Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-06


bat like "tho Mil Boy OF the Slashes,"
the great Henry Clay, when he had hold
OF the horns Of belligerent goat. he
would take the advice which the sport
I've urchins gave the mill boy"-to
cut and runw So be ran.
Judge Dent then. after receiving q
delicate eulogIum at the hands OF the
accomplished toast-master. paid his re-
spects 10 the toast,
THE SUPREME COURT OF AppEAIs.,
1t was very handsome, appropriate
ana delicate. He said he was not
"oorn great. did not achieve greatness.
ana only had greatness thrust upon
nim' as Shakespeare says, that he felt
that Judge must submit to criticism
without Irritation, censure without
anger, and calumny without retaltation:n
th1t position OF this kind was trying
ana often left him rejecting upon an
| Inclination TO be at the former again.
lie closed amid tumultous applause.
win his beDediction upon tho bar.
Next came Hon. John w. Mason, who
seriously responded to the toast,
''rHE LAWYER IN POLITICS"
He said every mans duty reouired
MIN TO devote some portion OF his time
to his country; that IL gives him ac
quaintance with the people aud their
needs aud taught him IN the art OF
government. Mr.. Mason now lives in
tairmont. but formerly lived here.
lie is universally popular with the bar.
lie is kind TO gentleness, and all the
young men know IL. Though Col. Nc
Graw had said in introducing him that
hesml ght vary the toast by linking his
politics with his law or vice versa"
Mr.. Mason said he did not do IL.
Next Judge Il. +. Jacobs was intro
duced. A high compliment was paid TO
his scholarship, his labor. his learning
and his integrity. His toast was
THE CIRCUIT RIDER"
The response was scholarly, erudite
and chaste He said the duties of the
Circuit Rider were more exciting than
t hose OF the daily toiler; that he
worked like a slave ard lived Ikea
hermit read moro than the lawyer,
and studied more than the student. 1t
Is worry Of remark here that Judge
Jacobs graduated at tho University In
1874 at the head of his class, and Judge
Dent was the first graduate that ever
came out OF the University.
MIR. {. ID. Wostenhavre, OF Martins
ourg, was next called upon and resp ond-
cd TO the toast
THE ORDINARY LAWYER"
Col. McGraw said that Mr.. Wester
hoover had come more milos than any
other member TO be present at the
Association. His remarks were very
amusing, especially as he told campaign
Jokes on Mr.. Mason. He told tho truth
Mason says. 1t created much laughter.
Mr.. WestenhaveT has long been
member OF the Association.
MIR. j. w. Vardervort, of Parkers-
burg, responded to the toast.
THE ABSENT MEMBERS.
His speech was most ielicitous; he
referred To his old friend and class
mates at the University, Judge Jacobs,
Mr.. d. III. T. Woods and others present,
and then paid feeling tribute To the
absent and the departed. Among them
the kind Gov. j. b. jackson. Mr..
Russell OF Wheeling, Mr.. Hutchinson
or ParkersbuTg, and many others. His
remarks were exquisite and appropriate.
Next came j. Ii. Woods, OF Philippi,
who Col. McGraw said in introducing,
was lawyer well and favorably known
throughout this and adjacent counties,
aud zone OF three sons upon whom the
mantle OF the distinguished Judge
might worthIly fall"
Mr.. Woods paid graceful reciprocal
| compliment TO the accomplished and
urbane tOAstmaster, and spoke OF the
festal board in the glowing words OF
Moore:
Long, sng be our hearts with these me mOries
ulled.
Like the vase in which roses have once boon
distilled,
You may break, you may shattel the vase # you
viii,
But tbe scent OF the roses will hang round it
still"
Other happy speeches were made by
Capt. Poundstone, of Buckhannon, Sen
ator Worley, Of kingwood, Capt. Hig-
ginbotham, OF Buckhannon, Col. John
II. Holt, chancellor" w. w. Dent,
Justice Guard and others Of the Local
bar. extending a further welcome.
The orchestra discoursed sweet music
and at the close Prof. Wiley proposed
standing toast to tine festive board
and our hosts. but Cot McGraw re-
sponded by amending the same by sub
stituting Hon. Il. Il. Martin, who
would be with Us II he could" All
agreed and the toast was so drunk.
while Hon. John w. Mason proposed
that in parting we sing "Auld Lang
Syne," led by Judge Woods, which was
done, and 1t was . o'clock a. m. long
| past.
That hour o. nights black arch the
keystone" the company parted. voting
the Association, the local bar, and Col.
McGraw trinity OF success.
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