The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-17
By COL. L, L. SAWYER.

By COL. L. L. SAWYER.
 Dr. Edward Giese Cannon lived upon earth eighty seven years.
 Herodotus Father of history born ASA years B. C.. said in his salons Words of Wisdom to Croesus." Seventy years l regard as the limit of the life of man
 The whole number of days contained in the seventy years will thus be twen- ty six thousand two hundred and fifty whereof not one but will produce events unlike the rest.
 Hence man is wholly accident.
 But if I. when dead shall have no consciousness, as some narrow minded philosophers imagine, I do not fear lest dead philosophers should ridicule my delusion. But if We are not destined to be immortal, yet it is a desirable thing for a man to expire at his fit time. For as nature prescribes bound ary to all things, so does she also to life.
 Old age is the consummation of life
 As "big oaks from little acorns grow" to these full fruition lasting and yield ing to the clements when these pur- poses are fulfilled.
 The storm has gone over pr. Cannon and he, like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about, is torn up by the roots and is prostrate in death. He filled out his old age as his consummation of life dust to dust" his soul within the realm Of the mysterious eternity
 Dr. Cannons life as the Bible has also stated possible for man was ex- tended to him seventeen years beyond the usual limit regarded as the length Of the life of man.
 At last when the inevitable death came his spirit passed where all the departed disembodied dead have gone before. yet. for an all-wise purpose while the unborn will take our places here, live as We have lived and pass out of the same inevitable gateway of death. into a life of immortality.
 A peculiar sweet smile shone over his face when he closed his eyes in the sleep of death.
 He was without fear in keeping with his religious faith. life and character.
 The world has been bettered for bav- ing Dr. Edward Giese Cannon born. and living in it so long.
 During his last ten years, which we knew him as a resident citizen of Nome. Alaska, he was recognized as a conspicuous figure; not only because of extreme age which demands respect but as deserving to be highly respected for having lived and kept his faith. the courage of his convictions, honest with demeanor quiet and unobtrusive ever maintaining a venerable integrity of character worthy to emulate.
 When such man dies We feel his loss and living example, but are ever reminded that their deeds live after them, benefitting the world in which they lived and are imperishable.
 His surviving family must be com torted by his influence, in the long life he was spared to them. the love and respect ever manifested by him guiding them in the right and path of virtue protecting shield in which their lives were made easier in the pursuit Of happiness.
 it Will be remembered by those who witnessed the soiemnity. the awe in- spring ceremony when Dr. Cannon. whose life has been interwoven with the Mormon church and as a high priest many years and at the time of his death. performed the baptismaI rights to sister convert, to the Mormon religion "by going down into the wa ter and coming out of the water" of the Bering sea, Nome. Alaska, Arctic reg ion. in front of Barracks square. as Jesus was baptized by John in the River Jordan.
 It is not probable that another such scene will ever be witnessed arain as was performed under the conditions by so aged and venerable and good old man stopped in body from infirmities of eighty seven years.
 To have portrayed the eountenances of those who assembled there and wit messed the solemn spectacle, within the Arctic region. so startling and unpre- eedented perhaps in the history of the world would not only have made him famous no doubt as a production of the work of art but the picture of such merit would have been sought after by