Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-03-10
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED.
8. W. Buckley introduced q Memorial
Regarding Judge Maefarlane to
the Court of Appeals at
Kansas City With q
Neat Address.

NJ 1ACAtOy, Al U0uoAk VI thO AAOA
leo Bar, was appointed to present
in reference to Judge G..
B. Macfarlane, deceased, before the
Kansas City Court of Appeals. Mi.
Buckley, in presenting the resolutions
ON Monday, made the following ap-
propriate address:
II the Court please: Much may be
said in support of these resolutions.
/ desire to speak briefly, and especially
OF Judge Macfarlane az q man; others
will speak of him as q lawyer and
jurist. As a husband, Judge Macfar-
lane was kind to indulgence. As a
father, he was indulgent to a fault,
and this fault was perhaps the only
vulnerable point in his otherwise
almost perfect character.
Judge Macfarlane was q man of
much better nature and of higher
attainments than q casual acquaint-
ance would ascribe to him. 1t was
necessary to know him we'll and init
mately in order to really know him at
all. He was n of the sons of men
whose good fortune it was to have
been born right. No environments of
adverse circumstances could have
obscured the force of his splendid
endowments. His natural judicial
turn of mind coupled with his innate
industry, constituted him a genius,
indeed, in the legal profession.
Speaking of Judge Macfarlane, his
late associate on the bench, Judge
Barclay, truly said: "He was one of
the ablest judges ever or our Supreme
Bench and one of the kindest, most
unassuming men 1 have ever known"
After these resolutions had been
passed and eulogies offered in support
thereof in our Circuit Court, General
d. Fl. Mcintyre remarked: "After all
that has been saidof him as a lawyer
and jurist, his greatest virtue was the
simplicity of his character and habits,
coupled with straightforward manli-
ness and great natural integrity"
Speaking of the difference between
the governments of Europe and of
this country, Garfield once said: "This
government IL not like the strong
governments of Europe, holding that
which was up, up forever, and that
which was down, down forever, but
that it is rather like tina waters of
the ocean, any drop Of which may
circulate in it's utmost depths and after
awhile, rising to the crest of it's top
most wave, there sparkle as a gem of
the purest ray"
] Am pleased to associate in my own
mind the character, life and services
of Judge Macfarlane with Garfeld's
imagery of American citizenship.
The young men of our profession may
well look to him for their ideal and
model. More than that, he was an
ideal Christian gentleman standard
for all.
1 stated a while ago that no man
really knew George B. Macfarlane
unless their relations had been of the
AlO6L AASAAA1tC SL1hA oCGCks Wlls VI
some extent, explain what l meant by
that. I remember many years ago of
conversing with him about the infu-
ence of money loaning upon the char
acter of persons engaged in that bust
ness. He said substantially, that ono
man could long engage in this business
without losing largely of tho milk of
human kindness and without sitting
the better instincts of his soul, unless
he would ~habitually practice self
denial" Since his death l have
learned, to some extent, how he dis
ciplined himself in this direction. He
made it a habit to lever Cypress the
needy nor to demand q debt If he
knew the debtor was unable to pay.
An instance or two will suffice In this
regard. l knew the party to whom
Judge Macfarlane made his first loan,
the sum of his first savings. After
running some years the principal and
interest of this loan amounted to about
$4,000, which was secured by a mort
gage on a farm worth about $4,000.
The mortgagor called one day and
asked Judge Macfarlane to take the
farm for the debt, in order to be
relieved of his burden. He was told
to cali again the next day, at which
time Judge M~acfarlane took the farm
and the mortgagor was made glad by
receiving 1900 in cash for his equity
of redemption.
On another occasion that / know Of
Judge Macfarlane loaned some money
on ~ acres of Mexico suburban prop.
erty, and, after the loan had been car
ried quite a while, the debtor called
and asked the Judge to sell the prop
erty under the mortgage and, if il
should bring more than the debt, te
pay over the balance. The property
was sold according to the debtors
request. Macfarlane bid the amount
Of the debt and, no one bidding any
more, he became the owner of tn,
property. A few days afterwards hi
sent word to this debtor to call at hi
office, which he did and was great.
astonisned to hear MacfRrlane address
him after this manner: 81 have con
cluded that your property is worth
good deal more than I paid for it.
have picked out q choice residence
site of ten acres, upon which 4 expec
to build; here is a quit claim deed t.
you for the other seventeen acres.
How few there be among men VIII
can stand within hailing distance O
this mans characteri In this selfish
grasping age how rarely, indeed, d
/, we find such a type of manhood? A
of his days were days of usefulness and
practically, all of his acts were deed
Of kindness. May the fragrance G
his stainless life and lovely characte
be o perpetual benediction to thos
who were fortunate enough to hav
! been blessed either with his acquaint
gnce or friendship.
Small Blaze at Hardin College.
At s O'Clock Monday afternoon fiji
started In Miss Cunningham's rool
NO. s1) at Hardin College and set tn
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