---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 7
published: 1899-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Life’s Chase: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 7 (May 1899): 503.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera27unse
start_page: 503
end_page: 503
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27unse
  publication_year: 1899
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Life’s Chase: A Poem

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THE WONDERS OF LIQUEFIED AIR.                        503

now-a-days having to carry great stores of explosive ammunition,
ships fitted up with this new invention, the explosive material could
be manufactured when needed out of the exhaustless supply of air
abounding wherever the vessels may go, and the other materials
added in a short time, thus greatly facilitating the fighting capacity
of our ships.    While   this is   no small thing to be considered, still
the greater benefits that would be derived from this new discovery
will be its application as a   power producer to machinery, for the
manufacture of the countless articles used by mankind at a minimum cost, and also in transporting freight and passengers at 7ery
reduced rates compared with those which prevail at present.          The
good resulting in this wise is beyond computation.
     Who can help but acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the
bringing forth of these great inventions and discoveries?            Certainly no one who believes in the existence of an all-wise and overruling Providence.

                              LIFE'S CHASE.

                      FROM THE GERMAN OP SCHULTZE.

           The chief of the huntsman is Death, whose aim
             Soon levels the brave and the craven;
           He crimsons the field with the blood of his game,
                But the booty he leaves to the raven.
            Like the stormy tempest that files so fast,
                               Man shakes
                              And quakes
                         At this bugle blast.

            But what boots it, my friend, from the hunter to flee;
              Who shoots with the shafts of the grave?
            Far better to meet him thus manfully.
              The brave by the side of the brave!
            And when against us he shall turn his brand,
                With his face to his foe let each hero stand,
                               And wait
                               His fate
                         From a hero's hand.