Show PASSING OF THE OLD MEN Almost t every ever day the paper is called caned upon to chronicle the death of one of the old men menthe the veterans who have given ven their then lives II in labor I and aDd their bony service ice lee in ia honor the men who be have bare left boys and girls girts to carry on the work which has ball been beeR so capably begun The passing um C of Stephen Stanford is ls I another impressive reminder of the di dl diminishing company of the pioneers He had bad exceeded the allotted three score scare years y and ten and bad had left a record of or fair dealing that blesses with its influence Influence Influence ence and will wilt to the end of time In every department of ot life Ufe Mr air dr Stanford achieved the approval of the community ty And yet be he rosined realised the tH truth of the theline theUne theline line Une Into each h Ute life lit some rain must fall tall for the wife of his hili youth pawed passed to her rest rent even in the early summon summer of their labor Years Teen later Inter he married again and many children gathered Ather about him himin himIn in body or In to spirit as aa the twilight of ot othI his hI life ute deepened into night They are passing away warthe the old men And the lesson of their U lives cannot caRnot be forgotten They brought b ht industry and honesty h nesty and character to te the solution of their problems problem And the sons lOftS and daughters who follow after them seek most to honor them by the emulation of ot those virtues |