Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-07-28

oJner nanu, a suuuen ueaUn was ueiu to be the crown of the blessings that heaven could bestow on man. The Greeks represented Death as pleasing, gentle being. while their conceptions of an after life were gloomy.
 Socrates regarded death as "an indiffer- ent accident" Much depends on the circumstances under which death presents itself, as well as the state of mans con- science and the condition of his worldly affairs. As years roll on death becomes less and less dreaded. Aged people gen. orally leave life without regret. Julius Ltesar Is said to have wished for sudden ieath, but he said so just before he was slain, and when the mission of his life had been accomplished. Charles II could apologize to his courtiers for being such an ''unconscionable time in dying" Vol taire, and Hume, and Rousseau weighed pros and cons for sudden death, and affected to sum up in it's favor, but such subject is sorry matter either for cpl gram or rhetoric.
 In nine cases out of ten death Is a ,reat calamity It finds men unprepared; deprives them of the alleviations which | tOO Illc Ol tildOJ O1 Ito bCilOlS [, t often entails embarrassment and mis- cry by cutting off all opportunity of making testatoTy arrangements, thereby oeqaeathing direful legacy of feud and arrangement to families who might have lived in harmony
 The moral, and very practical one it is, is that the increasing frequency of sudden deaths is to be regarded with alarm, softened by hope that med ical science may be able to arrest it's progress, and that a proper regard for their domestic responsibilities will induce sensible men not to continue to defer the proper arrangement of their affairs which | ten seconds may make too late.
 The three men whose lives, tempera- ments and habits were peculiarly typical Cf the times in which we live were un- doubtedIy Lord Macaulay, William Make peace Thackeray and Charles Dickens. | These three men, renowned writers, and | each a master of bis art, all died com paratively young. and all died suddenly. and the first two of heart disease. Death came upon them, not with slow and measured steps. but without note of warning Apparently there was a pain less passing from time into eternity.
 Look at the work these men did. Ma caulay had already won high reputation for prose and poetry a. the age of g. and the famous article on Milton, which at once won him a reputation as a essayist, i that his subsequent performances in that line merely confirmed, was published be- fore he was D years old.
 Macaulay for over thirty years had three lives, as it were. He was politi- clan, he was a man of letters, he was 8 man of society; great debater and g good working official; distinguished and voluminous author; diner out whose company was sought for his con- versation by all who could obtain it. Hard brain work in parliament and in g mans library is scarcely compatible witt grand dinners and breakfasts which with delicacies of food and wine, were al most as bad as the dinners.
 Thackeray and Dickens suffered greatly from the same cause. They were fret livers; they loved society. These two did an immense quantity of literary work, Thackeray scarcely fell of 1T point of execution, hardly in construc tion, to the last. ''Denis Duval, { story which he left incomplete, promised to be as good as any of its predecessor except ''Vanity Fair, which is its au thor's best work. Dickens was far nor. successful in his latter work ''Our Mu tual Friend" is performance more am bilious than ab1e, with a heavy, involved plot, and the half of "Edwin Brood that has been published is not gooI enough to make any reader wish fo more of it. Dickens overworked hinlsel until paralysis gave him warning. un happily not needed, and the end cam suddenly.
 4 very elegant writer, in beautiful written essay entitled "Erroneous No tions of Death Reproved," observes. 'h particular it is thought that this fina event passes with some dreadful visita ton of unknown agony over the depart ing sufferer. It is imagined that there some strange and mysterious reluctanc in the spirit to leave the body; that struggles long to retain its hold, and is a last torn with violence from its morta tenement, and, in fine, that this conflic between the soul and the body gread adds to the bangs of the dissolution. Bu it may be justly presumed from wha usually appears that there is no particr lar nor acute suffering, not more than often experienced during life, nay. rathe that there is less, because the very power of suffering are enfeebled, the very caps cities of pain are nearly exhausted. "
 Death is to be regarded rather as sleep than a conflict of our faculties; it repose-the body's repose after the bus and toilsome day of ife.-Cor. Tro Times.