St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-06-01
Sympathy from Samoa.

News COMES from Samoa, through the
Samoa Weekly Herald of April 9, of the
receipt OF the news OF the death of Miss
Adelaide M. Ide. In the supreme court.
April 7th, Mr.. Hetherington.C arruthers
made the following motion:
ION behalf Of the Bar OF Samoa have
with feelings of deep regret to communi-
cate to your Honour the intelligence of
the death of Miss Ide, the eldest daugh-
ter ofyour predecessor, Chief Justice Ide,
which arrived by the mail yesterday.
Even under ordinary circumstances the
intelligence of the untimely death of
young lady Of high culture and attain
ments fitted by the prolusion of beauty,
amiability, and refinement to adorn any
station of life cannot be heard without
sympathetic feeling of commseration.
Our feelings of sympathy with our for
mer Chief Justice upon the sudden quench-
ing of one of the lights which he expected
would continue to illuminate his lif, are
intensified by our knowledge that his
heartstrings were twined round his love
for his daughters and our recolections of
the tender solicitude and afectionate
pride with which he watched over their
welfare. AS a token of our coincidence
with Judge Ide in his very heavy afi1c-
ton, | move that the business of this
Court, over which he formally presided
with well-remembered ability, be stayed
that the Court do adjourn for one day
and the Clerk be instructed to transmit
to Judge Ide a minute expressive OF our
sincere sympathy"
The motion of Mr.. Carruthers was Sec
onded by the other members of the Bar
who cordially endorsed the sentiments
voiced by him.
And thereupon His Honor, Chief JUS
tce Chambers, successor to Hon. Henry
c. Ide, made the following order:
"The Clerk is hereby directed to enter
upon the records of this court the motion
just made by Mr.. Carruthers, and the
court, as an expression Of the sympathy
Of the members Of the Bar it's officers,
and of the Chief Justice personally, stands
adjourned for one day."
In connection with the foregoing order
His Honor expressed his personal feelings
OF admiration for the deceased lady, and
sympathy for the bereaved father and
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sympathy so earnestly and delicately ut
tered by the senior member of the Bar
and concurred in by the others would
appear to leave nothing more to be said
officially.
He recalled the pleasant meeting in
San Francisco more than four years ago
when he was coming first as Land Com
missioner to Samoa, and Chief Justice
Ide.
At that time he was peculiarly drawn
to the three girls coming to what he then
regarded as semi barbaric island in the
South Seas under the shadow OF the Sc
What awaited these girls without
mother in Samoa, and was it possible
that they could return to the home OF
their happy girlhood in America as beau
tiful and innocent as when they left |!
After a few days on the steamer he was
satisfied that the oldest OF the daughters
though at that time just attained to
woman's estate, had matured character
istics which would make her a mother
as well as sister TO the younger ones, and
this opinion was afterward amply con-
frmed,
His acquaintance extended through
som. months only but the friendships
then established have remained with in
creasing vividness. What has been her
career since leaving Samoa cannot be
better told than in the heartbroken Ian
guage of her father in letter we have
just received. "Since you knew her, under
the influence of cultured friends, her Uni
versity course and travel abroad, she
had broadened out and increased in
strength and depth of character. She
had become, aside from the tender ties OF
daughter, dear friend. companion, a
sympathzer in all my joys and sorrows,
confidant, strong support, loyal and
true.
had taken just pride in the promise
of a useful and happy lite and the salts
faction ofmy own affections. search in
vain for any alienation of my grief.
In the presence OF such sorrow silence is
perhaps the tenderest expression OF SYM
pathy.
For the twice afflicted father and
younger sisters we veil our hearts in ten
derest condolences.