Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-06
Obituary.

Died, neal Thompson, on the 2lst ult.,
Joel Chalmer Buckles, of dropsy, occa-
stoned by enlargement of the heart; aged
Is years.
In the vast archives of apothegms there
is none more grandly true han that which
says, "Earth's greatest heroes are those
who ph~ilosophically bear the ills and ad-
versities of Life in comparative ebscur-
ity." And while other pens may eulogize
the comm issioned in Life's great battle,
the un~ostentatious annals of a boy pri-
vate merits our encomium. Entering
youth with q deranged organ that be-
spoke a life, at best, of but a few years,
he faithfully stood at the post of gener-
Gus boyhood and discharged every duty
efficiently and uncomplainingly. Con-
scious of the terrible fact that his throb-
bling heart would launch him into eterni-
ty before he attained citizenship, yet with
Christian resignation he bowed to the in
evitable without a murnlnr, and through
the excruciating ordeal Of eight weeks of
intense suffering, preceding his death,
not once did he so much as question his
hard fate. Though Young in years, he
IS old in deeds of loving kindness, and
never by look, word, or act did he offend
a living soul. Among playmates, friends
and acguaintances he had no enemies,
but was loved and cherished by all as a
grand transient flower. Nor was the good
qualities of a piouS mothers teaching
unsupported by the intellectual adjunctS
of the head. All who knew him, includ-
ing every teacher who instructed him fol
years, pronounced him the best student
they ever enrolled. During the last
eight months of his eXistance he attended
school SO days, obtaining an average class
grade in the following studies of 90 on
scale of 100: Orthography, ~pennanship,
music, e%lecution, algebra, arithmetic
(higher), grammar, geography and civil
government. His written examination
grade at the end of each of the five
months foots up an average of Sc. In
general standing he was nearly perfect,
and won the first prize in a school of so.
Intellectually, could he but have lived,
there certainly was for him a b%oundless
future. All who knew him will bear
cheerful testimony to the plain unyar-
nished fact, that in all respects, save
physical, he was a grand model, worthy
of imitation. But alas! Life at best is
but a prolonged sigh, a mere breath, and
just as he stepped upon the first step
stone of manhood, the brittle thread of
existence was suddenly snapped asunder
and the dear hey was forever gone. Just
before soul and body parted his mother,
In trying to arouse him up from the leth-
argy of death, asked HIM, eff he wasn't
going to talk to mother any more?"
| With a last voice he answered, Eyes"
True! Though in this ~sin-saddened
world he will speak to mother no more,
yet in the New Jerusalem, the home of
the just, he will make good his word and
talk to her again. Cheer up, dear moth
er, brother and sister; your darling boy
and brother, for whom your grief knows
no bounds, is watching for you through
the pearly portals of the heaven
ly world, and will greet you again when
the end of life's chapter shall ave been
reached.
''The good and the kind
By Kindness their love ever proving
Viii dwell with the pure and the loving
j. K. p.