The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-12-04
"THE JUSTICE OF lime"

one OF the most gifted writers the
West has eve produced is Charles c
Goodwin. once a resident Of Nevada
but now living in Utah. Many Of his
beautiful essays are Of a merit that
makes them worthy 10 become class
les. one Of the latest Of these, which
appeared in G0odwins Weekly OF re
cent date. under the heading The
Justice Of Time is as follows:
IF one goes down to one Of The
smelters IN the valley. he VIII see Ia
front Of the urnaees only an insight
IL mass Of Ioken rock and coke; h
viii watch as this is dumped into
the furnace and going to the Other
side he Will see the Stag running u
and it is all noise and smoke and the
order which seems confusion. But
looking further, ne Will discover that
by its own gravity all that was val
liable and imperishable in the rock
has come forth purified from the fiery
ordeal. Il is 50 with men. When they
go down through the furnace which
we call death, whatever was precious
and imperishable within their minds
and hearts Will be found shining in
the crueible and the credit for its
full value VIII be entered in the Great
Ledger above.
"A superb old legend OF an ancient
Persian tribe was handed down from
sire to son which declared that when
their FIST king-the founder OF theiI
little dynasty-died in the wilderness.
50 grand Of soul was he that he had
impressed his greatness on the fauna
Of the forest and so the most majestic
lions Of the wild gathered near and
kept watch n ward over MS re-
mains until the time came to light
the funeral pyre. The legend was typ
ical Of what is often seen. Many a
man and woman go down to death,
covered with r~eproaches, but when a
generation or a few generations pass,
it is seen that the Lions of Justice
and Truth and Mercy ave been keep
ing watch and ward over his or her
memory n it shines. out as clean
as was the corpse Of Patroclus after
it's celestial embalmment by Thetis.
The ions surely kept watch and
ward over the memory of the Maid of
Orleans and struck down all the darts
hat foul tongues hurled at it. Was
ever mortal more mathematical than
was Napoleon when the sullen ship
bore him way to St. Helena? But the
Lions of Destiny, the most majestic
of the wild, felt the impress of his
fiery soul and set their watch around
him. So when the world had time to
pause and reflect. it was seen that for
centuries of wrong and tyranny and
oppression of the poor there had to be
r~etribution; that the tree of liberty
would never put u sheltering
branches until the soil where it's roots
were planted was moistened by the
blood of innumerable heroes. and so
Napoleon. the master martial genius
of all time. was sent TO set the stage
for the unparalleled, sombre tragedy.
The lions were on guard, and when
his dust was returned, France forgot
the husbands, sons and brothers thai
had under him gone down to death.
and with awed soul and uncovered
head received tenderly his remains.
When Washington died the land
was filled with his enemies. There
were doubts cast upon the integrity
of his purposes; evil tongues sought
TO cause dirt upon his sovereign name.
But the lions gathered near; the ions
OF Justice and truth and patriotism
n wisdom and of that valor which
counts as nothing any sacrifice that
duty demands. lions of majestic frame
and fiery eyes and took up their
watch and ward around his memory.
and the jackals of envy and detrac-
ton and malice skulked back into the
shadows from out of which they had
come and the simple sepulchre al
Noun Vernon became a shrine. One
going there can still. through the
shadows and the hush of a finished
century. almost feel the majestic
presence Of those guardian lions
around that simple resting place"