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AN ELOQUENT EULOGY UPON A "DEAD GAME SPORT"
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Some vcirs ago Kiley Grannan.
one of I he mom famous (if r ioe track
plunRprs, died in Kawhid, Nevada
poor In monoy, lnt rich in friends. At
bin fmiors!, hold in sn old variety
theater. H. W. Knickerbocker, once
clergyman, delivered one of the
Biost remarkal le una beautiful of eu
logies An account of the funeral and
ef the eulogy as published at that
time reads as follows:
RAWHIDE, April 15. Half shield
ed mi ler an oil-cloth Manket, lodged
In a common express wagon, the cas
ket of Kiley Grannan was carried re
cently down dusty Rawhide avenue
nd along Nevada sireet from the
tented eMaMishmem of the camp's
undertaker to an Improvised memo
rial chapel, a variety theater at the
rear of a saloon.
There confrresated a throng In
n,k. and corduroys, women of metro
jiolitan costumes, miners covered with
Muh-prade ft rime, prospectors
tanned, brokers, bankers, merchants,
promoters owners of saloons, bar
tender., ramblers, rounders.
that were shed dropped from the eyes
cf all. Again, as always in mining
camps, class was forgotten. All men
were equal.
A solemn hush came down upon
the little playhouse where last night
and tonight Jostling crowds drank
and smoked while listening to doubt
ful wit from the coarse Jesters, men
ind women, on the variety forum.
Hovered about the bier of Riley Gran
nan, racetrack plunger of national
renown, was as solemn a group of sin
cere mourners as ever gathered to
pay final tribute.
rXirmer Actress Sings Solo.
Solos were offered by Mrs. H
drtcks, once an actress of wide fame,
now wife of the editor of a Rawhide
dally paper, and by Jack Hines, mi
ner of Alaska, and leaser of Rawhide.
and clothed in the rough garb of a
miner. A stenographic report of the
eulogy follows:
"I feel that it is Incumbent upon
me to state that I now occupy no min
isterial or prelatic position. I am
onlv a prospector. I make no claims
to moral merit whatever or to re
ligious authority except it be the re
ligion of the brothernood of man. I
wish to be taken only as a man am
ong men. feeling that I can shake
hands wiih and -style as my brother
the most humble of you all. If there
titultous combination of circumstan-i
cea over which he can evert no con
trol, when I see his outstretched
hands about to grasp the flag of vic
tory, and to seize Instead the emblem
of defeat, I ask. 'What is life?'
Dreams, awakening, death. Life is a
pendulum betwixt a smile and
fear. Life is but a momentary halt
within the waste and then the noth
ing we set out from. Life Is a shad
ow, a poor player that struts and
frets his hour upon the stage and then
is heard no more. Life is a tale told
the palpitating heart of the desert, i
He scatters the sunbeams like shat
tered gold upon the bossom of a my
riad of lakes that gem the robe of
nature. He spangles the canopy of
night with star Jewels and silvers the
world with the reflected beams from
on high. He hangs the gorgeous
crimson curtain of the Occident across
the sleeping-room of the sun.
"God wakes the coy maid of the
morning to step timidly from her
boudoir of darkness, to climb the
steep of the Orient, to fling wide the
gates of morning and to trip o'er the
landscape, kissing the rlowers In her
flight. She arouses the world to her
ald with their music the coming ot
her king, who floods the world with
effulgent gold. These are waited
sunbeams. Are they? I say to you
that the man or woman who by the
use of money or power Is able to
smooth one wrinkle from the brow of
human care or to change one moan or
sob into a song, or to wipe away a
tear and to place In its stead a Jewel
of Joy is a public benefator. Such
was Riley Grannan.
"The time has come to say good-
by. For the friends and loved ones
not here to say the word let me say
goodby, old man. We will try to
exemplify the spirit of your life as
we bear the grief at our parting.
