Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-25

terms. In a trustful, reverent way he tried
to make the most of himself. lie tried,
day by day, with true simplicity, to
correct his faults, to look upward, to move
onward, and to make his life conform to
the divine ideal. And herein was the real
secret of DR.. Diapers strength of charac-
ter.
A progressive man in his personal, social
and religious life, he was not less so i'm his
profession. Notwithstanding all that he
had accomplished for the asylum, he had
greater things yet in store to be done. His
plans for its future growth and usefulness
were never so many or so active as when
he died. Those whose good fortune it had
been to receive his professional advice
know how wholesome it was. In the treat
ment of nervous ailments he taught the
patient that the great and almost the only
reliance was on the recuperative powers OF
nature rightly directed, rather than upon
medication. In looking through the series
of biennial reports made by him to the
asylum trustees. and through them to the
legislature, this paragraph meets the eye,
written 10 years ago: Looking backward
the maxim has been mo cure but by medi-
cine. Looking forward, with mistaken
faith in the steady progress of the future,
and to the gradual development Of clearer
knowledge concerning the laws of life, II
will become more and more the province OF
the physician to point out the way to
health, and less and less to cOunteract NOR
bid states by means of drugs" This was
the keynote of DR.. Diapers professional
practice and success.
The Rev. Mr. Phalen alluded to DR..
Diapers personality as subtle, indetina-
bic essence, felt, but not to be explained.
A single instance illustrates this A doz-
en- years ago, before suspicion of the asy-
lum management had wholly ceased from
the public mind, it was desirable to carry
through the legislature some measure,
whose exact character we do not remem-
Der, in the interest of the institution. 1t
was suggested that friends of the asylum
should appear at Montpelier to present and
argue the case, but the member in charge
of the bill said, mo, keep your advocates
at home. / would give more to have DR..
Draper come into the House when it is in
session. walk up through the chamber and
sit down, than for all the other influence
you can bring to bear 1t was DR.. Ora
per's personality which he knew would tell
the story and do the work.
There is another, an interior, phase of
DIR. Diapers character, of which the heart
prompts to speak because it shows the man
as nothing else could, but the words must
be few. We refer to his relations with
those tied to him by kinship, and to his
intimate friends. Nothing could be more
delightful, nothing makes the heart so
warm, as to remember his bearing toward
his father and mother while they lived.
There was in this no appearance of filial
duty performed because it was their due,
but his attitude was that of a loving son,
whose happiness was in ministering to
those who had cared for him in his own
years of need. When he set out to pre-
pare for his professional life his father
furnished him the means from his modest
substance. Many times has DR.. Draper
related, in these later years, with what sat
isfactiOn he, in due time. when his own
days Of strength and prosperity had come,
paid back, with interest to his father on
the old farm the money that had been sup
piled him, cheerfuly, but none the less
with self-sacrice Toward his mother,
not few of whose characteristics were
borne by the son, his bearing. especially
after the death of the father, was that Of
tender, gallant and chivalrous lover, anx-
ious only to anticipate her wishes and min
lister to her happiness.
DIR. Diapers marriage to Mary j. Put
nam, who survives him, took place at War
wick Mass, Jan. -, 1868. OF their life
together Of mutual helpfulneSs and devo-
ton, and of the blow which has fallen on
Mrs. Draper, no public word may be
spoken.
TO have enjoyed for almost twenty years
the confidence and the intimate friendship
of a man thus broadly fashioned has been an
inspiration, and its memory is now a bene-
diction, for which no emotion but that of
profound gratitude can be felt