Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-06
memorial which has this day been unani-
mOUSlv adopted hy the har

member Of this bar, passed away at his
home in this city on Wednesday, the 18th
day OF January, 1895, at the age of thirty
six. His associates desire to place on
record their simple tribute TO his ability as
a lawyer, his integrity as man, and his
worth as friend
In Brother Tuell' S death, the profession
has lost one of its most honorable and
efficient practitioners, aud the community
a respected and valued citizen.
Though cut Off in early manhood his
life had made its impress for good and his
memory will always be tenderly cherished
by his associates who have known. re-
spected and loved him."
And now, if your Honor please. move
that these resolutions be enrolled upon
the records of the court
Mr.. johnson said:
May it please the court For the first
time since l became member of this bar
the circle or its younger members has
been entered by death, and the best be-
loved, the most promising and the most
popular of that circle has been its victim.
We have seen our elder brothers who
nave rounded out their years, slowly
such like the waning moon sunk from our
sight, leaving behind them completed
record of life's busy cares like the ripened
wheat they seemed ready for the harvest,
and with halo Of glorious deeds en-
circiing them, and the happy reflections
consequent on life we'll lived, it has
not seemed to US strange, although we
mourn their loss, that their snowy locks
whitened by years, should be laid to rest
They had fought the good fight; they had
finished the race, and seemed ready to
leave these shores of time and embark
upon the boundless ocean of eternity, en-
ter the darkness from which no ray of
light comes to the human vision al
though anxious eyes peer into its mists
and human ears are strained to catch one
wildered minds, which relying solely upon
themselves and their human agents, are
left to guess, until they feel about them
the arm of the Infinite One, and casting
themselves upon the love and mercy of
the all wise Father, realizing that God is
love, the light of revealed truth dispels
the gloom.
But death with it's sickle has left the
fields white for the harvest, and entered
those where the green blades waving in
the summer sunshine have just begun to
support the scarcely bearded grain yet
filled with the milk of youth; still need
ing the gentle nurture of rain and sun
shine in summers genial air and the ma
turing influence of golden autumn's gar
nering the richest sheaf to be gathered
there Leaves have their time to fall,
and flowers to wither at the north winds
breath, and stars to set; but all-Thou
hast all seasons for thine own, o Death !"
1t is fitting that those who were men,
bers with Brother Tuell of that younger
circle which he gladdened with his pres
ence and in whose hearts his broad sym
patby and kindly ways had won the
warmest place, should take part in these
memorial exercises. To us who in the
full vigor of pulsating life, with buoyant
spirits and ambitious hopes, have just be-
gun to think of living and have yet had
no time or place for thought of death, his
loss has come with almost an appalling
effect We can hardly think of him as
gone from us forever and it is with a
feeling of Sadness deepened by the con-
seriousness of our own loss, in which /
know every member of that circle shares,
that / second the resolutions which have
been offered.
He was more than a mere brother
attorney to most of US. He was
the sympathtic friend who had en-
tered with us upon the lawyer S
life of perplexing cares, ambitious to earn
and merit success; for he would have
none that he did not merit We early in
our acquaintance with him learned to
love and respect him. He had the quail
Ties that make man as well as lawyer
he had heart as well as brain, and
such men have friends loyal and true. His
disposition was one of the sunniest that
ever illumined the pathway of human life
His cheerfulness and his genial manner
were no yeneering to hide the coarser
fibres within, but the simple polish of the
natural wood produced by social contact
and the broader the circle of his acquaint-
ance, the brighter grew that polish. How
much such souls as his bring into this
world where the blighting air of selfish
envy tends so greatly to wither the heart S
affections. His handshakc had the grip
of true fellowship, and his smile of greet
ing was not the mark of insincerity. You
felt that in his hand, in his face and in
his heart written all over and through
him was sincerity; that quality without
which true friendship cannot exist, with
out which even genius of the most lofty
character finds itself iluttering amid dis
appointed hopes and ambitions and talents
receive tardy recognition.
| Every one knew who had any acquaint-
ance with Brother Tuell that it would be
as impossible for him to practice deception
as for the rays of sunlight to produce
gloom. He was, as are all sincere men,
n man of quick and tender sympathies.
Rising by his own exertions, in every sense
self made. forced early to commence,
single handed, life's conflict, the obstacles
which he had met and the difficulties
which he had overcome, had only rendered
a heart by nature warmed with kindly
feelings, still warmer toward those whon
he found contending by his side. And
thus it is not strange that he found the
Mace in our hearts that he did; that III
became the trusted friend and beloved
companion, not only in our circle but IT
the wider circle in which he moved.
While his while manner was character
ized by sunny geniality so that he wa
one of the most amiable and approach
able of men, yet he had learned to heet
the advice given by old Polon'us to MI
son:
/ .pa thon familiar but BY no means vulgar;