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COMRADES PMLISTTO GEN.Funeral of Army Officer Yesterday Attended By Hundredsof Soldiers and CiviliansISERVICES ARE IMPRESSIVEBody of Indian Campaignerterred With Ritual of FaithWhich He Died“The memory of men will still live, brilliant and imperishable in the pages of that sacred history, written by an all just hand above. ^Vords are butthe sounds of tinkling cymbals. Deeds are golden and never die. No great jachievement has been accomplished w ithout sacrifice. No nation has gained its liberty without shedding blood. No man has become great without adversity and the soldier who makes a sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, ias a Just claim for the happy promise after death.”These words were uttered Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock in National cemetery by Chaplain Joseph C. Kennedy, of the Twenty-second infantry, over the open grave of General Johh L. Bullis, and in the presence of relatives, officers and men who had served with him in the army and a largenumber of sorrowing friends who hud heard of the good deeds of the man who was about to be consigned to earth. As words of tribute and love came from the lips of the chaplain, tears streamed down the cheeks of general army officers who were present as honorary pallbearers.Favorite Horse Follows Coffin.The service at the home, Pierce avenue and Grayson street, consisted of the Catholic ritual and was very impressive. Chaplain Kennedy, assisted by Rev. B‘ather Antoine, of the Theological 3eminarv. conduct tha sor-that marks the soft blending of the rays of the breaking dawn with those of the orb of day, John L. Bullis sheathed the sword his country and the people he loved so well had given him and calmly but earnestly took up those higher civic duties on which rest that vast superstructure of American progress, moral, intelectual and physical, with a degree of modesty and absence of ostentation marvelous to contemplate in an age so largely characterized by an egotistical and ostentatious display of simple achievements in the performance of a plain duty.“Whereas third: With unerring eye the field selected for the sphere of his broad-guaged and restless activities—since no ‘pent up Utica’ was his —was seen to lie along the lines laid by the International club. He soon became one of its most intelligent and I valuable members and naturally found fitting place on its directorate still performing in that same quiet but earnest and effective manner, the duties simple or complex that presented themselves, always with an eye single to the welfare of the club and the happiness of its membership and never a thought had he of so shaping his vote or his voice by precept or example to exhalt his own name or importance or to pave the w'ay to ulterior material advantage or success through its prestige and influence at home or abroad.“O! rare indeed is that meek and Godlike attribute among men in this ‘gilded age,’ wisely let us follow' this unconsciously unaffected discharge ofthe duties and. responsibilities of life | as we fearlessly and faithfully facethem. I“Therefore, Resolved first. That | this club is profoundly impressed by; the sudden and irreparable loss of j General John L. Bullis, a loss felt no less deeply by its individual member- j ship than by the club collectively.“Resolved second: That the people of this grand state, New Mexico and Oklahoma have lost not only an in-defatiguabie warrior whose unsheathed Sword never sought its scabbard until the last hostile foe of the advancing tide of civilization bit the dust, but their hearts with muffled beat today lie in his coffined clay with those nearest and dearest to him.“Resolved third: That the army of the United States has lost a model worthy of its noblest traditions and its highest emulation and a companion whose memory will not fade, “Resolved fourth: That his country 1 whose name, prestige and glory he so honored and so faithfully served, has lost a soldier and a patriot of highesttype. v „ V“Resolved fifth: That his familyi has sustained a loss for which no human pow'er can hope to offer consolation and to Him alone who holds
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, May 29, 1911
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