Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1882 — A MODEL OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

A MODEL OBITUARY.

Bill Nye JSourns the Deatli of Colorowj, the Hajer of Morth Park. It is with becoming sorrow that we make thOsd sad; Comments upon the death of Wm. iB-./Cplorow, maj or jo/c NorthPatk, <dncr Author of Ba|gp*’i? Saints Rest. IVfrv Colorow lefLiiothr; • lngAfaf but a few damagea scalps brine and his untarnished hahtel - > > jße early j learned that what was Ardrih flhing at all was worth doing well, and his private cemetery at White River was a proof Of‘his devotion tQ this, rule., ~* ■ \ Late iu life K‘e acquired a love of Strong - drink* which, made hipa at ' times mCrOse* kid* despondent. *Aft theqe times hpwoiild gp out and kill 1 a'pnJSp&itW anfi Itnen return cheered an<j encouraged, • This morbid .appe•tlte at last gleW upon him, however, tp 1 suchA.degree (hat his personal intimacies werp- seldom and isqlafce<h Many *of his friehas learned to regard hhq as eccentric and perhaps unsafe. His room-mate refused to occupy the sameeouch with him, partly owing to the fact that Colorow-wag liable at any moment to be overcome with this mad impulse, and partly because Colorow snored and kicked in his riumbere like a bay mule. Still and pulseless lie the , hands of Colorow, In, his mountain grave beneath the Wintry sky no qiore angthsh or bilious cmij call come to hirq., Cold and ate the lips that; was Wdnt to whoop ' r «At *up ‘Liza- Jane. Noiseless ii* tfa« bazoo of the brave inebriate of tUe.Horest. His work is done and his lajsoW have followed hind. When the watri angel Camp he dftTnot repine or complain. He OdWed hi 9 head to the ae»rveisahde(u«ei« Mldr humptd himseifilelhA mandate of the inexorable fiat. . the \ Colorado zephyr sigbhli amongfihe blossom rock of the m w L Wwite Jus khl ti tries,and lit out but there re no earthly power that going and his Af»iiAl4ii/lias been teWW'ife #f» ■«»*♦» lam** t«*<: aiwKflC iL.*l , •*»! m<Omiih *>*s**• ;»u