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Of the men with a wide-world reputation, active in tlie earlier 

 years to wliieh I refer, with whom I can claim some personal ac- 

 quaintance, I can name none now remaining in the world but P. 

 Barry, J. J. Thomas and our own S. L, Goodale. Of our great and 

 good teachers, Charles Downing and Marshall P. Wilder, I would on 

 this occasion give ^'ou words expressive of my appreciation of their 

 individual characters and their acquittal of assumed obligations in 

 life's mission, but ni}' imi)ulse is checked by inability to express a 

 tythe of what I feel. Their contril)utions to the well-being of the 

 race are rareh", if ever, excelled in individual endeavor at any era 

 in man's history. Each in a life well extended through careful com- 

 pliance with physical laws — each in early life devoted to a special 

 pursuit of vast importance to mankind — each lived to accomplish 

 that for which w^e, with a united humauit}*, will hold them in perpetual 

 remembrance. It was my privilege to receive favors from their hands ; 

 and no gentleman was more prompt and painstaking in private cor- 

 respondence than thev were. It was once naively remarked of Mr. 

 Wilder that ''wherever he steps, flowers bloom around him ; and 

 whenever we meet him, his hands are full of richest fruits." 



In and through their unselfish works in disseminating life-giving 

 fruits, these model men builded wisely and well their homes, and 

 planted their choicest fruits in that real aiid perfect world — separated 

 only b}' a vail from this — where the\' may enjoy without limit, where 

 blight and insect pest ma}' never enter. We miss them here, and 

 where will be found those worth}' to take their places? 



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