Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-14
TRIBUTE TO "BUN" ORTO.

Inere are tunes when tie feelings of friendship and the use of words, however we'll chosen, fail to appca! to the heart, or to relieve anguish. During these critical occasions it seems that all we can bear is D feel that our friends are near us, that our sorrows are part of their own. Spoken words, too, do not soften the pain as we hope and wish; for they appear to irritate the wound and to show it's depth. However, some pe-- sons possess a genius of expressing comforting thoughts, and it is a deli cacy of those, who have suffered much, we'll know the mood of those who suffer.
 The flowers we seek to lay on the broken altar of home are melan choly reminders of beauties that are no more, of voices whose pleasant tones are hushed, of loves, from life disjoined. The hearts of the bereaved are full of sobs instead of songs. tear blinded eyes, instead of joyful windows of the soul.
 Though it seems not right, that our companions and fellow creatures, show grief for the departed, in si- lence like death. The world needs, as we'll as loves, noble, high and sig nificant ideals in character. It needs the inspiration of every beautiful life. it needs the ideal of manliness and goodness, so that others shall talk. patience and labor and good deeds to their own hearts and hands and, prove the truth that,
 "The least flower with brimming 3
 cup may stand And share the dew drop with another near"
 "Bun" Orto as his friends loved to call him, was gifted with the graces and elements of high born Soul. He was cast in a gentle mold and polished with the choicest elements of culture. Sunshine and benevolence were enshrined in his nature, and 1 that too, without display. He dis who could profit by his gentle and 1 intrinsic worth. From childhood, up to youthhood and manhood, he was blessed With an open, generous, lov' ing heart and all that follows from such nature.
 1 Noble lives are not voiceless or tuneless: they speak practical ser mons, which effect the lives of others and no one ever lived righteous life without benefit.ing somebody.
 Bun" Orto's life was sermon of this nature, it helped. it encouraged, it blessed others lives. | He lived a busy, active, forward i life, and yet he made his love of home and friends the basis of his ac- tions. He leaves to us all an exam pie of his manliness and tender de votion to goodness and righteousness. ] The words of the apostle come into mind, That not many wise men, after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called"
 He tried to deliver right the music of his nature and those who knew him best. know the fullness as well as the success of his endeavors. These arc sweet cCunsellors. dear friends, in the words of the Christian Muse
 When some beloved voice that was
 to you
 BOth sound ana sweetness, 1allctl
 suddenly,
 And silence. against which you dare not cry.
 Aches around you, like strong dis ease:
 what hope, what help. what music will undo
 That silence to your sense? Not
 friendships sigh Not reasons subtle count; not mel :! ody
 Not songs of poets nor of happy
 choir
 Not the angels sweet All hail
 Nay. none of these: but,
 Speak Thou, awaiting Christ. and
 fill this pause"
 A tribute to Bun OrtO.
 J. JORDAN.