to be true, but all I can say about him is that I hope he am where I fear he ain't."

We did not feel that we could come here today without leaving with you some memento, some token, of our love; something that would be handed down to future generations, that would recall the noble deeds and acts you have done; something that we hope you will cherish, for out of it, in it and around it is the unbounded love and admiration we have for you.

Without taking more time, I will say, in the language of Thomas Moore, this cup is like the vase that has once been filled with roses-"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang around it still.'

Please accept this cup with the love of the people of Pike County.

Judge Dyer: Mr. Matson, the people of Pike County never loved me half as well as I loved them. It was there my wife was born; it was there I was married, and it was there my children were born. The day will never be too long, nor the night too dark, for me to respond, as best I can, to the demands and wishes of that people.

I thank you; I thank you.

This is the one hundred and ninth anniversary of the birth of one of the wisest, gentlest, sweetest and most lovable characters that ever blessed the world Abraham Lincoln. In honor of his memory, and the noble deeds wrought by him, the Court will now adjourn until ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Adjourn the Court, Mr. McCune.

Mr. McCune: The honorable District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missouri is now adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow morning.

GREETINGS FROM THE PIKE COUNTY COLONY IN ST. LOUIS

Messrs. Isaac H. Orr, C. H. McMillan, Virgil Rule, Davis C. Biggs, Thomas L. Anderson, H. L. Block and Dr. B. A. Wilkes called on Judge Dyer in Chambers and presented a beautiful floral tribute in behalf of the Pike County Colony in St. Louis.

Mr. Orr, acting as spokesman, said:

Judge Dyer, we come as a Committee from the Pike County Colony in St. Louis, to offer a word of congratulation and felicitation on this eightieth anniversary of your birth.

You have received today from the bench and the bar the best possible evidence of their esteem. I doubt if a more memorable meeting has ever been held in a Missouri court room. While the heart of every member of the Colony swells with pride at these well deserved honors heaped upon you by your professional and judicial brethren, we feel that we want to come closer and speak to you out of our heart of hearts, to tell you how happy we are in your continued health, and to express our personal appreciation of the love and friendship which exists between you and every member of this Colony.

Ours is not a professional relation. It is not the lawyer or Judge we felicitate today; it is the friend and benefactor of our fathers, as well as our friend

and helper. Your contemporaries in our home county, our forebears, have gone to their reward. You alone remain. We, who have now reached middle life, first learned to respect you at our mother's knee. The story of your early achievements was familiar to us in childhood-how you came to Bowling Green as a country boy to study law, and became a lawyer; how you had married the daughter of the Judge; had gone to the legislature; became Circuit Attorney; had raised a regiment and led it forth to battle for human liberty, and, after returning from the war, had been elected to Congress. These were public achievements.

We also learned how in a thousand ways you had served and befriended the individual members of the community. Those were the days when you had time to be a member of the Board of Education, and to help plan and build the first real public school building in your home town. It was you who helped plan for a brick court house, a gravel road system, and other things, which added to the comfort and welfare of the people, and all of this without enriching yourself. Every man, woman and child was your friend, because you were their friend. These were matters of common knowledge, impressed upon us as children. As we grew to manhood and followed you to St. Louis, the interest of the father was transferred to the son. Your kindly interest in the welfare of each one of us has been made manifest whenever and wherever needed. Many of our number have attained positions of influence in this great city, largely through your wise counsel and personal assistance.

As the organizer and President of the Pike County

Colony in St. Louis, you have kept in touch with the younger generations from our home county, and fostered a spirit of friendship and co-operation, which has kept alive and strengthened a fraternal feeling for each other among the sons of our historic county.

These flowers can only visualize in a small degree the happiness we feel as our lips would express the prayer of our hearts, which is that

"The Lord will bless thee and keep thee;

That He will make His face shine upon thee,

and be gracious unto thee;

That the Lord will lift up His countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace,

and that the eventide of your earthly career will be lengthened so that you may yet enjoy many helpful, happy days.

LETTERS OF CONGRATULATION

Many letters and telegrams have come to the Committee and to Judge Dyer from all parts of the country, containing felicitations, all of which were gratefully received and highly appreciated. From these a few have been selected as typical of the rest: United States Circuit Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit

Honorable James E. Withrow,

Kansas City, Missouri,
February 5, 1918.

Third National Bank Building,

St. Louis, Missouri.

My dear Judge Withrow:

Your kind invitation of fourth instant to be present