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Show ! OBITUARY. ' DEATH OF JAMES P. DIUSCOLL. Death has claimed one ofthe principal prin-cipal citizens of Eureka, Utah, in the person of James P. Driscoll, who for the past twenty-two years has been postmaster there. Everybody in that snug little camp knew the genial "Jimmy," and knowing hirn, they loved him for his truth and sincerity, and those other qualities which make a man. He was known, too, in Salt Lake and the surrounding districts, and known to be respected. When one of the old guard passes away to the land where there are no shadows, one of the old guard who are faithful to the stars and stripes, we feel lonely and sad, but when one of the old guard of Jesus Christ passes away our hearts are sadder still, for we have need of men who will boldly profess God first, and further then the interests inter-ests of their country. "Give us God-fearing, God-loving men, Tall men sun-crowned." Yes, give us these men who will kneel at the day's decline and humbly and lovingly say, "Our Father, who art in heaven." men who when the Sabbath morn breaks will hear the heavenly music of the church bells, and, hearing them, kneel when the host is raised and adore. Yes, give us these men who from the morning's watch, even unto the night, will boldly bold-ly proclaim justice and the right, give us these, for they are the salt of the earth, they are the stay and the hope of the country. Mr. Driscoll was born in Clifton. I Mich. March 7. 1S62. As a young man he came to Utah and settled down in the quiet mining camp of Eureka, Soon he won for himself golden opinions, opin-ions, which became more golden as the days went on. When President. Harrison Har-rison ruled the land, Mr. Driscoll was appointed postmaster of Eureka, a position po-sition which he held continuously for twenty years, if we except four under the Cleveland administration. He always al-ways figured prominently in the progression pro-gression of Eureka. Its religious and material advancement were his chief concern. "Lives of great men oft remind us We should make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands cf time." Each one of us, no matter how hum- ' ble our position in life is. can be a ; gieai man, lur gieaiiit.is is mul mccu?-ured mccu?-ured by our money or our talents. It is measured by an upright, manly. Christian life, and each one of us can leave behind us footprints which the city and mining camp can. say were clean and straight. Mr. Driscoll has left his footprints in Eureka, and time nor man will never erase them from that little mining comp that nestles cosily amid Utah's mountains. These footprints are clean and straight. Let us endeavor to imitate him and make such upon the sands of time. |