Show A WESTERN OBITUARY hoigne yes he is gone but wo have his obituary lie lived out towards the rear of a western state and there also ho didd that is enough about him ictus wave him aside our natis with the obituary I 1 think it contains rhetorical blemishes thus it begins while yet on the threshold of am mated strife and no unwind visions confronted him on lifes lourney overtaken by the still voice of the tomb be responded by enlisting in the great army of the past I 1 do not think these ingredients are mixed ly if thero was a fight and the fight was in the house thresh old goes passably well with animated strife but not otherwise but I 1 do not think there was a fight at that time he did not enlist until gatei when he was on a journey and was overtaken by the still voice of the tomb his mistake wis in responding he could have let on that he did not hear since it wis a still voice while yet the spring time of youth blossomed on his locks the cold touch of an untimely frost fell upon and nipped a life which was yet in bloom now you see there was no fight at all he froze to death but thus it is when the lamp of life shines its extinguishment produce thickest darkness he had his intern with him there fore ho could have been nothing but a scout leftt out to hunt up the enemy I 1 think it possible po sible that there was no fight life t best is but an exiled wan deang pilgrim on a desert island surrounded bytho boundless and merciless sea of eternity on whose barren coast inevitable deith awaits on e cry side ih victims unawares uni wares stirred to death on an and probably drowned pd into the bargain unawares uni wares lie is full of troubles ere yet the fruits of man hoods laurel had ripened on his brow he laid himself to rest in communion with tho dead there 13 no fault to be found with his not waiting for tha crop for even if tho laurel yielded a berry which it does not it would not ripen on a poisons brow eie yet the shadows of disappointed hope darkened the bonon of a dawning future ho reclined on his lowly couch to mingle with the cold and forgotten dust I 1 dont like this A person does not travel with a couch and a lantern too in such a place as that and why cold dust the warm kind preferable and did this min lio down and cover up and peter out in the way after all thero a many perplexing difficulties about this history hi during nany long year with that affection which makes a child loved by its parents and respected by its neighbors he has proven a husband lather son and bi other filial affection does not prove anything T he official i decoi ds of the county will show whether he was a father brother and suter or not but filial is no sufficient evidence ol 01 meio abstract pretensions like these tor his folks he lived that is all right let abat pass tho object of this inquiry 13 what he died for thit and which thing it was that killed him most but now that the thunderbolt bof heaven has fallen upon the hearthstone of the family circle why good lind he was struck by lightning 1 take it all around this n one of the moat checkered deita beds that has ever come under my observation destroyed in a fight frost bitten i starved drowned squelched in aba tran quil couch splintered by the bolts of heaven is it little wonder tint he faded from our view it mi not per chance hive been given him to climb the dizzy heights nl statesmanship ebore bacon and buike were so often heard or fathom deeply the bosom of science where huxley and tyndall stroll with familiar step the nautical phrase is misplaced there ore does not fathom a bosom do any but the most reckless people go tramping around in such places but ho M gone he sleeps his last sleep unconscious of the night winds that chant the lequier oer his grave or the vesper breezes tint play among the lonesome pine snaking music an though each bow clayed the strings of haip vcr well that is all square and i eglit and all to h s advantage he missed tho obituary |