Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-19
Mr.. Roote spoke as follows:


my brethren of the committee have
shown me in selecting me to present to
this court these resolutions. l attribute
the selection to my intimate connection
and association with our dead broth /
rather than to any special fitness OF
mine to the sad office. ''-o
The voices of eulogy unite to tell us
that Frank Edward Corbett is numbered
with the dead. ia
Gods finger touched our brother, and
he slept.
Seldom. if ever. has the stroke OF
death in Montana caused such dismay as
filled the public mind in Butte when the
intelligence burst up on it that Mr.. Cor.
bett had breathed his last.
1T is fitting and proper that we. his
professional brethren, should unite in
telling of his worth. A great man has
been called away and left a void which
cannot be easily filled. Montana has
lost one of her noblest columns. She
has little such granite left.
The custom to which we are conform
ing today is a beautiful and a beneficial
one. What we say here will have Il
value far beyond being gentle express
sionS of coincidence. In hOnoring our
late brother we honor ourselves. 1t has
been truly said that the class of htera-
ture which is most beneficial to mankind
is biography. From the lives of gooCi
and great men we learn that which helps
us most in life. SO let us learn and be
benefited by the life that has gone out.
1t is very fit that we make careful note
of what it was in the life that has just
ended that most promoted the good Ut
others.
First. however it Is proper to make
some observations upon death. 1t Is
true that death always brings grief and
occasions OF this kind are always sad. /
believe the sorrow and sadness occa-
stoned by death is often made greater
than it need be.
eve must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where.
when,
Nor how, so we die Well: and can that
man that does SO
Need lamentation for him?'
"A great writer has said:
Let US not doubt that God has a
fathers pity towards us, and that in
the removal of that which is dearest t.
us He is still loving and kind. Death
separates, but it also unites. 1t reunites
whom it separates.
"Longfellow has said:
".There is no Death. What seems so is
transition
This life of mortal breath
Is but suburb Of the life elysium, H
Whose portal we call Death.
sad is this occasion. Death has thrown
pail over this community. fearful Is
Montana'S eye, and desOlate must be her
heart. The muffled bell and the stiffness
of the hour are but the echo of the
muttied and sorrowfu1 heart.
The intellect of Frank E. Corbett re-
sembled the monday SUM- He possessed
a combination of rare qualities. seldom
found in any one man. which Won for
him the admiral ton and the love of all
who knew him.
The ripe scholarship, the intellectual
attachments and the gentle nature OF Mr..
Corbett fitted him for a first place among
his fellows. No one at the bar of this
court possessed a more brilliant mind
He was a forceful, logical, brilliant, and
magnetic speaker. In his work he WAS
painstaking and thorough. His was, a
nice and delicate sense of honor T., He
was courteous and considerate. espe-
ciaily to the young and inexperienced.
and to his less informed brethren. He
was loyal and true.
THE genius of Mr.. COrDett, his wonder
full intellect. his generous and kind ma
ture have made him the idol Of this eom-
munity, and won for him an envied hon
or He was great in every station Of life,
but it was as a friend, companion and
neighbor, that we saw him towering III
all the majesty of his greatness. As a
friend, how true. gentle and good.
LAS an orator he possessed a holiness,
an energy. an originality and a simple
ity which made him one of the most
forceful and interesting speakers of Mon
tana. 1t can be said of him, las it was
IF the great Webster). that ''he clothed
his ideas for the occasion. and if the
crisis demanded, they stood naked in all
their majesty, armed with a power which
would not bend to the passion. but only
! stoop to conquer the reason
Frank COrbett was a good and a
great man. Let us emulate his worthy
examples. He has left us legacy for
| which we should be grateful. His life
and his memory will be a rebuke to fac
| tional strife and sectional jealousy. The
! tomb that will mark his last resting
place will be place where patriotism
and goodness and integrity and friend
ship. when they depend, will go, lool
and live.
He possessed many virtues, but i
| was in the possession of a tender love
| that he was greatest. Henry DrummOnt
says that love is the greatest thing in tn
world. In speaking of love the grea
apostle Saint Paul says that it is com
pound thing, and Mr.. Drumn,ond says
1t is like light. AS you have seen u:
man of science take a beam of light am
pass it through a crystal prism, as yo,
have seen it come out on the other sid
of the prism broken up into it's cor,po
nent colors-red. and blue, and yellow
and violet. and orange. and all the col
ors of the rainbOw-so Saint Paul passe
this thing, Love, through the magnificen
prism of his inspired intellect. and
comes out on the other side broken u
into it's elements. Will you observe wha
its elements are: Will you notice the
they have common names: that they ar
virtues which we hear about everyday
that they are things which can he nrat