The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19
DAVID OVERMYER.
Touching Memorial for the
Dead Lawyer.
Adopted by the Shawnee County
Bar Association.
WAS A GREAT LAWYER.
Had None of the Characteristic
of Politician.
A Lover of Books, a Thinker
and Philosopher.
WAS A GREAT LAWYER.

At a meeting of the Shawnee Coun-
ty Bar association held in the district
court room this morning the follow
ing memorial resolutions relative to
the death of David Overmyer were
presented by a committee composed of
Captain J. G. Waters. chairman, Judge
A. w. Dana and Judge z. T Hazen
and adopted by rising vote of the
members present. By a vote of the
association the resolutions Will be
printed in pamphlet form, spread
upon the records of the district court
of this county and presented to the
federal and supreme courts with the
request that they be made a portion
of the records of these courts.
The memorial follows:
THE sudden death of David Over
myer, following SO swiftly on the heels
of the many ether recent Affections of
the Topeka bar, appalls US; and while
we use every artifce to rid ourselves
of this great sorrow, the wrath of
the dead man intrudes itself on all
our ventures; and shut our eyes
though may, see it sitting over
there in hic accustomed place.
"Our lips are poor ministers of cur
hearts on this OCCASION; they have
their paltry limitations; deep emo
ton is circuited by q nneager scope
when tethered to the spoken word.
The great pool of sorrow stored in the
hearts deep well, is not reache ed by
the buckets we lower in human
Sueech. 1t were a PROCLAMATION of the
sweetest flower the stricken soul can
bloom, could we coin love into Ian
guage and give to common gaze that
which only sorrow may see- How
sweet and gracious a thing is love
chambered deep in the soul, secure
from alien eyes, as the yelled Host
guarded and watched by all the tribes
CT Israel.
life as an infinite and wondrous va
riety of beauty, change and motion.
can not understand why the dead
mother does not yield It her caress;
nor can we. grim with the experiences
of life, reason why. he is dumb. to
speech, cold to heartaches. unstirring
to the outcry of love and marble to
our tears.
Life has too many mysteries to be
rounded by philosophy; it halts where
the night hides its path, and from
there on, Faith CLEANS its star over
head. and Hope. the child of Love.
beckons its finger. He who devised
memory, implanted Faith; and life
without this great triumph, of love-
faith and hope, is time without an
Almighty, and eternity without Om-
impotence. Faith came with death;
and on every planet that flies its way
and turns it's day to the sun, where
death may be. this immortal solace
blesses each broken heart The an
clients carved on their sarcophagi the
granite. to linger there as the story of
their throbbing hearts.
1T cannot be that there is no inn
mortality for the good. the brave, the
beautiful. the sweet, the true.
In Sublinler Port
''It cannot be that the hapless banks
voyaging over the rough seas here,
shall not make some sublimer port;
that the careworn, helpless burden
bearer here, shall not have a roadside
rest at last, by the cooling waters and
under the branching palms of some
land that has banished sorrow.
1T cannot be that beautiful bounti-
full lives, whose journeys have been
shining pathways here, shall end at
our frontiers in chaos; that the pur-
poseless. causeless world shall carry
It's dead, blind, cold and mute with
out love or song or throb, through the
unlapsing and eternal stretch of cen
tury and age. and hold them forever
Embedded in its Goddess, glacier sea;
where love no longer quickens a smile, /
nor mercy moves 1T with a prayer; the
vast creation, echoless abysses,s unre-
plying Alpine peaks. and memoryless
voids.
"Our dead. brother had his doubts;
the inequalities of life, its extremes of
utter poverty and vast riches, the
burdens. cares. sufferings of the many.