The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-04
the GRIM REAPER.

He reaps the bearded grain at breath.
And the flowers that grow between;
One flower most bright and promising |
has just been gathered in by the great
harvester of harvesters. In HIS wisdom
He selected from earth's flowers and
transplanted in his own heavenly
garden one of the purest
and best. Miss Lulu Il. Holmes was
born on the 18th of December, 1854, near
Albion, Edwards county, Illinois. Her
parents moved while she was yet quite
small to Iowa and afterwards to Grand
Island, Nebraska, where Miss Holmes
received her early education. At the
age of 16 Miss Holmes taught her first
term of school, which was imme-
diately followed by the second.
After the close OF her second term she
came TO Emporis and entered the Nor
mai III September 1891. After two years
of close application she completed the
elementary course, graduating with the
first honors of her class. During these
two years in the Normal Miss Holmes
endeared TO her large circle of friends,
who became more and more closely
attached TO her as she developed
into that gentle, firm, true and
noble womanhood which characterized
her life. Miss Holmes was elected the
year she graduated as a tutor in the
Normal, with the privilege of pursuing
her studies and completing a higher
course. Few persons ever applied them
selves with more diligence to the work
before them than did Miss Holmes dur
ing that year. At the close of the year
she had proven her services at the
Normal indispensable and had finished
the advanced Latin aud English
course. The regents then elect
ed her to membership in
the Normal faculty which she
filed with the greatestl possible credit.
Miss Holmes has thus been connected
with the Normal either as pupil or
teacher for tour years, or ever since she
was seventeen years old. Her relations
with the students and faculty have
always been the most pleasant, and few
of the teachers of the institution were
more dearly loved by their pupils than
Miss Holmes. She seemed a person
thoroughly equipped by nature with all
the qualities so necessary in teacher.
She was patient, kind, and possess
ed q heart most tender and atfec-
tionate. Miss Holmes has always been
rather delicate in health and being am
bItious to excel IN her work often
taxed the body with strain of mental
work. Last vacation she attended the
National Teachers ASSOCIATION at Mad
ison ana returned to her duties this year
fresh with the hopes and prospects of
promising future.
Seven weeks ago Sunday evening she
was suddenly taken with paroXysm of
pain in the head. Since that time she
has suffered almost continuously. The
pain was most severe and at times rob-
bed her OF her consciousness. Yet the pa
thence which characterized her life when
in health did not desert her in
the hours OF pain and disease.
During the long and painful seige of her
illness she often spoke of her school
work, and longed to again join her
anxious friends at the Normal. Although
Miss Holmes has been very low for sew
eral weeks, her friends yet hoped that
she might overcome the fever and be re-
stored to that cheerful and influential
womanhoOd that took happiness and
purity wherever she went. But such was
not the will of the Great Ruler of the
universe. Last Thursday they thought
that she was passing away and her
mother, who was ut st. Joe, and her
brother at Cherryvale were telegraphed
to. Miss Holmes rallied again, but only
for a few days. Tuesday afternoon,
about 3 o'clock she was seized with
nervous parOXysm and at few minutes
after o'clock this morning death, that
black camel which kneels at the gates
of ALL" passed by and the spirit depart
cd from the casket in which it had borne
| and suffered SO much. She lived to re-
cogniZe her mother and brother, and
during Monday was conscious much OF
the time. She suffered much Tuesday
afternoon and night,
But ere the sun in all his state,
Illumed the eastern sky
] she pgssed through glUry's morning gate
And walked in paradisei
The funeral services will be conducted
tomorrow Afternoon at . 80 O'Clock
at the Congregational church by Rev F,
L. Ingalls, and Rev. j. f. Hendy.