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THE LAKE PLACID N8WB, PBTOAY. 0CT6BEB 28, Ul« TBe LMi PLACID 1WS LAKE PtACto, Essex COUNTY, N- Y. DANIEL WINTERS A* SiM.xtj CLAM MATTKH, MAT 22, l»05 { SUBSCRIPTION PHIC6 1 .25 A YEAR IN ADVANCE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914 SOCIAL, SPORTING, EDITOR- IAL AND OTHER ITEMS ARE (JHKATLY ur:? r RSD BY THE tilil'VOR, BUT SHOULD BEAR THE WRITER'S NAME AND AD- DRESS AS A GUARANTEE OF TRUTHFULNESS. ALL COM- MUNICATIONS WILL BE HELD IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE. Richard Lockhart Hand was born February I5lh. 1839, at Elizabeth- town, New York. Hs father was Au- gustus C. Hand, a native of Shoreham, Vermont, but Captain Samuel Hand, the father of the latter, had emigrated as a young man to Vermont from East Hampton, Long Island, where the fam- ily had lived for many generations. The maiden name of the mother of Richard was Marcia Seelye Northrup, v.-io ;-/as likewise born in Shoreham, whither her father, Samuel Northrup, had emigrated from Lenox, Massachu- setts. Samuel Hand, the father of Au- '.Mislu-i. was in early hfe in command of a sailing vessel, but later abandoned the seafaring life and moved to Shore- ham, where he became a prosperous farmer and leading citizen. He edu- cated his children well, sending his eldest son, Richard, for whom the subject of this sketch was named, to Andover Theological Seminary, and givinv; his younger son, Augustus, the oppot(unity very unusual in those days of a course ai the Law School of judge Gould in Litchfield, Conn., which v.f<c : the first institution of its kind in this country. The younger son also re.Ci\ed instruction from members of the faculty of Middiebury College, And afterwards that institution con- ferred upon him the honorary degree • it A, M., though he never took a col- !e/e course there. It may be added thai while Sarnuei finally gave his .;un Augustus a good professional training I ho sitter had some years before iorm- ed t!;;,' plan of becoming a lawyer be- muse oi ins <!rong desire to engage in u 'earned profession. The family iniditjon is ihat Samuel Having educa- ted the eldest brother lor the ministry, dew^ned Augustus for the larm, and did not readily yield to any other plan, but when at length he lound his son quite determined io become a lawyer, he ga\e him the best legal education she country (hen afforded. The letters of Augustus describing work at the Litchiield Law School, and three large bound volumes o! neatly written iec- fure notes, shii extant, show the ener- gy with which lie pursued his studies. Augustus was married in 1828, and in 1831 moved to Elizabeth town, to take the office of Surrogate of Essex County, to which he was appointed by Governor Tompkins. From that D: tnct he was successively chosen Mem- ber of Congress m 1839, State Sena- tor in 1844 and Justice of the Supreme Court in !848. He was in politics a Democrat and an admiring adherent or Silas Wright, who was at tne time the leader of his party in the United States Senate. His opinions in the old Court lor the Correction of Errors, th General Term of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals snow unus- ual zeal and assiduity as a legal stu- dent, and those who can still remem- ber him will recall his devotion to [aw and law books and his great interest in books and learning of all sorts. He had five chldren, Clifford A. Hand, Samuel Hand, Ellen, the wife of Matthew Hale, Marcia, the wife of Jo- nas Heartt, and Richa/d, the last nam- ed being the youngest. It was into an atmosphere created by a father so devoted to his profession and so interested in scholarship of ai sorts that Richard was born. He was educated at the Public School in EJiz- abethtown, and afterwards at a pri- vate school kept fey the late Sewali Sergeant, and was afterwards tutored for admission to college by the late Judge Robert S, Hale, in the autumn of 1855 he entered the University of Vermont as a Sophomore. He took his Junior and Senior years at Union College, from which he graduated in 1858, with the usual A. B. degree. His brothers Clifford and Samuel . — {had graduated from the same institu- tion a few years before. He studied law in his father's office at Elizabeth- town, and in 1861 was admitted to the Bar at a General Term of the Su- preme Court held at Plattsburg. Among the candidates then admitted were the late Judge Dennis O'Brien of the Court of Appeals, and Leslie W. Russell, af- terwards Attorney General of the State and a Justice of the Supreme Court. While pursuing his studies for admis- sion to the Bar and for some years afterwards, he was editor of the Eliza- belhtown Post, and his editorials dur- able corn- Democrat >n public questions at a.'time when any criticism whatever of the administra- tion was a most delicate matter. Upon admission to