Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-02-16

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The funeral train has scarcely passed,
when business resumes Ito the casual
observer) its normal condition, and to
the stranger the world moves on as
though the departed had not lived. I'm
like the pond however, whose waters
after having been disturbed have re-
sumed their former conditions without
injury, scar or blemish to tell of such
disturbance, is the death Of human be-
ing, they are regretted proportionate as
they are respected or loved in life, and
the scars left upon the body polite are
proportionate to their usefulness and
prominence, and extensive as is the cir
Gle of relatives and friends and the in
fluence for good they have exerted.
A convention of delegates from every
county in the state had assembled in
Grand Forks to nominate candidates fol
judicial, congressional and state admin.
istrative honors. ...,..' 49,. T.
The convention was to convene at II
O'Clock. At nine thirty o'clock in the
morning the lobby Of the Hotel Dacotah
was filled to overflow with delegates
and friends of candidates who had con.
tended for vantage ground nearly the
whole of the night before; some wore
the pleasing smile and spoke in jocose
terms that betoken success, while others
with knotted brows and determined
glance had girded their loins for the
final struggle to secure if possible, the
nomination of their choice for the posi-
ton they sought ..", s.. g.
AS fierce political struggle for SD
premacy as was ever waged in our state
in political convention, was at its very
height, and the very air was surcharged
with political activity, when as sudden
ly as the shifting of the prisms of a
kaleidoscope forms a new picture, the
announcement came to those assembled
Judge John NJ. Cochrane is dead.
Tongue tied at such a declaration
and awed into absolute silence those
who heard it bowed in sorrow and many
silent prayer went up that the an
nouncement might not be true-but il
was. a.. .......s -.a.
The black camel had come in the
night and knelt at the door of the tent
of he for whom these ceremonies are
held and in the early dawn the spirit
had deserted its tenement of clay and
mounting the steed awaiting had ridden
out into the boundless realms of eter-
nifty, to that undescribed country from
whose bourne no traveller returns.
OF the life work of him for whom
these ceremonies are held, Others
more familiar with it than l, have
spoken. Those who knew him best say
He had ready, swift and trunefu
tongue, -
That falsehood's honey it disdained
And when it could not praise wa.
C1a1ned -... s. ~.
That bold is virtues cause it spoke
Yet gentle concord never broke. 49,.
For those who have gone aside from
the activities OF life because of long con
tinued infrmities or old age the worlx
may as sincerely mourn, but it has al
ready adjusted itself to condition:
necessitated when they cease to partici
pate. Such was not the condition O
the deceased. ...ss.:@
He had outlived the folIies, the frivol
tiles and the exuberance of youth ant
had arrived at mans full estate. j
He had gone step by step battling
with Titanic strength up the slipper,
path that leads to distinction in hi.
chosen profession until he had donnet
with becoming grace the judicial ermine
the most coveted prize lawyer can &C
quire. ~
In the community in which he lived
his influence for good was as distinctly,
as is some giant oak, which sustained b,
root that goes down into the earth te
the rock beneath, lifts its head in tower.
ing majesty above the surrounding for.
est. Of the inanimate clay that was left
when the spirit departed, it may b.
truly said, 3
How loved, how lost avails thee not,
10 whom related or by whom begot,
A heap of dust alone remains of thee
lis all thou art and all the proud
shall be. } .s
But OF the man who so recently min.
gled among us sharing in our joys and
sorrows, bending every energy to the
upbuilding of the community in which
ne lived, striving TO impress the youths
who attended the law school he 50 dear.
" loved with the great responsibilities
they must later in life take upon thenr-
selves, he was indeed one Of Gods
noblemen.
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