In Memoriam

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 171, 8 July 1909, Page 5

In Memoriam

t TO THE EBFIQIL Sit,— A conspicuous proneneas of youth, both individual and national, is, to under-rate the experience and wisdom of its forebears. But their trit» epigrams, apt aphorisms and proverb?. are pf*H>f that our elders were not inept doddems a supercilious adolescence would grade them. It is in this sense 1 repeat the truism: the mfdst of Me we are in death." Perhaps at no time has this so suecintly and lamentably been f«™» •* in the removal from our midst by toe appallingly sudden call o^'-fj 0 ** 0 and friend, Jeremiah Ormsby! In speaking of this mournful calamity, one cannot eliminate the personal note: not that such can add to the repose or his rest; but thus memory loves to honour it» dead. Hence, should this my poor tribute appear to exceed the tone msdeajccrenronial by usage, let it be laid to the personal loss bis tragic death has created to those who now moom him. Citizen, friend, chum, public roan: alt these he has filled with exceptional credit; and i* i* no superfluous adulation to add. that, whoever desires to emulate these functions, must exert bis beat activities; and both the races whose prestige be represented, may well be proud of their champion. But the gap is too recent, and the eyes too dimmed with grief, to adjudge in one hurried perspective, the full extent of our bereavement, his capacity, bis unselfish devotion to the best interests of both raees,and the trust reposed in him by his fellow citiaene: Thus. *!»»««** shall step into his place, has script fines set him no perfunctory copying will admit as sufficient. For to fully estimate the pioneer s horde*, only those can judge who were present at the beginning, and partakers of the difficult initiation of successful progression; and had he been spared until later advancements, his co-eitiaens would have rendered into him bis due, by a unanimous call to fill the Chair of our Mayor. If we, unrelated by kin-ties, feel too sore of heart to adequately express the weight of our loss, what must be the sorrow of his aged father, his brothers, and. closer still, bis wife and children, to whom in your irreparable distress, we offer a heartfelt condolence. But if you reply, that each heart knoweth its own sorrow, and no stranger may intermeddle therewith, we humbly accept the rebuke; for Time alone ratr heal heartwounds, and bring surcease-But never again the loved one f—-I am, etc., W.B.