Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

achieving Q position Of honor and useful-
In life, ana shia deaxh.r OpmfnS.1 lm6sti
WITHOUT Warming was 4 shock to . tlei
Whole community. II ~ saA0 10 scon4ein-
plate death at amy time. but II 10 peculiar
~ sad Tor the young to die. This young
looked out upon the whole world spread
before him like a beautiful landscape. !
carpeted with. green, Its walks and high
ways enamelled with lovely flowers
everywhere. n streams running
through 1t like bands Of silver. and all
over this landscape trees laden with the
richest fruit. All this invited him to go
out into the world, conquer, and achieve
success. 1t was hard Tor him to die. It
Is not SO hard, as I have experienced, for
a man who has climbed up the hill of life
n started down towards its sunset, to
contemplate death. He frequently comes
to the conclusion that life Is not worth
the struggle which Is required to MAIN
tain It, even II success, or fame n re-
nown, which are always transitory. have
been achieved. ! have no doubt that this
morning the poor, grief stricken father
and mother, as they look upon this world,
beautiful as 1t Is. n with whatever 1t
has, is to them a phantom ship on a paint
ed sea. 1t Is dark n gloomy to them,
but. our honOrs, it is not of place for
us. on a sad occasion like this. to ponder
over the mystery of life and death for a
moment. 1t may be true that there Is q
divinity that shapes u ends, and 1t may
be true. too. that the old adage has come
to pass in the life and experience of this
young man: Whom the Gods love, die
young 1t may be true that this young
man, by a benefcient Providence. has
been removed to a higher plane, to a Il
higher court, where he may achieve
honors and triumphs and victories that
are immortal, n 1t nay be true this
morning. in the gloom that gathers over
the household on account Of the death of
this young man, there is heard the voice
of Him who was q man of sorrow and
acquainted with sin, speaking across the
troubled waters to the Christian mother
of this yOung man., and saying 1T Is /;
b. not afraid" Whatever may be or may
not be in the great. deep, mysterious
question of the future, we feel upon an
occasion like this that there is no con-
ISOLATION outside of that Christian faith
which cheers, and which can only cheer
in a dark hour like this. Intidelity. athe-
ism, agnosticism, materialism, national
ISM, nothing gives us consolation In hours
like this. We find 1t only in the Christian
faith, and l trust for myself that this
consolation may at least come to the
bruised and broken hearts that mourn
especially the death of this young a
Nov, your honors, I ask in behalf OF
the members of the bar of this county,
that these resolutions be adopted and
spread upon the records of the court"
In behalf of the Younger members OF
the bar c.. F. Kelly spoke as follows:
May it please your hOnOrs and gentle-
men of the bar, without any preparation
1 was requested, on behalf of the younger
members of our bar to express the deep
sympathy which We feel for the bereaved
parents in the death of our brother and
colleague. William w. Dixon, Jr., as we'll
as our own grief at his untimely taking
off. 1 feel, your honors, that for me to
attempt to say anything that would d
to the touching solemnity and expression
gives this occasion by the learned gentle
man who has preceded me, would be a
futile task. but we younger members of
the bar, are pleased to look upon those
who have achieved distinction and hon-
ors in our courts, and to look among our
selves for those who we believe will in
time taxi their places. Judge Pember-
ton has spoken to us of the suddenness
there is in death, when a young man.
without warning, is taken from the ranks
of the active and hidden to take his place
in the silent halls of death; and he has
is not so sad when it comes to the man
who has almost run his life's COURSE.
whose hair is tinged with silver, and who
carries upon his shoulders the burden OF
a life's work well don In this lament
able case, 1t seemed as though the name
of Dixon was to be a perpetual one, like
those far off summer days we read of In
the arctic north. where, ere the sunset
of one day has faded, the sunrise of an
other comes. We looked Upon our young
colleague as who would in time fill
with respect, with the wisdom and integ-
rity of his father, the place that should,
in the natural course, be made vacant
by his death. On behalf of the younger
members of the bar of u court, I de-
sire to express to the bereaved parents
our sincere sympathy, and we express
now our sincerest lamentation that the
life of one SO young and of such promise
was taken from us, and as suddenly as II
was. 1t is said in Holy Writ that the
ways of the Lord are inscrutable; we
trust that in this case although we can
| divine no purpose in the removal of our
young griend and brother, it has been for
the best, and we bow in judgment to the
mandate of the Supreme Tribuaal, be-
fore whose will we are al n day to
pass away"