Show 1 g- g j He Ie l Is Not Dead i p pEACE Peace I lIe Ho is not nol deac dea ea He doth I but hut sleep Shelley mourning th the death of Keats comforted I himself with these words e expressive of lii his lus beautiful philosophy that death is i but Natures Nature's balm for a n aI I troubled bod body III In his philosophy there was as no sleep but death A mortal sleep has tilled the form of Theodore Roosevelt Today that form fonn will bo be laid to rest i iI a J I n nation will pause to mourn and give its unmeasured b tribute But to Americans Theodore Roosevelt will willever ever cr bc be e but hut resting in ill a gentle sI slumber His Ills couch of I sleep will ill be bc as in a l There as to the chancel chance rail mil the thc na nation Hon will rome come to kneel in reverence re within its its its' precincts the light liht of a nations nation's 5 grateful Io love e shall burn never to be extinguished Greatness does Of 3 not die and anti Theo Theodore ore Roosevelt still lives cs He lives lh-cs in his greatness The spirit of Theodore Roose Roosevelt elt was his greatness It is a a. great great- rites whoso whose luster shall baU become more brilliant with J I time R Receding into the past it shall shaH appear to us uS' usan an Clan orb into the perfect s star tar we saw not when we moved 1 therein 1 The orb sometimes dazzles by its brilliance some some- times blinds by its refulgence It Jt takes it its place lace among Imong the stars and they whom it it- but bewildered when I En saw it closely recognize in it H the th perfect star 1111 are content to set their course by it it There mire arc imperfections in the tie orb But no true lover of the stars cares to scrutinize them so 80 closely c. c asto as IS to note their blemishes Th The greatness of Theodore Roosevelt wn was not un Un- 4 known noan mo-m w while be moved here But for a 1 time it y would seem to have blinded man many by its own brightness And AntI there thero were ere many whose weak eyes found its blera- blera i more soothing than luau its light Jig To 10 peoples removed from fron ns us his worth would seem Jo to have been beci more recognized n than an to the people ot ol I P whom hom ho he was proud to be one Crowned heads and aud i learned d men cherished his his' companionship as a pleasure pleas pleas- ure cud and found it a a. privilege to bestow honors honor upon him bim H- H Til in O on 1 nn 1 LT 1 v J w u j W jv v At Un ri WitS was n iI F. F statesman ho bo was a n. 5 scholar he was a t sol soldier ier he hc was wasa a a- a master o oE practical clI politics and a a. finished strategist in in world diplomacy ho lie loved Jo good literature and he lit wrote otc it t he lie loved art ali and rendered it the tribue of his appreciation io when he lie could not accord ord the patronage c ct r t of oi hi his purse h he loved honesty and was Wn a believer inC in C his IllS own honesty his honesty was such a passion with I him him that it found its b greatest and 10 1 moot moat t sublime e ex- ex pre ion in his love lo for his country 0 His lIis Jove Jovo ovo of country was wa the pole of magnetism to toI I which ho unswervingly sot Kot his compass Xo No man dares 4 fla hay Bay that he has once deviated from the course Death was gentle when hen it visited Theodore Theodora Roose- Roose velt It was as death I as some great philosopher l might wight have o wished True greatness must have a n firm basis in philosophy and Roosevelt must therefore haw bava fr tr been first of all a great lent philosopher Ie Death said Socrates I discoursing with wilh his friends t before he lie drank the tho fatal cup of Hemlock is J. J A the greatest goo good 1 to bo ho desired by all philosophers ii I have havo heard that men should die with rith lan Ian Ian- t guage u e he told his friends lBs IIi last words were tec for fi f 0 the pa payment ment of or a n debt J I t It was eminently fitti fitting g too that the last public words of Mr Ir Roosevelt the thc philosopher should have beep for the the payment of a de debt debt debt-an t-an t an appeal to lii his il f ful fel l- l j and undivided debt of or low citizens to pay their fullest m homage hom and ot dC devotion to their country countr In the tho stillness of l Ids his s chamber he lIe seemed to sense the shadow shadow- II Put Put out the please he said Tf The he call was heard l fInd and be he took from front life its uit sweetest t lat last and nud nobl noblest t title title Dentin Death n Ma Jn Pa |