The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-22
IN mEMoHIAm.

/ Americuss tuesday afternoon, between
the hours Of and O'Clock, after an i'll /
ness Of some weeks, from Bright's dis
ease Of the kidneys, aged 80 years. The
public were prepared for the mournful
intelligence of his demise, which rapid
ly spread throughout the city in the
tevening, all hopes of the recovery OF Mr..
Ernst having been reiinquished by his
friends and medical attendants several
days preceding his dissolution. The
knowledge, however, that his early TAX
ing or was inevitable could not serve 10
mitigate the deep and widespread sor-
row which the loss IN the community of
this excellent man has oceasioned. and
the grief which Is FELT and expressed Ok er
this mournful iispensatIun of Provi-
denee IL INDEED al eloquent tribu;e 10
the virtues nj the departed
The deaih al joseph Ernst was us
peacr fsii AMI scr,ne ~ his Ilf,. MAS free
h"in tnm0lt md ieuoble sIrifr. The
lsOsi oi siissolsiti.n trousHi f.r rim no
pa < II irin,nssr nor sts.tAinas ri
drcal. Nes..tufk thnaghl- II ia, iszt
biiirr hour l. |. ike ), hIieLt' oy.r ms
trusting Spint; ma s.saiI image. Il ne
Stem agony, nsid shroud and pail. AID
br,siiless ,ilrkntss. und ethe Isariow
iiuuoc made him - shuaiet and grow
sick nj heut;" surrounded BY those
whose lives Ia, had cheeretl by his hrll,-
tut offices ami whose Ioye Ia. haG Won
by his unfalIeiing devotion, he patient
Iy and eheerfully awaited the approach
of the death messenger. and his smile Of
calm assurance only faded when his fea-
lures were sealed by the awful majesty
Of death
Such an end was in beautiful har-
mony with life devoted to the
development oil pure and symmetrical
character. Surrounded by opportnni-
ties which would have inspired in the
hearts OF many men sordid aud con
sumibg lust Tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
Joseph Ernst led simple aud blame
less life, well content with the approval
of his own conscience. Without any
apparent exercise of the arts of popu-
laiiIy. he probably enjoyed the largest
personal following OF any man in the
county; and with a Inodesly of de
meanoT which often assumed the form
of tImidity, he was called 10 assume
positions of public trust TO which more
self asserting and ambitious persons
vaibly aspired. The honesty and recti-
tude of his character compelled the love
and admiration even of those who were
unable to appreciate his unswevrving
Integrity of purpose, and the man
who revealed in his plain, simple fashion
Tn those before whom he went uat and
in. the inherent digniy of life in which
duty was not merely a sentiment, but
guide, was given t. know in the last
supreme hour that a victory over the
temptations OF life clothed him with
power 10 meet undannted the King of
Tcrrors
The first symptoms Of physical decline
experienced by the deceased manifested
themselves early in the month of Deem |
Der. For time he fought bravely |
against the encroachments of the insidi !
Gus disease which had land hold upon |
his vitals. but he was finally compelled |
to relinquIsh his post at the treasnrer's |
Office, and from the time that he gave up |
work his strength rapidly failed, and it |
soon became apparent that there WAS no |
chance of his recovery from the terrible |
malady which had claimed HIM for its |
victim. ills illness was marked by the |
SAME gentle temper which characterized |
his bearing in ali the relations of life, |
and his patient endurance of pain and |
his cheerful submission 20 the mysteri-
Gus dIspensation which cut him down in
the tull possession of his ripe powers,
win live in the memory of his friends
long after each human trace of the tenc-
ment of clay which held his spirit has
gone TO mix forever with the elements.
The subject of this notice was ma
tive of Germany, and was born at Loc,
wen, Prussia, March 20ih, 1928 He
came to Kansas in the year 1853, and
located ON the farm on which he died,
and which contains upwards of twelve
hundred acres of land. In 1861 he was
elected commissioner of Lyon county
with the late r. b Hurst, and showed
such an adaptibilily for the transaction
of public business that in 1873 he was
elected treasurer on what was known ~
the Farmers Ticket" and as a recogni
ton of faithful service was re-electr,
; in 1915. AT the request of very
large number of the citizeas
+ of Lyon county he again became can
/ didate for the same Office in 1881, was
elected by u handsome majority, and as
e sumed the duties of his position in DC
tnber 1882, administering them with his
accustomed prudence and well-known
: ubil ty until the beginning Of his last
l illness TIE deceased also occupied
many minor offices of trust in the com.
muniiy in which he resided, and it was
: the continual delight of the people
among whom he lived TO honor this
good man
J. Amid The cares of pnblic life be was
4 ever reeardful of those graz
+ rious amenities the kindly
; exercise of which will lie ever pleas
antly remembered BY those who
enjoy ed the privilege If knowing
him. while his family and i'm.
5 mediate social relations brought
: out ia the bcSt possible light those en-
1 gazing attributes which compelled the
love of all who were familiar with his
inner life In his death the community
suffers loss which can never be fully
repaired and his stricken widow and
> eight surviving children have been over
whelmed 10y bereavement which even
the amelioraIing process of time can
never wholly heal.
Aud yet, the thick gloom which oyer,
shadows them cannot utterly shut out
9 the CLEANS of peace aud consolation.
The history of Joseph Ernst is full OF
! inspiration TO those who survive him. He
+ realized the grand truth that life is yalua-
BILE only for what it accompIishes, and
' with the help OF an enlightened con-
/. science applied himself Industriously 10
n the performance of his duty as it was re-
4 yealed to him He was not, in the strict
3 sense ofihe term, Teligionis, though he
: respected the Christian faith, and was in
earnest sympathy with its aims. He
was reared Catholic. but had not main
tanned his communion with that church
for many years prior 10 his DEATH His
: conceptions of right and wrong were
not modelled sfIer the teachings of any
particular sect, but his life was conform
: ed TO such things as were honest, and
just. and pure, and Of good report. and
he thought on these thing To The eleva-
tion of his manhood and the perfection
of those christian attributes which
t adorned his character, and which will I'm