Show AS I 1 REMEMBER rhem justice stephen J alo ad I 1 lit gra wai wab ili an 1 ex 1 1 A mr mp m p in ays yys vs billial Il lial country has produced fe eft it any greater 8 than lie ho lie ile was not 0 only 11 ly great in hl ida knowledge dge ot of law but jon I 1 in thoi laboratory of 0 hla his brain he seemed able to Ins HanHy make intake the analysis ana lyala of 0 every presentation of it and to decide how much was wa base and how much precious material mater lil so when before hint him any attorney no matter how gifted sought to rest a false theory or a it rong application of a true principle justice I 1 IT field beld mould look over hla his spectacles spectacle a state the principle in a few terse voids and then dissect the argument of connel sol 1 and I show him that brass brasa filings never ought to piss pass for gold in this ills lil memory was vas it a iker talling reliance As lie ho graduated hint in ills his eldro at ac williams college coll cee lie he having caught and ret alfted all that was in tile books so through ilic brain seemed a constantly filling reservoir of knowledge or rather lather or of learning but while his kno leduc of letu mas most profound arid il application 0 C it to the voi lda practical ailalia no a inott oat anti 01 VOCE aside alic front thiis ho never could hla his reme al ua except it tile alio jovial circle alv lif aas uv it 4 most pleasant list but never a deep reasoner reason cr on oil a any kavc a irgal theme ne lie had riot not mu h cal knowledge and lit in that comprehension of oc incisi and 0 distinguished ills his bi other david dudley field lie was waa most de no ile was waa it a man mail ito ho all his life stung erad and thirsted after holois bon ore and tile applause of its hla fellow men mei to him that than any ally ausle gifted US as ile he was to luo lie walt waa onlo enloid uti of jtb others if 1 i I brother lawyer boix oti A great triumph mold always hud had it ii louk look as bhough that enuch hold had been taken front bilin all aul 1 Ws hs dearest friends were chwe I 1 alio to most praised and aal fluttered flattered him in this he has not at all like another tit als tank lanyer who after actor hm haling ing been praised 9 greatly for it 1 decision lie he had tida just rende rendered led alq an a lecture that thai lie he hild had jul ju t L del hered bald to III hla lerk atler after tile had roil gone out jim that min man la Is a dead fraud and lilt ills cube caim had jig hn praised ia lied ny my 1 decision brad and stopped ile he would have h eve f fooled aled me or the 1110 C carefully are r my prepared pr e palled but when ulion lie was just at cordial in ills hla admiration of that thai jingle of vorda which lie ho tailed called it a lecture then alnas it hafl ocr r that he waa try in to 1 or ic me ino for an ass or was wag div 1119 ne away tho flat fact act that he Is one iiii llcy field would have accepted both and would always have 11 ave thought better both of tire man and of himself for it justice field was ahi ays of a combat ivo ivar nature jia ile ho did riot not in ill ills his youth get alodis smoothly with mich his brother lawyers lawlers anti and was waa impatient when a court ruled i against him in tire the few fcc years ot of ilia his practice la in california lie ho defied ono one judge id arid quarreled quarrel cd aith another until a challenge passed bo be tein them years ago ile ho nas ft a cand candidate bdate tor for a and ud wrote ills ilia own for or circulation not kol withstanding his styles of 0 knowledge there way was not one flash of geradus in his book arid and a perusal of it show a that A ilat hat ile he cs esteemed teemed most worthy of oc rote note in I 1 11 ills hla ito 1110 ere cic tile he very things thing which ial ell its ills close friends esteemed his hia meak weaknesses things are arc stated as hot heroic r ole exploits which alicia they happened chused caused infinitely diore merriment than admiration it was vas as when he rode on oil bor horseback and never knew that its ills smiled to see hint him for in truth lie laa a spectacle on oil hors horseback c back lie he had borne foibles which he seemed to cling clang to as liell licu claing to his poetry but a ns a a lawyer and jurist then their in hint him critic criticism ibm stops steps short and only daily admiration Is invoked lie he had ploughed sloughed hed fall all the fields lie ids ot of legal knowledge until ills his brain was a a perfect fe ct legal cube ha had sounded all tho the heights arid and depths of tire the science his clear natural intuitions lie he hod had supplemented ith absolute knowledge arid and for or all time he will bo be remembered as one ii who he it nas as woi war thy to pick up and wear the mantles of 0 story e an a ha H |