He was an able and accomplished president of the Senate, and while serving in that capacity he threw the weight of his influence and eloquence in favor of the repeal of the charter grant, under which St. Louis had passed what was known as the "Social Evil Law," a speech which he made on this subject and at that time attracting wide attention. At the end of his term of office as Lieutenant Governor he retired from active participation in politics, and has since devoted himself to the law, adding at the same time to his own fame and to the fame of the St. Louis bar. Only once has he consented to accept a nomination to office, and that was in 1880, when he was again sent to the Legislature, mainly for the purpose of procuring legislation which would break up a powerful gambling ring, then existing in St. Louis. As a result, after a determined and bitter contest, he succeeded in having passed what is known as the "Johnson Gambling Law." This he followed up with a memorable professional fight on the gambling and lottery rings of the city, which resulted in their complete overthrow. For a full quarter of a century Governor Johnson has been on one side or the other of almost every important criminal case tried in the courts of St. Louis, and his

practice has extended also throughout the State of Missouri and into the States of Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa and elsewhere. As has been appropriately said of him by one who knows him well: "Whether as a statesman, advocating the welfare of the people; a lawyer pleading the cause of the weak or innocent; a public prosecutor arraigning criminals at the bar of justice; or a citizen in the walks of private life, Governor Johnson has always been the same dignified, courteous gentleman, teous gentleman, so demeaning himself as to command the respect and admiration of all who know him."

The course pursued by Governor Johnson in the case of Arthur Duestrow, condemned and executed for the murder of his wife and child, illustrates two dominant elements in his character, his tenacity of purpose and his absorbing interest in the cause which he represents. Believing in this instance that an insane man had suffered the extreme penalty of the law, he was one of the few who followed the remains of his unfortunate client to the grave, and there delivered the following memorable address:

"To say anything at the grave of Arthur Duestrow was something of which I had not thought until this morning; but the circumstances surrounding his life since I met him the morning after the fatal tragedy, are of such a character as I think warrant me in making a few remarks which I deem due to his memory. No one has been his continuous associate since I took charge of his defense but myself, and from my intimate, knowledge of the man and all the facts of his case, I wish to say here, in the presence of his remains, that he is the victim of a judicial murder. His offense in its every characteristic was apparently brutal, but God had afflicted him in a manner that should have made him irresponsible in law, and the extent of his culpability should have been left to his Maker. During his long, bitter and relentless prosecution I never asked anything in his behalf further than incarceration in an insane asylum. I fully realized that there was the place to which humanity dictated his assignment. his assignment. Time would then have been given to clearly establish what I have known from the first, that he was afflicted with that direst disease, insanity.

"It is claimed, my friends, that this is a