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est discussions that we both thoroughly enjoyed and I be- 

 lieve profited by, but in all our lives there was never one 

 word passed between us in anger, never one word that was 

 tinged with bitterness, never one word uttered that left a 

 sting. From 1880 to 1888 it was my privilege to be associ- 

 ated with him in fish-cultural work at Northville, and it was 

 during these eight years that the former close acquaintance- 

 ship between Frank N. Clark and myself ripened into a 

 friendship of the most inviolate and sacred character. 



Always I entertained great respect for his judgment in 

 matters connected with our line of work, and always I had 

 unbounded confidence in the integrity of his opinions, 

 knowing that he was utterly incapable of duplicity and 

 double dealing, and was never known to be or tried to be on 

 both sides of the same question. And thus it was that I 

 came to know our late associate and to love him, for to 

 know and understand Frank Clark all the way through was 

 to love the man. 



Being human he had human weaknesses, temperamental 

 weaknesses, but they were trivial and superficial compared 

 to the depth and strength of his sterling manhood. He 

 lead a clean life because his mind and heart were pure and 

 clean. His robust and rugged strength of character, his 

 moral fibre and the impregnability of his moral stamina 

 enabled him always to stand the acid test of temptation in 

 all of its sordid and grosser forms. 



If he erred or chafed or seemed impatient or even intol- 

 erant, always it was in opposition to what he conceived to 

 be wrong, and if he sometimes seemed overzealous, always 

 it was in behalf of a cause that his conscience told him was 

 right. Indeed, one of his most sterling virtues and striking 

 characteristics was unflinching courage and an indomi- 

 table fighting spirit against that which he believed to be 

 wrong and on the side of that which he believed to be 

 right. He was a born fighter for the right, a born fighter 

 against wrong. These, with his unswerving and unim- 



