Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-10-29
MRS. HARRISON DEAD.


Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the
president, passed quietly away at the
White House, Tuesday morning at 40
minutes past one. The last hours Of the
dying lady were almost entirely free
from pain, but to all Of the household it
was known that the end was near, and
her husband and children were at the
bedside until it was past.
The wife of the president of the Unit.
ed States is no more officially recognized
than any other lady of promin ence, yet
the effects ofthe death of Mrs. Harrison
have extended to every part of the
nation, and across the waters TO the
civilized countries of Europe, where
kind hearts have awaited with growing
sadness the final triumph Of the great
destroyer. She shared equally with him
the universal respect and admiration
felt for her husband, and was every
where recognized, as a true, noble
woman, eminently qualified TO be the
companion and helpmate of the man,
who in measure controlled the desti-
nies of the nation Benjamin Harrison
has suffered the loss which man ex-
periences only once in lifetime, She
who has been his companion for thirty
nine years, who has born with him the
burdens of life, who has inspired him
in his ambitions, and shared with him
his triumphs. has been taken away, and
the hearts of the people go out in SINGER
est sympathy, to their president and
friend.
The Washington Post paid the follow
ing tribute TO Mrs. Harrison just few
days before her death:
Mrs. Harrison is a lady greatly re-
spected aud beloved on account of her
personal worth and her engaging quail
ties of mind and heart. She was well
known in Washington before she came
here to rule the White House, and while
that event might have added to her
eminence il could not have increased the
affection and esteem of her friends She
has been in the executive mansion as
she was In her private residence, both
here and at Indianapolis, the kind and
gracious lady, the friend, the exponent
Of those domestic virtues which the
American people love to see exemplified
in the wives Of their rulers. Under her
genial sway the White House has been
made to set forth all that is beautiful
and sacred in the home. She has vouch-
safed us the spectacle of a happy home
and united family, gathered arou nd q
yirtuous hearth and maintaining simple,
wholesome and tender obseryances
which, in the rich as In the poor, in the
lofty as the humble, are the true and
only condition ofcontent Without con-
ceit or ostentation as the devoted daugh-
ter. wife and mother, whom every
woman in the land may initiate, she has
filled the high place to which she has
been called and made 1t more than ever
an object of the nations admiration.
The remains were takeh TO Indianap-
oils by special train Friday, and inferred
in the Crown Hill Cemetery the same
day.
Now utter calm and rest;
Hands folded DER the breast
IN peace the placidest
All fever so0thed; all pain
Annulled In heart and brain;
Never TO vex again.
She sleeps, but d, most near
And best beloved OF her,
We sleep not, nay nor stir.
Save but TO bow
The closer each to each
With s0bs and broken speech
That all In vain beseech
Her answer now
We weep with you yteU
One grief the Wide world through,
Yet with the faith she knew
We see her still. w
Even as here she stood
All that was pure and good
And sweet In WOnlanhOod-
Gods will her will.
James whltecomb Riley.