Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-01-12

ana summer uTe Jne IlOuJ JlultS l.
live, when birds In early spring thei
sweetest love songs sing and all ma
ture bursts into new life, and in sum
mer the green earth is covered wit
gaudy flowers.
The great drawback on dying
that one does not wake up morn
ings to greet friends and to rea,
the daily papers, thereby losing al
that transpires in this live world o
ours.
If life was thing to buy, the ricl
would live and the poor would die a
once. But life is like q snowflake OF
the rivera moment white, then gone
| forever" 1t brings pang to know
life comes not again to the same indi
vidual, but out of its sad decay othei
creations of lives arise spontaneously
as matter never dies, but lives on il
other forms, like the leaflets that fal
to the ground all sere and brown ere
long mingle with the soil and buds
arise, giving births to newborn flow
ers. The elements of bones and feath
ers are in the newborn egg, and the
nature, too, making the struttng flow
cry peacock.
Life is a struggle full of care anc
trouble; its greatest pleasures are o
shortest duration. Yet if was asked
what | most desired / would say give
me back my youth.
1t should be considered a sin and
disgrace to die prematurely, proving
violations of natural laws, but TO di,
with old age should be regarded 81
the most honorable of all deaths.
My philosophical religion enabled
me to live alone with myself and TO di'
alone without murmer. | am no
like the Irishman, who, when h,
thought he was dying, became alarm
ed and sent for his priest, who said
Pat, Hope you are not afraid o
your God?"
mo, your Holiness; it is the othe
gentleman Pm afraid of.
As | have none here 10 linger by m,
grave, l invite passing friends to cal
at my lot, No. 141, section 40, Spring
Grove Cemetery, where can be foun(
at home by my monument at all times
since none move out of the CITY of Tin,
lamented dead OF over 100000 inhabi
tants.
SKETCH OF MY LIFE.
made my first yell in my mother
bedroom without shirt on Januar,
l, 1901. Life left mo, 1885.
L have lived in Cincinnati since 1860
grew up on farm in Connecticut.
am of French-Huguenot stock anC
English origin. My ancestors cam,
over 235 years ago and settled on :
farm IN Massachusetts. / never had ;
doctor nor took any drug store poison.
in my life, and thereby died a natura
death in my S5th year. / was self
raised and educated from years Old
when was left on the stormy sea o.
life without compass or rudder &c
steer through long voyage.
At IL was a school teacher and
taught boys of Is years how to think
properly.
Subsequently l practiced the hum.
buggery of medicine, which is expe.
rlmenting and guess-work, like q half.
bind man going out to shoot birds OF
rats. refer to doctors, not surgeons.
Then Twas a traveller and stood upon
the banks of the Rio Grande; visited
the tombs of the Presidents and saw
some of the renowned people of our
country and the nobility within the
tropics.
have now gone where lodgings are
free, into my house the grave ggel
made for me; to play hermit for my
own amusement, till Gabriel calls for
saints and sinners to arise and put on
their running clothes.
Thus ends my eventful life in nv
05th year; yet my evil deeds will live
in voices, while my virtues will be
written in sand. gave my assets tc
relative orphans and otherwise before
my death. l have many distant rela.
tives living in New England and York
State, but my near ones have pOne n