The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-16
EuLoGY ON RILEY GRAMMAR.



low me. / will say here that it comes
from an individual point of view. II
it runs counter to yours at ieaNt give
me the credit of a desire to be honest
"When / see the ambitions of mar
defeated, when | see aim struggling
with mind and body in the only legiti
mate prayer he can make to accom-.
plish some end; when | see him and
and purpose frustrated by a fortuitous
combination of circumstances over
which he has no control, when | see
the outstretched hand just about to
grasp the flag of victory, AXE instead
the emblem of defeat, | ask, What
is life9' What is lifeg Dreams,
awakening, and death; a pendulum
'twixt a smile and a tear; a momen-
tarv halt in the waste, ana then the
nothing that we set out from; a walk
ing shadow; a poor player that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage and
then is heard no more, a tale told by
an idiot. full of sound and fury, sig
nifying nothing; a child-like bubble
that reflects the sunshine and shad-
ow of environment and is gone; a
moekery, d sham, a lie, a fool s vision;
its happiness but Dead Sea apples; its
pain the crunching of a tvrrant $
heel. I feel as Omar did when he
wrote
we are no other than a moving row
OF magic shadow shapes that come
and go
Round with the sun-illuminated Ian
tern he'd
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Show.
But helpless pieces of the game he
plays
Upon this eheckerboard of nights and
days
Hither and thither he moves, and
checks and Stays
And enc by one back to the closet
lays.
'The ball no question makes or ayes
and noes
But here or there as strikes the play
er goes;
And he that toss d you down into
the field,
He knows it ALLIE KNOWS, He
knows
"But | do not. This is my mood.
"Not SO with Riley Grammar. If
/ have gagged his character correctly,
he accepted the circumstances sur
rounding him as the mystic officials
to whom the whole Universe had dele
gated its whole Office concerning him.
He seemed to accept both victory and
Vyi+b rt,oniynify He xan N /
man whose exterior was as placid and
calm as any man whom | have ever
seen, and yet when we look back over
his meteoric past, we can readily I'M
derstand, if this statement be true,
that he was absolutely invincible in
spirit. If you will allow me I will
use a phrase which most of you are
familiar with He was a dead game
sport. | say it not irrevelently, but
fill the phrase as full of practical
human philosophy as it will hold, and
| believe that when you can say that
one is a dead game sport, you have
the climax of human philos-
ophy.
81 believe that Riley Grammar life
fully exemplllied the philosophy of
these fugitive verses:
easy enough to be happy
When life flows along like a song
But the man worth while
rs the man who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
BILE,
And it always comes with the years
And the smile that is worth
The homage of earth
Is the smile that shines through
tears
Il know that there are those who
will condemn him. There are those
who believe today that he is reaping
the rewards of a mlsnent life. There
are those that aredominated by mod
iacval ereeds. To these | have no
words to say in regard to him. They
are runled by the skelepn hand of tle
past and fail to see the moral beauty
of a character that lived outside of
their p%uritanical ideas. ilis goodness
was net Of the type that reaches lie
highest perfection in the manifesto
TORS in ceremonial piety. His go d.
ness. | say was not of that type, but
of the type that finds expression in
the nandclasp; the type that finds x
preston in a word of cheer to a dis
eouraged brother; the type that finds
expression in cheerful deeds of char
ity; the type that finds expression in
deeds of friendship, the sweetest fl W
er that blossoms along the highway of
life; the type that finds expression
in manhood.
Gle lived in the world of sport.
GRAND BALL