Show fiddling bob is dead fiddling bob taylor united states senator benator froni from tennesee Tenne Tonn aee egee and one of the best known and best loved raon men in the south is 19 dead the life of senator taylor was always a song it wa was 9 an example of perpetual cheerfulness ann one that will mill live long senator laynora lay lora lors contribution to the world did not lie in lais 4 statesmanship for he be never took things serious enough to be a statesman but bat it was wan his contagious cheerfulness that was constantly helping an achi g hear bear and making easier the caros cares of f others hla fits was wag a ophy of cheerfulness and he spread it from one end of the country to the other senator taylor was born in happy valley or HS he he termed it hap happy py hollow tenessee Tenee see and he ha was true to the traditions from which the place got its name through he came from an ah ariato aristocratic cratic family it would be hard to think of 0 him me as an aristocrat A all 11 his hia life he placid with the children and made his hia more dignified neighbors play tuo too he was loved by everyone he knew and never had bad an enemy he was a great violin player though he insisted calling his inspru ment a fiddle and when he ran for office he spoke a while and then fiddled his unique campaigning and his hia personal popularity kept him in office practically all his bis life lie he was waa thrice governor of tennessee a member of 0 congress Con giesa and uni united ted states senator senator taylor though seldom serious had deep religious convictions and was a firm believer in the immortality m orta lity of the boul his closing words in pronouncing the funeral e eulogy recently over the body of the late senator of mississippi a close friend are a classic referring to immortality he said the flowers of the field rising irom from countless count leab graves the unfolding leaves leavea of the forest heralding the app approach roukh of summer the orchards and the meadows bursting into bloom and myriad of winged minstrels rilling filling the world with melody are all the evangels of the lord demonstrating before our very bejes ejes the universal victory of life over death look how the rose hears heare the faraway call AH of the sun and blushes in tin ai nce of its god look how N inlet comes forth from its lt tiny tomb and opta a its glad blue eles to areka the spring are they not gods on answer to the alio qui stion if a man die ahill lie lile lic abdia it the germs gerins of inanimate life buried bereath ber ath the sod 0 o surely ir spond respond to the balent on mand of who lai doubt that iiii shall spell g up out of the J d it into it erndl lift life hen bell ad izod lull ball L ll 11 rn it be dilt ih it ie e grei I 1 r 1 r lo 10 lot its ais die ate ic broin s G at t i iraj i anit nuin for i wt wi TI n tr r 1 aati made innet allep on oil fw fun vr r |