Show PRESIDENT WOODRUFS DEA I Death m keo tragedy of the longest long-est life At the end of a the acts and changing scenes of mans career when the lat line Is uttered and the lat step taken when there is noting more I to be said and nothing more tobe done I the pcre stalk upon the stage and the drama of companionship becomes I the tragedy of separation i The death of the wnerable president of the Church of Latterday Saint was not unexpected sInce long ago he passed the limit of mans a110ttod time And yet the announcement yesterday yes-terday carried gloom to many a home The sad news passed from mouth to mouth with many a Or or keen regret re-gret and many an eye was dimmed as those who knew and loved him heard the tidings The ge < t heart of a devoted people beat in symlthy for the good man gone and all uuied in expressions of profound respect tar the honored dead Criticism was suspended the voice of sectrian prejudIce was hushed The departed was no longer the head of a denomination the aposte of a creed but afelow ctizen a civilIan civil-Ian a pioneer respected for his integrity Integ-rity and loved for his simplicity of character I was the man who had crosed the plaIns had looked from yonder mountain moun-tain down upon a barren vale had helped to build the city at to found the state that men recalled when they heard o1or Wdbdrbffs death There were those who differed from his relglousYIews but none who questioned Uoned his devotion to the cause to which his Ufo was dedIcated Even those who doubted others of his faith I fath could not doubt the sincerity of President I I Pres-Ident Woodruff He was bound up In his church and his aim was the good of his people Abler men might have done wore in his positon during tle critical perIod per-Iod ofhIs presidency But he was ever zealous ever constant devoid of worldly ambition and untainted with avarice Such was the man from whom the via spark had gone out and even those who disagreed with him in life I forgot for the time being all but the genIal kind gentle amIable old man whose whole life according to the tenets I ten-ets of hIs faith was earnest pious and pureWilford I pureWlfor Woodruff litedf6r more than four score years and ten He was born In 1807 led through all the Was of I r this republic except the revolution and saw the close of the war with Spain He lived before Florida was a part of this country He was In Utah while It was still a par of Mexico He was a living monument of events a memorial me-morial of changes which invested him with a peculiar Interest aside from any belief he ha or position h held After hls birth the application of stem was made by Robert Fulton The railroad the telegraph telephone dee trio light trolley and scores of other Inventions were unknown In the days of his youth In fact the whole story of the mod era world is included In the period between twen his birth and death The French republic and the German empire have been formed Italy united Turkey dismembered dIs-membered China and Japan opened to commerce AfrIca explored Australia civilized and our own great government govern-ment extended from ocean to ocean President Woodruff passed almost I entirely through the vorlds greatest century He was with his church In Its darkest days and with his people in their greatest trouble Long and trying was his journey from the cradle to the grace His rest Is earned earne |