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that each pipe or string of an instrument made, and why and 
how, and why the tones harmonized with each other or failed 
to do so. But music was no pleasure to him. Yet his own 
voice was melody. No one who knew him ever heard a man’s 
voice that was more musical, and no one of us ever heard it 
raised in anger or discord. The knowledge seekers not only 
found his voice beautiful, but doubly charming because always 
laden with wisdom; and after they had listened for an hour 
to his conversation on various subjects in a flow as easy and 
modest as ever heard, as fresh as a zephyr from the mountains, 
and in language so concise and pure that it would do to print 
exactly as uttered and for the perfected literature of our 
speech, they went away feeling that somehow they had been 
with a sage of the centuries. They actually experienced one 
of the psychological miracles by acquiring as their own some 
of his perspective grasp. He had calmed their nervous tension 
and made them look for and see things with a more’certain and 
consciously certain vision. The effect was comparable to the in- 
fluence of General Grant on his soldiers before one of the bat- 
tles in Virginia. When he simply rode down the line of the 
army and observed everything in his inimitable quiet way. 
His words were few and chiefly in the way of suggestion and 
inquiry ; not a loud word or ore for mere effect, but every man 
that saw it, from being nervous and impetuous suddenly be- 
came a real soldier and examined his cartridges and arms and 
began to save his resources which before he had wasted, that 
he might be ready for the time of need. 
Prof, Claypole’s tastes as the-world uses the word were 
severely simple. Show and parade appealed to him but little. 
He was himself wholly incapable of either. His clothes were 
a necessity to him, so he wore them. He never had any 
pleasure in their display. He was modest and retiring in all 
his ways; and never pushed himself or preferred himself be- 
fore others. He was never a stickler for his personal rights; 
therein he belied certain definitions of Englishmen. He 
would take an inconvenient lecture hour without a complaint 
rather than ask a colleague to make a possibly net inconven- 
tent change to accommodate him. 
Taught by his early experiences to practice the most 
rigid economy, he continued this through life. His personal 
