Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-08-28
shook him of as Christ rejected Judas.

lizh'. He had not taste for music. but
he bad melody In his heart. He desp sed
pretens , aud show, but admired the real
and beautiful. He was not fond of books,
yet by carefulness Of observation, by
thoroughness OF reflection, by attentive
ness to the converse: ion Of the WELL
Informed, by extensive travels in ma ny
lands, by the daily stu ly of current
events, he was the most intelligent citi-
sen In our republic. He was the most
diligent newspaper reader in the land.
He was a living encyclopedia Of facts,
figures aud men.
Out of his great character came the
purest motives, as effect follows cause.
He abandoned himself to his life mis-
sion with the hope of no other reward
than the conscious ness OF duty done.
Duty to his conscience, his country and
his God was his standard of successful
manhood.
And where, In all the annals Of our Ma.
tional life, shall we find another save the
sage of Mt Vernon, who was so truly
typical Ameriezu. IL Is true that his per-
s0nal qualities were not brilliants that his
! salient points were not conspicuous; that
! in running parallels between him and the
other men of fame q feeling of disappoint-
ment is experienced because there IS not
on the surface some prodigious element OF
power and greatness? Yet he had this
double advantage over all this worlds
heroes-he possessed the solid virtues of
true greatness In q larger degree than
other men Of renown, and possessed them
in greater hafmony of proportions.
Temperate without austerity; cautious
without fear; brave without rashness;
serious without Melancholy; he was
cheer full without frivolity. His constancY
was not obstinacy; his adaptation was
not ickleness. His hopefulness was not
utopian. His love of justice was equaled
only by his delight in compassion, AMI
neither was sacrificed to the other. His
integrity was never gu ,stion ID his hon.
esty was above suspicion; his private life
and public career were at once reputable
to himself and honorable to his country.
Such a stolid, sturdy character becomes
our geography, and institutions and our
destiny. Self-government calls upon the
judgment to control the imagination; to
ambition to submit to queenly mo lesty I;
to adventure to bow to prudence; to JUS
tice to hold in subj jection political wrong;
to virtue to dominat, every vice. It
seems to be with US a National tradition
raised to suprems position in our re-
public.
Our greatest vet with least pretense,
Great I'm council and great in war;
Foremost Captain of his time,
Rich in saving common sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
HIS HOME LIFE.
IA he was the lyrical American, should
20 be surprised to find that his was the
typical American home? May we lift the
curtain and look upon the holy privacy of
that once unIroksn household? o! the
mutual and reciprocal love of welded life
within those sacred precincts Husband
and wife the happy supplement OF each
other, their characters blendin, in sweet
est harmony like the blended colors in the
bow OF promisa He, strength, dignity
and courage; she, gentleness, grace aud
purity. He thcidoric column to sus tain she,
the Corinthian column to beautify. He,
the oak to support; she, ivy to entwine
In their life OF deathless love, ther hap
piness lay like an ocean of pearls and
diamonds in the embrace of the future.
He, unhappy thout her presence; shs,
desolute without his society She,
pure, hi h-minied, discriminating, ar
dent loving, intelligent; h, conf led t.
her g innermost soul and blessed her
with his best and unfailing love. Sha
shared his trials and lis triumphs; h 6
sorrows and his joys; his tolls and his
rewards. How tender was that scene, in
the early dawn of that A.ril day. when
all thought the long-expectel end had
come, he gave her his watch and tend .rly
caressed her hand. 1t was all the great
soldier had to give TO the wife of his
you b. And the dying hero whispere {:
az did not have you wait upon me, be.
cause knew it would distress you; but
now the end draws nigh" And out from
the "Swellings of Jordan" he rushed bach
to the shore of life to write this tender
message to his son: "Wherever I am
buried, promise me tn 1T your mother shall
be buried by my side" 1t is all wife
could ask; it Is all a husband could wish
"Lovely and pleasant In their, lives anC
in their death they shall not be divided
; Side py side they shall sleep In the sam,
tomb, and she shall share with him:what.
ever homage future ages shall pay at hii
} National shrine.
} And such was the tenderness OF his Low,
and solicitude for her and hers, he sur
} prised hsr by a letter found after hi
death. 1t came as a message to her from
him after he had gone When his spiri
had returned to the God who gave it, Their
} as found secreted in his robe, his las
letter to her, enveloped, sealed and ad
dress ID lHe:had written 1t betimes; writ Ell
it secretly and carried the sacred missiv,
J day after day during fourteen days
: kn,wing that she would find it at last Il
il he poured forth his soul in love for he
and solicitude for their children
took after our dear children and direc
them In the paths of rectitude 1t woul
: distress me far more to think that one o
them could depart from AN honorable, up
, right and vlrtuous life, than IL would {,
know that they were prostrated on a bed o
sickness from which they were never T.
arise alive. They have never given us an
cause for alarm on their account and
earnestly pray they never will.
With these few injunctIons and tn
| knowledge have of your love and affection
and of the dutifUl affection of oil our chi
dren, bid you Anal farewell, until "
meet in another, and trust, better worlC
You will find this on my person after m
demise.
MOUNT McGREGoR, July Q, 1885.
, And who should marvel that in a hom
. Of such parentage, paternal love and fiIis
, affection should reign suprenfes
: Honor thy father and thy mother.
was in perpetual obedience there. O
t what reverence for that honored faith,
} shown by those devoted sons and tha
! precious daughter. OF what bllssful low
, they manifest for that dear mother, to
, day q widow. What pure delight in esc
1 others company; what mutual pride
\ each others future welfare. And Will
3 all honor is due to each child of the de
4 parted for love, devotion and anxiety, an
r now for grief; YET the American peopl
> viii never forget the sleepless n igh's, th
ceaseiess Vigiis by day, the protnun
, deferences the tender earesses, the death