The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-02-17
the NATION nOURNs
ITS SOLDIER HERO.
Mourning Multitude Attends Burial
Of General Lawton at ArIing-
ton Heights.
An ELOQUENT FUNERAL GRAFTON
Rev. DIR. striker. or Hamilton Col.
lego. Eu'osizcs the Dead Conn
mander =. 5000 Regulars
Take Part la Ceremony.

E~HH sgTTI r.aEeF
Take Part In Ceremony.
Washington, Feb. 1O.-The mortal
part of General Lawton was buried to-
day in the National cemetery at Ar
lington. The services at the grave
We're preceded by those at the Church
of the Covenant, where President H.
NJ. Striker, of Hamilton college,, New
York, delivered a funeral Grafton sell
dom equalled i'll beauty Of expression
or in more perfect accord with the
spirit of the solemn occasion that
called it forth. Never in the history
of the capital has there been n more
representative gathering of the ma
Iii nssss0iiicialsslif to pay a last tribute
b nations honored dead.
ss9sffSHl1y all thee available regulas
atroSlIpliasfii III he country were called out,
1000 men Infantry, cavalry and ar
atiilerys followed the fag-draped
caisson Is the grave. Every depart
ment of the government paid official
tribute-the president and cabinet,
representatives of the supreme court,
congress, the army and navy-flling
the darkened church 10 the utmost.
But these official representatives OF
the people We're 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, lilies
and white carnations, which soHer-
flowed the narrow resting place and
fell in a perfumed avalanche to h
floor, A guard OF cavalrymen from
Lawton's own command stood at each
end of the catafalque silent and mo-
tionless as uniformed statues, and h
hush of the silent church was broken
only by the soft tread of those who
entered with bowed heads to pay q
last 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. He said in part:
"Over the width of the earth a sol
dier's household has brought its war
rior home. The dust that the nation
gathers to its guarding is that of no
man. We have met to cele-
brate and mourn him. But while we
recall the record so compact with
manliness; while we recite the story
of one who personified the best Amer
lean traditions, first this day we re-
gard her sorrow who treads that sol
M aisle of pain a sanctuary whose
shadows are accessible only to her and
God. Hither we have come, the peo-
pies chosen head and all the authors
ties else from their high several sta
tions, to pay our poor but tender aims
of love to an unblemished memory, to
thank him who is our dwelling place
in all generations. that the stout tree
of liberty still yields such manner of
fruitage and. to pledge ourselves. con
sidering the issue of the lives of Il
renowned dead, to initiate their Wn-
blanched, nnblighted faith.
"Station is secondary, humanity pri-
mary, and whatever else, any is, today
we are all only men and women, broth
ers and sisters, lifting as children our
wet faces toward the consultations of
God. The stars of the spangled ban
ner covering now this shape of its no.
BILE warden shine multiplied upon the
VOWS of grief. But with solemn joy it
beseems you, his comrades of the
army, to give thanks for the life whose
end must (after this p%arenthesis of
difficult farewells) be viewed not as a
calamity, but as a conquest"
A Modern t-hevalier Bayard
DR.. Striker eulogized Lawton's mill
tary career and went on to say:
This later P%laltaganet, this latest
Bayard, was without fear and without
reproach.' This modern Philip Sidney,
whose life also was poetry put into ac-
tion,' has shown once o of what
stuff is incorrigible 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, Gustavns,
Adolphus. William of Orange, Winkle-
reid, Cambronne and Garibaldi would
know at sight. He was of that time
enduring breed which has made Agin-
court and Naseby and Lucknow of im-
mortal story. He was comrade to
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 it be said, and let it be said
here, that none of us are of those WHO
walk backward into the future and
translate the present upside down.
'The timid. carping pessimist- lives
only in the pluperfect, but the good
faith in the future is perfect. One is
subjunctive. the other indicative. Nay.
duty is in the imperative and uncondi-
tional mood. When, in the name Of
mankind, and that peace might be
real, we undertook in 1895 to cleanse
the seas, we affirmed a principle and
made a precedent thatsl for one hold
the most honorable leaf in all orr his.
tory. But all that has been since is
corralary to that. No special pleading
of professional malcontents with
whom wisdom will not die, no a.priori
abstraction can unsay what this dead
soldiers zeal did for Americn. Rather
does such a death enioin upon our
purpose and performance such ends
as shall vindicate us from cowardly III
differentism and evasion in the face
of whatever duty and however nnex-
pected or compleN-enjoin us to re-
gard and teach liberty's authority.
Will Yet BE Honorcd in IuzOn.
In some good day, not far away.
please God, when these island found