, 1888-04-11

there was Just a glimmering of hope that
the strength of the patients constitution
would tide him over the danger; but by
the evening of that day all hope was aban-
dOned and on Wednesday evening Mr..
RusSelPS busy life OH earth was ended.
The deceased, at the age of 20, came to
the colony in the year 1947 and common
crd his career az an OverSeer on Pin.
Friends, then under the management of
Mr.. Edmund Field. He brought with him
from Scotland where he had undergone
labOriOus practical apprenticeship to a
farmer, the hope being that he would fol-
low his fathers calling, a sound cOnstitu-
ton, an iron frame, ample intelligence,
and the main element of genius,-the capa-
city for hard inCeSSant work. No training
qualities a young man better for the over
SeerShip of the canefelds of this colony
than such as young Russell had had, and
it WAS no wonder that with everything to
make him a desirable hand on the estate,
including a genial disposition and the art
OF knowing how to deal with %labOuring men,
he should S00n be on the way to the front.
Soon after Mr.. Field was removed from
Pin. Friends to the charge of Pin. eat iG.
mOnd, Mr.. Russell left Berbice to become
one OF his staff, and it was not long be.
Va IL hOA WI hA'S OFSlCSOA W'o ~
pointed 10 the deputy management Of
Little Diamond, an annexe of the larger
estate. His next promotion was to the
management of Pin. Farm, and from thence
he removed to Pin. Le0nOrd with which
his name has been closely associated for
the last quarter Of a century for although
it is now a good many years since he hand
ell over the actual management of it to
another, he still resided on the estate and,
as attorney, shaped the managerial policy.
The successful career Of the active mana
ger of Le0nOrd, then one of the largest and
most valuable estates in the colony, did
not escape public notice, nor fail to Oh
tanned favourable recognition; and as y
natural Mr.. Russell came to
be regarded as an authority on questions
concern ell with the planting interest, and
AS one of the trustworthy pioneers in the
march of agricultural ami mechanical pro.
grpSs. His BUSY brain was never idle;
his hands. ALWAYS used to hard work,
were splendid helpers i'll his practical eX-
perimentS; his rapid pencil WAS always
ready to tabulate in the ne2teSt and PLAN
est of handwriting, the results of all his
tests; and ont OF this inCesSant striving
after valuable knowledge, arose improve
mpnts in tillage, drainage, crushing, gran
ulating, steam-raising, and all the many
departments of that wonderfully busy and
varied hive of human industry,-a sugar
estate. The few holidays to the old COun-
try he ever allowed himself were spent for
the most part adding to his store of infOr-
nation on the production Of sugar. He
never returned from a trip without bring
ing with him the germs of some new i'm
DrOvempnt soon to be established which
would tend directly to the economy of
human labOur, or the C~heapening of man.
ufacture, either by an increased return
from the juice of the cane or some more
profitable way of dealing with it. Up
almost to the day of his death he main
tanned this search after the something
b better, and the desire to possess the latest
acknowledged improvements. AS a mana
ger he was a Woodworking man, and liked
to have hard. workers about him, whether
they were engineers, OverseerS or lAbOur-
erS; he was in the happy position of be.
ing able to show any one of them how to
do his share of The work; and one of his
fratS was to take the long novel used i'll
trenciling and prove to the shOvelmen that
their manager could throw the mud as
skiIfully and rapidly as the strongest
Ouasllie amongst them. When his merits
Az an agriculturiSt and a sugar maker had
established his reputation, and he had
taken higher rank than a manager, he
soon found that his capacity for hard
work had abundance of opportunities to
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