Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-23 | Page 7 | Too Late on the Last Day

TOO LATE ON THE LAST DY horr thought that occurred to Pro crast bating ind vidual senator frye was wont to tell this one on ex senator howard of lewis ton me explaining that in the early days of his business career his fond ness for sleep was almost the cause of his undoing it was howards invariable rule to take another wink after being called in the morning and almost as in variably dd he arrive at business from thirty minutes to one hour late on sundry occasions he was known to stay out with the boys and on one particular occasion was induced to partake of the grape juice to such an extent that his companions decided to play a very practical joke on him by placing him in an undertaker 3 shop to sleep in a casket in the early dawn mr howard awoke stretched and sat up in hor he beheld the empty caskets about him and in a fleeting second his past career passed before his mental vision till raising his hands aloft he exclaimed while beads of perspiration stood on his ghastly brow for the last time too late too late tor the resurrection