The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-16

to meet the wants Of the country and
the demand Of the times stimulated,
no doubt, by an ambition to do his
share of the active work of building up
the material interests of the great
Northwest.
Dealing with him extensively, through
a long series Of years, the writer found
nm, always, one of the most honorable,
reasonable, and kindly of business men
no symptoms of difficulty or business
unpleasantness, ever occurred between
us.
And this writer is not alone in this
estimate of Mr.. Falvy. In talking of
his sudden demise and OF our common
acquaintance with the deceased, with
one who had also long dealt with Mr..
falvy, the same estimate Of his charac-
ter was expressed. The acquaintance
OF the person referred to was not con-
fined to business alone, but had become
an intimate friendship, and possibly to
no other person outside of his own fam
lily had Mr.: Falvy developed the real
features OF the soul within him as fully.
Ask this friend and he will tell YOU,
that Thomas Falvy possessed a soul
tender and sympathetic as maiden or
child-yet most courageous, brare
and noble. AS an instance of the one
characteristic he would cite his invari-
able consideration and reverence for his
mother. When making business or a
friendly call, sometimes, near night
more than twenty miles from home
this friend would urge him to stop over
until morning. He would with grateful
acknowledgment say no: " Mother ex-
poets me home" We speak of years
ago when his home was with his moth
/ er.
As evidence OF the brave, courageous,
and noble, this friend would tell you of
expressions, in later years, when bust
ness endorsements had overtaken him,
from contiding property and transac-
tions too freely to other hands, from
the necessities of his spread oper-
ations, advised by others, well meaning
toward him,-to commute with his
creditors at percentage on his liabili-
tiles, he would say to this friend, IL
can pay 100 cents on the dollar and
shall do it. And SO it is said, he has
done-through years devoted to attain
it.
1t is but recently that he wrote to
this friend that he had got his matters
all Strengthened and he appeared to be
in the best Of spirits on that account,
and hopeful
j tie had made arrangements in Kan
sas to manufacture irons for railroad,
and expressed, that there he could SUI
perintend the business and be with his
family, and not SO much abroad, and it
was Oh his return from the locality of
his future business that he fell-unable
to reach the near threshold of his fami-
ly-at the threshold of the house of his
mother and expired.
Oh, that human aid could avail and
avail after the fact. Then would many
| feet rush to that PROSTATE form--the
ebbing life would be stayed, and the
husband and father saved to the happi-
ness of that home, so dear to him, but
now so stricken and desolate.
But One wiser than man rules
thong h q his ways are past finding out -
But shall we not trust that the brave
and noble soul of our friend is gone to
a happier existence, and that He who
has stricken will be the widows God
and the Father of the fatherless.
Let no human, otherwise than aid,
shi EN- and protect the stricken ones.