Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-12-17

engagement at the theater, the ot,a,:
was 70 take his sister--or soma on
eise's--to the opera. oAS
"Upandownjohn,r sa,d n. a..
you have nothing to do. and ars
mandy with thu pen. There Il No
val'niy necessity for keeping us hero
lou just write out the mana, raso,''
sions' and send them down To ,hs
ccreamer, the Soarer and tho sno,,,a.
y Mme Tor tomorrow morning.
How sha II ! treat the deceased o.;
asked UpandownjohD.
~, IN the usual way. Speak Of hia
qualitles as q man, the feelings Of the
oluD az mis- untimely taking-off the
sources OF consolation we have. his
Qualities az an actor; hurl in soma.
ming to alleviate the panoa =, ~.
'amiiy; speak Of his general standing
ana PIT In strong dose Of general
comfort, and SO ON. It'll be ali rioh,
lou u attend to 1t now. won't youp''
IS disae recable duty ra-
Piled Upandownjohn. .but ri a. !. :,
AND they left him to his work,
now, Mr.. Upandownjohn had had M
/ experience Ia work OF this kind. and
consequently, he wasn't clear as to it,
form So he sent for the scrap-hoolr
IN which such utterances of the c,,h
mad been pasted from the beginning
ne was shocked. There were q rreat
many sets Of resolutions ON deceaaed
members tthe liquors were bad Al
the Leviathan) and they were nra.
cisely alike. They ran as follows:
wHkknAs It has pleased Almighty God. the
ruler OF the universe. to remove from orr
midst our esteem ed brother. John Iamss a..
and-So; and, os DO
WHEREAS. II 10 at that we, his afiicted sur.
viVors OF the Leviathan club, should nub,,c,.
express our sore grief st this great bereavs.
ment; therefore. be 1t
hesotoed That in the death of John James
Soano'So' In Club has lost worthy mem.
Der society an ornament his family an arc
ttonate father and nus band, the state 4 r;i,ar
ana defender and the world ct largo one 4,
could lily spare. 0
hesofp a. That while we mourn with sorrow
tnat seems to have no alienation under ~.
great aniiction that has fallen upon us. we can
not out bow in humility to this inscrutable de-.
Resolpsd, That we tender our beart,e,t avn,
pathy to the family and relatives Of ths - a. L.
ceased. VI VIC oe'
Hesotoed That the clubhouse be draned in
mourning for thirty days in memory Of the
deceased. " 'no
As he finished, Mr.. Upandowniohn
brought his fist down upon the table
till the glasses jingled.
"What stuff this isr' he said. indip-
nantly. II knew So-and-So. He was
dishonest and untruthful mana
tyrant in his family, trader in pol
itics, disagreeable man In society.
and a curse to humanity generally.
And they mourn him, do thcyp And
suppose they want me to mourn
Ranter, who is to be embalmed to.
night Ha! Ha! will as,onish these
People. l will write one set of honest
resolutions. l knew Ranter, who has
Just gone hence, and justice shall be
done him, sure. l will be as mild as
can be, and do him justice, but will
be honest with his memory"
/ So MIR. Upandownjohn called for
fresh pens and ink and paper. and
wrotei and having made fair copies of
what he wrote. took them himse. to
the office of the Screamer, the Spouter
and the Soarer, and went home and
slept as only he can sleep who re-
joices over duty done and we'll done.
The next morning the members of
the Leviathan were astonished at
resding in the journals the following:
WHEREAS, By II long course of most outra-
gsots dissipation, OF late ghts, of late suppers
OF tfa grossest food, of perpetual beverages of
the Gost villanous kind-those that give the
stoms CHI no show whatever-by unchecked and
unrsgf,lated indulgence in the worst possible
sensaality In brief, by long. continued series of
the West outrages upon the phys cal, mental
and noral man, our late member, Arthur
Simpson Ranter, has been taken to that
bourne from VIII ch we earnestly hope he may
never return, and
WHEREAS, When a member OF the Levathan
Club expires, it is customary TO CONNIE morate
him, to give him send-of, as ii were; there
fore be 1t
ResolUsd, That when we remember the vii.
famous habit he had of revoking at whist, and
also his adrot way Of sliding out Of paying the
score whenever he lost the rubber, our grief
II
entirely subdued.
ResotUsd, That the promptness Of our late as
socate in accepting invitations to Stake his
thirst and his intolerabie hardness in recipro-
eating, did more honor to his head than to his
heart
RssoiUed, That his habitual untruthfulness,
his utter disregard for his word, and hi blus-
tering and overbearing manner, were lie best
points in him, as they served as a warning to
a har of al E'f,r 10
demise is to be lamented.
Resoloed, That his habit of getting booty be-
fore eleven a. m, and staying in that condition
as long as there was good-natured man in the
club, gives us, his survivors, good reason to
pause and ask no more that conundrum why
was death introduced into the worluy
Resolved That when we remem Ger the sue
cess with which our late brother borrowed
mcuey, and his utter forgetfulness of such
transactions, our hearts are softened toward
Adam and Eve (through whose sin death was
mate part OF the economy Of natu 'e), and we
publicly thank that lady and gentleman for
their invest eating turn OF mind, and hurl back
Indignantly the charge that they did not do
the best thing possible for posterity.
Resolped, That in the death of our late
brother, who was vile actor as he was
bad as "A man, the long-sufering, theater-go-
ing public have q boon. the sweetness OF
VIII CHI can not be over-stateo, and upon which
we extend them hearty congratulations.
Resolved That we congratulate Mrs Ranter
upon the fact that her private fortune was set
tied upon herself, and so skillfuly tied up
that Ter late husband our deceased brother.
could not get q cent OF It And we do this re-
mem berlng how often we have mourned it was
so, for the reason that, could he have touched
1t, he would have drunk mself into an I'M
timely tomb several years sooner than he d d
Death, with us, buries all luminosity and doeA