s wife
Sarah Althea for contempt of court. * * * The threats by
Judge Terry did not even frighten him to carry weapons of
self-defense. This illustration of upholding the majesty of
the law is without precedent, and is worth more to the cause
of justice than the entire United States army could be if
called out to suppress a riotous band of law-breakers. Justice
Field did what any justice should do under the circumstances,
but how many judges would have displayed a like courage had
they been in his place?

The _New York World_, in its issue of Monday evening, August 26th,
has the following article:

A NEW LEAF TURNED.

When Judge Field, knowing that his life was threatened,
went back unarmed into the State of California and about his
business there, he gave wholesome rebuke to the cowardice that
prompts men to carry a pistol--a cowardice that has been too
long popular on the coast. He did a priceless service to the
cause of progress in his State, and added grace to his ermine
when he disdained to take arms in answer to the threats of
assassins.

The men who have conspired to take Judge Field's life ought to
need only one warning that a new day has dawned in California,
and to find that warning in the doom of the bully Terry. The
law will protect the ermine of its judges.

The New York _World_ of August 18th treats of the arrest of Justice
Field as an outrage, and speaks of it as follows:

THE ARREST OF FIELD AN OUTRAGE AND AN ABSURDITY.

The California magistrate who issued a warrant for Justice
Field's arrest is obviously a donkey of the most precious
quality. The Justice had been brutally assailed by a notorious
ruffian who had publicly declared his intention to kill his
enemy. Before Justice Field could even rise from his chair
a neat-handed deputy United States marshal shot the ruffian.
Justice Field had no more to do with the shooting than any
other bystander, and even if there had been doubt on that
point it was certain that a justice of the United States
Supreme Court was not going to run away beyond the
jurisdiction. His arrest was, therefore, as absurd as it was
outrageous. It was asked for by the demented widow of the dead
desperado simply as a means of subjecting the Justice to an
indignity, and no magistrate possessed of even a protoplasmic
pos