The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-10

even take the medicine which had been
prescribed.
writer In the Charlotte Observer
says:
Had I died last night instead of him
he would probably have referred to our
Friday afternoon chat on the train. l
will never forget 1t, and the manner in
which with perfect control of every feat
ure, he spoke of his heart recently miss
ing beats, and one time appeared to cease
entirely He attributed all this to much
loss of sleep, but at the time, it occurred
to me- that it was this heart irregulari-
ty which produced the insomnia. Men
may be of sufficient courage to speak of
this thing only to friends. but the fact
remains. that an irregular heart will
make the strongest man nervous.
The Biblical Recorder pays this trib-
ute:
Erwin Avery city editor of the Char
lotte Observer, died suddenly in Char
lotte April 2, of heart failure brought
on by over work.
Avery's death is a calamity every way,
and the pity of 1t is beyond all words.
He was the bright particular star of
North Carolina journalism, and l know
of no writer for the press anywhere
who portrays life SO sympathetically
and with so much of optimism. No one
of his generation in the south has so
touched the hearts of his readers. He did
not write news. He drew life. [ looked
for great literary work from him, rich
in human nature and humor and in lam
guage vital with its mission.
He loT<d all things genuine; his SYM
pathy Has as, spontaneous and fresh and
free as a brook; and his good fellowship
was unfailing. ! have not known another
so human as he and so keyed to catch
the true human note in everything. Twas
SO he made commoplaces rich.
Last Monday he gave the little blue
vioets a welcome Today he sleeps be-
meath them. A friend of all the world is
dead.
1t is pitiful. pitiful.
He loved all genuine things. most of all
little children, little. fellows fighting life's
battle in knee pants, his life was sc
wholesome, he understood human nature
so well, seeing bad and good, and de.
ploring the bad without malice and low
ing the good without affection: he carried
himself SO noby and so gently; his heart
was so big and warm. and he had such
a way with his tongue and pen, such a
big warm way-that one cannot under
stand why he should have left us; an6
the places and people that knew him
seem unlike themselves. The best song
in all the symphony Is missing this morn
ing.
And yet of him dying at thrty-three In
the bloom of life, we can say that he
lived his life, living more than most dc
for whom the almond tree doth blossom;
that he did his work, beautiful and gra-
cious and intense with his hearts de-
votion; and that he did not fear to die
being in his own simple way follower
of Him by whom we know that there is
life fulfilled in all its noblest qualities
beyond the valley of death.
The Asheville Gazette in its account OF
Mr.. Avery's death says:
To the manner born, in countenance an
Adonis, in statue Saul, for courage q
Couer de Leon and in friendship q
Jonathan. he wore the moral purple thai
speaks the royal rank of the gentle.
man.
One of the most elegant tributes to Mr.
Avery was that paid in an article ovei
the signature of Miss Lilly w. Long
president of the Female seminary al
Charlotte.