Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-19

@ Grape hangs on every heart that
knew him.
s For the message that carried the
news of the death of Frank Kendall
last Tuesday, carried also a pail to the
breasts of those who We're his CON-
:panions in life.
Be it said, with all due respect to
N the dead and the tenderes solicitude
for the living. hat Frank Kendall
was charact T.. a type that is rapid
31y passing away. a nature as original
s&8as it was unique. And when the
"a tickle goddess cut the cord of his
eventful life, she snapped in twain
Ii career that merits more than passing
81 notice from the public
- Frank Kendall, the man, is dead
n The silver cord that bound him to
@ mortality has been loosened, the gold
II en- bowl broken, and the earthly rem
s. nants have been covered with soil Like
all the fleeting things of mortality,
his features will pass. from the mem.
cry OF man; people will cease to speak
fof this or that peculiar trait of this
0pecular man. and in the course, of
passing time even his very name will
be unknown amongst the inhabitants
of this world.
M But Frank Kendall's spirit yet lives
And who dares say it lives not yet in
the world he SO lately quilted? Per
haps, after all, there is not so great
&. 2 gulf between the theory Of the spir-
n itualist and the philosophy of the
4 orthodox. While the spirit may not
be reduced to the state of mat terial.
ism the former would have us believe,
might we not compromise on a belief
In the terrestrial influence exerted by
the spirits of our dead loved ones?
Psychology opens up broad fields for
thought and may be the mediator be.
tween the two extremes.
But whether this influence be direct
or whether it be he mere offspring of
example, Frank Kendall's spirit will
live after him for all time to come
. diamond in the rough, he was a
great, big mana manly man. What
greater eulogy could be bestowed upon
one than to say that he is a man?
With brain that worked and planned
for earthly gain with force of char
acter that finds few parallels among
I all his associates, with will of iron
= that would brook no such things as
failure. with a determination that
swept all obstacles before him in the
uneven race of life, he yet possessed
the thing men call a heart--as big
sa as Most mems souls. He held il. his
heart love of humanity of whatever
y Station or condition. He harbored
gssa sympathy as deep as nadir. as
abroad as the universe. He was a
simple man.
sSh Scores are the stories told of this
wonderful sympathy of which he had
&H mans shame, and ever attempted to
cloak it behind the rough exterior of
IBIS nature. 1nnumerable are the tales
of his lavish generosity, his charity.
ssSAnd st. Paul says, Though speak
with the tongues of men and angels,
#snd have not charity, am become
as sounding brass or tinkling GYM
bal, and though | have the gift of
E#lrophesy and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and though | have
all faith. so that l could remove noun
stains. and have not charity for it
nothing"
MI And greater than faith, grander
than knowledge brighter than the Star
5Of hope. which gilds the cradle and
&1llumines the grave, is charity: for it
E3s the incarnation of heavenly law.
the bright essence increate of etern-
I'M love.
& Thus would it be unfair 10 count
he loss OF this mans departure with
pat counting the gain of his existence.
he gift of his life we have. and of
hls his tomb cannot deprive us. The
npress made by such a life as his is
lsting. We think it wonderful that
e can, by means of the telephone or
Pc telegraph talk TO those who are
any miles away, but the chievements :
the heart are even more wonderful
p the heart that gives inspiration
another heart Influences all the
Pneratlons yet to cone. What iafin- :
mlnd, then. can measure the in
pence of life like tha of Frank
Phdalis, that tnuche. so many lives?
me stories told of his eccentricities
legion. They all speak of this
noble trait of his character. his
nefosity and his charity-for char
means more than generosity. Yet
through him ware tbav ovor