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note for the liberality of the world. How it was received in Chicago 

 you know. With us, the sjDeaking went on from the platform ; and 

 at the end of the morning we elected the list of officers who had been 

 nominated two or three hours before. With his usual promptness, he 

 had taken the whole responsibility before he was so much as chosen to 

 the position in which he was formally acting. 



Such promptness as this — his constant readiness to do a large thing 

 rather than a small one — might, in a man of less balance or force, 

 have become rashness. But of him it may certainly be said, that he 

 acquired fortune without any apparent effort to acquire fortune ; he 

 managed a host of trusts without any appeareauce of worry or anxiety ; 

 he was always at ease and ready for companionship, — for literary, or 

 musical, or other artistic gratification. In the midst of cares, he was 

 never oppressed by them ; and while the least indolent of men, he 

 never appeared exhausted. Such success reveals a well-disciplined 

 mind of extraordinary power, and a soul master of that mind and of 

 the body which served it, loyal to his God, willing to share in his 

 work, and to seek his help to-day. 



Sir. Kidder was twice married : first, to Caroline W. Archbald, in 

 December, 1847. Mrs. Kidder died on the 31st of March, 1881, 

 leaving him three sons, Henry Thomas Kidder, Charles Archbald 

 Kidder, and Nathaniel Thayer Kidder. 



He married a second time in June, 1883, Elizabeth Huidekoper, 

 of Meadville, Penn., who survives him. 



EGBERT TREAT PAINE. 



Egbert Treat Paine was born in Boston, October 12, 1803, and 

 died in Brookline, June 3, 1885, He was the grandson of Robert Treat 

 Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and 

 afterwards Attorney- General and Justice of the Supreme Court of 

 Massachusetts, and still better known as the eminent jurist who con- 

 ducted the prosecution of Captain Preston and his men at their trial 

 for committing the " Boston Massacre." The grandfather was a 

 stanch Ferleralist, as was also the father, who bore the same name, 

 and was esteemed in his day as a writer and poet. Mr. Paine, our 

 associate, early displayed an interest in astronomy, and distinctly rec- 

 ollected being shown the comet of 1811. He never would admit that 

 any later comet would compare with this, especially as regards the 

 length of its tail, which extended from one side of the heavens to the 

 other. This, like other astronomical objects, had in his mind a vivid 



