The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-04
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PETER on Plumb.

said: "There is something about
the fact or condition which we term
death that challenges our attention.
Yet it is not death that halts us and
sets new thoughts in motion. 1t is
life we aIe thinking about. tits life
tina. fills us with emotion; life that
wrings our hearts and heats our
brains. Life is the marvel of ages,
the perpetual problem of men. Iii
the life Of our friend that we re-
member. We care nothing about
that part of the transformation which
we know as death. We hasten to
forget it and all its incidents; but
the life is with us forever. Its place
in the memory is kept garnished and
clean continually as the years come
and go, We would not if we could,
let 60 the hope that some day, when
the time is ripe, souls shall meet
again. How cheerless the days and
months and years would be to this
family were they deprived of the
hope to see again and to love the
man whose presence to them in their
happy home in sunny Kansas was
80 dear, so helpful and cheering. No,
no; it is not death that interests us,
but life; for life is real, continuing,
eternal.
"How shall we study this mans
life and how shall we measure him?
Shall we begin by ignoring things
which made him what he was and
substitute another life for his9 Shall
we construct an ideal man and then
describe and praise our own crea-
ton? Or shall we rather do in his
case what we would have done IN
ours-take up his life just as he
lived it and look at thatP Beginning a
poor boy, he was an editor at Is
years of age, captain Of militia at
20, member of d constitutional CON
vention at %, lawyer at %, in the
state Legislature and lieutenant, cap
tain, major'and colonel of volunteers
at rs, United States senator at 40.
Surely there is q lesson in such life
viewed in its own robust personality
with no embellishments beyond the
simple truth.
Moved by boys ambition to do
and dare, looking full in the face of
an untried, unknown, unknowable
future, his heart fred by the elo.
quence of Garrison, Giddings,
Philips, Summer aud Hale, gallant
soldier in the army of Fremont, " hat
more natural than that this brave,
brainy, liberty-loving boy should
turn toward the battle ground in
Kansas? With the troubles there
began the greatest war in history-a
war in which nation of the best and
bravest people on earth undertook to
settle among themselves and for
themselves, a matter which it had
become evident to all could not be
disposed of in any other way. In the
great war Mr.. Plumb performed a
union soldiers part. Upon its con-
Clusiou he, with others, began the
building of the state, and the mar
velous growth Of Kansas testifies
that their work was we'll done. 1t
has no parallel in the history of set
Element
"But there is another and still
better phase of this mans life; and
that, after all when it was what il
ought to be, is the best part of the
best mems lives-that which is liveC
at home, where sacred relations exis
where the tenderest ties are formed,
there where our children are born
where new lives come to us anC
where we start men and women OF
the way to citizenship, thus doing
our part in developing and perpetuN
ting what is good in society all,
government. A well ordered hom
il a prosperous nation in miniature
In its arrangement and management
are involved all the Christian grace
and the highest forms of public con
t'ol
"Of his personal religious views
he was firm believer in the Chris
tian faith and all that it implies H