The Irish standard., 1906-08-18

as if you were a tradesman turnins
out the best sample of his manufac.
ture by which he wishes to be judg-
ed That was his own life summed
up in rule. when Russell prac-
ticed as a solicitor in BELFAST" SAID
all old inhabitant of that city, ~
was witness in case FIJI which he
was engaged. 1 was greatly struck by
the extraordinary pains he took in
what was really trurnpery affair.""
There was no man like him for talk
ing palms." said another who knew
him from the beginning. He himself
was heard to say once. giving briefly
his character, What a fool 1 am
knocking myself to pieces about a two
penny half penny dispute"
One day lawyer went into city
library. He saw a man working up
cases. What are you doing:" he
asked. Working up cases for Rus
SELL" was the answer. He went
around and found no less than six
men at the same business. Why"
said he, the whole library seems to
be working for Russell" Yes" said
number six, there are six or us DOING
the work Of one in order that one
man may do the work of Six And
he might have added. had he known
of the fact, I've are taking the place
Of the dictionary which Russell used
in the fields of Ireland years ago.
A distinguished lawyer stated the
difference between Russell and another
member of the bar in the following
terms: I'm consultation Russell APP
peared to know nothing and listened
eagerly to everything you had TO say.
The other appeared to know every
thing and brushed your suggestions
aside contemporary. When Russell
came into court, he knew everything;
when the other came into court. he
knew nothing"
When Russell was accused once of
getting up his cases by intuition, he
replied: That's all nonsense. You
have to work hard and think hard
These are some facts which might
be multiplied, but are sufficient to
show how deeply grounded in thor
oughness was the character of Lord
Russell The Irish lad in the fields
that lay twixt Mourne Mountain and
the Tough of Carlingford. who was
travelling through the Lives of the
Saints" with the help of dictionary,
making certain each stage of his
journey before he entered upon the
next, was availing himself of the same
on longer and more arduous journeys
than from word to word or line to
line in the daily life of saints read
in Alban Butler. The dictionary of
his youth was symbol and pro-
phecy of the thoroughness that char
acterized his manhood
Was it known in Protestant England
where Russell won his success and
received honors that he was Cath
Ollie? That question is answered by
itself. When he made his first at
tempt. an unsuccessful one to enter
Parliament from an Irish constitu-
ency. his opponent circulated the re-
port that Russell was unwilling to
be known in England as an Irishman
and a Catholic. In reply he wrote:
ITO suggest Of me in any form of
words that l was unwilling to be
known in England as an Irisfman or
a Catholic, is recklessly untrue and
preposterously absurd. My first intro
duction to circuit was by u letter from
the late Cardinal Wiseman to the
present Recorder of Liverpool-a fact
that was we'll known on circuit within
a few days. That marked my creed.
l had been only a very short time on
circuit when I spoke at public din
ner. on St. Patrick's anniversary
at the Irish Catholic Club in Liver
pool. That marked both my country
and my creed" He then describes
his efforts to better the condition OF
Catholics in warehouses; which early
in his career brought him prominently
before the nation as Catholic. Fol
| this cause in his very first year in
| England he published pamphlet. 1T
is idle. then" concludes Russell, "to
say that ] was not we'll known in
England to be an Irish Catholic.
believe there are few in England who
know me at all, who do not know
me as such. and believe that on cir
cult there is no one ignorant of the
fact of my creed and country"
| Whoever had read the description
of his early home and knew the price
he set on his brogue. would not neet
to be assured by himself that he TEN.
porized not the least with his faith
or it's proper profession. A Protest.
ant friend Of Russell gives testimon.
of the effect Of his home training il
a matter which forcibly attracted hi!
attention and brought out clearly thu
moral uprightness of Russelrs char
acter. In the Fortnightly Review TO
October, 1900, Mr.. Edward Dice,
wrote: Zone result Of his (Russelrs