The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-02-23
AHfart Woodcasls Dead.

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What is.life? 1t is simply. the entering
wedge to eternity. All! that S it; we know
that; but what is eternitys There's the
fdb.H We edlFall pronounce the word, and
ne know. it means a Long time, hatwho of
us can takeei It's. meaning; who realize
that it means forever? There; that word,
forever; when VIC try to comprehend it we
can only say it means eternal, and that's
alH 'we.s;peak 'lis;;abld, we know that 1t
is disconnected with time, but as to It's
true meaning we know as little Of 1T as
the chattsring parrot that has been taaght
to initiate the voice Of its teacher.
To have the cords that bind us to earth
severed is but 10 be set free from bondage
to soar, to float out-we. know not where.
| Such was the casewith Albert Woodcock,
whose life went out in Wichita, Kansas,
on the night Of the athinst., z4
He was twenty.six years, old born in
Illinois; brought up in Wichita, Kansas,
and was married at, Newton, Kansas, to
Minnie. o. Harris, about two years ago.
He leaves wife, and babe eight months
|old. rs ~
OF him and his sickness the Wichita
Daily Eagle says: fz. 800
ssFor nine years he has been railroading.
was a conductors on the Missouri Pacific
when taken sick; was quiet Industrious,
temperate and useful citizen, standing
high with the managers Of the corporation
named, and holding the. respect of his
fellow employees. The funeral under the
auspices Of the Masons will be heIdsat the
home, corner of Waco and Fourteenth
streets, at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. David Winters
officiating. s.
IA short time before his expiring breath
i'm plaintive whisperhe asked his mother,
Iwho had watched so. faithfully over him
| FOR nearly eight monts: Do YOU think II
will alrbe oyer soon 2 AZ hen told sitscould
not lie long he signifsd relief, and in the
next. moment, who knows Ibis soul mount
edaway, free, under the blue, to, the realm
Of fl,e STARS, where blossoms eyer hfow
and fall, where birds eyers nest sand sing,
i3to where life, without pair, becomes. full
| and superb. Love bends oyereyery grave
land hope whispers it shall lie so.
5aUnder this vast inverted, bow, which
we call the sky, where, c0oped up, We poor
lmortals toll and moil; sufer. and die,
where every birth lis signalled by moan
and cry, and every death by q groan and
! a sigh,-the woml,Sthe tomb, and why r.
Els it any wonder that, helpless. humanity
stands before its open graves cropping and
ldunib, or blindly questioning in despairf
EOut Of dust come the living; within the
dust Of other dead are Dur own dead i'm
ltnrn buried. Before an life is death, but
| after. all death who can SAY that there is
lIife7 Only one Of 40 the cQncoussss Of
Ieartlf's generations dared 70 80 affirm. and
He claimed to be not Of this enri la a; 81
ssAlbert sW oodceck went ont and away
Hin the cold and deaf h Of q winters night,
|Bnt the, flowers and birds Of spring could
mol. have rendered his going more joyous
/ Il. himaclf or less desolate for his young
lwife, or for, his child ,sor ITO his parents,
-l:sisser and lbrothars. From bayhoSd be
grew up ID manhood among us, as III most
ldttffui sou and Brot her, and sas last into 3
.lioying husband and fathe 4 ind nstrious,
fptogident al a generous. But words for
i him now aye nptiiin an x 0rd8 10 the
.iIiyibs, as sad experience has Taught rs,
Iarc only. words and NOT HUG VIC ksss*
him as d brave boy, and aa ~ aelf-scsiaHt
Imam Int n0w only 8 NIB at No OH aaoil
lshait be, elss the ED from w the
Vessel was orr Gina 5Wrong hoS is
THE potts who the Pot sst
s. bands upon ths: 81 vi, 81 u
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