The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1900-11-03
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THE DEATH OF EDWARD c..
DRANE.

EDWARD CfaDDe DfNne, SecOnu
and youngest son of Judge George
c. and Mary Shipman Drane, was
born i'm Frankfort, KY, Feb. II,
1871, and died near Elkins, West
Va, Oct. 3, 1900.
Possessing rare business gifts, he
entered commercial life at an early
age and rose rapidly and steadily
i'm his career, so that upon the
organization of the State National
Bank of this city, he was given one
of its most responsible positions in
his nineteenth year. Conscientious
attention TO business, and burden
of outside cares began to tell upon
his health, but the repeated warn
ings of friends and employers were
unheeded i'm his devotion to what
he believed his duty, and no rest
could he be induced to take until
the spring of 1897, when an entire
breaking down of his whole sys-
ten, but especially of the nerves,
compelled him TO give up and seek,
in a trip to the East and afterwards
to Alaska, renewed strength. Soon
after his return, in the fall of 1893,
as he supposed fully restored, he
accepted place in one Of the
largest banks of New York City,
but a few short weeks of work and
confinement brought on an even
severer nervous disorder and col
lapse than the first. This was fol-
lowed by another period of rest,
another attempt at work, and
another breaking down. For sake
of outdoor exercise and mental
quiet he accepted employment OH
the farm of very dear friend, and
afterwards, with him, a position in
railroad construction i'm the noun
tains of West Virginia. Here his
health and strength were rapidly,
and all hoped, permanently re-
paired, but on Thursday morning
last his old malady and enemy, in
a severer form than ever before
returned, and in the early hours of
the night Reason and the Will hav-
ing abdicated their rightful sway,
rash Impulse, now unrestrained, in
blind revenge, destroyed the life in
whose conduct, hitherto, it had
been denied all part.
Though young in years Edward
Drane-"Ned, " many of his friends
loved to call him-was pre-eminent-
ly a man among men. Joined to
business abilities of the highest
order were rare devotion and adj
herence to honor and TO truth.
With the sternest conservation to
duty, and a physical and moral
courage unsurpassed, were coupled
qualities but rarely linked-dignity,
desty, refined courtesy, a
thoughtful consideration, a wide
charity, an all embracing love and
loneliness, the purity of life and
thought, and the religious devotion
of a woman. To him there be-
longed by the high right of ipheri-
lance and the yet higher one of his
own intrinsic worth, without re-
serve and in all the fullness of it's
meaning, that highest of all titles
A Christian Gentleman!
If the words of the Master
Himself be true-'By their fruits
We shall know them'-then indeed
will the life of Edward Drane stand
the highest of all tests, for in rarely
perfect degree were manifest i'm him
1.-THE fruits of the Spirit, which
are these: Love, joy, peace, long
suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance, and
a crucified "fesh with its affections
and lusts.
In the loss of this noble son of
most noble parentage, all hearts go
out to the widowed mother, the
bereaved sisters and brother i'm their
great affection, and we pray with
all our strength that our Fathers
peace may be theirs.
How such a life could have met
such an end is of the secret things
which belong TO the Lord our God"
alone; but while we cannot under
stand we can yet believe, "What /
do, thou knowest not now, but
thou shalt know hereafter" To
those who were acquainted with
the intensity of his nature and the