Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-10-12
Laurels For The Living
Prom the Harrison County News, July 2lgt, 1909

From the Harrison County News, July alst
The Hon. D. N. Harrisis 88 years old today. Four
and years. and happy in the esteem of his neigh
bors OF this community among whom he has lived and la
bored for fifty years. Such story of such and
such community is not found very often, probably
elsewhere IN all Iowa at this time So pause from
usual seeming seshness to pay tribute to his life we
believe to be DUE thus rendering unto Caesar the things
I'D. Nor Judge as we all know him here was born
in 1921 of good old New England stock and that accounts
for his stad stand the question of temper
ance and personal purity all these years 1t born in
him He Just could not help it. Of his life is
human to errt divine to forgive today we all for
give the genial judge all previous and look only to
the dvnfE f tn his Life that shine the brighter as
Placidity of thought, feeling and action have been
the marked of his life and these account
for his longevity and the preservation of his faculties
beyond the average among of affairs
The 81 years through which Judge Harris has travel
ed have been the most wonderful years in all the earths
dominion earth and than any previous 500 years
SOD has of history than Methuselah, who
lived 1853 years. and he has not been nsensbe to their
deep significance.
He has watched the development of the railways
with all their train OF wonders. He saw and felt the
mighty whirwnd of Civil war; though he read its signs
awrong at the time from force of youthful environment
He has known and enjoyed the honors of citizenship
that come to good men in republic like He was
admitted to the bar at manhoods happest hour. He Of
fciated County Judge in Audubon County in the sos
During the Civil War he represented this county the
General Assembly,. Twice he sat delegate in the
National Councils of his party And once he stood for
Congress, being defeated by Judge Reed Four times he
has served as Mayor of his home town.
But his great life's work has been in the editors
sanctum and greater work hath man than that And
in his day and time D. MS voice recognized power
in the Councils Of his party in western Iowa and general
y for good for God and for humanity And for this
honor him today The who does that is such an one
as Napoleon referred to when he said he feared him
than legion of soldiers.
To him and his good wife, long since gone to her eter-
rem bOrN md thew
the worlds work much as their honored sire would
have them do it. With him. life is not finished"
but it svel done the beauty of it all that he
fingers with in the full of all his bodily and mental
faculties after so long career gentle child playing
awhile along the beach before launching upon the dark
which traveller Jesus of Nazareth has
We have thought much Of this feature of his life We
attribute it to the living interest he takes in the worlds
daily work, and to the fact that while he worries not yst
re daily tolls at the tasks that have been gena him
for sixty years. little reading Ii tie writing ty bich
his mind is kept clear. little wolk that keeps the
hearts blood surgng through his veins as it too
conscious of time and of eternity And this feature of
his life among u.s. has fully decided to follow after,
here in Missouri Valley for with all her fants she is
beautiful for situation and altogether lovely TODAY
break ground tor home for he News AT IN it
whose name we honor herein. And during time
hope to the Judge going and out of that familiar
door just the street, till he has rounded hum
dred years. at the desk and at the case that needeth
not to be ashamed, then,
Sunset and the evening STAR
And one clear call for
And may there be no moaning at the bar
When put out to
Mr. Hoofh and our Matte