Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-11
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1t Is Not Present with Everyone
Who Dies.
Testimony Which Goes to Prove That
Many Wow with Unconcern the An
proaeh OF Dissoiution-Dying
Words OF Noted Mon.

Many people, through fear of death,
are all their lives subject to bondage.
writes Rev. E. ]. Hardy in the Sunday
Magazine. The questions: How shall
we die? When shall we die? and
where shall we die? are continually
worrying them. Indeed, there have
been several suicides caused by thi
haunting terror of death. The thourh.
of it made their lives insupportabls.
and they killed themselves in order
know the worst. And yet it is Quit,
possible that in respect to the physical
sensation of dying we resemble Do!:
QulXote, when he hung by his WI;
from the stable window and imagine
that terrible abyss yawncd at Ii:
feet; fate, in the character of Mari
.tOrncS, cuts the thong with lightsom,.
laughter and the gallant gentleman
falls-four inches.
When Louis XIV. lay dying: "Why
weep you?" he asked those who sur
rounded his deathbed. Ibid you think
l should live forcvcr?" Then, after a
pause: II thought dying had been
harder" DR.. Hunter was another who
w agreeably surprised by his expert
cncc of dying. His last words were:
IF l. had strength to hold Il pen would
write down how easy and pleasant
th'H% it is to die" A charming actress
wt2 had been twice almost drowned
told friend that dying vas the incest
sensation that she knew. The late
archbishop of Canterbury, as his
agony" befcll, quietly remarked: 'It
is really nothing much after ALL"
a man said to Socrates: "The Athe-
mans have condemned you to death"
And NATURE" he replied, has con-
dcmned them" BY the ancient Greeks
death was considered simply. as q de-
Ttroycr. To them it was the last and
most bitter of foes. Achilles in Hades
.lys to Odysseus: Nay, speak not com
tortably to me of death. Rather would
[ live upon the earth the hireling 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 causes. A man, for
instance, can scarcely die easily if he is
leaving widow and family for whom
provision has not been made. The
medical men who attended Oliver Gold
fiAAhOii III ITO
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 renders death painful When
GarriclS showed to DR.. johnson his pala-
tial 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
| w"''' - ''''"lvn o'clock tomorrow
night, how would you spend the inter
vening timeP" "How, MADAME" he re
| piled; "why, just as 1 intend to spend
it now. Ishould preach this night a.
J Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow
morning. After that should ride t.
| Tewksbury, preach in the Afternoon
and meet the societies in the evening
/ should then repair to Friend Martini
house, who expects to entertain me
converse and pray with the family a
usual, retire to my bed at ten o'clock
commend myself to my Heavenly Fa
ther, lie down to rest, and wake up il
glory"
This was the feeling which enable,
the American, Gen. Stonewall Jackson
to die as he did. When told he ha,
only two hours to live, he answered
Very good; it is all right. Order A
p. Hill to prepare for action. Pass tn
infantry to the front rapidly. Tel
Maj Hawks" Presently n smile O
ineffable sweetness spread itself owe
his face, and he said, quietly and wit
an expression of relief: Let us eros
l ouar tho viya, ard rast un6ar tho aim RI