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and his meaning clear, quite different from the usual compli- 
cated, involved German sentence. 
Mr. Lindheimer was a man of medium height, with blue 
eyes and black hair and beard, which in age became snowy 
white. He possessed a strong, active body, which he had 
developed in youth in the ‘“Turnverein,” and retained much 
of his bodily vigor in his old age. He was quiet and deliberate 
in manner, temperate and regular in his habits and a good 
conversationalist, though loath to boast about himself or 
much discuss his past history. He never became excited or 
used strong language. A “freethinker” in his opinions, yet 
he counted many priests and pastors among his best friends 
and never antagonized religious institutions. He did not be- 
lieve in slavery, but espoused warmly the Southern cause at 
the outbreak of the Civil War. 
There is much in this quiet, modest, unassuming man and 
his unselfish devotion to duty, that resembles his compatriot, 
General Houston. But, while the talents of the latter led him 
to war and political strife, Lindheimer turned to books and 
the beauties of Nature. Both were friends of the Indian, and 
indifferent to the accumulation of property, while they never 
allowed their own interests to come in conflict with the public 
weal. He ever loved freedom and independence, the simple 
life and intellectual enjoyment, and the reward for his labors 
was the esteem of his fellow-men. May Germany give us 
many such of Nature’s noblemen! 
