The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-11-30
Is DE.ATil PAINFUL.

! Many people, through fear Of death, are
all their lives subject to bondage. The
questions-How shall we die: When shall
we die? and Where shall we die: contin
ually worry them. Indeed there have been
! several suicides caused by this haunting
| terror of death. The thought of it made
their lives insupportable, and they killed
themselves in order to know the worst
And yet it is quite possible that in respect
to the physical sensation of dying we re-
semble Don QuiXote, when he hung by his
wrist from the stable window and I'M
agined that IA tremendous abyss yawned
| beneath his feet; Fate in the character OF
Maritornes cuts the throng with lightsome
| laughter, andthe gallant falls-fOur inches
When Louis XIV lay dying-"W Why
weep you:" he asked those surrounding
his death-bed. Did you think | should
live forever" Then, after a pause, Il
thought dying had been harder" Dr.
Huning was another who was agreeably
surprised by his experience of dying. His
last words were If had strength to hold
pleasant thing it is to die a charming
actress who has been twice almost drown
ed told "a friend that dying was the incest
sensation that she knew. The late Arch
bishop of Canterbury, as his agony be
fell, quietly remarked 1T is really moth
ing much after all
\ man said to Socrates, The Athenians
have condemned you to death" And
nature" he replied, has condemned
them" BY the ancient Greeks, death was
considered simply as Il destroyer. To them
it was the last and most bitter of foes.
Achilles in Hades says to Odysseus-"N Nay,
speak not comfortably to me of death.
Rather would live upon the earth the
hreilng of another, than bear sway over
all the dead that are no more" When
death is bitter it is so, as Il general rule
far more by reason of anxiety and remorse
than from physical cause. \ man, for in
stance, caif scarcely die easily if he is leav-
ing widow and provisions have not been
made. The medical man who attended
Oliver Goldsmith in his last hour asked
him if there was anything on his mind, as
he could not account for his temperature
being so high. The poet admitted that
there was. Debt was upon his mind. To
some it is riches and not poverty that rem
dercd death painful. When Garrick show
ed DR.. johnson his palatial residence, the
latter said: "Ah, David, these are the things
that make death terrible.'
John Wesley was once asked by a lady:
Suppose you knew that you were to die
at twelve O'Clock tomorrow night, how
How, madame::" he replied; ''why, just
as | intend to spend it now. | should
preach this night at Gloucester and again
at five tomorrow morning. After that |
should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the
afternoon and meet the societies in the
evening. | should then repair to friend
Martins house, who expects to entertain
me, converse and pray with the family as
mend myself to my heavenly Father lie
down to rest and wake up in glory.
This was the Telling which enable the
American, General Stonewall Jackson. to
die as he did When told that he had only
about two hours to live, he replied Very
good; it is all right Order a. p. Hill to
prepare for action. Pass the infantry to
the front rapidly. Tell Major Hawks
-" Presently a smile of inetfable sweet
ness spread itself over his pale face, and
he said quietly and with an expression of
relief: Let us cross over the river and
rest under the shade of the trees