114 IN MEMORIAM. 



much to build up that particular branch of 

 their business, for which he was by nature 

 and education so well qualified ; but it was 

 not to be, and during December he left 

 them to engage in a similar business with 

 his friend Mr. George B. Appleton, also long 

 and favorably known as being connected with 

 the same house. 



No words of sympathy, however tenderly 

 expressed ; no words which we can utter, no 

 tears which we may shed, can restore to its 

 completeness that once so happy, now so 

 desolate home ; but to her who waits in 

 sadness may come to soften the asperity of 

 the blow the sad yet feeble consolation that 

 the departed loved one will be mourned in 

 many a household throughout our land. 

 Truly, 



" God moves in a mysterious way, 

 His wonders to perform." 



G. W. S., in Forest and Stream, Jan., 1883. 



