The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-02-08

grappled to him with hooks of steel. He
was capable of the strongest friendships
and no man would go further to servo a
friend. He was kind and affectionate in
his family relation and by that family SO
sadly bereaved he was almost wor
shipped.
The example of such man in COM
nlunity is worth much. No one of us
can live wholly unto himself The inhu-
ence of action in the moral as well as in
the physical world is eternal. Scientists
tell US that if you cast a pebble into mid
ocean that you stir every atom of water
around the wide globe; they tell us that
the sound of the choppers axe III the
western wilderness, echoing and re-echo
ing among the trees, reverbrates through
oil eternity they tell us that as the ap-
pie falls from the tree to the earth, the
earth, IN obedience to the great law OF
gravitation, rises to meet it. So, con-
sclousiy or unconsciously, whether VIC
desire it or not, we act and react upon
our fellows and our actions affect theirs.
Neither does man desire to live wholly
unto himself, nor wholly to forget or TO
be forgotten. No man desires to pass
away and be as the dull clod. / care not
what mans religious opinions may be,
L care not whether he tries to convince
himself that he has none, yet there is III
stinctively in man desire to leave some
thing of himself upon earth when be
shall have passed away. We laSyers
know as we go out sometimes to che beds
OF men that lie on couch from which
.ney will never rises that desire grows
strong as men draw near their laat hour.
In nearly every will we draft there Is q
direction that tombstone be erected III
memoriam when the signer shall. have
passed away. We build tombs, statues
and costly mausoleums. Consciously or
uneonsciously rises in every mind the
prayer that Dickens wrote at the end of
his Christmas Stories: Lord, keep my
memory green"
The manner OF the death of our de.
ceased brother has been alluded to by
my friend Mr.. Markham. There is, it
seems to me, but one consolation, one
compensation, as I look back and think
OF the dead that have gone before, the
pale face, the coffin and the shroud too
painful for thought or memory to dwell
upon. We love to think of those who
nave gone before US as We saw them in
lie. Gratifying as it would have been
TO US to have done honor to his mortal
remains had they been spared; hal
they been within our reach, gladly would
we have thrown aside our daily labor5
ana pursuits to have followed him to tho
grave and laid him away with careful,
LOVING hands. Still there is this that wa
can only think of Judge Reed as we saw
nm IN life, kind and courteous gsntle-
man, always comedy in appearance, al
ways polished in his manners, always
KIND and courteous 20 all, man who, ass
the poet has expressed it, "Justum ct
teSaGcena, 2'roposji Uirts1a, "a man Just
and tenacious of principle.
Remarks were also made by Messrs.
Henry Sibree and @. w. White, when
the resolutions were adopted and the fol-
lowing remarks made
BY THE COURT:
While listening to the touching ana
eloquent addresses of the different men,
bers of the bar feel that must express
my regret that had not the honor of
knowing Judge Reed in his lifetime. and
therefore it is not within the power of
this court to add anything to his high
character and the large place which he
evidently held in the hearts of the people
OF this community. These resolutions
will be entered upon the records and the
clerk will be directed to certify copy