The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-08
FUNER Al OF
SAMUEL
CAVE
JUDGE HOWELL COMPLIES WITH
A REQUEST,
And Speaks Of the Life Of the Man
He Had Known From
Childhood,

Samuel H. Cave is at rest. Follow
Ing impressive services held at the
Masonic Temple yesterday afternoon
at o'clock, all that was mortal OF
the popular bailifi OF the District court
was lowered TO its last resting place
In the Mountain View cemetery.
The ritualistic services of the
Masonic order was conducted at the
temple in the presence of large
number OF relatives and friends OF
the dead who came to pay a last
tribute Of respect, Complying with
one of his last requests. District
Judge j. A. Howell. A. r. Haywood
and c. c. Richards eloquently portray
ed the many traits OF character and
devotion TO duty which won for the
deceased many friends In this city.
A quartette OF Mrs, DR.. Dalrymple.
Mrs Lyncn, Hagbert Anderson and
Jed Ballantyne rendered several ap-
propriate selections during the ser.
Vices at the Temple
Judge Howell, who has been closely
associated with Mr.. Cave since his
elevation TO tho bench, paid high tri-
butte TO his memory: He said In
part:
1t is at the request. oft repeated.
OF him who lies here before US, that
! am called to speak II left TO my
personal predictions. | should rath-
er be amongst the silent mourners
here this afternoon. Since. however,
ne wllled 1t so, | could not deny him
= loe ~
fore say simply and frankly, as he
would wish, what know OF Samuel
H. Cave as a friend and as an officer
Of my court,
! have known him as far back as
chlldhood's recollection goes In those
then little frontier towns which lie 10
the west OF us, In Terrace and In
Kelton, he was a familiar figure to
those who had reached maturity and
those who were Of the coming genera.
ton AS a child, in common with
other children. was not loath to play
praDks upon him, but in common with
those other children | had that intul-
live childish admiration for this tall.
stately man. who lowered above his
follows In stature but always with
modest. retiring and unassuming mien.
Either of us little thought then that
later In life we should be so closely
associated in our work, and yet such
are the strange vicissitudes OF life
that from his being a man of affluence
and me being child. We became fel.
low servants of that same eternal
Justice. When | first went upon the
district bench | found there Samuel
H. Cave as n part of the machinery
of the court and he has remained
there ever since, So day by day, and
week by week, and year by wear we
have worked together and / have
come to know him. You and | are all
oil US aware that we may work side
by side with a man and still be only
fellow employees and nothing more.
but 1t was not So as in rare cases It Is
not, with Samuel H. Cave and me,
Tor as result of our daily weekly
and yearly association In the same
work we became fast, and at least
as far as he was concerned and as
Tar as laid In my power. tried and
true friend to ME An author, or per-
This little world OF ours, the more We
come to realize that most friendship
s but feigning, that the most liberal
professions OF good Will that are made
10 us by our fellows are not by any
means the sureSt marks OF friendship,
and that II is by action and not by
words alone that We ascertain tho
lrue criterion Of the attachment of
friends. Tested in this light, by his
actions, yea even by his words, I have
earned that Samuel H Cave was a
lrIe friend of me. An author, or per
haps. / should say. two authors. for
they wrote conjointly, has said
Friendship closes its eye rather than
sec the moon eclipse, while malice
denies that II was ever at the full"
Tested by this definition how much
moro of malice than of friendship do
~e find as we journey through life
Although this may seem a peSsimis-
tic thought IL Is not. for the friend
ship OF man like Samuel H. Cave re-
1eems the lngratitude and the faith.
lessness Of hundreds, aye thousands.