Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-17

judge Beane's Tribute.

Judge Beane's Tribute.
The earth can renew her spring glories,
but friend gone comes back TO Us
never.
The door of his heart room clangs to and
remains closed forever and ever;
The chambers where friends dwell are
numbered, so few are they in the
Another today becomes darkened, and
friendship comes not for the euesting.
Which one will be closed on the morrow
viii a month or year shut another?
Then l pray, take me, God. ere the last
one,
Myself still a friend to some other.
| can hardly trust myself to speak
at this time. for my personal friend
lies here. man whom l loved for
all his personal attributes, and whom
I respected for all his manly quail
ties. Death, ever victorious, is again
victor; great eonqueror is himself,
conquered, our eaptain, our citizen,
our friend is dead. The pale lip says
to the sunlken eye, Where is thy
kindly glance, and where thy winning
smile?, Our grief is not a private
one. it is not limited by the narrow
bounds of family and ken, but our
city, our country, and our state
mourns the death OF an honest man. a
dutiful citizen, and a brave soldfer.
Although requiring labor and
strength with determination yet 1t is
a great pleasure to gain the summit
of some lofty mountain. AS we travel
upward the smaller things. the de-
tails, the individual scenery attract
the eve, and occupy the mind for the
time being, seemingly large and inn
portant It may be the single oak,
with branching limb and pleasant
shade. or the glimpse through wood
land shadows of the bright CLINT OF
the midday sun upon the placid lake,
but when the height is gained, the
summit reached, we turn and taking
in the whole, we gaze and wonder al
ii all. We are at once lost in con-
temptation and admiration of the
beautiful whole. Instead of the single
tree. we bchoid the grand old forest,
in place of the CLINT of sun upon the
lake. the whole valley is filled with
lights and shadows and the lake IT.
self. calm and quiet, reflects 10000
RAYS of sunshine The busy village
the habitation of mankind, lies stretch
ed before us, all condensed and COM
| bined into single whole.
So. in looking back over a mans life.
| the single act, the life along u single
| line, in and of themselves, are and
should be lost sight of. and the whole
| life, cemented by the details of living
are retained to make up the true esti-
mate of the place he occupied amongst
| us. "a
1t is not the one high thought man
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| the one brave act, but all his acts, all
| his deeds, all his thoughts, that make
| his reputation. and while we could
| dwell at length upon the single things
our friend has done, with profit and
| pride, we must look at all for just
estimation of his true worth.
! How frequently it happens on oc-
casions such as this, that true esti-
nation of character cannot be made,
and how often many things of COM
incubation of the life gone out, are
exaggerated and over-stated. until 1t
seems almost a burden and task to
speak of the dead. and how sweet 1t
must seem to all that sometimes man
dies whose character and life has been
such that only good can be said OF
him, and whose life has been of bene-
fit to all those who have come into
contact with him. Such man was
our friend; born, reared and educated
in our own State, he returned all its
favors, by faithful performance OF
civic and political duties, by devotion
of many weary months to the preser-
walton of peace and enforcement OF
rights, and years to it's commercial
and business requirements, and hav-
ing reached the age of four score
years, Gods finger touched him, and
he sleeps"
We shall always think o. the Gener-
al as a soldier, as one of the brave
men OF the Civil War. No one can
measure the fearful strain which came
upon those who bore for us the CHIEF
| burden of the war Tt involved the
| existence of the Nation itself, but
! year by year and day by day, the new
graves of these faithful men reveal its
! fateful force and results.
Born in Castine May 7, 1882.
/ At an early age he became interested
| in military affairs. At the age of "a
! he was commissioned first lieutenant
Of Co. b. State Militia, Oct. 20, 1858
At the outbreak Of the Civil War he
Joined the Second Maine Regiment
as first lieutenant Of Co. B., April 81
/ 1861, being just 10 days after the
! nurderous assount by Rebel sympa-
4 thizers upon the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment as 1t was marching through
the treets of Baltimore on its way to
| Washington; was promoted captain
| June "a. 1916. participated In the first
battle of Bull Run July 1861 and in the
seven days battle before Richmond