Words fall me here. Let the flowers,
Riley, with their petaled Hps and
perfumed breath, speak in beauty and
fragrance those sentiments too tender
for words. Oood-by."
admonition, it springs not from a
sense of moral superiority, only from
the depths of my experience.
"Riley Grannan was born at Paris,
Ky., about 40 years ago. He cher
ished all the dreams ot boyhood.
Those dreams found their fruition in
phenomenal success financial. I am
told that from the position of a bell
boy in a hotel he arose to be a celeb'
rity of world-wide fame. Riley Qran
nan was one of the greatest plungers
Tears I the continent has proauced. He died
day before yesterday at Rawhide.
"That is a brief statement. We
have his birth, and me day of his de-
niise. Who can fill the Interim? Not
I. Who can tell his hopes and fears
Who knows the mystery of his quiet
hours? Not I.
"Riley Grannan was born in the
sunny southland of Kentucky. He
died in Rawhide. That Is the begin
ning. That is the end. Is there In
this a picture of what Ingersoll said
at the grave of his brother. Whether
It be near the shore, or In mid-ocean,
or among the breakers at the last, a
wreck must mark the end of one and
all?
"Born were brooks and rivers
run musically through prolific soil,
where magnolia gladifora, like white
stars, flow in a firmament of green,
where lakes, the green ward and the
dimple the
Is resonant
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Punctuations came with resounaing
blasts from a score or mines on me , softest summer breeze
Biountains Just above. Saloons were' ,avelet wnere the air
closed and the streets weer silent j thg melody of a thousand sweet
throughout the service. At its end a voiceiJ bird3 and redolent ot the per
olernn cortege trudged, with the re-fu of blooming flowers, that was
the beginning. Riley Grannan aiea
mains destined bv automobile to
travel 30 mllee to Schurx, there to go
aboard the cars to Riley's brother in
Kentucky.
Unique beyond experience and dra
matic beyond compare was the eulogy
pronounced by H. W. Knickerbocker,
once a clergyman, then a mine oper
ator ot Goldfield, later a Rawhide pi
oneer. Hardly orthodox, but wholly
in Rawhide where In winter the tops
of the mountains are clothed in gar.
ments of ice and In summer the blis
tering rays of the sun beat down up
on the skeleton of the desert.
"Is there In this a picture of uni
versal life? Sometimes, when I look
upon the circumstances of life, there
comes to mv lips a curse. I relate to
in keeping with the scene and theiyou my views only. If these run con'
mute desires of the dead, was the or-' trary to yours, believe what I say is
ator's appearance. The once pulpit sincere. When I see the ambitions
exponent stood beside the lily-laden I of man defeated, when I see him
bier, his eyes bedimmed with tears, struggling with mina and body to ac
his voice choked with a fraternal ; complish his end, when I see his aim
emotion, he was shod in high boots, and purpose frustrated only by a for-
mav come from me a word of moral by an Idiot, full of sound, signifying
nothing. Life Is a cnild-blown bub
ble that but reflects the shadow of
Its environment and is gone, a mock
ery, a sham, a lie, a fool's vision. Its
happiness but Dead Sea apples, its
pain the crunching of a tyrant's heel.
"Dead Game Sort," Says Speaker.
"If I have gauged Riley Grannan's
character correctly he accepted the
circumstances surrounding him
the mystic officials to whom the
universe had delegated its whole of
fice concerning him. He took defeat
and victory with equal equanimity.
He was a man ot placid exterior. His
meteoric past shows him invincible in
spirit and it is not irreverently that
I proclaim him a dead game sport.
When I use that phrase I do so fill
ing it as full of practical human phi
losophy as it will hold. Riley Gran
nan fully exemplified the philosophy
of those fugitive verses, 'It's easy
enough to be happy when life goes
along like a song; but the man worth
while is the man who will smile when
everything goes wrong; for the test
of the heart Is trouble, and it always
comes with the years; and the smile
Is the smile that smiles throughout
tears."
