The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-01
COPY OF RESOLUTIONS.
Adopted by the Marshall County Bar
in Open Court on Thursday,
May Is, 1905.


deceased friend and brother has pass
ed from the known to the unknown;
from earth to the hereafter of hope
and faith, where, may We not trust,
there is no pain nor suffering nor
sorrow.
How long he stood upon the shores
of that boundless sea that marks the
division between this and another life,
listening to the pillows of eternity as
they broke ceaselessly at his feet, no
one can tell; but this is known from
his loving and devoted wife, who
who stood by his bedside and out
watched the hours as She kept her
tireless vigil by his solemn couch,
when his spirit was pluming its wings
for its flight into eternal space, that
no misgivings haunted him, no ter
rors shook his constant soul; and that
calmly, peacably, quietly, like a child
lulled to sleep in its mothers breast,
he breathed his last, and passed to
his eternal rest
Like one that wraps the drapery of
his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant
dreams"
Ii is difficult for most of us to be-
lieve that the mattock, the spade, the
winding sheet, the coffin, the grave
and the maggot are the factors which
end all there is of those we love and
those who love us. Though our life
is scarce the twinkling of a star in
Gods eternal day, yet we bow in res
ignation to the Divine decree when
the summons comes y one weary
with the burden of years and with
labors ended. 1t has been written
that nothing so soon reconciles us
TO the thought OF our own death as
the prospect of one friend after
another dropping around us If
there be real consolation in this phil
osophy, it must manifest itself to
each one of the survivors OF this Bar,
for death has spoken within the last
few years to several of its members
and the ordinary business of this
court, the excitement of debate, the
anxious interest incident to litigation
have for a moment been checked, in
order that we might pay proper and
becoming tribute to the memory OF
deceased brother who had gone to
his long home. Death is a good Sa-
marian, throwing the mantle OF char
ity over the faults of men, burying in
oblivion the sins of the flesh, and bid
ding their good deeds live after
them
Judge Capron's life was not full of
the fierce aggression and polemic
strife that usually accompany the pol
iticians career in this land OF turbu-
lent democracy. He was somewhat
retiring and modest, and his kindness
left him no remorse, and his upright
walk in the path of duty left no Bit
terness of spirit He was by no
means deficient in the art of proper
ly expressing himself upon any mat
ter in which he was interested. He
was endowed with many excellent
qualities of head and heart; generos-
ity, magnininity and sympathy for
his fellowmen were marked charac-
teristics of, and found favor in, his
nature.
To his friends he was strongly at
tached, seeming TO act upon the adj
vice given by Polonius to Laertes on
the eve of the latter's journey to a
foreign land:
''The friends thou hast and their
adoption tried
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks
of steal"
Judge Capron was kind in his dis
position, generous in his dealings; to
his equals he was ever pleasant and
obliging, to his interiors he was graz
cious and kind. He was charitable
in that sense that covers the meaning
of broad and catholic views. AS a
Judge he was lust and impartial, and
weighed carefully every argument adj
vanced to his reason before coming
to a decision. If there was anything
more marked than another in the
characteristics of his nature, it was
the disposition to temper justice with
mercy, especially to the poor and to
the unfortunate one brought before
him as a criminal. He had a tender
heart, coupled with a generous and
libral spirit, and his affable manner
and courteous demeanor won him
many friends.
Therefore, resolved, that in the
death of Judge A. c. Capron we de-
plore the loss of wise, upright, just,
able and magnanimous lawyer, and
the community has sustained irrepar-
able loss in the death of a worthy,
true, honorable and just citizen, and
that we tender to the sorrow-stricken
widow and family OF the deceased our
most sincere coincidence in their
great bereavement, and that copy
of these resolutions be transmitted to
them.