The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-01

the older men, for all the world the
type of the Southern Colonel, as po-
lite to Hugh j, .ewett as to Patrick
Haggerty, of Egypt, and no more.
He was sittint in a case where
woman witne SIS was asked her age.
She replied that she was SO. She
was badger2d quite a bit, and later
asked the Judge if she might change
her testimony. When given the per-
mission, she said to Judge Waller:
These lawyers got me so fustered
that when they asked my age l for
got and instead of my age gave them
my bust measure
There was Judge Seeley, with his
long, flowing gray beard, type of the
Aaron or Moses of the Exodus. He
was generally regarded as an austere
man, but if you saw him at Tracey
vile at Sunday school and watched
the children clustered about and
clinging to him, you would not have
that opinion. He was on one occa-
sion naturalizing several parties. One
man he was questioning as to his
qualifications.
Have you read the constitution
asked the Judge.
L have not
Have you read about George
Washington
I have not
Have you read about Abraham
Lincoln?'
"I have not
We'll, what have you read?'
" L have red hairs on the back of
me neck
"On another occasion a young
Philadelphia lawyer was making
long speech before Judge Seeley. He
finally turned to the Judge and said:
" I trust, your honor, that l am
not trespassing upon your time
Well, young man. Judge Seeley
replied There's difference between
trespassing upon time and encroach-
ing upon eternity
Judge Purdy who died a little
over year ago, on one occasion at
Milford charged jury: Now gen.
tlemen of the jury, we have given
you this law and the Court is sup
posed to know more law than you
do; if you wish to disregard this law
| you are at liberty to do so and find a
verdict for the defendant
"The verdict was for the defendant
and Judge Purdy addressed them:
| Gentlemen, you evidently thought
you knew more law than the court
up rose the foreman and said:
WELL your honor, we considered that
point
! Justice Dingman was sentencing
negro for stealing chickens. You
| have been convicted of a most helm
Gus crime he said to the fellow
The sentence of this court is that
you be eternally banished from the
realm of the United States. Now
skip for Jersey, blank you
'On another occasion a lot of
Wayne county fellows going down
the Delaware snubbed their RATS at
Dingman's Ferry the day before cleo
ton. 1t was a pretty close contest
and they got the Wayne men to
vote at that Pike county election. So
IL or Is of them were locked up at
Milford. They applied for a habeas
to Judge Porter. Associate Justice
Dingman said: Now Porter, you are
pretty good on some kinds of law,
but | have been down to Harrisburg
and Washington and l am familiar
with constitutional and Legislative
law l think you had better with
draw from the bench and let me de-
eide this case. Judge Porter con-
sented and then Judge Dingman
said: In the constitutional law
read that a man sailing the high
seas is allowed to vot- at any port
where he happens to be on election
day. | decide that these men are
naVigators and are upon the high
seas and that the Delaware is navi.
gable water and therefore this in.
dictment is quashed.'
ernment established by Penn and ot
the splendid history of the state il
the struggles of the nation in the
Revolution, 1872, the Civil War anG
Spanish War. He also spoke of hel
prosperity and natural beauties, il
conclusion.
: introduced, explained that Judge
Clearwater, of Kingston, had beer
invited, but was unable to come anC
that he had consented to speak. He
, said he represented the early settlers
through maternal ancestor, whose
memory he revered highly. Mr.. Lyor
said the society was fortunate in hav
ing so brilliant representative O
, Wayne county as Judge Searle, whose
, address had been very entertaining
Then he told of visit to Philadel
phia and of visit to the Wanamakel
store, where he heard a bugle cal
J and learned that the Colonial custom
of announcing o'clock by the bugl'
call was kept up. He believed Penn
sylvanians had great reverence ant
J regard for old customs of histori
and sentimental interest.
The out of town guests were
!, Harryville-J. z. Twichell.
Brooklyn-John H. Bogardus.
: Goshen-T. d. SchoQnmaker, Hon
j. B. Sweeney.
; GreenVille-Samuel Decker, Gle
ment Van Etten, John w. Eaton
; William V. Walker.
; Guymard-Peter l.. Gumaer, c
Gumaer.
Hoboken-Howell S. Bennett.
honesdale-Hon.A Alonzo T. Searle
e Andrew Thompson.
S Huguenot-J. Van Brown, G. j
g Van Inv gen, Benjamin c. Swart
t NJ gue-George w. Clark, Sim
: on FIX, James E. Cole, John A
r, Everitt.
| Matamoras-C A. Snyder, Rev, A