The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-31

my reColectlOn OF MS character, my knoWl-
edge of it being intimate, is nothing ojus-
tify the admission that he ever yielded to
the too common weakness Of humanity and
permitted the insolence and brutality of
anger to lead him from a line of conduct
prescribed by good judgment operating
without excitement and unmodifei by any
prejudice,
He was the slave of no vagrant or ram
pant appetites. He neither hated too in
tensely nor loved too ardontly. All his
actions his aversons and desires i'm
PEELED by agood reason, and appetite was
thus held within control; so that he was
temperate in responding to the demands of
the flesh, and tolerant when he acted upon
the suggestions of his intellect.
BY affabiity he won the love of those
who knew him. He was moved by no
odious afectatlon. In prosperity be was
neither proud nor arrogant and threatening
troubles he contemplated with equarinity.
He did not know what tlattery was, and
neither gave it nor understood what was
offered when aduatlOn was rendered to
him, He had no desire to fill the public
eye and did not allow ambition to rob him
of the liberty to be independent in word
and action. AvGrice, sign of narrow and
sordid spirit, had no control over him, He
conferred benefits upon the public and in
dividuals, but he did not rob some that he
might be generous to others; he was both
honest aud generous. He was lover of
simplicity. He had evenness of temper,
which is called a part OF courage. His
friendship gave prosperity to his friends
and solaced them in adversely. He was
what, even in this day and generation, is
hard to fnd--a really good man. His
honesty showed itself by its own bright.
ness, for he was man in speaking of whom
we might have used the antique proverb
and have said: "Hels one with whom you
may play odd and even in the dark He
was pure vessel, and the good that was
poured into him by nature never became
sour.
He was a man, take him for all in all,
lne'er shall see his like again. He was an
exceptional character, ard his benefcent
memory ought to be perpetuated, as it will
be by this Memorial Building.
His dust has turned to dust;
His soul IL with it's God, We trust"
He was here this moment. and there the
next. The machinery did not wear out; it
broke down suddenly. We cannot therefore
assert, with knowledge that be would have
met death with calmness if he had known
Of the destroyer's approach; but no one who
knew Alfred B, Stafford can doubt that he
would have met his fate with fortitude.
He did not regard death with horror, but as
a change from one condition to another.
Leckey says that "among the many half
pagan legends that were connected with
Ireland during the middle ages, one Of the
most beautiful is that of the islands of life
and death. In certain lake in Munster
1t is said there are two islands; into the first
death could never enter, but age and sick
ness, and the WEAKNESS of life, and the
paroXysms Of fearful suffering were all
known there; and they did their work until
the inhabitants, tired of their immortality,
learned to look upon the opposite island as
upon haven OF repose; they launched
their harks upon the gloomy waters; they
touched its shore and they were at rest
The man whose memory we honor to-day,
stood here upon this bank and shoal of time,
and looked towards the island of Immortal
ity, always longing to be assured of its
mysteries. He did not believe that ''the
candle which had been extinguished is IN
the same condition as before it was Int, and
the dead man as the man unborn" He be-
lieyed that death would emancipate life
from the thradom of the body. 1t is said
that in the last night in which Autonnus
Plus lived, the tribune came to ask him for
the password Of the night. The dying emr
peror gave BIN "aquanimitas. With the
same restfulness would our dead friend
have met death had it approached him with
his knowledge.
The glory OF the autumn time is here, and
nature is falling into the sere and yellow
leaf. Soon all the beauties Of the earth will
have been buried in the grave Of winter.
Death will then reign supreme
over all the natural world.
But there will be a resurrection.
Beauty will spring from the tomb of winter,
and the earth will soon glow again with
life. Thus out of the other death life will
also come, as so many philosophers and
priests and everyday people, the learned
and uu'earned alike, have so often said
And this doctrine the lo,nnntpd Stafford Iva.