the Bar he be- came a law partner of his father, and between 1864 and 1868, of his father and the late Matthew Hale. Between 1869 and 1871 he assisted his brother, Samuel Hand, who was then the State ing the Civil War are ments by a patriotic Reporter, in reporting cases the irt of Appeals. Matthew Hale re- oved to Albany to go into partner- ship with Samuel Hand in 1868, and thereafter father and son continued practicing law as partners, and later ssociated Milo C. Perry with them. After the death of his father in 1878 Richard L. Hand acted as Trial and Appellate Counsel to other attorneys, and undertook little business for clients until 1886, when he and the late Judge Rowland C. Kellogg and Harry Hale formed a partnership under the name of Hand, Kellogg & Hale. The throe conducted an active general law r,rac- iice together fcr many years, anc. upon the withdrawal of Judge Kellogg from the firm because of his election as Counly judge and Surrogate, Messrs. Hand and Hale continued as partners until 1904. From 1903 and until the illness which finally resulted in his death, he spent about six months of the year in New York City, and was associated as counsel with Hand, Bonney & Jones, No. 49 Wall Street, of which his son was a member. He was Democratic nominee for Co. judge and Surrogate of Essex County in 1878 and 1890, and in each case reduced a nominal Republican major- i!y of upwards of 2000 to about 300. He was likewise Democratic nominee ior Justice of the Supreme Court in 1885 and 1903. He was President of the New York State Bar Association •n 1904 and 1905, and as such pre- sided over that body when the import- ant and stormy meeting of the Associa- tion was held respecting ihs Report of the Special Committee upon the charg- es against Justice Hooker of the Su- preme Court. He was appointed by Governor Hughes in 1906 Commission- er to report on the charges against William Travers Jerome, and likewise by the same Governor a Commissioner of the State Board of Charities, which latter position he filled for a number of years. In 1887 he was appointed Chan- cellor of the Union University, deliver- ed the Commencement Address and re- ceved the degree from that institution of L. t. D. He was actively interested in the Village of Elizabethtown; served for many years as President of the Board of Education, and President of the Village, and was also for years a Trus- tee of the Congregational Church and Superintendent of the Sunday School. His experience in both trial and ap- pellate litigation was very large. Among the most important jury trials with which he was connected in late years was his defense of Charles Wright for murder in the first degree and his de- fense of Anna Murray against the same charge. He also successfully re- presented Allen Brothers, of Glei Falls, in a litigation brought against them by the Union Bag and Paper Company, inolving their very valuable riparian rights upon the Hudson River. He was also engaged in the protracted «nd heavy litigations involving the Hudson River Water Power Company in the trial and appellate courts for] many years. All his life he was a fav- | ortte choice as referee, and his las^ legal work, before he was stricken with the illness which resulted in his death, was as referee in a litigation involving many hundred pages of testimony and several hundred thousand dollars be- tween the contractors and the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company. Mr. Hand left him surviving, his wi- dow, whose maiden name was Mary E. Noble; and his children, Augustus N. Hand, Cornelia E., wife of Henry M. Baird, Jr., of Yonkers; Marcia E., wife of Albion James Wadhams, of Staten Island, and Theodosia, wife' of Eugene D. Alexander. MEMORIAL nts and epitaphs are often extravagant in praise of the dead; lit- tle men are elevated to greatness; the old maxim—\Concerning the- dead, nothing unless the good\ hides weak ness and sometimes vice, makes the incompetent military leader the hero of a defeated battle, the political time- server an eminent statesman, the petti- fogger a great lawyer. But when we knew the man who has left us, after a hfe of fruitful service to the public, his clients, his friends— our neighbor whose daily walk we saw, whose lab^r^tve witnessed, whose i broken friendship we had, whose un- affected sympathy and help in time of n,eed we knew—when all this we knew from personal knowledge—we have no need of that maxim to restrain our speech or seal our lips in our estimate of the life and character of Richard L. Hand. The secret of his hold upon all who kn. iew him was his social charm. .1 cha He ,vas indeed reticent upon first acquain- tance, wearing a quiet dignity thai showed no self assertion but only in terest to take the right measure oi ihe stranger's stature, but when on< had secured welcome entrance to hi; office