Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-01

Times many times IN single year, Tor AID To
all kinds of institutions-of charity. of learn
ing and religion, and am confident speak no
more than the truth when l say that / have
never ia a single instance called in vain. His
hand and heart were always open and he gave
not erudgingly, butt cheerfully, as if it was
pleasure.
His patriotism was ardent and pure. and he
right and which wrong, and all his influence
and energy was always found upon the side
that he believed to be right.
Nothing that we can say will ada any luster
to his character. He was a model man. If any
father in Saint Paul was to pick out the man
that he would prefer to have his son copy af-
ter and follow in all respects, we cannot doubt
that the selection would be this man whose
death we now mourn.
We may be permitted to give feeble response
to the Judgment of the righteous Judge pro-
nOunced upon such character aud such life:
We'll done, good and faithful servant enter
thou into the joy OF thy Lord"
D. W. INaERsoLL.
Mr.. Ingersoll said he had been associated
with Mr.. Thompson in many matters since his
residence here. He could not give voice
to his feelings, and could only add his
tribute to what had already been said.
He never called on him for any object of char
lty or public enterprise and met with refusal.
Lie ltsSL luUeTVleW ne Qdu Win MIN was In re-
ference to charitable object, and without
scarcely a moments delay he contributed $50.
Without disparagement to Others it can be
said that we are indebted to him for the Sioux
City railroad. for the elevator which was the
foundation of our grain trade, and in fact
every enterprise of consequence in the city had
had his material aid. No man would be miss
ed as Mr.. Thompson will be.
z. j. HODGsOE THEN SAID:
T e
that in the presence of such calamity, as the
one in whose cold, dark, shadow we sit to-day,
the solemnity of silence is not more fitting
than phrase of eulogy, grief, or friendship.
Words of eulogy, however glowing; words of
grief however deep and profound, words of
friendship however earnest, sincere and ten
der, seem but sounding tinselry, or hollow
mockery, when we consider their utter in
adequacy for the task to which We would
assign them. Words, which upon other oc-
casions would move, and glow, and burn, now
seem like dull, cold, unsentient vehicles of
thought and feeling. But poor as they are
they are all we have to offer.
The foremost man in this commonwealth
has been stricken down in the prime of his
manhood. in the midst of his work. A
prince in Israel has indeed fallen. But great
as the public calamity, it shrinks into insig-
nihcance in the presence of the far greater
one, that a friend, a husband father is dead.
MIR. President, during the yet incomplete
cycle of the current year of this directory for
the third time, death has entered this
chamber. For the third time, with noiseless
step, that warns not of his approach, he has in
vaded our ranks, and with unseen fangs has
fastened upon the lives of our brethren and
they are not. For the third time during these
few months we have met with the pail of death.
lowering over us, and his icy breath chilling
our hearts. Surely we have been most i'm
pressively reminded of the uncertainty of life,
and the fact that death is no respecter of per-
sons. But while we mourn under this triple
bereavement, there is one thought of consola-
ton that springs from the very gloom and
shadow of death itself. When the dread sum-
mons came to each of our departed confreras,
it found him at the post of duty-tne place of
all other places to die-w;th the harness all
on, in the midst of the battle, il the heat of
the blast This 1 conceive to be the greatest
glory that can be wrung from death This life
is one of toll and effort. Mans wants and ne
cessities, his aspiration for advancement and
elevation, taken in connection with the fact
that nature yields her treasures only to con-
tinued and persistent effort, prove that labor is
at once the destiny and duty of man on earth.
The greatest honor then that we can pay to the
memory of the dead is to take up the burdens
which have fallen from their shoulders and
with brave hearts and strong arms carry for
ward their incomplete work. And finally when
death shall come, as it shortly will to each of
us, may it find us, as it found them, at the
post of duty-the God appointed place to die.
J,w. M'CLUNa.
Mr.. McClung said it was fit and proper to
honor the memory of the dead. Allusion had
been made by almost every speaker to the
kind acts of MIR. Thompson, and these had been
go numerous that it caused feeling of person.
al sorrow to pervade the entire community. A
now prosperous business man had told the
speaker of assistance rendered him by Mr.
Thompson that was nothing of wider note. His
business was embarrassed and he appealed to
Mr.. Thompson for aid. Mr.. Thompson looked
into his affairs and then laid the matter before
the bank directors. They decided they could not
accept the paper, whereupon Mr.. Thompson
took it up, and, writing his name across the
back, asked them if that would make it salts
factory. The secret of the deep sorrow which
is felt is not SO much in the greatness as the
goodness of Mr.. ThOmpson's character. So
many have felt the benefit of his sympathetic
nature that it makes the sorrow profound.
d. NJ. Rice said MIR. Thompson was the first
Independent Of the chamber and took great
interest in the body, and it would seem appro-
pirate to drape the chamber in mourning. In
accord with the suggestion, Gen. Slbley added
resolution to those offered.
The resolutions were then unanimously
adopted by rising vote.
ARRANGING DETAILS.
1t was agreed to meet at the Chamber at
P. M, to-day, to proceed in body to the
church. Messrs. W. L. Wilson, Peter Berkey
and E. j. Hodgson were appointed commit
tee of arrangements. The committee supply
the following announcement:
Directors of the chamber of commerce who
proffered their conveyances for use in attend
ing the funeral services of Mr.. Thompson will
please have them at our room by o'clock, as
nearly as possible, go that the committee may
meet the Minneapolis board of trade delegation
at the railroad train. W. L. WIL-oN,
Chairman of Committee
Jurors Summoned.
Subp9nas have been served on the following
venire of thirty-fve petit jurors returnable in
the district court at 10 clock tomorrow morn
ing:
Peter Paquette, Max Ebert,
W. 81. Howard, G. NJ. Sawyer,
Matthias Breen, 8. B. Mcconnell,