The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12

| man philosopher, when he said: So do | thou have principles ready for the un- | d' rstanding of things divine and human, | and for doing every thing. even the | smallest. with recollection of the bond | which unites the divine and human to | one another.'
 When his country called her. sons to | battle. Governor Sanford. then d youth of l6 enrolled in her armies. He fought | in the ranks, and as an officer. with the l enthusiasm of youth, and the coura ge | and steadiness of manhood. When he | had been released from q northern prison, and when the war had ended, he, with 1 the other brave and heroic sons of the South with bravery and fortieude equal to that displayed on many battle fields entered upon what then appeared to be | the we'll nigh hopeless work of rehabilitat- ing the desolated Southland. He did his full duty in this srduous struggle. "Governor Sanford eceled in both wit and humor. He was one of the most ac- complished raconteurs of the State. which
 boasted and still boasts many accom- plished story-tellers. His wit was keen
 and scintlllatng. but its oallies left no wound.
 He loved the soil, as all normally con
 stituted men should do. Contact with
 the earth, as with the fabled Antaous.
 
 it promoted ais moral and mental health. All growing things appealed to him; the scenic spleDdors of the days and nights, of sky and clouds and storms touched his poetic nature. He heard with delight | the whispering of the trees and the muI- mur of flowing waters. The mighty pro cession of the seasons impressed him | with the power and wisdom of the Creator. The voices of animals. and all
 the varied wood-notes made for him parts
 of grand nature symphony. He listent
 to the madrigaIs and sonnets of the
 feathered Petrarchs and Sidneys who | lived in the woodland depths .and he un- | derstood them in his poets soul, and
 with his poets heart he loved them. "The multitudinous activities of men | interested Governor Sanford, and he kept | in touch with all the stirring events of | the times. His sympathies were broad and his benefcent acts were almost un- | numbered. but so unostentatiously per | formed that few were aware of them. | The good deeds which men do to one another are of various degrees of ex- cellence. A writeh before quoted des- cribes them thus :'One man, when he has done a service to another, Is ready | to set it down to his account as favor l conferred: another is not ready to do | this, but still in his own mind | he thinks a~ot the man as his | debtor. and he knew what he has | done. 4 third. in manner. does not even know what he has done. but he is | like a vine which has produced grapes l and seeks for nothing more after it has | once produced it's proper fruits. As a horse when he has run, dog when he | has tracked the game bee when it has | made tfe honey, so a man when he has | done a good act. does not call ont for others to come and sec. but he goes on to
 anC ther act, as vine goes on to produce | again the grapes in season. Governor | Samfnrd's acts of kindness to his fellow men were of the noble kind last described His reading Tas wide and varied. and | his knowledge was accurate. He loved all l literature, and gave much study to the