Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-23
is GIVEN A CANE.
Maj. n. c. Connolly Remembered
on Birthday by Members
of the Bar.
5 SURPRISED AT HIS HOME
COngratulatory Address and Presen
tation by Il. ID. Swee-
ney.

Saturday Mai. III. c. Connolly reached
the age of seventy years. Yesterday af-
ternOon the bar of the county to the
number of twenty-five, and the court Of
ficials, called upon him informally at his
home on Second avenue, and rendered
him their congratulations. There was no
attempt at formality, but in a few feel
ing sentences, by Judge Gest, upon the
appearance of Maj. Connolly, who was
taken completely by surprise, the pur-
pose of the visit was announced, and Il.
ID. Sweeney, as the oldest member of the
bar present, addressed the major sub
stantially as follows:
Your brethren of the bar, having
heard that you had, yesterday, the TWEEN
ty-lirst day of December, passed your
SEVENTEEN birthday, which puts you in
the three score and ten class, a post
graduate, we have come to pay our re-
spects to YOU and see how well you bear
this new honor.
Congratulations offered.
AT this mile post along your way, we
come not to commiserate you as an old
man, weighted down with years, with
the SHOWS OF many winters upon your
head, but or the contrary, we come to
congratulate you in the wealth of your
many blessings, which a kind providence
has bestowed upon you, and which has
permitted you to reach the maturity of
manhood, still in the possession of your
natural strength and yigor, with none
of your mental powers abated, happily
situated in your surroundings with home
and comforts under whose roof the blight
of death has never appeared and no deep
sorrows have ever furrowed their way
down your cheeks.
MANY men at the SEVENTEEN mile post
of life, where you now stand, look back
down a long line of disappOintments and
failures. and life thenceforth to them is
only a bitter regret, of things done which |
ought not to have been done, and |
things omitted from being done, which |
ought to have been done; men who have |
topped the hill of life, and 90 down the |
other side stung with such thoughts |
in their bOsoms are indeed to be |
pitied. But there are no such days of
for you. For forty years, and |
more, of your life, has been an open book |
among your brethren, known and read /
by all, on which there has never been
blot, stain or blur to cause the blush of
ohehuAC W Nohi1 ~ Jul Nil~NN- iADA a &C
gTet TO lodge itself in your heart. IT is
said that honesty, frugality and indus
try are the hand maids TO fortune; with
these graces you have walked all your
days.
LAS citizen you have lived an upright
and honorable life, discharging all of
your Obligations, true to every duty in
your pathway; in addition to this you
have added the record of a gallant sol
iier, and are entitled to the honorable
as a veteran Of the civil war.
Does Part as Lawyer.
AS a lawyer you have done your part,
always fair and reasonable with your
brethren. 1t is true YOU have never
sought the sensational, nor the extremes
II litigation. Your clientage has been
rom the conservative classes and those
Who have known you best have employ
Vi you most. The proverb is as old as
solomon: The race is not the swift,
Tor the battle to the strong.
This phase of character of helpfulness
o others recommends its pOssessor to
lis fellows. The good book says that il
You want friends, show yourself friendly;
,ut it is true that we often forget, that