The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-08

Do what We may,
Our lives are rivers gliding free
To that unfathomed boundless sea,
The silent grave.
These ceremonies may soon be per-
formed for you and me, and If so the
members of this Bar can pay US no
higher tribute than to say we did our
duty.
Yes. the shores of life are shifting,
Every year,
And We are seavard drifting,
Every year.
Old places, changing, fret Us,
The living more forget US,
They are fewer to regret US,
Every year.
But the truer life draws higher.
Every year,
And its morning star climbs higher.
Every year;
Earth's hold on us grows slighter
And the heavy burden lighter,
And the dawn immortal brighter,
Every year.
There are three martyrs in our his
tory, Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley
All were lawyers, whose lives and
whose professions embodied the one
word duty They were unlike in al
most every respect, but duty bound
them together as ii does all worthy
men OF our profession.
Each Of them had his favorite hymn
Garfeld's was Nearer Ny God To
Thee" McKinley's, Lead, kindly
Light while Lincoln delighted in
this:
Oh. why should the spirit of mortal
be proud?
Like a fast-f1itting meteor, a fast-ny-
ing cloud?
A flash Of the lightning. q break of the
wave
He passeth from life to his rest in the
grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow
shall fade,
Be scattered around, and together be
laid;
And the young and the old, and the
low and the high
Shall molder TO dust and together shall
die.
So the multitude goes, like the flower
or the weed
That withers away to let others sue
coed;
So the multitude comes, even those we
behold,
To repeat every tale that has often
been told
It's the wink of an eye, it's the draft
of a breath,
From the blossom of health To the
paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and
the shroud:
Oh. why should the spirit of mortal BE-
proud?
Thus we have from each of them, for
our lives, these beautiful memories of
the sweet sorrow Of death. And they
mingle with and pleasure the pain IF
every occasion like this and forcib.y
remind US that soon we also shall be
as is Henry E. Highton, our deceased
brother.
MR.. SMITHS ADDRESS.
Mr. w o. Smith said in part:
As a member OF the committee ap-
pointed by the Bar Association. 1 de-
sire 10 add 20 the expressions OF respect
10 the memory Of our departed brother,
Mr.. Henry E. Highton. Mr. Kings
bury has. in his eloquent tribute to
the memory OF our friend. expressed
very fully the sentiments which 1 be-
lievs we all entertain.
Mr.. Highton, while advanced in years
and having had long experience in the
practise Of the law, had not long been
a member Of the bar of this court, and
the personal acquaintance of most Of
US with him has been comparatively
short We all know of the long yeare
OF practise which he had in California |
and of his Identification from early
years with the legal, political and So
cial history of that great state.
Mr. Highton came TO US with the ripe |
experience of a long life and profess |
sional career. and, while in the com. |
brief period of his residence
here his practise before the bar of this |
court was not very extensive. he has
eft with US a memory of courtesy and /
professional kindness most helpful. |
There has ever been with the members
Of this bar a high standard of courtesy |
and professional conduct. II has not 4
been our habit TO wait until our breth- |
rsn have gone from Us before We have |
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Highton has helped 10 maintain tht /
spirit which we all hope viii ever pre-
vail among us
Mr. Highton laid down his burden at t
the end OF a long career and when far
advanced in years. and II is with q
sense OF veneration that we think OF
him and come TO pay this tribute to his
II is said that every day is
: day OF judgment, and in a sense this
: true. but We can all look forward to
hat final judgment based upon a
Of all the facts. Of all our
aspirations and efforts, our successes
md failures. where justice, judgment
nd mercy will control.
Il has not been customary upon the
,cCasion OF the death of a member of
he bar for this court 10 adjourn, but,
Inder the circumstances and in view
{ the years and character Of our de-
,arted brother. I would move that az
er the adoption of the resolutions
which have been presented that this
curt do adjourn for the day as q trib-
.te 70 the memory of Henry E High
On II
JUDGE DOLE'S REMARKS. i