The Press., 1892-08-18
THE LATE LIBERTY PAUL.
A BROTHERS TRIBUTE.

It finds us all still moving on
 Toward the expectant haven. What if there's one preceding us,
 Why, why should we complain, And count his slight advance 6 loss
 Our tardiness gain? And though friend has passed away,
 Whom we shall sadly miss, Can any very truly say He'd change Ats state for Miss Erstwhile his soul has reached it's goal l And gained eternal rest, We'll let this truth our hearts console, | Whatever is is best. The summer flowers are fading; soon the leaves will be falling; like them we will be passing away, and "the places which know us will know us no more for l ever" -- -.-. Among those who have already crossed the dark river is 8 native of an adjoining UOwIr, .------,------.------4b; b;s l residence in Edford, Henry Co.,, H., July 31st 18;2, aged 66 years, 9 months. He was born in Union, Conn.,, Nov. 16th, 1894, was the third son of Capt. Chauncey and Polly Paul, and once taught SCllOOl tU OUollOAuNAAlO, tSAu oosshNOu "Aoh Mr. Walters, the inventor of the machine for making solid headed pins. In his youth he was quite anxious to obtain a | liberal education, was always all omniv- erons reader, and few of his contemporaries were as we'll posted as he was in the po- litical history of his country; but he knew too much of the genius of our government and the trend of events to ever become a partisan leader.
 Many persons imagine they were born and have ever lived in exactly the same place, when the truth is we are rushing through space over eight hundred times as fast as the fastest locomotive that ever turned wheel. Folks imagine they are with the rest of the world; so most men believe they have fixed political principles merely because they are able to change as fast as their political bosses deem it expedient for them to do so. Though their party may change it's principles as often as chameleon does it's color, they seem to think they are very constant be- cause they keep with it. They seem as utterly oblivious of their parties' change of front as passenger in an ocean steam CT does of a change of course when the steamer essays to put back to the port from whence it started.
 How very few democrats and how very few republicans are conscious of the con- ln1 no1ifioo1 1fc xx,bi tbni, respective parties have made within the - last forty years.
 It was the fate of the deceased to know something of political principles ito know that Jeffersonian democracy did not mear the enslavement of 8 continent tht ! crushing of secession did not mean tha somehow all the southern states got ou of the union after the last hostile gun wal fired, and must perchance be readmitteC before they could take their place among the sisterhood of states.
 No man is fitted for a partisan leader unless he is possessed of the faculty O Hopping as expeditiously as his part. does. L. Paul did not possess this facul
 
 no political shibboleth but "follow you B. leaders") thought him vacillating in DO litical principles. He took little pains t, correct these fallacies, thinking it bes that each one should learn to correct hi own errors. He would never accept o any office, not even that of school director
 He had great passion for travel, bu was not able to indulge it as much as h desired. On Thanksgiving day, 1850, h was married to Hannah M. Reyes, o Dudley, Mass. They have had two chil dren born to them, Ernest J. and Sumner Wife and children survive him.
 He came to Illinois in 1856, and settle in Edford township, where he has eve since resided, and where he leaves valu able estate. He never was ''mone grabber," but frugal, economical, and 0 simple habits. His greatest extravaganza was in reading matter. He made no os tentatious display of charity; but chi dren, tramps and hungry dogs expecte to get what they wanted of him, and the were seldom disappointed.
 He was tolerant of all religious beliefs and seldom expressed his own; though h sometimes remarked that he thought tn foundations of a system were rathe shaky when you were called upon to 6 lieoe it's basic principles before they wer properly the subject of investigation.
 His grandfather and uncle died of cancer, his father was afflicted with ont his older brother, R. B., and his younges sister, Sarah, were hastened out of tn world by internal ulcers. The decease was afflicted with one which he had bee expecting would terminate his existence but for the last few weeks he had fe better, and was running his mower th day before his death. He believed h ulcer had broken, and at first suffere great agony, but at the last quietly fe asleep. The funeral took place at tt house Aug. 2d, Rev. C.. F. Grumbine of ciating. His old neighbors were his bea CTS, and laid him away in the old cemt tery on the north side of Geneseo. H left will.
 The people of his native town will pleased to know he was never thOugi less of where he died than where he ws