The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-20
JIG. WBTERS'TALK
Touching Funeral Grafton Over
James D. Harvey.
Words Inspired by Life Of
Shawnee Pioneer.
LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
Eloquent Description Of Ex-
istence Far From City.
One Of the last Of Early Settlers
of County.

church at ? O'Clock Wedn esday- Inc
services were conducted by George F.
Lerrigo Of Topeka Miss Wyatt sang
two solos and directed the music.
Captain Joseph G. Waters delivered
an eloquent address. in the course of
which he said:
In the very community in which he
had lived so long, in sight of the very
fields he had TILED. near by the stream
whose slow moving current Ioltered
near his door, among the neighbors
who knew him best and longest the
smoke of whose homes mingled with
his own. among those to whom he has
told his cares and joys and heard their
own, among the graves Of many OF the
pioneers, who ventured with MIN 70
build new roof trees on the brakes OF
the Wakarusa more than haif CEN
fury ago. of all the places on earth IL
is The one fitting spot that the old man
body should be brought 1or burial, 10
rningle with its kindly soil. and to take
his long and undisturbed repose- en-
veloped BY the memories of home,
wife. children. friends and neighbors-
Mr.. Harvey came from standard
Kentucky stock, the strong English
strain tinging his blood; and with the
pronounced ideals of a Kentucklan,
humble or naughty, for clean ways,
genuine hospitality and simple lives
that make dying itself, after old age
has fingered beyond its SPAN a bene-
diction instead of an occasion for sor-
row or a time for tears
"Mr Harvey's ancestry was OF revo-
iufionare origin and down the entire
line to where it now contronts the day
high noon, loyal to the core for the
rag of this great republic His grand
father was killed at New Orleans ana
the glory of that battle his race can
escutcheon on their crests- IN 1898 ne
came from Kentucky here with many
other of his relatives, cronies and
friends to found new homes, not in
response to sectional appeals or for a
partisan purpose, but simply in emula-
ton of the intrepid pioneers OF their
own fatherland. enamored Of the IRON
tier. as though it were a strain of their
blood loving the streams. and their
great woods. seeking nature at nrst
hands and in its primeval beauty. 10
carve out in new land the old Ken
lucky home under strange skies and
amid unfamiliar scenes; to raise a
family. to help build a state, TO De
honored throughout all Israel ana
dying to be carried to their rest by
loving hands. who knew them longest
and loved them best.
"If his ancestry we're uncertain or
doubtful, we might we'll claim that he
founded a line for himself His
wife the mother of this family OF boys,
was the axis of the household, around
which all things. good and sweet and
beautiful and true, revOlvedi and she
was his eye his hand and heart. He
did not live in a city where the sight OF
environment OF man. but he lived in
the country where God and what He
has made are everywhere; and which,
to the thoughtful soul develops man
into both philosopher ana chris
tan. He could look out upon the
horizon and see the wide circle OF
the sky line; he could watch the day
come out of the east, see its flaming
departure, flying its crimson banners
and riding immensely in its chariot
of are; he could behold night over
take the day and see its shadows creep
down from the wood, and m1ngie its
dusk with the note of the wnipporwill;
he could see the rounded moon silver
the fields and mantle the corn; he
could note the unseen Hand FIRE the
consultations that rode down the
arches Of the sky; watch the sudden
fight of the meteor and follow the
dfpper wheel round the north star. he
could see the teTnpests form and burst,
and feel the black midnight swallow
the earth beneath his feet; he could
see the autumlS wave their store, the
orchards bend. the great stacks rise;
see the springs green and the SHOWS
whiten and feel and know down in his
soul that beyond. creation. was
coincidence itself. He was from his
own necessities a Christian man and
TO this compulsion it became his
hearts desire as well. I think may
1ruthfuuy say. that he was a repre-
sentative cOmmoner; of such as con-
stftute the strength of the nation and
the character of its Institutions. Its
greatest blessing in a time of peace and
its only reliance in stress and danger
He had simple ways and beyond his
family his nefghbor and his God, he
did not have a want or cherish a de-
sire. He had no great ambitions and
his blood never curdled at their heart
king disappOintmentS. he had no
great riches and his soul was not
dwarfed by their pursuit. He envted
no man, and malice never disturbed his
pulse and he lived a kindly useful
even tenored life. unostentatious quiet
and without pretense and died without
an enemy to breathe maledtcton
against his honored name. The shor'
and simple annals of the poor are the
sweetest. I tell the story Of an ordl-
nary life lived to its conclusion. leav-
ing nothing to conjecture and naugh'
to fear 1t is just such a life as LIN
coin would have lived had he beer
fated to private life 1t is such ire
to which we well may turn wher
stated with the tinsel and meretricious-
ness of luxurious fdleness, or the ener-
=ating lust and debauchery Of hastily
acquired or III gotten riches Inc
wrecks of Wall street. of political anc
business life. of vice, sccundrellsn
aid avarice, turn at the last extremity
back to the humble home and to th'
humble folk within as a refuge anc
sessslum in the hour of hopeless distress
8Ir. Harvey lost his wife about ter
years ago, and since then he ha'
walked IN ddNeQ cOu0lLou Win III
eyes hxed somewhere beyond the hori
zon. and it became intenser as tbs
long days went by. Well might IA
feel that the big cable was cut tina
held his boat to shore. Devoted som
did all that love could do, to help, bu
the great oak when upturned by th'
storm. slowly died. and 7tifsre was M
Hefn
At this time the six grown. lust.
boys are all that is left of the ok
hone on the Wakarusa- When the
leave here;~sl1ey carry with them but
memory Of that IIz5ssee They are al
ven "a the race Of life. with stou
asarts. strong constitutions and re
ipected and honered- by all who know