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subject. Recognizing the necessity for new varieties of apples that were 1 
hardy than, those being set, with such repeated failures, in this State and Wi: 
sin, he resolved to go to Russia, and if possible, bring back something th uld 
stand our climate, and to this end was making all his arrangements forthe sum- _ 
mer of 1868; but in the winter preceding, while traveling in the southern part 
of this State and in northern Iowa. he found, as he thought and has since dem-— 
onstrated, a most valuable acquisition to the desired end, in a large collection of. 
seedling Siberians; and in a letter to a friend he wrote, ‘‘I shall defer my pro- 
posed trip, as I have found a young Russia here.” 
He immediately secured the stock, and showed his confidence in it by planting 
and propagating it extensively, and as a result, we have many valuable varieties, 
both for their hardiness and improved quality of fruit, as many fine orchards 
throughout this country and Canada can testify. Perhaps no one act of his life 
tended more to establish confidence in the minds of many in the ultimate success 
of fruit growing in this northern climate than the planting for himself an orchard 
of five thousand apple trees, which now stand as a beautiful and lasting monu- 
ment to his indefatigable energy and enterprise. 
In the death of Dr. Jewell, the cause of radical temperance in Minnesota sus- 
tains an irreparable loss. Upon the platform he was more than ordinarily 
gifted, as a clear and forcible speaker, while in the ranks, as a temperance advo- 
cate and worker, he was active and influential. His heart beat responsively to 
every cause in the interests of humanity, tending to its educational improvement 
and moral elevation. Had life and health been longer granted him he intended 
before long to have entered more actively into the work im behalf of some of the 
many projects for human advancement. 
In his personal and private life Dr. Jewell was one of the most lovable of men. 
His mild, unobtrusive manners, his uniform courtesy, shown alike to all, and at 
his home or elsewhere during his business leisure, his brilliant and genial con- 
versational powers, will not soon be forgotten. If we were disposed to find fault 
with him it would be that he was perhaps too modestly exclusive, although 
adapted by education and every essential quality of practical excellence to adorn 
the highest public positions in the gift of his fellow men. It is unnecessary, 
however, to allude at any length to these things, or bestow any encomium upon 
the character of a man like Dr. Jewell, here where his life was so well known as 
a compendium of generous thought and practical goodness. The words of the 
funeral address are fittingly eloquent and comprehensive: 
‘¢ He carried about with him everywhere an atmosphere of spiritual dignity, 
which was felt as a reproach to all meanness; of chastity, whose very presence 
rebuked vulgarity; of simplicity which made liars ashamed, and of moral enthu- 
siasm, which inspired, encouraged and uplifted all weaker aspiring and all 
wavering souls with whom he came in contact.”’ 
The funeral tribute of love and honor was paid on Monday afternoon. The 
occasion was respectfully observed by a very large concourse of friends, who were 
present to mingle their offerings in the last rites that can be shown the dead by 
the living. The spacious rooms of the residence were filled with sympathizing 
friends, while many, unable to obtain admission, occupied settees that were 
placed on the lawn in close proximity to the parlor windows. The exercises par- 
took of an unusual but nevertheless pleasing character, in being conducted by an 
intimate personal friend of the deceased, (not a clergyman) Dr. T. H. Evarts, of 
Rushford. His admirable address, which is, in its literary character and appro- 
priateness, above comment or criticism, the tender grace and modest mein of his 
