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sufter for means of education, as his father had done, and gave him 

 full liberty to furnish himself with all the books and apparatus he 

 needed, and rarely interfered even with advice to restrain him, for he 

 conscientiously devoted it to his education. We are assured bj^ those 

 who know him most intimately, that when he came into legal posses- 

 sion he was ever ready to share it with others for the same purpose. 

 In his maturer days we find him urging a friend to accept a lucrative 

 position, and even using his influence to obtain it for him, though at 

 the same time by that very act he was depriving himself of the place, 

 at once honorable and paying. Again he asked the same friend to take 

 as a gift, some hundreds of species of plants, and does it in the follow- 

 ing language : "I have two or three packages of plants laid aside for 

 you which I wish to send on soon, not from any kind feeling but 

 because I wish to have them out of the way." Even mere statements 

 of disinterested friendship are sufficiently rare to make them valuable ; 

 acts of a similar character come but once in a great while, and we 

 always acknowledge a refreshing sensation on seeing them. 



It is a source of regret to his friends, that habitual modesty, or 

 rather a painful under estimate of his own worth, often cut him oft* 

 from a sympathy that must have been gratifying to him if he had 

 known of its existence. It was given to few persons to know how 

 deep down in his nature were rooted the purest sentiments of 

 humanity. They were not kept on the surface for public exhibition. 

 He was seldom demonsti-ative, and the mass of mankind would never 

 have dreami'd that beneath his reserve was an exquisite tenderness 

 which would not allow the infliction of pain on the meanest creature. 



A long tried domestic friend, who has known him as people can only 

 be known in their own family, heai'ing that a sketch was to be written 

 of him by some one, came to his mother and said, — 



"It ought to be told of Mr. Horace how kind and good he always 

 was to the poor — how much thoughtfulness he had for them, and for 

 everybody that had work to do — and how patiently and uncomplain- 

 ingly he bore his illness." To this devoted friend, who shared his 

 love of all natural objects, he always showed any interesting or novel 

 specimen, and called her to see the hidden glories of the microscopic 

 world. Such a tribute as this is worth recoixling. 



There is something of conscious purity in one who, through all the 

 varying conditions of life, remains steadfast in his chosen plan, and in 

 the darkest hours still sees beyond the cloud eternal goodness and 

 justice smiling on him. Bad men or persons of negative goodness 

 can never look thus hopefully on the future. 



He wrote to his mother from the Hawaiian Islands that he hoped 

 she kept her promise not to be anxious about him, that he was well 

 and enjoying every moment, adding, "and if anything should happen 



