The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-11

I will stop telling the truth about
you"
OF Mr.. H~agerman's religious views
! will not stop to speak farther than
TO say that no one had stronger hope
for. or greater confidence in a future
life than he. He generously believed
that a loving and plying Heavenly
Father would in some way AXE are
OF his children. whether good or bad.
Just before starting on his last jour
ney he wrote me a note asking me to
come and see him. | visited him the
day before he went away. | found
HIM cheerful. N happy in the conf
dence hat he would regain his health.
We talked of old times and of going
to the celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the graduation of our
class which was two years away.
When | went away neither of us
dreamed that it was the last good
bye. | hope to live to take back to the
remnant of the class his good wishes.
and the assurance hat with him the
tres of friendship woven in tae old
days had grown stronger and strong
er to The last. and that tende memoir
les of them had always remained In
his faithful keeping.
When | learned Of his death I went
. his home again. but only the trees,
49, b'A aAA LIS
memory were there to speak to me.
On my return / passed II of his
fields of %ripening corn. 1t was a new
variety which he had imported, and
which he thought would be of great
benefit 20 the farmers of the valley.
cut some of the stalks and though
they were a fit emblem of his ripened
and useful life and also an evidence
that he was always trying to do some
rood IN those o-nnnu Wrhnrl hn 1fxa.1
Mr.. Hagerman should not have all
The credit for his great achievements
and triumphs for in all ais heart
breaking struggles. n | may say in
his disasters and bitter disappoint-
mcnts there stood by him with death
less devotion a wise counsellor and
helpful friend. and that one was a
woman. his wife. OF rare culture, keen
Intelligence, filled with wifely loyalty.
she was not only his inspiration hut
rock of salvation. In whatever trfb-
Tte ! have TO offer ] want her to have
full share. When TWO trees have stood
together in storm and sunshine for
half n century they have grown clos
II. their roots and fibers have inter-
woven. and their branches have inter
twined. so that when one is uprooted
ard taken away he leaves of the 9th
or are likely TO wither. Let us do
what we may TO bind the torn roots
with our friendship, and wrap the
fruised branches with our sympathy
so that the dropping boughs of the 9TH
CT may stretch upward for many. and
many a year.
No dould the last resting place OF
o1r friend has been well hose by
the shores of the great lake whose
waves bore him to his first successes,
and which will chant his requiem till
| time shall he no more
Three states and a territory a
received a lasting impression of his
energy and genius. A memorial of
him might be fttingly raised many
places. II might be on the banks Of
the st. Clair which he thought tac
most beautiful river in the world and
on its ban was bis boyhood home It
might be cast in iron and stand on
the Menolninee hills. or on some lof-
- pinnacle Of the Rockies where Il
could look down on the great gashes
he made in the mountains. or on the
eastern peak of the Captain. emblem
attic of the Conqueror OF a Desert. but
for us his best memorial will be the
beautiful valley. with its orchards. its
shining fields. tossing fountains and
his sacred memory.