The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-20

heart of Mr.. Garter. He was cour-
ageous, kind and affectionate and
met the grim reaper unf1inchiDgly.
Mr.. Neumann seconded the mo-
ton of Mr.. Hatch to adopt the res
olutions and have the same spread
upon the records of the Court. He
reviewed the life of Mr.. Carter and
gave him credit for noble instincts.
He was justly fitted for the higher
walks Of life, and had he not been
cut off in the springtime of his ex-
istence, would have made an hon.
ored name.
S. K. Kane delivered a short
address in favor of adopting the
resolutions, and of events touching
the life and death of Mr.. Carter.
Judge Perry read the H n.
Castle resolution, supplemented by
eulogistic remarks on the life and
death of Mr.. Castle:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty
God to remove from our midst Henry
Northrup Castle, a member of the
Hawaiian Bar;
Resolved, That we, the members of
the said Bar, hereby express our ap-
probation of the fact that in his
passing away a great loss has befallen
us, the loss of one who devoted his
whole life to most diligent and faith
directed the energies of his clear mind,
the better equipped by such study, to
the we'll being and advancement of
the people of Hawaii, and who, ever
keeping in view and acting upon the
principle that the highest aim in life
is the performance of duty, met his
death while answering the call Of such
duty;
Resolved, That We deeply mourn
his loss, and that our sympathy goes
out to his. bereaved relatives in this
their hour of aff1iction; and further
Resolved, That we ask that these
resolutions be spread upon the minutes
of this Court.
Judge HartWell moved the reso-
lutions be adopted, and in doing so
spoke as follows regarding the de-
ceased:
In the history of every nation that
is worthy of being called q nation,
there are times when every man
counts. At such times it is not posi-
ton; it is not wealth; not scholar
ship, nor letters which is wanted or
which tells the most, it is the man
himself. It was the good fortune of
our friend Henry Castle, as it was of
Charles Carter, that he could and did
devote himself to the grand work of
purifying and ennobling the national
life of the country of his birth. Each
of them believed that Hawaii was
worth living for and worth dying for.
On receiving news by telegraph that
his country was imperilled, Henry
Castle laid aside his cherished plans of
travel and study abroad, and at once
took passage for home on the vessel
in which he lost his life. For what he
correctly understood to be the cause Of
civil liberty, of law and public order,
he would as freely have offered up his
life in battle, as he in fact did do upon
that ILL fated steamer Elbe.
My first thought of Henry Castle,
then, is of q brave, public spirited,
patriotic man. He appeared to me
to be an ideal scholar. Rank and
wealth were of no concern to him.
His mind was acute with a power of
analysis ami logic which have rarely
seen surpassed or even equalled.
Few of you, L think, knew him as a
lawyer, for he was in practice a very
short time; but no one who talked law
with him after his return from the
Howard law school could fail to see that
he knew and understood law; that he
was a student on whom had shone
some portion of the "g gladstone light
of jurisprudence; that he had fed
and thriven upon the strong meat of
the common law. From cOnversa-
tions with him shortly after his return
here, it both surprised and delighted
me to see how far he had gone into
the philosophy of law; how far he had
succeeded during his study at that
famous law school in assimilating
that portion of the law which has
been reduced to system in grasping its
fundamental principles. But law was
more attractive to him as a study than
for practice at the bar. AS years went
by, he set before himself high ideal
of journalism, and his belief was that
he could accomplish more in life by
fitting himself to be q highly trained
Journalist than in the practice of the
law. He returned to the United States
to carry on course of studies which,
later Oh, led him to Germany, and
into university life there. He was
perfectly familiar with the German
language, and so was able to get at
the freshest German thought in the
studies in which he delighted most,
my, moral philosophy, theology and
history.
The breadth of Henry Castles men,
tai resources was not generally known
in this community, for he was not
man to air or display his acquisitions.
Everything that favored of sham,
hypocricy or sanctimoniOusness was
abhorent to him. If he inherited-as
I am bound to think be dId-sOme
Puritanical tendencies, they only
served to make the Bohemiapism
which was in him, and which some
times came out, as free from guile as
that of childhood. think those who
knew him Intimately were aware of
that tome very delightful admIxture