Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-07-06

sharply so that his would cut
away the softer lines where a
mans life and relations touch his
fellows as they are laid out by
modern times. There was little
in his life to please, to lightly
touch or soften the world. No
sentimehtalism gave effect to his
going; but his going severed so
many ties, broke up so many
relations and took away so
much of mental substance that
all felt the void. \ firm practical
Judgment was gone, and III Its
absence men felt lost, lonesome
and less secure and confident.
This was all because the old man
was in touch with the interests,
the hopes and fears of SO many
others. Just so it was and is in
respect to our friends business
relations. His work was characa
terized by intense interest, apph-
cation and vigorous execution,
which coming i'll contact with
less energetic natures was some
times called harsh. Discipline
and enterprise when Earring slOth
and confusion never receives 4
kindly or welcome greeting Be
sides, great energy, SO productive
of material prosperity to com
munity, begets occasional rash
ness which mustnccds be endured
because such forces move the de-
signs of a community and CON
tinually supply force and ma
terial for its plans and purposes,
In these times of serious re-
tlectionS let us be true and Just
each to himself and to the living,
and to the dead; but let us not
indulge too much in cold phil
Osophy. It'll becomes the forms
which memory gives us for al
most real living associates. Yet
we should rob the memory of the
just Judge of its very essence If
we should leave out of our con-
temptations that energy and
thorough discipline which touch
ed so many with its seeming
harshness, and thus should we
leave out of mind much of the
substantial goodness of his char
acter. These are the substances
of mems lives and the tender SEN
timents are their ornaments.
We have no occasion to dwell
on the former in our reflections
on the life of our friend only to
complete the character, forit was
full of the latter; and around
and underneath the forces of his
nature ran the softest, tenderest
lines that touch the lives of men.
His kindly acts made no display.
They did not vaunt themselves
nor seek applause. In his official
or business relations to men nm
der his control or direction there
was no personal friction or an
tagonisms; no unkindncss, but
only that necessary and just dis
cipline so essential to those en-
terprises to which it was applied
His social relations were genial,
and his friendship frank, concilia-
tory and pleasant He was
happy in the details OF his home
life which was Sacredly excluded
from the world, and all his ways
were pleasant there where no
want or denial ever came. He
was fortunate i'll those tender
and peculiar relations which,
when a manis blessed with them,
always form the inner circle OF
his life, and which rise i'll gentle
defiance to the colder world
without and inspires and warns
his whole being with tender but
efficient courage; and he never
did violence to them. He never
assumed any attitude towards
them other than as generous
strength does to weakness, judg
ment to incxperience, and gal
lantry and valor does to tender
womanhood and helpless in
fancy, always remembering that
it is noble to have strength but
villainOus to use it unjustly
When those heroic and tender
characteristics meet and unite
right where the life which they
inspired goes out they leave ar
impress on the world and con
stitute the complete form anc
figure OF the life that bore them.
Mans nature is twofold. Eacl
side has its counterpart, and thu
stronger and the more pro
nounced each is and the create,
the contrast between them tn,
more impressive will the man be
and the more will his absence b,
felt. And so when grief brok
forth from hearts beyond re
straint. and when strong mel
filled with emotion struggled 70
the mastery over unseemly dem
onstration we knew that dealt
had found a place in many heart
never found before. And whel
the morrow came men stopped
as if waiting for his coming, for
getful of his death. But he cam
not with the morning. |
brought along instead the empt.
chair, the noiseless house il
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