and the unrestrained freedom o: an hour's talk, his wit, his laugh, hi; inexhaustible fund of stories, pictur- ing with an actor's skill the foibles oi men he had seen, the quaint mannei and speech of original characters he had known, the ranting extravagance of political or legal orators, and even the comic side of Judges on the bench then one knew and never forgot the fascination of his intercourse with hi: fellow men. t needs not to record at length hi: professional attainment and achieve- ment: both are written in the officia reports of the Courts and in the rec- ords of many trials in this and othei counties. His power of analyss was sc strong that from the confused mass oJ evidence or the subtle reasoning of op- posing argument, he could seize tin central point and drive it home to jud- ges and juries with a concentratec force that was often irresistible, al- ways difficult for an opponent to an- swer. His forensic efforts were marked b; the studious avoidance of what i known as \flights of oratory,\ but ra- ther by the use of idiomatic Englisj speech that always appealed to th< understanding, seldom to the emotioj of those who heard him. But when his soul was stirred to its depths i] the denunciation of wrong or fraud oi guilt, his utterance rose to passional* eloquence, all the more powerful froi its restraint—not like blows that crust but like daggers that kill. And wh does not remember his powerful ap peal in defense of innocence, agains prejudice, or malice, or power, whei his own suppressed emotion found an swer in the eyes of those who listen ed? His active and absorbing profession- al life did not prevent his pursuit anc enjoyment of letters. In mature lif he learned the French language withou' an instructor, so that he might read the original the inimitable productions of French authors. He could quoti for the entertainment of his friends o like taste, whole passages of Virgil the noble Latin tongue, whole odes o Horace. He ranged over the who] field, and gathered fruit from earl and modern Romance and Fiction, from \Amadis de Gaul\ to Thackeray He knew the drama in its best age, and delighted to recite the pompou: ignorance and stupidity of Judge Dog- berry the immortal wit of Falstaff. There was nothing in the charactei of Mr. Hand of the partisan or the bigot. When the political contest was lotted, and when at length, in the ounfy where the usual hostile major- was tw-> thousand or more, he fail- ed of success by only about three hun- tred votes, the personal affection of his fellow citizens was proven beyond all ubt; and when, six years later, he moved and carried in the convention if his party the unanimous endorse- ment of his opponent in the previous :nvass, his magnanimity was demon- strated to all men. Contests in court never disturbed dhe serenity of his temper, and when opposing counsel went beyond the limit of courtesy or forensic decorum, ie replied only by a smile or a flash f disarming wit As was said of an- other great man: \He loved to drink Wight of battle with his peers,\ but ie never boasted of success, or lost tne whit of courage under defeat. And finally, we may be permitted :o speak of his inner life, in the intim- tte exchange of thought with his friends, he sometimes discoursed of the \mystery of things,\ of the deepest questions of life and death, of the doubt of many thoughtful men about the life beyond—\The undiscovered country from whose bourne no travel- ler returns\—and proclaimed his pro- ound conviction that conscious life will survive the grave; that life is no) \A tale told by an idiot, 'Full of sound and fury, 'Signifying nothing,\ but the foretaste and assurance of im- mortality. And so, as to him, we may use the words of the great Milton: \Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail \Or knock the breast, no weakness no contempt, \Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, \And what may quiet us in death i noble.\ F. A. S. October 14th, 1914. The Newman Market is the cheapesi place to buy meats, fruit, vegetables, fresh every day. adv. **** At the regular meeting of the VI Sage Board held October 5th, it was unanimously decided to hold thei] meeting every two weeks instead every week for the balance of the fis- cal >ear. The Village is putting water line past Victor Herbert's, lay ng 500 feet of three inch and 300 fee of two inch pipe. Conducted by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) Method in Her Madness. \Why d'» you quarrel with your hus- band so tlit'se daysV .Have yon eeasotl to love him?\ \No but the cook eujoys iL She lin- gers with us, hoping to see a fight\— Louisville Courier-Journal, With singular obstinacy, Gen. Villa having fought for a new regime and in end of militarism in Mexico, in- ists on getting it. j \Suffered day and night the torment ! r»f itching piles. Nothing helped me 1 until I used Doan's Ointment. The i result was lasting.