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"Thus died that good old man. There was a time when I looked 

 upon him being secure from the shafts of fate; but who may boast of 

 to-morrow ! He was wealthy, had health and friends, and his gentle 

 spirit made his home a paradise. His sources of enjoyment were bound- 

 less, for all nature, from her sublimest mysteries even down to the petals 

 of a simple flower, was one mighty minister, and he drew wisdom and 

 delight from all. And yet a single cloud was magnified until it over- 

 shadowed his heaven of happiness, and he died friendless and heart- 

 broken ; all had vanished that made earth beautiful. But is this 

 strange? — The flowers of life pass away as the flowers of the seasons, 

 without our being conscious of the cause of their decay, and there 

 breathes not that man, however prosperous, but, like my poor uncle, 

 hath his phantom, and in time discovers that 'even in laughter the 

 heart is sorrowful and the end of that mirth is heaviness.' " 



No. XVI.— P.\GE 551. 

 \Niiiiam Rudolph* Smith. 



[By Richard Moore Smith.] 



William Rudolph Smith, the eldest son of William Moore Smith, 

 Was born at La Trappe, in Montgomery county, Pa., on the 31st day 

 of August, A. D. 17S7. The family removing to Philadelphia in 1792, 

 he was placed at school under the tuition of Mr. James Little and his 

 ushers, this being at that time the largest and best preparatory school in 

 the city. In 1799 he was placed in the Latin school of the Rev. James 

 McRea; but soon afterwards the whole care of his education was as- 

 sumed by his grandfather, the Rev. William Smith, D. D., who received 

 him into the old family residence at the Falls of Schuylkill, where he 

 remained, under a rigid course of instruction, until April, 1803, when, 

 as private secretary, he accompanied his father to England, the latter 

 being one of the commissioners, under the 6th article of the Jay treaty, 

 to adjust and settle the demands of the British claimants. 



During their protracted residence in England the father and son 

 travelled much together at various times, journeying along the south 

 coast from Dover to Falmouth, visiting all points of interest in the in- 

 terior of the south and west, and making frequent and extended jour- 



* The Rudulph family spelt their name with a u. My uncle always spelt his 

 Rudolph. 



