The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1890-10-18
rHrIR lAsr WORDS.


IN anton fAt tN'ANH0AAiS NNANtAA'
might bo made up Of tho dying words
and speeches ~ men whom the world
calls famous, says once Week. They
haze all had Ia pass ga thclr chips like
the most insiFulloani Of us, and their
final exits from the great stage have
been generally odliying and always
characteristics.
''GOl b. praisel,r exclaimed Wolfe,
the hero Of gucbor, on learning that tho
French were giving away Ia every II
rcstion. II die happy llis antagonist,
Montoaim, also received mortal
wound while ond"aYoTing % rally his
men, and ahcn told lat his end ~as APP
pr,aehing made answer $50 much the
better; HhEli not live 10 see the sur
render Of quebec"
II pray thee. sec me up safe, but for
my coming down I can shift for my
s"if," remarked Sir Thomas More OBJ
serving tho rgakness ~ tho s-aiinid.
~ heard say IA" oz'rutioneF WAS very
good and have littio nerk," sid
Anne i.oloyn, putting hoF hands about
it and laughing heartily.
The unhappy Charles I. expired With
the Norl ''l.rlaemipr" on his lips, and
the last words attributed ''iiurkshot'
ForsicF wore NO hpm" rule" while
I.Abolsis calialy remarked Drop It's
curtain, the farce Is played out"
Min some prreentsrent ,aat thoy
arc about To dio Is the hrst symptom OF
approaching death. lpzar; ~rots his
requiem under the conviction that IN"
monument h" was erecting - his guuigs
would prove a monument u hls own -
mains. When iii1 was rhh!nE fast hes
called for the scor-, AMI a. lie muhsi
over 10 ho said: did | NOT toll you
truly thli II vas for myslif that roin-
posed iAls iraIh cigatg' lieWlok, tho
famous WOOD oHgray'r, v-s last otn-
pluy'i upon a rrprr 'Hutatlpu II ''the oil
hursr raillus for tra'h, aud liIfaFth
dalin"at.t tho duath u Ill thlHss, and
having given !; . Las. touch, sv!zrd his
Ialeti" and broke IL Ia pieces. rvmsFi,-
lns; II hayo finished
Many remarkable Instances may also
b" cited In whirh 'hc dying liIs' muir
lur uut the names Of fFi'ni7 and tho
occupations and frcollc1 tiuna Of past
lifr. IDrlhc's dying liP, murmgTud
something about y beautiful Noman's
faue. AMI Nap1l"un's last thoughts w"r"
for Ihg head II his ARMY, while hisrz-li,
sumo quarter ~ aH hour before hss
death, r.is.ad himself llitlo In his b,il
anil stretched himself Out la the old Ia
millar Nay shat ho Vas Nunt ahun rls'
Ing - rrpiy la debate. NElir his lip,
moved IN silence.
IL i.asny, the great mathematician,
was asked thr Hlgaru u twelve whom
hn wa. nS longer able 10 rsuzalz" his
friends about his b,yl, sni mechanically
answered: 'On, huuiri and forty
four" No lees striking we're thD last
Nurla Of Lori T"nirrirn. tho famous
English luIs". Some Ilmr before hi,
death nc had bcrn doliripus and ia!k"d
lnrnhor~ptiy. but prrs"nIly recovering
his cSnT-1suFu and Fsi'lns hiu.snif from
VI. p.i.sw hr Wls heard To- Fay Ia SLOW
ani solemn tones, a, when hr used 10
cunrluIo his summing. W ia "-a"s Of
rr-at ifnnatisr-f. ANA now. Evutl--
men the jury. you will consider your
Vurii,'
s'lns,ncs the strained thread b=raks
with = Zen snap, twas In this way
that iios'. expired from the effects ot
dfugsy. n, nj entered the E,son vh"r,
lac 81, situ. and tho post. In on,
and the sAu"s1ih, bid him hail and
farewell. ''t'"s-ay and hllcu." said
he. 81; Will h Il y long aIIcu." and
Instantly expired.
Com" and Ito don !" cn,rra,.I Dick.
ons' sist"F.In.laW, wh, IL bcraH.o oyi.
don; ihA; ~ vas up1si.i. Eyes, on
the rrouni,- he said, ~, distinctly. n.
he slid from her arm u .sli to ia.
floor.
Edmund Kcan mad. hla 81 cxI. In
ihr middle Of tho gruai",t 40, Il his
rrcaicst play. Got mo oil, CharTck
he raspod. "i'm dyinE!' His son l.
him on. and all was over. And rhClp
who bad supcrstitlous horror "f n
Wor,i farewell. while acting Woi.o.
and actually uttoring tho omlno'
surls.
Tluucl,; : long iaruril to sii my Frcaiaos
broke down. and the curtain slow
dropped upon him for the last time.
Many instances arc on record whci
pcrs,us have continued 10 irst thong
eonsrious tha. the ond VAS at ham
"W. shall soon meet again." were II
Las, words OF Louis XIV. to Mime. d
Mainirnon, and the murmur"d re pInic
"a pleasant rendezvous he IL giving IN,
that mar never Lowell any one but him
self"
"Is there nothing on earth can d
for your said Taylor to Wilco,, as Il
lay on his dcalh-hcd. Give me bac
my youth, were tho last words Of III
lively, IL scurrilous, poet. who, und,
til" ti,lc Of Potter rindar, amused III
latter end Of the eighteenth century.