The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-11

Harding Is home forever from lifes
high places, where the restless, heaay
winds Of ambition blow; home be-
meath Ohio soil. for above nm the
vauited roof is mantled with grass
grown sod home among the friends
and neighbors of his youth. the kind
ly people Of a kindly town. Time -
ended for him and the shouting ard
clamor thar surrounds the great is
done.
Il was a long road to that silent
vault about which there closed TO-
night a guard OF the citizen soldiery
OF his own state. There was endless
ceremony Of the nations and the
peoples making 10 marx the way.
But it ended simply. calmly q. me
dead would have had IL end.
Simple Service.
Aside from the multitude that
walled the long way from his
father home 10 the vault and those
others close packed TO make a living
setting for the funeral rites. there
was not much to mark it as the
burial of one who had held highest
gtaE4 II Ills O. HtA htlr TIC
tanned men OF his guard from the
sister services of the nation. the
admirals and the generals who formed
his honor escort, the friend and com
rade who now Is president in his
stead, the colleagues OF his grief
stricken cabinet. That xss all. ex-
cept al the last, distant gun fire -
he came TO his tomb and the soft
tones OF ougle sounding a soldier
requiem az the gates were closed.
Otherwise the funeral serzi ice was
that Of a simple and much-loved
citizen Of OHIO. For ali Ohio seemed
10 have come today 10 bid him fare
well. Throngs whose numbers viii
never be known passed beside his
casket and looked their last unon the
dead face before the time for The
last journey came
Great Flag Leads WAY.
From his fathers house he vesr
out again, carried b. he stesdfssr
men who nave stood constantly 10
guard a dead commander. No solemn
music OF bands or military pageant
marked his going save the great rag
of the president dropping in mourn
ing and carried before aim 10 he
gates Of the tomb as he went.
In cars behind the simple hearSe
that carried now this honored leader
came President Coolidge and The cab-
met and the friends and close ki-.
There. too. came Chief Justice Tart
and General Persh.nS. LAST 10 leave
81 !.
ing, in black and with vel drawn
close and Just ahead o. her walked
the old father. his face plainly show
ing the agony Of his grief
Through The silent. faee walled
street the eortese passed md around
the corner to thesqmet cemetery. As
Il came toward The ssss the guns
spoke afar IN honor.
Old Comrades There.
The vault stands iVy-urapped ar6
set back into the gentle hill With lit.
tie space before IL. So tie funeral
tram VAS halted al 4 distance aud The
casket lifted down TO he carried 10 a
resting place before ihs open en-
trance 70 the tomb. Already A ss.oun
OF senator's Whc knew this desd nresi-
dent under the capitol dome before Re
passed 10 the White House we're al
ready gathered in waiting. in Inc
across the roadway that runs before
the entrance. With them stood The
comrades Of camping days. Fo9d. Edi-
son. and F.res,one
The cabinet family came % stand
closer al tie foot Of The cssket. wlsh
their new chief standing sorroNfu.ly-
among them. The adrnirais in slea.n.
ing white lined the way 20 the lefi.
the generals 10 ihe righ; and beyond.
behind the cabinet stood the little
party Of in;imates and friends whe
made the ALASKA journey that death
broke 50 suddenly
Then came Dr. Harding Nth ths
SHOWS 81 his 50 Years showing or his
barred head. and then the brave widow
Walking 10 her place AT the right -
the c2sket with Secretary Christian
and the members Of the sriet-boved
family
Last Service Begins.
within the shadow 81 The doorway
ot the vault. the ohurchmen took
;heir place and from the shrGh0erV
that screened them the choir saax
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