Show i i t r WILLIAM H HOOPER f i This revered name is now hallowed II II 1 hal-lowed death having put its seal r I I1 t I upon him who bore and made it Id i honorable in life Captain Hooper M is dead were the sorrowful words I IH that flew about the city on Saturday ii I Satur-day morning and were flashed by If i lightning from one side of this I I I I I broad continent to the other The i news struck sorrow and sadness f i into a multitude of hearts The l cold east wind which fairly chilled 1r i l I I the marrow in ones bones and I I seemed a wicked enemy to mankind r I only de1 to the desolate gloomy if < < I J feeling that apparently afflicted i all and made the day one which i i will not be forgotten by this generation ii I i gener-ation The going of the captain I I i cap-tain as we must still i affectionately call himwas not unexpected unex-pected indeed all who knew of his condition realized for some I weeks that lie was suffering from I his last sickness yet that knowledge knowl-edge does not soften the sorrow nor lessen the grief that fills and overwhelms over-whelms the heart at his death He I had nearly lived out the allotted threescore and ten years and we could not hope that in the course I of nature his life would be long I spared still the heart pain at the i J parting is not assuaged His long I and eventful career was marked I everywhere and at alltimes by I good works of which all are proud j and yet the lamentation over his going to rest is full of agony Wet We-t must all be cruelly selfish people or F we could not grieve that the tired body has at last found reposel E for in life it never knew quiet or I rest We must all be exacting or 1 we could Hot desire to bring him back to pain and activity to toi and suffering only that he might add to his good deeds If we could but overcome nature and allow t J reason to mould and control the i feelings and impulses of the heart i 1 the dearest friends of Captain Hooper would not mourn over his I release But we cannot crush that I which has been implanted within i t us and the reverence and affection t for the good and the true excite E the mourning for Captain Hooper He was one of those grand and pronounced characters that standout I stand-out prominently and around t j which the masses float And while he was above and beyond the masses in the pcs session of many of the better and nobler qualities of man the bond of affection between Kim and the F human family was strong indeed y His love for the race was one of the most pronounced qualities of his tt grand character And where his friendships fell they were of the warmest as his confidences were the most generous and complete I I While he was the friend to man and I trusted and admired by all with i whom he came in contact in eithe a social or business way his intuitive i r intui-tive knowledge of human nature Il and keen perception of mens characters 4 char-acters and qualities of head and r t a + I heart enabled him to surround himself by congenial associates between be-tween him and whom the confidences fidences were complete and the friendships perfect It is not our purpose to write an eulogy on William H Hooper He needs none His name is dear to the people of Utah in whose hearts it will long be cherished as having belonged to one of the best and noblest no-blest men who ever made this Ter tory their home Many of his good deeds are known on earth all are recorded that heaven where he has gone for rest which earth could not give him The good that he did lived with him and now that he is dead it will not die but continue the grandest and best monument to one who it he knew the evil did not know how to practice it Weladmired reverenced and loved him as only those could who were so fortunate as to know him as we did Now that he has gone his familiar face taken from earth his voice hushed forever his brain ceased to net THE HERALD pays its poor tribute to his memory and in deepest sorrow mourns for one who was the friend to it and its people We know how miserably words fail at such a time to express the hearts grief and of what little use they are to sooth the sorrow or allay the anguish afflicting the bereaved be-reaved family yet weak as they are we can offer only them The greatest consolation at this time and lur ever will be is found in the absolute knowledge that He was r man take him for all in all We shall not look upon hip like again 5 = PM < L HR |