Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 434, 18 April 1892 — Explained at Last. [ARTICLE]

Explained at Last.

I In hid euglugy upon the lnte Judge McCully, April I2th, Chief Justice Judd made use of the lollowinfs very modest ]anguage: " * * The eompanionehip !>©• tween we and our deceased brother, beguQ long ago, and, oemenled by fifteen years of inttxuate association upon the Bench together, has made the Ue between us so strong that its seyeriug is now very painful * * Heassociated only with the best and purest spirits,—nothing low or de#frading eaet with re#pon»« in him." Just> so and theoonclQ|ion it ir« • sistible that the deeeaied genUeman'e long oontinoed and fifteen* Tears-c»tnefkted friendship fdr hU eulogist was not only in stiiotac<»rd« anos with, but because of the de> ceaaed's taste fur awoōaUon with "only wlth Uie best and purest spi> ita. M It is reassuring to bfe thus ioformed, upon «n authority noless respectable than ihe oertifieate of the Chief JusŪoe himself, that the lead of our judiciary is one of "the best and purest spirita. n — With such a judgment as to hi*ftoodness pority and spintua)ity. ao dtlib«rately rendered, by one ia fo gooda position to know, upon sH iolemn

un oeeaaion as the late matcli,"—it 18 improbab!e that a rovorsal of that judgme»t will i>e recorded in hia Honor. the eulogi*t*g.| court.- The reason of th« markedly fervid aloha of the late first a®-sc-iate for the Chief Justiee, ie oow happilj explained and eertified, — but with ihe perversenes« of huQ)anitj, we aomehow wiah the ex* pianation and ceti6cat« had oone from a different 80urce.