noble profession with high aims and aspirations, as n embers of this Association, to give our best efforts to the building up of a system of judicial procedure which shall reduce, if we cannot expect to wholly remedy judicial delays. We should do whatever may seem practical toward the speedy administration of justice. It is not a proper ambition to seek to excel in the skill or knowledge which will enable the dishonest or dishonorable to defeat or even delay the just rights of the honest and honorable citizen. We must not forget that we ourselves are not only lawyers, but also citizens of a grand country, living in a grand age. The future lies before us, with untold possibilities. In the poetic words of Bishop Coxe,

We are living, we are dwelling

In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling-

To be living is sublime.

Great opportunities bring great responsibilities.

The world

is going forward, not backward. I declare myself no pessimist, but I believe our race is going onward and upward toward the millennium.

But if the age to follow us is to be no better than this in which we live, because of our living, we will have lived to little or no purpose. I would copy here, if it were not too long, as better than anything I could say, the extracts from the address of Hon. Charles F. Manderson to certain young lawyers at Omaha, published in the OHIO LEGAL NEWS of June 22. I wish we all, old as well as young, might read. ponder and lay to heart his wise words. But to you, young men, I would especially commend them. Sooner or later will come to you, as well as to us who are older, the question

of Whittier :

What hast thou wrought for Right and Truth

For God and man,

From the golden hours of bright-eyed youth,
To life's mid span.

"I have written unto you, young men, because ye are

strong," says the Apostle: With many of us "the day is The lawyer needs learning, and you have the

far spent."

time and opportunity to acquire it.

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Many, perhaps most of us who are older, never had your opportunities, and for us it is now too late. But above learning is fidelity. The moral quality of our living and doing is most important to old and young alike. We all need to broaden and deepen our sympathies with struggling, suffering humanity. This will raise us to a level higher than any that can be reached, either by talent, however great, or by learning, however profound.

Kingsley, in his Alton Locke, makes old Sandy Mackey, the Scotchman, say, "What will I ca' a man my superior because he is cleverer than myself? Will I boo down to a bit of brains any mair than to a stock or stane? Lot a man prove himsel' better than me, my laddie, honester, humbler, kinder, wi' mair sense o' the duty o' man, and the weakness o' man - and that man I'll acknowledge—that man's my king, my leader.” Would the old Scotchman acknowledge any of us as his king. as his leader? If we would have him do so, if we would be worthy of such an honor, we must heed well how we live, and I take the liberty in closing, to

quote again from the same beloved poet, Whittier :

"Heed how thou livest, and do no act by day,

Which from the night shall drive thy peace away.

In months of sun, so live that months of rain

Shall still be happy. Evermore restrain evil and cherish good, so shall there be

Another and a happier life for thee."

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JUDGE CHARLES CANDEE BALDWIN.

BY W. F. CARR.

It is said that we should rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, and it is only fitting at this reunion, this our annual meeting for pleasure and rejoicing, that we should pause long enough to pay our last sad respects to the departed dead, and reverently blend our tears of sorrow with the tears of those who now weep.

Judge Charles Candee Baldwin was born in Middletown, Conn., on December 2d, 1834; his ancestors were thrifty New England merchants, and of him and his ancestry we can well say as Dryden said of Absolom: "His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen." His parents moved from New England to Elyria in Lorain County, this state, when he was an infant, and in this place he spent his boyhood. He was a graduate of the Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn.; studied law in Harvard Law School, from which institution he received his degree of L. L. B. in 1857. The same year he located in Cleveland, and started on what proved a most successful career at the bar and on the beuch. In the practice of the law Judge Baldwin always gave to the cause of his client untiring labor and his most earnest and conscientious thought. Nothing was ever neglected or treated slightingly that was entrusted to his care. He never lost sight of the fact that his client and his client's cause were entitled at all times to his very best energies and ability. He was a good trial lawyer and always came to the trial table fully equipped. As a legal

advisor he had few equals, for in addition to having a rich store of legal knowledge, he was a first-class business man, and his judgment on business problems was much sought after, and at all times with profit to those who heeded his advice.

As a just reward for his fidelity to his chosen profession, honors came to him unsought; when he first became a candidate for judge in the eighth circuit, it was only at the earnest request of the bar of Cleveland that he would consent to let his name be used at all, and in the convention his friends were SO numerous that he was practically the unanimous choice of that body. At the close of his first term he had so ably demonstrated his fitness as a judge that no other person was thought of for the place, and this was equally true at his selection for a third term, upon the duties of which he never entered, having died just shortly before the close of his second term.

Judge Baldwin was not only a lawyer and a judge, and adjectives add nothing to these terms, but he was a publicspirited scholar. And while he, by his career on the bench built for himself, and to the pride of his posterity, a lasting monument, as evidenced by his decisions in the reports of the eighth judicial circuit, he did no less as one of the founders and as the chief supporter of The Western Reserve Historical Society. At the close of his life he was the president of this society, and the bar and the bench sustained no greater loss in his death, than did this institution. He was a man of rare literary attainment. He knew books, and dwelt among them, because he loved them. He wrote and translated several works, and he was well-known by historical, scientific and antiquarian societies both in this country and in Europe. And in addition to being president of The Western Reserve Historical Society, at the time of his death, he was corresponding member of The New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston, and of the Worcester Society of Antiquity in Worcester, Mass.;

trustee of the State Archaeological Society of Ohio, and a nonresident member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Judge Baldwin was an earnest man; whatever his hands found to do he did with his might. He knew that life was a gift from the Omnipotent, and that the time allotted to man ought to be spent in his vineyard. Longfellow no more appreciated that "Life is real, life is earnest," than did JudgeBaldwin; and with such characteristics he could not be other than a Christian, and as a natural sequence, was an active member of the Presbyterian Church.

He harbored no evil

He was charitable and generous. thoughts of his fellowman, and no worthy person ever went from him empty handed. He knew well that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and how richly he deserved this blessing is best known by the many poor who had the good fortuneto know him.

Of his domestic life, I take the liberty to quote from the address of Judge Hale, his associate on the bench, delivered at a meeting of the Cleveland Bar on the death of Judge Baldwin. "Of his home life I will not speak except to say, to know him at his best was to see him at his own fireside, surrounded by his family and his books. I knew him as a most dutiful' son, a kind and loving husband, and affectionate and indulgent father. I need not, I cannot express in words, the sorrow I feel at the loss of my associate. We have been friends for nearly thirty-five years, much of the time intimately so, and during the last two years we have gone in and out together with increasing friendship, and his death comes to me as if a brother had fallen at my side."

Judge Baldwin died on the 2d day of February, 1895From a finite standpoint his taking away would seem untimely. He had not lived out man's allotted time, and his field of usefulness seemed to stretch indefinitely before him. But he believed