White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

ing shadow. a poor player that
struts and frets his hour upon the
stage and then is heard NJ more;
"a tale told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, s~lgnifying nothing; a
child-blown bubble that but reflects
the light and shadow of its environ
ment and is gone; a mockery, a
sham, a lie, a fools vision; it's hap
piness but Dead sea apples, its pain
the c%runching of a %tyrant's heel.
feel as Omar did when he wrote
1--WE are no other than a moving
row
OF Magic Shadow-shapes that come
and go
Round with the Sun-illumined
Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the
show;
4" But helpless Pieces of the Game
He Plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights
and DAYS;
Hitler and thither moves, and
checks, and PLAYS.
And one by one back in the Closet
lays.
=" The Ball no question makes of
Ayes and Noes.
But Here Or There as strikes the
Player goes;
And He that led you down into
the Field,
He knows about it ALLIE knows
HE KNOWS
But | don't. This is my mood.
Not so with RELY Grammar. If
] have gagged his character correct
ly, he accepted the circumstances
surrounding him as the mystic OIL
cials to who the universe had dele
gated it's whole Office concerning
him. He seemed to accept both de-
feat and victory, with equanimity.
He was a man whose exterior was as
placid and gentle as | have yer seen.
and yet when we look back over his
meteoric past We can readily under
stand, if this statement be true, that
he was absolutely invincible in spirit.
If you will allow me. | will use 4
phrase most of you are acquainted
with. He was a dead game sport
Isay II not irreyrently. but fill the
phrase as full Of practical human
philosophy as it will hold. and | be-
lieve that when you say II is 4
dead. game sport you have reached
the climax of human philosophy.
Il believe that Riley Grannan's
life fully exemplihed the philosophy
of these verses:
+" It's easy enough to be happy
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while
Is the mar who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
g For the test OF the heart is trouble,
Aud it always zones with the years,
And the smile that is worth
The homage of earth
Is the smile that shines through
tears
81 know that there are those who
will condemn him. There are those
who believe today that he is reaping
the reward of a mis-. spent life. There
are those who are dominated by med
iaeval creeds. To those | have no
words to say in regard to him. They
are ruled by the skeleton hand of
the past and fail to zee the moral
beauty of a character lived outside
their puritnical ideas. His good
ness was not of the type that reach
ed 1t highest manifestations in any
ceremonial piety. His, goodness l
say. was not of that type, but of the
type that find expression in a word
of cheer to a discouraged brother;
the type that find expression in quiet
deeds of charity: the type that finds
expression in friendship, the sweet
est flower that blooms along the
dusy highway of life: the type that
finds expression in manhood.
He lived In the world of sport.
| do not mince my words. am tell
ing what ! believe to be true. In
the world of sport-hilarity some
times. and maybe wors He left the
impress of his character on this
world and through the medium of
his financial power he was able with
his money to brighten the lives of its
inhabitants. He wasisted it. so the
world says. But did II ever occur to
you that the most sinful men and
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