"There are those who will con
demn him. They believe that today
he Is reaping the reward of a mis
spent life. They are those who are
dominated by medieval creeds. Them
I am not addressing. They are ruled
by the skeleton hand of the past. They
fall to see the moral side of a char
acter lived outside their puritanical
ideas. Riley Grannan's goodness
was not of a type mat reached its
highest manifestation in ceremonious
piety. It found its expression In the
handclasp of friendship. It found Its
voice in the word of cheer to a dis
couraged brother. His were deeds of
quiet charity. His were acts of man
hood. "Riley Grannan lived in the world
of sport My words are not minced,
because I am telling what I believe
to be true. It was the world of sport,
sometimes of hilarity, sometimes
worse.
"He left the impress of his char
acter upon us all and through the
medium of his financial power he
was able with his money to brighten
the lives of all who Knew him. He
wasted his money, so the world says;
but did it ever occur to you that the
men and women of such class upon
whom he wasted it are yet men and
women? A little happiness brought
into their lives means as much to
them as happiness carried Into the
lives of the straight and good. If
you can take one ray of sunshine Into
the nightlife and thereby carry a sin
gle hour of happiness, you are a ben
efactor, Riley Grannan did this.
No Sunbeams Wasted.
"God confined not his sunbeams to
the nourishing of potatoes and corn
His scattering of sunshine was prod
igal. Contemplate. He flings the au
roral beauties round the cold shoul
ders of the north. He hangs the
quivering picture of the mirage above
X YES IS A VOTE
SQUARE DEAL fOR EASTERN OREGON
If you are in favor of a square deal for the country
East of the Cascades you will vote for and work for
THE PROPOSED EASTERN OREGON STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL AT PENDLETON, OREGON.
Oregon has but one Normal School. This school la
located at Monmouth and is not able to supply
more than TEN PER CENT of the teachers re
quired in the public schools of Oregon. Of the
more than six thousand teachers in our public
schools. BUT 13 rER CENT are graduates of Nor
mal Schools. It is a matter of simple Justice to the
country East of the Cascades to establish a Normal
School East of the mountains to furnish thoroughly
trained teachers for the schools of Eastern Oregon.
TRAIN CP INSTRUCTORS WANTED
Every resident of Eastern Oregon has a vital in
terest in the passage of this measure for Eastern
Oregon pays HIGH SALARIES to her teachers and
is entitled to the services of TRAINED INSTRUCT
ORS. ONLY COSTS 4 CEN fS PER 11.000
The annual cost of maintenance of the proposed
State Normal School amounts to BUT ONE 25TH
OF A MILL OR 4 CENTS ON A THOUSAND DOL
LARS of taxable property. Isn't it worth this to
you to have your children trained to become USE
FUL AND PRODUCTIVE citizens?
STRONG ENDORSEMENT
J. A. Churchill the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction voices the sentiment of the educators of
the state when he says:
"Oregon's greatest need for its rural schools Is the
teacher who has had full preparation to do her work.
Such preparation can best come through Normal
School training.
"I trust that the voters of the state will assist in
raising the standard of our schools by establishing
a State Normal School at Pendleton. The location
Is central, the interest of the people of Pendleton in
education most excellent, and the large number of
pupils In the public schools will give ample oppor
tunity to all students to get the amount of teaching
practice required in a standard normal school."
The educators of the State Insist that Standard
Normal Schools be located In towns of 5000 popu
lation or more and having ENOUGH GRADE PU
PILS FOR TEACHER PRACTICE.
BE LOYAL AND VOTE RIGHT
Bhow your loyalty to the best Interests of Eastern
Oregon and of the whole state by working for this
measure and by voting YES FOR NO. 30. By vot
L ypt; fr No. 101 you will help to GIVE TO THE
BCIIOOL CHILDREN OF OREGON THE SAME
ADVANTAGES ENJOYED BY THE SCHOOL
CHILDREN OF OUR NEIGHBORING STATES.
Eutern Oregon State Normal School Committee
Hy J. II. Gwlnn, Sec)., Pendleton, Ore.
(Paid advertisement)
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