26 . CONARD : 



tropical vegetation of the South. One of his workmen said 

 that he never ate a meal with him afterward that he did not 

 have something to say about Florida. So delighted was he 

 that he planned to go again the following winter. But the 

 excitement of preparation proved too much for him. On the 

 evening before his proposed departure, he also was stricken 

 with apoplexy, followed by paralysis of one side. From this 

 he partly recovered, and he lived a year, but a second stroke 

 carried him off in nth month (November), 1876. He left 

 plans for his tomb and the following verses to be inscribed 

 over him : — 



When he who lies beneath this tomb 



Felt life's warm currents through him flow, 

 He was the sport of hope and gloom, 



Of joys that come and go. 

 Where truth and nature seemed to lead 



That path in hope and faith he trod. 

 From nature's laws he drew his creed, 



As taught by nature's God. 



Also : — 



If for his kind some good he wrought. 



Perchance relieved another's pain, 

 If he one useful moral taught, 



He has not lived in vain. 

 If graceless <leeds have marred his fame, 



Made sad his life that else was fair. 

 He sins no more, withhold thy blame. 



In charity forbear. 



In my study, I have come to love these quaint, old men, 

 and that is why I have gone with so nuich detail into their 

 biography. Their graves are marked with the costliest tombs 

 in the little cemetery. But their spirits are far more beau- 

 tifully commemorated in the living monument which is still 

 increasing at their old home. 



The Painter Arboretum is most favorably situated. It 

 lies at the head of a narrow valley which runs eastward to 



