The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-14


child of America, his character and fame
are the property of the world! His only
inheritance was a large brain, a great
heart, and mothers benediction. Born
in Ohio, in 1922, when that now prosper
GUS and thriving State was part of what
was once known as the wild West;"
from an humble beginning, struggling
up through adversely, against poverty,
crowding through a busy, rough and
frowning world, he heroically climbed
the column of human greatness until,
scarcely having passed the meridian
of life,
Moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on fortunes browning slope,
| The pillar of a peoples hope,
The center of worlds desire.
| Whether youth stubbornly fighting
adversely, on the tented field amid the
smoke of battle, or as chief magistrate of
the nation, that same fortitude, courage,
stern resolve and fidelity of purpose, is
mirrored throughout his whole career.
He needs no monument. With his own
hands he has reared an obelisk more i'm
perishable than stone, more brilliant
| than gold, the foundation of which is
laid deep and broad in the affections of
his countrymen, and by his own acts has
piled stone upon stone until it stands
before the world the embodiment of SUI
perior genius General Grant was not
an old man when called to bivouc
with the dead; but life is not measured
by it's hours and days, but by that which
we have done therein for our country and
kind. A useful life is. short if it last a
century. 1t is measured by the SOULS
advance" Man, by his own deeds
while living, erects, if he will, his own
monument, and by his acts carves in
scriptions which. will remain truthful
mementoes when the escutcheons on the
marb lie slab shall be dimmed by time
and buried in the dust of ages. Moths
may corrupt, and thieves break through
and steal the gilded painting; ages cor
rode and crumble the marble and
granite shaft, but the browning glory Of
the silent, magnanimous man at APP
pomattox. Never!
Not only one great people raise his urn;
The worlds far extended regions mourn.
AS the soul of the soldier obeyed the
bugle call from the other shore, bid
| adieu to earthly scenes and joined the
waiting heroes, and went marching on
through the endless ages of eternity, the
chained lightnings thrilled the oceans
and flashed the solemn fact around the
world Mortality is hardly cold, when,
to the PROSTATE widow beside the couch
of the dead, the Queen of a great nation
whispers consolation and dips her royal
scepter in respectful salute, while kings
Cpd gfEav OF 1a fyerX f Sgg and SbS ct all
the memory of the faxen-haired youth
OF the prairies, developed into the illus
trlous chieftain of the age. 1t is not
America alone, but the civilized world.
recognize the fact that great man has
passed away-great in his use of oppor-
tunity, great in the generosity of his
heart and magnanimity of his soul in his
hours of triumph. Wilt thou, o Record
ing Angel! turn that page wherein is
traced, in undimmed brightness, the
names of illustrious men, and, with thy
pen immortal, in characters of fame, to
stand hencefortn forever, write also
Grants name. Great in his usefulness
to nation in time of need; great in his
wisdom and patriotism great in his
simplicity; a soldier without fear; noble
in his life and heroic in death. When
we contemplate the honors to his meme
Dry, bubbling up all over the world, 1t
seems to be true that he
Assembled fame's ladder so high,
From the round at the top he has stepped |
to the sky.
While we assemble here to pay humble |
tribute to his memory, our hearts return
tender thanks to Your Majesty and |
rulers of this Island Kingdom, as well as
to the representatives of other nations
who have honored us with their presence
and kindly sympathy; and when the
bells toll and the echo shall be flashed
beneath the seas, announcing that your
loved and honored ones are dead, 1 feel
that in the quiet, rural homes, in the
cities, on the deserts and in the rugged
of the new world, there will
De words of praise, tenderly spoken, and
ears as honest IS any that can flow in
your own realms. y
MR.. A. S. HARTWELL.
Mr.. A. S. Hartwen said in substance:
Some men are born to greatness, some
chieve greatness, and some have great
less thrust upon them, General Grant
Vas no creature of fortune Circumstances
id not make him-he made them.
trant never pretended to be anything {.
ut what he was. He was the same UNI
fected citizen abroad, the guest of
as when in time of his adver-
ty he drove load of wood into the city =
st. Louis for sale. He came back from
is wonderful ovations around the world, Z
possible, sounder American than
hen he went away. His place in the
story of our country is due solely to his Il