The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-27
LATE HOME WAS
ACROSS THE WAY
Near Where His Cradle Roc ked +,
His Coffin Stood.-Many
Friends Pay Tribute to
Victim Of Tragedy.

The body of George Jacob, the VIC
tim of the worishouse tragedy, was
viewed by throng of friends as it lay,
Friday afternoon, in his late home,
which is located midway between
the place where he was born and the
place where he met his death. In
farm house few rods from his late
home stands the old Jacob homestead
where the murdered man was born
and about the same distance in the
opposite direction stands the work.
house, in the brush department OF
which he was killed.
The funeral services were attended
by q large number of friends, relatives,
and lodge brethren. Twenty-three
members of the city police force, 70
members of the I. o. o. F. from the
Stark and Nimisila lodges and the
Canton encampment, representatives
from each of the fire department
houses in the city and the workhouse
employees and officials, attended the
xreral in body. Numerous friends
and relatives from New Philadelphia,
Massillon and other nearby towns were
also present. The casket was covered
with the floral tokens of individual
friends and organizations. The music
was in charge of mixed Quartette
from the Trinity Reformed church,
composed of Mrs. w. H. Dueble, So
prano, Mrs. James Peter alto, William
Frederick, tenor, and DR.. Clarence
Shiltz. bass.
The pallbearers were from the Stark
lodge l. o. o. f. They were John
Hines, Bryson Smith, G. Rhsim, Frank
Hawn, Frank c. Roth ard Corenlius
Carpenter.
Rev. E. ferbruck opened the SER
vice with 'e~s n and Rev.
Fahs led tier song by
the quartz II uck delivered
the funera. aid in part:
"On We'd aing at 8 o'clock
the soul OF -. ye Jacob passed
suddenly into the immortal. In a mo-
n,ent, in the twinkling of an eye, his
body was converted into a corpse and
his spirit fed into the great beyond.
His death was the result of an assault
by degenerate convict while in the
discharge of his duty in the penal in
stitution across the way. In the morn
ing he left his home in his usual
vigor, stepped buoyantly to his usual
occupation and in less than two hours
his cold and lifeless form was brought
back to this place. 1t was a shocking
ly, sudden bereavement to his invalid
wife and impresses upon us again the
old truth that it is not far from life
to death.
IF / were to quote an appropriate
scripture passage it would be the ques-
! ton once asked by the apostle James,
What is your life?' and his own an
4 swer to the question, 1t is even a
vapor that appeareth for a little time
and then vanisheth away This an
swer Is not scientific definition of life
but simply poetical description of its
evanescence. Science has not yet been
able to tell us what life is. We only
know that it is fieeting as vapor. that
1t appears for little time and soon
vanishes away.
"Hut wherever life Is. 1t is the gift
OF God and ought never to be under
estimated. Every man should have n
right conception of the value of life
, and should try to foster and promote
I. IT, To shorten life by carelessness or
violence is sin against the God who
gave 1t.
"While we ought not underestimate
r life neither ought we overestimate it.
Life Is a gift of God, yet of itself 1t Is
not the greatest blessing. There is
something higher than life and more
important also, and that is duty. Life
should be subordinated to the faithful
discharge of duty. There are times
when man should not hesitate to take
his life in his hand, II that is involved
In the conscientious pursuit of his call
ing. The minister and the doctor are
called by their occupation to stand by
the sick bed where tho poisonous
breath of contagion may be waited up
on them. The carpenter is called by
his occupation to 60 to the top OF the
giddy scaffold whsre ons fase, stumb-
ling step may send him to destruction.
The guardsmsn and the offices of the
law are called by their occupation to
face death at any time in order to sup
press crime or insubordination.
"There is a higher law than that of
self-preservatlon, and that Is the law
Of duty. A man must sometimes jeop-
ardize his life In the pursuit of his
calling. He ought never to expose
himself needlessiy. He ought never to