The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-29
HOLY GROUND.

Tie wires filled 70 bring Us any OF The
particulars of the death cfWILL ClkLEroS
The first notice was that he had suicided
and then that he was buried, and that be-
cause his death was caused by suicide his
body was forbidden sepulchre in eOnse-
Grated ground, Thatlast is a mistake. The
spot where he lies buried is and ever will be
consecrated ground, though no creed claims
1t and no priest hiss ever blessed it. We
know nothing ofthe private life of the man.
nothing of his sorrows, or what strange des
tiny at last shut out the sunlight from his
life. But t does not matter. We do know
thst cathedral bells have toiled; that incens e
has burned; that all the solemn and ostenta-
IiOus p0mp of mass and choir and organ
snd robed priests has been invoked over
inlife carried no such exalted soul as WILL
CABLEToNis. To his hand was given the
divine gift OF putting words together IN a
way 10 touch and soften human hear 5; The
went aDout doing good, more good than in
Others counts IA Perfect lie He had q
fashion Il putting simple words and
thoughts together IN sucn way that when
completed. sudden : it seemed 70 the reader
that great light was shining before his
eyes: in his soul he heard music not of this
wcrl1 suddenly, homely things which ne
had passed without care or thought
seemed to shiae like nuggets OF pure
gold a. his fee'. aud with br tyef
aud tenderer heart Wit more pa
tASLte, ctItDdsSlOn dII EEIlttGtSS, ne
took up the burd Of his life. That class of
men are very liable at last . De buried nv
cnAf1ty, often there are not half dozen left
OF the world to follow their ashes 70 their
last couch; often, as in this case. the rules
OF 4 creed ioterpose and fO-bid sepuichfe
in ground that has bee bl ssed. Fate
seems 20 pursue tn N with sort Of mock
ry, and il seems forever with them as twas
with her who, holding the gift OF pr Iphecy.
was destined never 70 be believed, until
death comes and men have time 70 tn nix.
aud then in remor-e and admira ion, to the
memory of men who starved on earth, they
build costly n nuns nts, and with a con-
scio S pride tel TO their children that such
an one was once their countryman, and that
because he lived native land is better and
holler II will he worth standing around
ana watching on resurrection m prniug to
see them come up from the pauper rows in
myriads OF Durying grounds. What robes OF
glory will be theirs; what faces divine will
they wear when their souls will give them
full expression: what flowers will bloom
where they walk And on that morning
what vii they think who were forced 20
rbid their burial in consecrated ground?
twill be worth seeing. surely; for then, ii
not before, it will dawn upon a shuddering
and dissolying w,r d, that where such
spirits. when IN the clay. walked or slept,
that spot was holy ground.
This beautiful peroration appeared in
laSt tuesday tribune, and we can
frankly say that we think the editor
has maintained his reputation for being
the boss tombstone writer of the west.
1t has only one material drawback,
however, and that is it was not Will
Carleton who died. The gentleman who
shuffied off this mortal evil by blowing
OUT his gas instead of extinguishing It
by the adopted method was William
Carleton, broken down Irish actor
and sometime dramatist familiar to
the profession as the author of that in
discribable rot played by Emmett and
known as Fritz in Ireland" this, by
the way, was probably the cause of the
Catholics refusing his body interment.
We have before labored to convince the
Tribune that it should not touch thea
-rical subjects, but Our labor appears
70 be thrown away, Judging from the
above; however, Carleton, the poet, is
pretty well along in years. and it will
lOt be long before he will require some
hing of the sort, and il may be well
enough for the Tribune to keep il |
around where it will be handy.