Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-03
BE WIEN EXTREMES, JUDGE S. R. CoCKRI1L CoNvERs. ES ENTERTAININGLY UPON HIS REGENT TRAVELS. TALKS OF CIVILIZATION. New York Millionaires Claim to Have More Money Than They
 Know What to Do
 With.
TALKS OF CIVILIZATION

Judge s. R. Cockrill returned Tuesday from an extended trip to the East, says the Arkansas Demo- crat, and our reporter finding him at the Capital Hotel, inquired if he had met with anything of interest in his travels this summer.
 Much, he responded, "that was of inter est to me. I saw the judi cial pendulum swinging between the two extremes of civilization-from a court of record, presided over by full-blood Choctaw in the sparsely inhabited woods of his own barba- rous tribe, to the session of the American Bar Assoclation, at Sara toga, the queen of spas in the heart of the civilization in the East, where many great lawyers and judges of the great English speaking nations had assembled. In the space of a few weeks, I heard the Choctaw ad- minister, or attempt to administer, his crude laws, in his labial nasal twang, at one end of the circuit, and at the other end listened to the Lord Chief Justice of England dis course upon the peaceful adjust ment ot international wrongs iii the purast English. leave you to con- trast the extremes. Do not imag ine,. however, that the East has all the advantages over the Indian. There is a fascination in the latter's ease of life, and freedom from care. Bulls and bears do not disturb him, and he gives no thought tothe gold bug oppression, 0" the so-called silver craze. l slept in the open air without apprehensioG or fear, without even the protection of tent about me, and on several nights literelly surrounded by Indian campers. But in enlightened New York, you may bensure l turned the lock and drew the bolt against the more civilized brother.
 "Why do speak of Lord Rus sells English? Because his pro- nunciation was so nearly like that we hear at home. Many words from speakers from Boston, and from some parts of the West, grated upon my ear or sounded a little off, but there was little disturbance of that sort when Lord Russell spoke. Does not that go to prove the assertion of the New York Sun, made time and time again, that the best Eng fish in America is spoken in the South? I wish you could convince all teachers in our public schools of that fact. I tried the experiment once upon one of them and got vio- lently sat upon for my pains.
 "There was one fact connected with the meeting of the Bar Asso- citation which I think would espe- eially interest you. Several of the great New York daily newspapers published accounts of the banquet given at Saratoga, which must have been written in advance of the ban quet and sent by mail, although it purported to be by telegraph. They gave @ response to a toast which was never proposed by a gentleman who did not appear, and reported Mir. J. c. Carter,o of New York, who was present but did not speak, as using very touching language about h.s associotion with Lord Russell in the Behring Sea matter. The trick of the trade was very apparent to those behind tbe scenes. The fact that the reporters were not admitted to the banquet, perhaps, palliates the offense. Sir Francis Lockwood, DrY Depew, and Bourke Cochran bore off the palms of oratory. They ran upon entirely different lines, each supreme in his pacticular sphere.
 Politics? No; I didn't mix up in politics. One thing impressed me very much in New York, however.