Show BUSY OLD DEATH he never appears to tire does this ancient old angel whose pale horse is ever 0 od the gallop whose bright ordly sw never sheathed he Is busy all the time and he walts waits not when once he has summoned a victim excuses are never valid with him because he brooks not an instants delay he is a freakish old chap too all arell sh that come to his net t his ways ot of calling people hence are multifarious ti he touches the golden haired child with a soft hand and it passes to the other side with a smile curling its rosy lips and accentuating the dimples in its pretty face ile he lays a light hand on the whitebead white head and with a sigh of relief the age aged one enters into the eternal sleep he is to vice confusing but to virtue ever lasting happiness to the good and pure he comes as a radiant being while to the wicked and impure he is a demon ot of terror to the one he appears with a smiling face to the other as an apparition of horror he demands his toll every day he exacts every tithe due him and when his allies disease and decay who wilk walk in advance fall fail him lie calls upon another assistant accident and still another carelessness between the four he manages to do tolerably well ell the old fellow must have been checking up tip his accounts a day or two ago and found them short tor for noting that nearly two thousand men had gone down that mine at calais he siezer the opportunity and by the help of the last named comrades he ushered nearly fifteen hundred of them into the anteroom ante room of eternity with one stroke it was a cruel act on his part too because he clothed their earthly finality not 1 in robes redolent with the scent of flowers he tools took them not in the broad light of the day with the sun shining on them but down deep in the darkness of earth where the hot flames burned and scorched where noxious gases stifled the prayers that cair came o to startled lips where the scene w was as more of an inferno than anything else this ajile of hades he be reveled and frolicked in the main corridors and the galleries watching W with I 1 glee the unfortunate fall by the hundreds the strong man and the fm immature mature lad were alike to him his list had to tb be completed and he completed it as fast as possible he hurried through the subterranean passages striking right aud and left and then not content with he had bad com bitted milted he must needs linger a while and strike down the true and brave who risked their being tor for the sake of their fellows little decked remorseless spirit q that there were those who el ledwith their last gasp the names of loved ones little reeked lie he that in reaping his harvest he tore heartstrings heart strings and caused grief to take up an abode in hundreds ot of homes where joy had reigned ero ere he had commenced his terrible work the walls wails of the unfortunate fell ell on deaf ears and the matter of making a few thousand orphans was to him but an incident but how that he has indulged in a revel let us hope that his desire tor for slaughter has been appeased tor for a time let us pray that tor for a season at least he will content him himself with donning the robes of an angelof merey icy and doing naught but madly kindly sum I 1 moning those of us who are willing gw g W 9 and ready reads to fo lay down lifes burdens for the happiness that awaits le let t us sincerely wish that lie he will leave the strong and the healthy the beautiful and goodgo gladden our hearts for a season and not don the h abili ments of horror as he did in this caa intended all human br brangs should die like the t trees rees of the th forest from decay if man lived the life first mapped out for him such would be the case but we have departed del departed arted from the set course arse and have thus furnished death the opportunities he is never slow to take advantage of while we are praying tor for calamity to be averted and the hand band of the great constable to be stayed let us summon to our assistance a coterie that 11 anity gave us to watell watch and ad guard Us viz care caution and good judgment then perhaps the work of this spoiler will be checked in a measure at least utah state journal |