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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 915. UNIVERSALISTS TO DEATH OF CHARLES 7 WINSTED. Early Morning Fire Slakes Excite-; mcnt on Main Street. Worsted's "Are zone" was brought into the Lmellght again early yesterday morning when a blaze was discovered in the rear of a barber shop conducted by M. Sidoti at 209 Main rtieet, An alarm was turned in from Box 75, and hose companies 1, 2 and 8, and the hooks made a quick trip to the scene, and four streams of water were put on the structure, but, nevertheless, it was practically an hour before the fire was under control.

Smoke water wrouaht havoc in thH three I In these and other ways he gave us an example worth following. He had a delightful sense of humor, and I still keep personal quips that in later years he used to insert in his editorial copy lightcncrs of the day's toil. You will tell of his ample knowledge of American politics, of his love of literature, of the things that made him full and ready as an editorial writer. I shall remember him as he seemed in the days when keen zest for newspaper work made us idealize men and things, and he was the friendly elder brother to the raw recruits. Solomon B.

Griffin, Springfield Republican. August 28. William A. Ayers. William A.

Ayres, formerly managing editor of "The Courant" and for many years in close personal association with Mr. Adams, writes as follows of him in the "Hartford In the death this morning of Charles Hemmenway Adams there passed from this lite a man of high intellectual endowment, who had been an indefatigable worker in the newspaper tield tor almost all bis mature life, and was most highly esteemed by those who knew best the quality of his work, the extraordinary range of his information, and his masterly use of language to convey thought. Graduated from Yale in the class of 1866, passed, after a few years on the "Springneiu Republican" and the "New York Sun," to "The Hartford Courant" as an editorial writer, remaining there until serious illness compelled his retirement a year or two ago. He never recovered from the attack, but for a considerable time wrote at intervals and found his chief pleasure in that limited continuance of the habit of a lifetime. Until this illness he had been for many years absorbed in the newspaper to a degree not easily to be understood by those who have had no experience of the hold CHARLES HEMMENWAY ADAMS.

4usiness houses on the first floor, and the tenement in the upper pait of the house. The business erLailishmenls were owned by tha following: Dressmaking rooms, Antomtt. Insalia; barber shop, Antonia Mnirclla, and grocery, Mr. Sidoti. TMs tenement Was occupied by Thoracis Perez.

Inmates of the house fled to the street in their nieht garments, and lor a time it was a taak to quiet the dis-trought women members of the household. The business houses were insured. There are sixty prisoners in the county Jail at Litchfield. Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew 3. Soule of East Ot.s, will celebrate their golden weddlnnf anniversary at their home in that town on Saturday, August from 2 until 10 p. m. The couple are among the oldest as well as best liked citizens of the town. They have several children.

Thomas F. Wheeler and son, F. B. Whoeler, motored to Pittsfield Saturday, returning later in the day with Mother M. Thelpholla and Sister M.

Innoncenola. wtio have been spending the past few days with the former's ister in that city. Willinm T. T3iiV1rv wo iaia1vaH Ford rebate check, said to be the first In Winsted. How He Grew I7p.

(WUshington Star.) "Don't complain when the children around you make a little noise." satd the man with a kind heart. "Remember you were once a little boy." "I'm not forgetting it," replied the man with a perpetual grouch. "I was one of those little boys who are nlwsys compelled to sit around dressed up and watch the other boys having a good time." Where genuine comfort is to be the keynote in furnishing a home, there should be a liberal sprinkling of leather chairs, rockers, divans, etc. We carry a beautiful line of deep upholstered chairs, rockers, and the prices are moderate, when the excellent quality is considered. We would like to show bathe Always Popular HEMMENWAY For Over Thirty Years An Editorial Writer On The Courant' HAD BEEN SICK FOR YEAR AND.HXLF Friends and Associates Pay; Tributes of Affectionand Estesm Charles Hemmenway Adamn, for thirty.

four rears a roemberof the staff of "The Courant" and assoiateeditor for twenty-seven years, wtas found dead yesterday morning in arm chair at the home of his sisflev, Mrs. F. Will Hallock, of Derby. Jin his hands was an open book whlchlhe had been reading. Mr.

Adams had a serious iltness in this city a year and a half ago and, when he had sufficiently recovured, he was taken to the home of his, sister. at No. 122 Derby avenue, DerbM. He had been at Walnut Beach, MQford, with the family during the summer and had returned with them Kriday, having expressed a desire to treturn home. After retiring Friday his lungs filled up no that he coughed a great deal and a hyperdermlc injection was given.

He was unable to pie in bed and sat in his big easy chair'read-lng when Mrs. Hallock retired. When she went to call him yesterday (morning, she found him still sittinglin his chair, as though asleep. In hislhands was a book which he had been) reading and over his eyes was a green shade such as that with which' those who knew him well were accustomed to see him work. But the electric light was burning and it was broad daylight.

He had died in his sleep. Mr. Adams was born. In Fairfield September 2. H45, thet son of Rev.

Chares R. Adams and Mary (Scott Adams. His father wasi a Methodist clergyman, who was in Fairfield as a member of the New York East Conference. When Mr. Adams was a boy the family moved to Chicago, his father seeking transfer to a Western conference bscause of his health.

Mr. Adams was graduated from the Chicago High School, when 1 years old. sought to enter ITale. but owing to his youth, admission was refused him. He entered a small college in the West, not far from Chicago, and later went to Yale as a sopihomore.

He was graduated in the classof 18, with Judge Edward B. Bennettand the late Dr. G. Pierrepont Davis of this cttv. His college societies were Skull and Bones and Psi Upsllon.

He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Adams began his newspaper work, following his graduation, on the "New York Sun," under Charles A. Dana and on the "New York Evening Post tinder William Cullen Bryant. In 1867 he came to "The Courant," where he remained but for, a short time leaving to become an editorial writer on the "Springfield Republican" under the elder Samuel Bowles.

In 1881 he came back to "The. Courant" and in 188 became associate editor, holding this place actively until his illness, a year and a half ago. Hince then he had, up to a few weeks ago. made occasional editorial contributions to "The Courant." Mr. Adams never married and his only surviving near relative is his sister, Mrs.

Hallock. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of his sister in Derby. Rev. Charles W. Coulter of Stony Creek, a warm personal friend of Mr.

Adams, will officiate. The bearers will be Albert F. Sherwood and Edwin Hallock, uncles of Mrs. Hallock; Donald A. Hallock, Mrs.

Hallock's son: Robert S. Gardner, Mr. Hallock's brother-in-law; Watson Robertson Sperry and Clifton L. Sherman of "The Courant." The burial will be in Oak Cliff Cemetery. Derby.

WARM TRIBUTES PAID TO CHARLES H. ADAMS A few of Mr. Adams's personal friends and associates have been reached by "The Courant," and asked to say something about him. Judge George C. Holt.

Judge George C. Holt, until recently of the United States court, who was a classmate or. air. Aaams at Yale, writes in a private leter as follows: Adams entered college after the class began, in sophomore year, I think, ew men knew him much. He was somewhat shy and somewhat retiring and sensitive.

He won recognition, soon after entering the class, as a writer. His style was simple and easy. He was about the only writer in the class who was not affected by the admiration for the ornate and grandiloquent style, which the faculty seemed to hold up as a model for us. At least there was no effective Influence the other way. The natural tendency of boys to try to be eloquent and to copy Burke and Macaulay and Webster was given full play at Yale.

Adams's writing was always limpid and flexible and far better than that of any other man in the class. After he graduated he got a place on the "New York Evening Post." I do not know whether he went there first. I stayed in New Haven for a year on the "Palladium" and on going to New York in the autumn of 1867 Adams was on the "Post." I remember calling on him there a number of times and seeing Mr. Bryant then at his desk as I passed his open door. From An Early Associate.

To the Editor of "The It is a privilege to recall associations of long ago, as they relate to Mr. Adams. When I came to the "Republican" from Williams in the late summer of 1872, Mr. Adams was an editorial writer, and to be looked up to by the boys just undertaking newspaper work. Among these was Charles R.

Miller, for many years editor of the New York "Times." To us Mr. Adams appeared very mature, and his kindly interest begot affection that was never lost, The late George S. Merriam has written of Mr. Adams in his "Life and Times of Samuel Bowles" that he "was notable for the combination in his style of vigor and lightness the weighty thought winged with the terse phrase or dash of humor." He was taught condensation by the late Samuel Bowles, who was master of it. In those times typeset-ing facilities were amited, and the art of telling much in brief was perforce in high favor.

Alas for this type-machine period! The frZrU.ti phrase "art for art's fake" Mr. Adams made an every-1 ay matter. tit often rewrote para graphs many times to fill them with life and make their form the heat. 1 CEASE WORSHIP Middletown Church Closes Its Doors. T.

F. SHEEHAN DIES OF HEMORRHAGE Main Street Repairing to Be This Week. (Special to The Courant.) MIDDLETOWN Sunday, Aug. 29. Services have biien discontinued at the Universalist Church, one of the oldest churches in town, and from reports on the street there seems to be considerable doubt as to whether it will ever be reopened.

The church! at one time had a large membership, I many of the most prominent people in town belonging. Former Alder-j man Wallace K. Bacon, one of the; leading members, said yesterday that) the church was very prosperous until, politics began to play a part in it. Hoj said, however, he had no reference to' anything happening in recent years. ffhe church was rather weak some, years ago when Rev.

W. Smith, I the present pastor, came here, but he KiicppNleri in Catherine the members together and the organization begau' to flourish once more. Since that time. however a number of the older members of the society have died, and the loss of their support has hurt the organization, it is supposed. The present church building Was erected in 1839 at an expense of $12,000.

The first steps towards organizing a Universalist church in this city were taken in November, 1829, when a circular letter was sent out. The state convention was held in this city in 1838, and immediately afterwards the local church was formed. The pastor, Rev. I Hiram W. Smith, is well liked by those or tne congregation wno remain, ana but for the fact that he came here so late.

It is felt that he would hava made the church strong: once more. Death of Thomas F. Sliechan. Thomas F. Sheehan, a member of the plumbing concern of the Lyman D.

Mills Company, died at his home on Spring street late Friday night, as the result of a hemorrhage. Mr. Sheehan had been about his work on Friday, and the news of his death came as a snocK to many. Me was a native or this city, and was a son of the late Thomas Sheehan. Mr.

Sheehan was a director of the Mlddletown Chamber of Commeroe, member of Middle-town Ixidge of Elks, and a past grand knight of Forest City Council, K. of C. He was in the employ of the late Lyman D. Mills for a number of years, and on his death became a member of the firm. Besides his mother he leaves a sister Miss Annie Sheehan.

The funeral will be held on Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock at the family residence, and at 9 o'clock at St John's Church. The burial will be in SL John's Cemetery. To Repair Street This Week. The work of repairing the Main street pavement will commence some day this week, it is expected, the Connecticut-Rhode Island company having informed Alderman Harold M. Meech, the chairman of the street committee of the common council to this effect Work has been delayed somewhat because the Connecticut Company desired to repair their tracks.

This work is practically completed now. 1 Notes. Mrs. A. I.

Llndholm of Washington street is entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Johnson and daughter of Worcester, Mass. A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Lohmeyer at the Middlesex Hospital. Business Manager George A. Heden-burg of the "Wesleyan Argus" was among those attending the convention of the Associated College Newspaper Publishers in New York on Friday. The convention voted to bar all kinds of liquor advertising from their columns, and aalso decided to organize a joint campaign to capture national advertising. There were thirty-nine college papers represented at the gathering.

The Fnsbie Motor Company has shut down for two weeks, in order to provide vacations for their employees. The annual fall outing of the Douglas Hose Company will be held at Mt, Higby reservoir today. A horse owned by the Schaefer Brothers Corporation, dropped dead in front of the residence of Dr. T. P.

Walsh yesterday. The funeral of Helen, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fourette, was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence on Walnut street. The burial was in St.

John'B Cemetery. Miss Mildred Raynor of Cottage place is home from an extended visit In New Jersey. Dean Samuel Hart of the Berkeley Divinity school will preach at the Church of the Epiphany in Durham to night. Thomas F. Corcoran of Concord, had judgment suspended in the city court yesterday when arraigned on a charge of intoxication.

He was only released from jail on Thursday. Mrs. J. H. Anderson is home from a three months western trip.

Lawyer Lowndes Smith, official stenographer of the superior court has returned from a stay at Mulberry Point, Guilford. Mrs. Arthur S. Losey is home from a visit in Detroit, Mich. Today will be the final union service at the South Congregational Church, and Dr.

Lee, the summer pastor, will preach. Next week the local churches ill resume their regular services. Mayor Frank A. Coles has been Invited to appoint three official delegate to aftend the annual New England Tuberculosis conference in Springfield, Mass. on October 22 and 23.

time. NORFOLK SOCIETY EVENT PROVES DECIDED SUCCESS (Special to The Courant) Norfolk, August 28. The town wag crowded today and this evening with visitors from all over the tate, desirous of attending the most important social event ot the season in Norfolk. Automobiles were parked In larger numbers than is often given residents of Norfolk the opportunity to see. The "Fair of All Nations for All Nations' fas a decided success.

The receipts have not been estimated but are understood to be very large. A concert was given during the afternoon and evening by Frank's twenty. five piece band of New York. Dancing I this evening attracted many, over 200 I couples Being on the floor at times. The grounds were illuminated bv hundreds of torches and electric lights and the sight was very pretty and unique.

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That Is one or the mys teries of newspaper work which those not born to it cannot understand. And he was certainly to that manner born. Personally Mr. Adams was a de llghtful companion among the few with whom he had intimate relations, He was a mine of information. His reading was very wide, and it was thoroughly digested.

He was'impa tlent of ignorance, and bitter against false logic. To an unusual degree he had facts at his command when he sat down to work. As a writer he was solid than brilliant, but he was never dull. He gave his life to hard work without prospect of personal distinction outside the small field in which he was personally known, and he found delight in his work. These things are not unusual in the newspaper world, and perhaps the fact that this is so adds a genuine dignity to work that is avowedly, done for the day, and for the most part destined to be forgotten the day after.

It is need sown by the way side, but sometimes it bears fruit. and the better the sowing the greater the chance that something will come of it. In brief, Mr. Adams belonged to a school that has largely passed away, Dut wnlch sttii nolds among some newspapers which, are not the least influential and respected. It had at least the merit of sincerity and of respect for reason above any passion oi tne moment.

Major Charles H. Owen. Major Charles H. Owen, associated with Mr. Adams through his connection with "The Courant" as literary editor and his personal friend for many years, had.

this to say of his former "He was a most remarkable man the ablest and most accurate editor I have ever known in Connecticut, or anywhere else. It is a very great loss. I was very fond of him." Watson R. Sperry. Watson R.

Sperry, associated with Mr. Adams in an editorial capacity for many years: Charles H. Adams had a shy and sensitive personality, lie had a per sonality there was no doubt about that. His desk and my desk were in the same room for fifteen years, but it as about five years before we be came very much acquainted. His in ner life when you got there was very sweet.

He was not married, and so he kept his brother love for his sister alive all through, and loved'her children as if they were his own. The old boy seemed, on the outside, ot to care for the home things but he did care very much. And he could remember everything, from a verse of Horace to a jingling limerick. He was very straight in his own mind, and with others. He loved the unspeak-ing animals, and to be remembered at Christmas with a briar root pipe pleased him.

He liked his tobacco and his food, and knew about them. To those who knew him he was a thoroughly good fellow, but he did not run much in the common road. Francis H. Parker, Francis H. Parker, long one of Mr.

Adams's closest personal friends, spoke of him in the following words: "The news of the death of Charles Hemmenway Adams brings to me a keen sense of personal loss. It notes the end of an Intimacy covering a period of more than thirty years. Memories of these years of frequent meetings, of intimate conversations, of earnest discussions, and of an ever delightful camaraderie crowd upon my mind and I find It no easy task to put aside the strictly personal element necessarily involved. "Mr. Adams was known in the public principally for his lifetime editorial work upon the newspaper press.

No reader of 'The Courant' can be found who will not bear testimony to the un. "Usually high, forceful and catholic character of that work. In vigor, clarity, precision and ability, his edi torials stood in the first rank, seldom surpassed and not often equaled in the newspaper press of the country. Of his editorial work much may be said in praise, little, very little, in rea sonable criticism. "It is, however, of other matters that I prefer to speak.

Mr. Adams was of a somewhat retiring nature and the number of his intimate friends van not legion. To those who did know him intimately came revelations of a man to the general public unknown: a broad-minded, versatile, kindly, wise man, the extent of whose knowledge was a never-ending surprise. He was an omniverous reader of newspapers, periodicals and books and had the rare power to see and seise the kernel of sense, nonsense, or wisdom, as the case might be, in what he read and made it useful to himself and others. Oftimes the gist of a long article, or even of an entire volume was digested clarified, and pointed for the use of the readers of The Courant in a not overlong paragraph in his 'Notes and "His intellectual fertility was sometimes amazing.

In one issue of the newspaper might be found a vigorous political editorial, an illuminating discussion of some question of European politics, and, perhaps, an editorial upon college administration. Again he wculd discuss some question of church policy and in the next column treat of a decision of the supreme court upon a question of constitutional law. And those who talked with him upon any of these themes knew of "Courant" alumni, in their reminiscences, paid affectionate tribute to the man who was an important part of the paper. "Dear old Charley Adams," Dr. Richard E.

Benton called him, while William A. Ayres referred to him as "a man of. immense reading and a most excellent style, one whom It was a delight and a constant mental stimulus to know." Ilev. lr. Samuel Hart.

Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart of Middle-town, dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, formerly professor at Trinity College and long a personal friend of Mr. Adams, says of "I had been a voluntary contributor to 'The Courant' for about a score of years when Mr. