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Show I Judge Henry Rives. The death of Judge Rives makes a sorrowful closing of a brilliant life. With superb natural talents polished with all the graces of the schools, naturally generous and loveable, his life should have been a grand success, but save the little rough rule of a military camp he never was dls- Iciplined, he never would submit to outside or self control. Then his surroundings had their influence. in-fluence. Prom the army he went to the mining camps of Nevada; a finished lawyer he made money rapidly and easily; of fine family stock and reared in select society he was at homo among gentlemen and scholars he seemed to have all the elements within himself to forge out fame, and fortune. Then his winsome personality drew to him a multitude of friends; be bad less enemies than most men, but he had one great enemy. That was himself. He would break away and burn life's candle at both ends and laugh as he saw it burn. This took from him his natural, nat-ural, steady judgment, his' natural prudence, though It never caused his industry to abate or broke his spirits or chilled his hopes until his physical frame broke down. For a year past' he has been failing. Sometimes he would rnlly for u few days, but It was clear to all his friends that . the golden bowl was broken, that soon the windows win-dows would be darkened. A multitude of his old friends will sorrow greatly over the news of his death, and their keenest keen-est grief will be that with his splendid faculties he did not secure for his name's sake all the honors that a few years ago were almost, within his grasp. For forty days past he has been hovering hov-ering between life and death. The rest that has ccme to him must be most welcome. |