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breeding world; when other industries are absorbing 

 so much of the best blood of our western land-owning 

 families, it may be well to pause a moment, as we 

 contemplate the trend from the farm to the counting- 

 room, to note this instance of one who throughout a 

 long and useful life proved that a man possessing 

 gentle birth, classical education and qualities fitting 

 him to shine almost anywhere in the busy haunts of 

 men, can be prosperous, contented and eminently 

 useful in his day and generation, even though far 

 removed from daily contact with those things which 

 so many seem to regard as essential to their hap- 

 piness. 



