The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-30

l tesslon, and exemplif1ed in all his life | the truism that real greatness in law 1 IS 1nseparably associated with req l character; he, our old man eloquent
 Tn the evening of life has been made | the target for the headline and the 1 column of notoriety, and my eye has | Ialled to see in news column one word | 10 let that character so pure and pa | tr1ot1c, that spirit so benevolent and | ch1valric, that repute so interwoven | with great accomp1ishme be placed m the balance with the charge to make their appeal to the common sense and Justice of men and women.
 When we see these things it is good to recall, this profession of the law looks up, not down. It bears no false witness against it's fellows. It lends it's hand to it's feIIowworker It en-
 courages his good work, it covers his
 mistakes, so far as it ought, with it's achievements and it glorifies with fhe
 kindling fires of it's everlasting friend ship the brother whom good fortune
 has favored.
 It is true, in it's generosity and sweet
 charity, it's outstretched hand and glad
 shout well done" it wears a wreath of
 joy unknown to any other profession
 or pursuit of men.
 Well we know this night 'tis a time
 when friendship has tempered reason,
 and since 'tis so it means the more to me, and while it warns the present,
 and bids me say from the fullness of
 my gratitude ''I thank you'' it shall live, to quicken the purpose to give to
 the work of life the best we may, without stint, and with 8 keener joy through the Knowledge that this is the only payment which your generous fla vor could accept, or which I could ever hope to make.
 ."To pay ones debt to those by whom one has been honored, in loyal service, is,'' as has been said. the truest measure of appreciation"
 How natural, almost inevitable, the mind should span these 171-2 years and recall those who in my days at the bar were associates in the practice of the law.
 Gone, so many gone Enough who knew them we'll are still here to treas ure their memory. And there we may find incentive for professional emi- ing, and that truth brought home.
 |'Thy sincere practice breeds not thee a fame alone, but all the rank a reverend name"
 Then, Edward w. Seymour he4ped our courts to right conclusions by un- clouded thought and fairminded req election to Congress, contesting the count, a bare plurality of 20 against ]! him; the very instant he knew the dis l puted vote ought to be counted for his | opponent that instant he withdrew, 1 though g continuance of the contest l meant the drawing of the salary to | the date of decision, in normal course perhaps the very end of the session.
 
 bench open to splendid promise and l, hen on a beautiful October afternoon ' he profession of the State mourned ;or him, their most symmetrical char acter.
 William K see1ey was closing lnique and masterfuI career at the par a, sound lawyer and in all his pro- essional relations cleaving to the high st standards of the profession. One | afternoon he came in our office. pound d the table with his cane for undi- ! -ided attention and said, Young man, vhen I pra cticed law my first ques- ion was. What can I do for my client; oday, the first question is, What can I nake from my client.''
 A judgment with a kernel of truth, -et too sweeping: man can draw n indictment against an entire bar ny more than against entire peo- le.
 Sidney B. BeardsIey seemed so far way to my youthful eyes, the judge Those instinct in law was the way to o. After the first argument in the i upreme court he spoke to me in the aw library, and always after I saw ehipd the mask of his face the gen. rous heart of a great man. Amos S. Treat. among the earliest 1 : f the lawyers of the State to foresee l he favored place of the water and as companies as investments and ] hose strong capabilities were then 1 evoted to these instead of to the law 1 l which he had won high place.