Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-08-26
DIED Last Night.

Died Last Night.
Coupled with the bridals, printed in lit
tie type. leading Of tho advertisements,
Jostled by sorry jest, hard behind O mar
ket close behind cotilioD, what place a
newspaper is. to put death in.
We are reading something about home,
and all at once we are in a place of graves;
we are looking over the testimonials to the
Elixir of Life, and come, before we know
it, upon Died Last Night
1t there were only some retired and sha-
ded corner in a newspaper, with willow
or an urn 10 il, where the names that have
no owners could be recorded, and we could
go when weary with rambling through the
columns Of hustle and business, and read ::
and think how surely one alter another all
names tend tbither; those that stand at the
head of the column editorial in capitals ::
those that are pointed at with Il finger, and
wandered over with exclamation points.
and asked after with interogations those
that we're brides the other day, and are
brides still, but with new bridegrooms !:
those that were heroes, and found place in
the leader or beautiful and woven in a
wreath for Poets Corner
But there is no such retreat-nothing but
narrow black line like to keen the
word ont; to prevent the railway train,
whose times are advertised below from
running over the names and celebrating il.
And so it lie like grove in a thoroughfare,
covered with dust. and Jared by passing
wheels II gives US pain to look at il, and
we are glad it is only for day.
Died last night 1t was nobody that
you know, you think. and so you pass On
to sale or bargain that YOU see beyond,
and forget that there was ever such name
or such dying in the world How apt we
are to forget that there are though who can
hardly see the name for the heavy rain
that is falling, while the heavens overhead
are bright and clear;thst eyes do rest there
on, that see a world put out where you dis
zern a name that onder how the sun can
shine, 8 nee shutdown came to them who
hear with their hearts the idle laugh that's
springing on the wind.
Died last night A pleasant time to
die, but not last night-ab, Do-some other
night, a great while yet to come. To 20
abroad by the true light of stars, 10 find the
way out from the pot of earth by everlast-
ing lamps.
Died last night How many died; how
many beautiful and good; how many
young and fair how many reverend AID
wise? Some that you know and we know;
perhaps one that you and We loved. We
shall hear of it by and by, and then we
shall remember that 1t was last night she
died,
To die at any time SIS a dreadful and
awful thing to die when day is breaking;
to die at high noon; to die when the pearl
and gold o: morning and the glow of noon
are oil blended upon the palette of the
West till the sky looks like great tinted
shell thrown upon the shore OF Eternity.
But 20 go from this world to that, in night,
by the pale light of stars, is most solemn
ard beautiful of all. Aud then there is
dignity about that going away alone that
wrapping the mantle of Immortality about
US; that putting aside with pale hand the
azure curtains that are drawn around this
cradle of a world; that venturing away
from home for the first time in our lives,
for we are not dead there is nothing dead
to speak of and seeing foreign countries
that are not laid down on aoy maps we
/ know about. rhere7 must be lovely lands
somewhere storward, for none ever return
that 60 there, aud we very much doubt
whether any would return if they could.
Died last night Well, in q few days,
as soon as they can-they take down the
cid family Bible, somewhere. and they
write departure-the clearance of a soul
Sometimes it is a bud, but as rare Ben
johnson said so everybody thanks:
"'Twas but bud, yet did contain
More sweetness than shall bloom again"
! Sometimes blossom waited from the
tree, by some returning breath, to heaven
| How different the record on the other page
year or SO ago, when they set down the
| new name-the same name they write now
| but, ownerless that may be heard few
times, but not in the crowd, not in the
merry festival but in the twilight hours
] ut home. and then be svlln he led no Innre