Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-07

throughout 8 long life, she was surrounded with perfect ease of circumstance. She was singularly beautiful in her youth, and to the
 close of her life she had the charm of per- sonal loveliness. Her manner was direct and frank and cheerful, and with her perfect
 candor and vigorous good sense it scattered
 the trivial and smirking artifcialities of social intercourse as clear wind from the
 northwest cools and refreshes the sultry
 languors of August. Early married to 8
 man of the highest character and aims, and
 of that practical good sense which makes
 ability most effective, she was in entire sym-
 pathy with his wise and humane interests,
 and thus in her family she was most fortu- nate and happy.
 Yet by beauty, wealth, position aad the
 natural possession of the prizes for which life
 is generally struggle she was wholly un- spoiled. Her views of duty and of just
 human relations were so clear and true that she reinvigorated the conscience of all who knew her. She was curiously free from the little weaknesses which we instinctively excuse in ourselves and others, and although
 her absolute truthfulness necessarily but involuntarily rebuked us all, we could no more be angry than with our own conscienc-
 es. The reproaeh was entirely involuntary. Never was woman more tenderly tolerant of every honest difference, or more careful not to wound either by look or word or tone. Too true herself to suspect falsity in others,
 she was much too sensible to assume the part of mentor.
 In the great mental and moral activity of her generation she was instinctively liberal, and never questioned in others the complete
 soul liberality, as Roger Williams called it,
 which she calmly and naturally maintained for herself. No reform could conceal from
 her it's essential value as high aspiration, 6 good impulse, if nothing more; and however
 grotesque and extravagant the reformer, she
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 comed the earnest seeker, bewildered and
 blinded though he might be. She judged speech and action by remarkable intuition of right and wrong, and it was interesting
 to see how surely and smoothly she cut so- phistry straight through to the truth which it untitled and distorted. Men and women
 she valued soley for their intrinsic worth, and never by conventional standards. A fugitive slave and the Prince of Wales would have been treated by her in a way which would have assured them both that the diff ferent circumstances of their condition did not obscure their equal humanity.
 To say this must not leave the impression that she was other than 8 lady of the sim plest, most refined and most unobtrusive but cordial manner. There must be no vii sion of Lady Bountiful, or of Lady of | the Manor, or of any self conscious person age whatever. But stronger influence upon | the lives with which she was brought in con- ! tact cannot we'll be conceived, nor the peren. nial hope and encouragement which her cheerful presence inspired. Domestic sor- l rows touched that strong and noble heart not I to any vehement demonstration, but to a l deeper faith and sober serenity, which in- l terpreted the poets sense of "the still sad | music of humanity" Courage, confidence, 1 cheerfulness- s-these were the good angels
 that dwelt with her, and through her they breathed their benediction on all whom she
 loved or who personally loved her. As she lived in communion with great thoughts and
 the widest human sympathies, so that he, life, like our stillest, harvest ripening days
 passed in sunny repose, so the end was | peace. With no wasting malady, no long
 decay of faculty, she tranquilly slept.
 1 There is nothing that poets feign of wo
 men that was not justified by her. In think ! ing of her lofty life there is no need of ex- l cuse or allowance; for human nature, as ii
 was never more unassuming or simple, was l never greater and lovelier than in her.
 Beautiful and wise, and brave and gentle
 and good, the thought of her is perpetua
 blessing.