Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-10-01
J ioquent and Touching Tribute.

We extract tie following lofty
thoughts and pure ideas from the me-
mortal address Of Judge Prickett be-
fore the Supreme Court of Idaho, con
vcned in Sept. 1880 on the occasion of
the death of the late Judge Clark:
81 have already said that these occa
sions teach us grave lessons. One is
the transformers Of life. Time passes
and man changes. A few years re-
move u generation of men from the
stage Of life. When the young man
enters upon it he sees promise in every
venture aud success along the line of
every effort. His Imagination ex plores
the future and busies itself in con
structing forms of realization which
are, for the most part, never to be re-
allied in fact. AS men pass from
youth to age this enchantinen1 grad
uaily disappears, and the whole exter-
nal world seems to change. They re-
alize there is much illusion mixed up
in there lives, and that Nature tells
one tale to the young and another to
the olei--the zone inspiring the heart
tn confidence in every object of de
sire in life, the other chilling it with
the prospect Of the valley of the
shadow Of death. As life still pro
ceeds--as its battle and its struggle
still continue--men more and more be-
come sensible that their knowledge is
ignorance, that their wisdom is folly,
. that their strength is weakness, that
their days ARE few and full of evil,
, and that there is no boast in that lit
! tie and obscure kingdom Of the grave
with whose honors they hasten to be
crowned
, But Nature is so full Of illusion;
, and surprises, and she works by such
secret means to such secret ends, that
(; viewed as purely relational question
it may he, after all, that mans appar
ent weakness and transformers is it.
:, self only an illusion. However grea'
:, u mystery death may be, it is perhaps
!, not quite entirelJ a mystery. Somt
tracing of light may be discerned upol
the rim of the cloud There is some
# thing in human nature which prompt
i men to feel, us some great poe
o has finely expressed the thought, tina
II the awful shadow Of some unseen pow
,e err floats, though unseen, among us
There is something (which prompts tn
sorrowing heart to bind wreaths of i'm
II mortel.e around the memorial column
"a in dim metaphysical expression of
q hope that reaches across the night {
"a death. There is something which ha
W placed stony fingers pointing upward
IN the cemeteries OF the world, some
thing which has encrled the cart
with affairs of worship and temp
u spires piercing the heavens. Looked I
= philosophically, these, reinforced b
=, very many kindred phenomena, ma
- be taken as some vague sense of tt
- soul connected it veraciously with
- fundamental fact of its being, som
"A what though not entirely, as the mu
a, "a mer Of the shell is reminiscene of til
os deep and vast ocean by whose force
: it was formed.
: Finally. death is q wonderful toac
!. or Of charity from which we see tn
~ Nature knows how to extract swse
~ from her bitterest cup~--the divine
- use from her ugliest fact.
~ In the presence of death the rude
:" heart feels the influence of q chaste
ns ing spell When we walk among Il
-, graves of the dead we perceive th
80 the inscribed slab, the etched hea
n, stone, the carved column, are cold al
- white and still; but they are not mo
silent than the Wondering forms tn
sleep beneath We contrast this utt
silence with the loud rush of life,
- angry collisions, its sharp and bitter
On valries and touched by this mu
as feeling, we feel that our lives are TO
~ !" shortened and unworthy. The less
- Of charity so taught by death, if app
na priated as it should be, would not {
' &C., " add to the dignity, the beauty,
'hs grace of life, but it would also oontr
'ua ute greatly to increase it's efficit
~" force. And thus it is that death,
which all are doomed, continually
'hs pires to purify and elevate the life
use the living
,eo- s-..=z= =ss.
A. wArcHMAKGR.-H. J.. Requa wishes
VAC l;nf,rn tha r,eobl,, of this Mace and vicin