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the modern lawyer, who believes that 'peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.' All. great contests, whether on battlefield or in the forum of the courts, must inevitably result in peace. The man who can bring peace with honor the quickest is a real benefactor. Wherever it was possible, he brought peace where passion reigned before. And that is the lesson of his career as a lawyer. At the time of his death he occupied the highest position that a lawyer who is not a member of the judiciary can fill; he was president of the Bar Association of his own city, which means that his colleagues at the bar, the men who knew him best, recognized in the most fitting way that he had lived up to the highest ideals of his profession and had been true and faithful to every trust that had been reposed in him."

sincere expression of the regard and confidence reposed in the Court and its members by the bar of the state." The guests of the Association present were: Mr. Justice Frank K. Dunn, Mr. Justice Alonzo K. Vickers, Mr. Justice James H. Cartwright, Mr. Justice William If. Farmer, Mr. Justice George A. Cooke, Mr. Justice Orrin N. Carter, Mr. Justice John P. Hand, Judge Francis E. Baker of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and Hon. William J. Calhoun. Bar Associations The annual meeting of the Louisville (Ky.) Bar Association will be held on December 28.

The Washington County (Miss.) Bar Asso ciation met October 26 and elected officers banquet to the Illinois Supreme as follows: president, J. H. Wynn; vicepresident, Walton Shields; secretary and Court Justices treasurer, William Ray Toombs. Probably the most notable function ever The Norfolk Bar Association of Norfolk, given by the legal fraternity of the state occurred in Chicago on the evening of Oot. 30, Va., passed resolutions October 5, opposing when the Illinois State Bar Association gave poll tax liens on real estate, and also dis a banquet at Hotel La Salle in honor of the countenancing the circulation of petitions Justices of the Supreme Court of Ilinois. among the profession requesting endorse The affair was a brilliant success in every ments for judicial nominations. particular, there being about seven hundred The Ohio County Bar Association elected representative attorneys from different parts of the state present to do honor to the highest the following officers at its annual meeting, court in the commonwealth, as guests of the held October 2 at Wheeling, W. Va. : president Frank C. Cox; first vice-president, Benja Bar Association of the state. Hon. Edgar A. Bancroft, president of the min S. Allison; second vice-president, Law Association, was the toast-master, and with rence A. Reymann; secretary, J. William the other officers of the Association, the vice- Cummins; treasurer, William B. Casey. presidents, William R. Curran, Samuel At the annual meeting of the Kennebec Alschuler and Nathan William MacChesney, and the secretary-treasurer, John F. Voigt, (Me.) Bar Association, which was held conducted the event to a successful conclusion. October 19 at Augusta, the following officers Messages to the Association were received were elected for the ensuing year: president, and read from Mr. Justice Fuller, Chief Charles F. Johnson of Waterville;' viceJustice of the Supreme Court of the United president, George W. Haselton of Gardiner, States, Judge Carrol C. Boggs, former member and secretary and treasurer, Charles L. of the Supreme Court of Illinois and United Andrews of Augusta. States Senator Shelby M. Cullom. The annual meeting of the Hampden Mr. Chief Justice Farmer, responding to the toast "the health of the Justices of the County (Mass.) Bar Association was held Supreme Court of Illinois," in a few words October 9. The old officers and committee gave such an insight into the inner workings men were all re-elected, including: president, of the Supreme Court of the state as was a Edward H. Lathrop; vice-presidents, William revelation to the representatives of the bai. H. Brooks and James B. Carroll; secretary, Judge Baker, formerly of the Supreme Robert O. Morris; treasurer, Charles M. Court of Indiana and now of the United States Calhoun. Circuit Court of Appeals, responded to the Preliminary steps in the formation of the toast "Co-ordinate Jurisdiction" in a happy Union County (Ore.) Bar Association were vein. Mr. Justice Cartwright, characterized by taken October 26, when the lawyers of Port the toast-master as "for fourteen years a land met and effected a temporary organiza tower of strength in the Supreme Court of tion, with Circuit Judge J. W. Knowles as Illinois, upright and downright and outright," chairman and Attorney C. E. Cochran secre Mr. Justice Cooke and Hon. William J. tary. One of the objects is the building of Calhoun, the last representing the bar, also a county law library. spoke. The whole affair was pre-eminently success The Kansas City Bar Association held its ful in accomplishing its purpose of expressing, meeting October 2, with Governor Herbert in the words of former Justice Boggs, "A S. Hadley as the principal speaker. "The