The Newtown bee., 1880-08-04
" From his cradle

He WAS agcholar ripe and good one"
 While his innate modcsiy anL courteous bearing to- wards others won lpr him iu all circles a respect and cs tc,ni that but in his profe sion arl permitted to enjoy. to the salAo exteat at least that he unqursto ably did.
 In letter wAiyh tao writer received from him sams thna ago, he Says: We lawyers do not con- HdJr ouFssIysS BnLius old un,iI we reach three score and tcu Re-" ont it hardly occurred to him that tAe ill Seusila;cd court looms in which he was doonIeI to l,ass many Lours of the day, wJrs si,eutly dI,n4 their intidiOas work, or tEat A0 would su soon bo summoned to appear before tue Great Julte oi oil. anu thls too befUIe he had attained even the age of sixty. To the impure. and, in fact poisonous atmJsph rs of these court rooms. allnd tO the m ut;,l labor which he was subjected in the rcvcwRl of long and intricate cases hls untinely doatA think. is mainly due
 While the writer lyel in Rye. Westchcsccr couu y, x. r., tde Judge frequent vistt or st h.s h1aao, sonlthuos saying two three days at a tiIne. generally bringing intelligent l,orSry frioni with him. On one occasion (which neither ho UT any of f,rsoD he was accom- panied by scotch gentleman, a prominent lnarehant of the city, aul by marriage relative Of hs wall as O. onrI. Taey dsoya up the whole distance, sono twrntysiN or twoaty.sevon miles
 
 the ooldesS nights Of the sayercst winter had been known for many years iu that section of the country. It wa one oi the oId-flshioned straight hack kin of sleigh, that tar better planned for Rn " instrumant of torture" than pie essule vuaicle adapted to tho needs of two such portly gsnaom Iu Oh such journey, while the stalwart horse which drew it waga long lazy animal, at leant seventeen hands hga, but being exceedingly gentle and patieut, was Grea1 fayJrite of the Judges, the long drives that he was fond of taking two or three times year through the rural districts loved to take his time in the snail pace or dog trot, to wEch the old horse aad been evcr It WAS late Il the afternoon before 1 they set out from the cIty aud it WAS near da be fore they crossed the Harlem bridge. taking then the cld Boston Post road the arcicnt village Of l East Chester was soon reached, wh sn they con- | iorted themselves with the reelection that they | wore now well on their way towards their place of de.tipa,ion. but as tho Scotch poet says
 ' The best laid schemes O and mlce
 Gans alt a-glco, For in the darkuoas that had now much increased | they mistook q branch" road for the main one | coming .. last to dead halt st the extreme end of Throgs Point. which juts out far into the waters of Long Island Sound. Here a vexatious | dilemma indeed, and one that would have dis | e""A@opN ~tANSb any ptlAcF lnou tual tne plllO- | sophie Judge himself. but
 Things without remedy Should be without reSart; what's done is done" So he thought, and though they were i've or six mil, out of thoir way, with the thermometer at or near zero he deliberately set to work to about ship" as the sailors say. to recover the road they had lost Perplexing as tho was. the Judge laughed heartily over the tribaations misery and disgust of his sntvering companion, whom he en- deavofed to console by assuring him that they wore now positively in that section of the country which in revolutionary times those raiders-the "eow-boys and skinners''-had made famous kut all to no purpose. The warm-hearted ani war1.l- blooded Scotchman had "nostoEa0h for legendary tales when caught out such a bitter cold night and on such an expedition for h. only responded now and then by urging more vigorous appli- cation of the whip to the back of the tired steed and 1t was not until near midnight that the end Of the journey was reached. The inmates of the house, who had long before retired to rest. were now summoned up by tho barking Of the dogs and by tae loud ringing of the haldoor bell to admit the half-frozen and unookel-for guests. when blazing wood fire was speedily kindled mp, which added to the furnace heat and hot supper soon made the benighted and benumbed travellers forget the Sufcrings ana discomfors they had endured in their long and tedious j9urncy.
 Judge Curtis was excellent compsny and his visits always afforded unalloyed pleasure to the family as well as to guests who came with him,