\—Hon. John R. ] Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala. THE DRINKER WHO LIVES LONG. I very often hear people say, \Doc- tor, how do you account for some people drinking up to eighty years old and never being sick?\ That is oae of the greatest objections that people will make to an apostle of tem- perance. They say, \It is all right to step people from drinking, but what about Mr. So and So, who is eighty years old and has been taking a little bottle of brandy since twenty years old every day.\ M is «a,sy to answer to this if you are a doctor. I very often explain 1* in ma way. I say: \Now we have two friends who have eaca an automobile. We will say, if you have no objection, it is a $7,000 automobile. And they have two ene- mies, who both start with an ax on their shoulders and who say, 'Now, we are going to attend to the ex-Mayor Oliver 1 * and Mr. Spence's automobiles/ One goes to ex-Mayor Driver's automo- bile and he Is going to make that auto- mobile feel sick. He strikes that wheel and he strikes a thousand times on that wheel, and when ex-Mayor Oli- ver wants to use the automobile it won't go at all. What is the matter? One wheel altogether broken. The remainder of the automobile is in per- fectly good order but cannot go because one wheel is completely wrecked. Mr, Spence's automobtts is a little luckier. Of course he is always a very lucky man. The man just knocks the var- nish off and cute one of the seats and knocks off the top, punches both sides; but he left the motor and the motor went. That is the man who lives to eighty years.—Prom address by Dr. J. Edmund Dube, Eminent Sci- entist of Quebec and Professor in \Lar val University. For any itching- skin trouble, piles, eczema, salt rheum, hives, itch, scald head, herpes, scabies, Doan's Oint- ment is highly recommended. 50c a box at all stores. PHYSICIANS. DR. F. S. HONS1NGER, Special Practice ii Genito-Urinary Diseases, Men Only, Hours io to 4; 7 to S; Sundays, ir to I. 316 Post-Stan dard Building, Warren St., Syracuse, K. Y EDWIN KENNEDY Contractor and Builder Camps and Cottages a Specialty E8TIMATE8 FURNISHED Lak« Placid, N. Y. P. O. Newman. N. T. Germans consume 200 pounds o J flour per capita yearly. ARE YOU CALLED IN ERROR? Did it ever occur to you thai in passing a call you may of- ten guess at a number without verifyng it with the telephon directory? If so, it means thai j another subscriber will be an- / noyed by a call in error, am ' that the operator will usuall; be charged with carelessness by the party reached. Are you using an old list oi telephone numbers that need: correction? Mountain Home Telephone Company j SPENCER 9 , PRIME 2ND j tey an^ Counsellor at Law l Many a quiet man began life with yell. I Telephone 134 Saliswn hft. Late Placid, N. Y. Moneylto Loan on Good Security. The Burlington Savings Bank DEPOSITS INCORPORATED 1847 Just Received A NEW LINE OF Children's Winter Coats Dress /Trimmings Headquarters tyr Hunters Supplies WEST0A B0LL & MIHILL NEWMAN, N. Y. JiSS 23,750.25 263,799.55 ,,m 2,121,207.11 ......... 7,000,561.09 ......... 15,223,406.73 Business can be tran- sacted by mail as as in person. . , 1850 . ary 1, 18OT . r ary 1, 1S70 fennary 1, 1880 January 1, 1890 . January 1, 1900 . ... July 1, 1914 . SURPLUS $ 56,34 214,57 9,812.99 43,239.43 170,238.51 330,635.37 1,080,415.08 This Bank has never re* quired notice from de- 'positors wishing to with, draw money. No money loaned to iay Officer or trustee of the bank. AH correspon- dence should be addresse/ rai<l checks made payable to the BURLINGTON SAVINGS BANK, BURpNGTON, VT. Write for Further Information trlARLES P. SMITH, President F. W. PERRY, Vice President F. W. WARD, Treasurer E. S. Isham, Assistant Treasurer. ^bu are proud to show the bif Chickens raised on CROWING FEED >o .> Your neighbor is ashamed of his half frown runts Ted on \Something justasfootr Hurley Brothers, take Placid, N.Y Vegetables ^ Jpor Sale Lake yPlacid Club Gardens High Class Drugs And bear In mind that our ICE CREAM is made of Ppre Crean§ and Milk, and cannot be compared with Factory Ice Cream. NEWMAJtf PHARMACY H. J. POTTER, Proprietor Telephone 14. WILLIAM HERRON & CO. The Leading Liquor Store of Saranac Lake INVITES YOUR PATRONAGE WHEN IN SARANAC i LAKE ON Phone 436 H. D. HAVPORD Carries a complete line of CANDIES, CIGARETTES, CIGARS, TOBACCOS Fresh /Roasted Peanuts DAILY 2*4 SUNBRY PAPERS BOOKS, MAGAZINES, NOVELS, PLAYING CARDS SCHOOL SUPPLIES and STATIONERY htdo- (n«xt to bankV Stedman's PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOP EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC xooo Adirondack Views \ Hand Colored Photographs in Oil AMATEUR WORK A SPECIALTY A Fine Line of Dennison Quality Goods 4 Columbia Grafonolas and 100 New Records -it f
