Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-02-17
THE NATION MOURMS
ITS SOLDIER HERO
Mourning Multitude Attends Burial
of General Lawton at Airing
ton Heights.
AN ELOQUENT FUNERAL GRAFTON
Rev. DIR. Striker, OF Hamilton Col
icge, Euiogizes the Dead Com
mnndcr -. 5000 Regulars
Take Part in Ceremony.

Washington, Feb 10.--The mortal
part Of General Lawton was buried to-
day in the National cemetery at Ar
lington. The services at the grave
were preceded by those at the Church
Of the Covenant where President IA.
NJ. Striker, of Hamilton college, New
York, delivered funeral Grafton sell
dom equaIled i'm beauty Of expression
or i'm more perfect accord with the
spirit Of the solemn occasion that
| called il forth. Never in the history
| Of the capital has there been a more
representative gathering Of the ma
tons official life to pay last tribute
! to the nations honored dead.
Nearly all tHe available regular
troops in the country were called our,
1000 men, infantry, cavalry and ar
tllery, followed the flag-draped
caiss0n TO the grave. Every depart
ment of the government PAID ohlcial
tribute the president and cabinet,
representatives Of the supreme court
Congress. the army and nayN-hillng
the darkcncd church 10 the utmost.
But these official representatives OF
the people were lost in the great
crowds that surrounded the church
and lined the streets along which the
procession passed. Soft lights burned
above the chancel, where flowers were
piled railing high, while the casket be-
meath was buried under roses, mes
and white carnations, which over
flowed the narrow resting place ana
fell i'm perfumed avalanche to the
floor. \ guard Of cavalrymcn from
Lawton's own command stood at carh
end Of the catafalquc silent ana mo-
tionless as uniformed statues. ana the
hush of the silent church was broken
only by the soft tread Of those VINO
entered with bowed heads 10 pay
Inst silent tribute TO the brave. The
PRESBYTERIAN burial service was read
by Chaplain Pierce, Of Lawton's old
command.
Funeral Grafton.
President Striker then delivered the
grafton. lie said in part:
"Ovcr the width of the earth sol
dicr'g household has brought ITS war
rior home. The dust that the nation
gathers TO its guarding is that OF no
common man. We have met 10 cele-
brate and mourn him. But while we
recall the record 50 compact WIN
manlness: while we rccite the story
of one who pcrSonilied the best Amer
lean traditions, first this day we re-
gard her sorrow who treads that sol
Cmn aisle Of pain n sanctuary whose
shadows are accessible only TO her ana
God. nithcr we have come, the pro-
pIc's chosen head and all the authori-
ties else from their high several sta
tions, to pay our poor but tender aims
of love to am unblemished memory, to
thank him who is our dwelling place
i'm all generations, that the stout tree
of liberty still yields such manner or
frllitagc and to pledge ourselves, con
sidering the issue Of the lives OF our
renowned dead, 70 initiate their un-
blanchcd, unblightcd faith.
"Station is secondary, humanity prl-
mary. and whatever else any is, today
we are all only men and women, broth
crs and sisters, lifting as children our
wet faces toward the consultations OF
| God. The stars Of the spangled ban
nrr covering now This shape of its no
bic warden shine multiplied upon the
vows of grief. But with solemn Joy it
besccmS YOU, his comrades of the
army. TO give thanks for the life whose
end must (after this parenthesis OF
difficult farewells) be viewed not as
calamity, but as conquest
A Modern thcVaIier Bayard
DIR. Striker culogiZcd Lawton's mill
tary career and went on TO say:
This later Plantaganet, this latest
| Bnvard, was without fear and without
rcproach.' This modern Philip Sidney
whose life also was poetry put INTO ac-
tion,' has shown once more OF what
stuff is incorrigiblc manhood, in what
substance the root of memories that
| last.
"Thus is he admitted TO the fellow
ship Of heroes by equality and the
peerage of his supreme deeds. Here
was one whom Raleigh, GustavuS,
Adolphus. William Of Orange, Wink'e-
reid. Cambronne aud Garibaldi would
know at sight. He was of that time
enduring breed which has made Agin-
court and Naseby and Lucknow of inn
mortal story. He was comrade 10
Mary Landers. who guarded the re-
treat at Long island: to the men who
passed the Delaware; who served the
guns of Pleasanton: VINO soaked the
sod of Peach Orchard: who ran sing
ing through the tide at Manila, who
held Guantanamo.
LET il he said, and let il he said
here, that none of MS are of those who
walk backward into the future and
translate the present upside down.
THE timid, carping pessi.nist lives
only in the pluperfect, but the good
faith in the future is perfect. One is