Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-06-01

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unknown and unmarked graves of it's
countless millions of victims, and the
busy world Of to. day ruehes over the
ashes of the dead, not conscious that
beneath it's feet reposes tho dust Of
fellow.man.
A monster it marks it's victims
, without regard to age, condition or
sex. Without pity, it snatchee the in.
FAINT, that budding premise OF a
mothers hope and love, from her
breast; stills the hearts expectant
throbbing of youth and maid as they
stand before the mystic veil that con-
ceals the sacred altar of manhood and
womanhood; blasts woman in her
beauty and man in his strength, and
wath pitiless hand strikes from our
lips the cup that holds the sparkling
wine of Joy and pleasure.
ut drags the Emperor and King to
the level Of the beggar, foils the no.
blest plans of the statesman, strikes
/, with paralysis the brain of the philos-
opher, bushes the senseless muttcr-
terings of the idiot, effaces the inspi.
ration of the poet, painter and sculp-
tor and laughs at the havoc it has
made.
- Abstract death presents but few
terrors to the mind; but it comes to all
and must come to all. The certainty
"of it's coming is intensified by the I'M
certainty of its hour. When flushed
with health, surrounded by friends,
crowned with hurel-emblemso of VIC,
tory in ife-it comes to our door,
knocks not, asks no permission to en-
ter, but with the familiarity of a
friend and the stealth of an enemy,
enters our chamber unasked and un-
welcomed; extends it's bony hand and
with. faint and whispered greeting of
Willingness, we take it's heshless Rng-
ers in our own, and are led out
from home and fireside to yonder
graveyard, and as the last clod of
earth is heaped upon our earth it re-.
turns with grim smile of victory to
the hauDts of man for another victim
of its rapacity.
We may be rich or we may be poor,
we'may be learned or ignorant, we
may be happy or wretched, yet it has
been decreed that all must become
the victims of death,
Without trial, without the right of
defense, without right of appeal or
time to review, we are; summond to
the bar of life to receive the decree of
death.
Even nations die and the human
race will expire. Science tells us
that sooner or later this beautiful
world, exhausted of it's life giving en-,
ergy and incapable Of longer support
! ing man, will become an idle useless
cinder in the universe of space, ard
looking forward into the coming ages,
I think see the last remnant of our
race, crouching feeble and pallid, be.
meath the shelter Of the mountains as
|. they behold for the last time the sun
sink below the horizon in the victory
of death.
/ No! notdeath's victory, but through
death the victory of Immortality.
Immortality the sweetest bene-
diction that falls upon the troubled,
struggling soul of man. the flower
that BLOOMS supernal in the heart
watered by the tears of Hope and fed
dy Loves eternal light, alike the
Pagan's faith.
All philosophy has sought TO do.
monstrate lbs truth and sk6pticism Of
all agss has tried to rob the mind OF
tho consolation it has given.
Vain fools! Science can resolve the
rose into simple elements and weigh
each part. Take those elements into
the laboratory and call upon science
to recreate the rose. then come
and tell me how and why, under
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