The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-08
OLD EX-CONFEDERATE
SOLDIER IS AT REST
Funeral Services Held Over the
Remains of Mark L.
Howard.

Tho funeral of Mark z. Howard. an
x-Confederate soldier. took place Thurs
day from tho undertaking parlors OF C
L. O'Donneu on West Temple street,
Tho Daughters Of the Confederacy were
present and covered the casket with
beautiful flowers. and one pinned small
Confederate flag on the lapel of the dead
mans coat,
AftoT tho hymn. abide With Nc" Rev.
Dr. Paden. himself Southern man, born
and bred, rend tho twenty-thrd psalm
and the fourteenth chapter of ST. John.
and said In part:
Rev. DR.. Paden's Remarks.
we come to solemnize tho end OF
life. This life knew three score and ten
years. and all were filled with struggle
and trial Life is a hard struggle and we
all are strugGlers. At three score and
ten the burden becomes heavy indeed.
This was orc OF the brave men OF the
COS. who took sides for the side he be
licvcd was right. Not TO take sides
showed weakness. He sided with his
State, and entered the old Confederate
army. That he did thus is to his honor.
and no one more respects him for 1t than
his Northern one-timc enemies.
Fought for Convictions.
Both sides respect the man who took
a musket and fought for his convictions.
1t is tender thing to shake hands across
graves and say. He did we'll; may God
bless him. Tho fact that the Grand Army
of tho Republic made II possible for him
Gated to the Nations dead, i9 a grand
proof Of the growth OF kindly feeling us
the days go by. He might have fallen
or the battlefield and been buried with
them there. They Ito down in peace to-
gether now, the men of opposite sides.
North and South Together.
II know and met such men as Wheeler
and Gordon, and when the Grand Army
settled the cause. and settled II right,
they accepted the arbitrament of arms.
and North and South are now together.
The deceased had another claim on
our sympathy. The war uprotted ties Of
wanderer, having lost by the war all that
makes life worth living. long life Of
loneliness. a pilgrim in search OF
hcme. Thank God he has a home at
last"
DR.. Paden then read the following beau
tilul poem:
Soldier, Northern Soldier.
Soldier Northern soldier
Proud your peace and deep
Full tho truth you know at last
In eternal sleep.
In Southern grave, in Northern grave.
By valley, shore and steep
Lie lightly, Northern soldier.
In proud and perfect sleep.
Soldier. Southern soldier.
Proud and deep your rest.
Full tho truth you know at last
In the earth'D still breast.
In mountain grave, in prairie grave,
on hillsides East md West.
Lilo lightly. Southern soldier.
In proud and perfect rest
Your goods you gave, your lands you gave,
Your strength you gnve away.
Your Inst fast pulse OF life you gave
Tho blue gnVe and the gray.
Rest lightly. soldier. soldier.
In pence divine and deep.
BY mountain blun and bayou rest
In proud and perfect sleep
Changed today nre hond and will
From yours who gave fast.
Rest. proud and still by plain and hill
Whose dust you arc nt last
Changed and changed by Hill and plain
The spirit Of your sons:
Changed and yet unchanged again
The winnowed grass-sNSale runs,
Cool as through your morning watches
Breathe tho cloud blown mountain tops.
Buoyed lnkc and rocking river.
Where tho full-fold prairie drops.
In mighty winds and waters furled
BY valley, bluff and steep.
ReRt. Northern soldier, rest you well.
Sleep. Southern soldier, sleep.
After the reading of the poem the
hymn, Nearer. NV God. to Thee" was
sung and tho benediction pronounced.