The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-07

which must afford you the greatest pleas
ure, in the evening of your lives. is the
! thought that you have fought and suf-
/ fered not in vain, that your work has
been fruitful of good results. The great
est boon that man looks forward to Is
! this: To hear at the close of his lies
labor from the lips of the Supreme Judge
i the words: Wen done, thou good and
faithful servant. You have reason ID
think and to know, that history will de-
liver this verdict over you in the court
of the future: Well done good and faith
ful soldiers You stand in the realm Of
the setting sun. Your faces are turned
towards the past rather than the future
Your future is not in this world The
shadows have heightened and soon the
sun Of your lives that shone So brightly
once shall turn into the mellow beauty
of setting splendor. The three score
years and ten allotted to human life are
almost passed. Most of your comrades
have already gone before and await you
in a land where battlefield and ts-ifes
are no more, where man dwells in eternal
peace With brother man under the eye
of the common aFther. You have crossed
the mountains of toll and labor, your
limbs are weary and ache for rest, you
are gathering in the valley Of death, soon
10 rest and sleep with those whose death
you mourn. AS the wanderer arrived at
the end Of his journey. you turn back 10
look once more over the road you have
Travelled. You see the scenes Of other
DAYS, when your dear country lay not IN
the quiet calm Of peaceful prosperity as
she does today-when from Maine 10
California and from cape to gulf she was
convulsed with the horrors and terrors Of
intestine strife suffering from the most
dangerous Of all calamities that can be
fail q nation. q civil war. You recall the
days Of bloody battles, some OF them tax
en- part in by yourselves; recall. TOO, with
satisfaction. the happy day when war
cloud passed away and the sun Of peace
sh01e once more joyfully over our fair
land. and giant America set about nurs-
ings the wounds he had received n the
bloody conflict So young was BE, and
so strong so pure Of blood and - healthy
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with energy that MS growth was scarce
iupeded and his wounds healed almost IN
a day. While your wounds stil bled and
smarted, noble veterans. America was
strong and vel again You bear the
scars s-iIl. bur ouru giant country shows
no trace that he was ever wounded This
must be your j7y as il is your giorv-
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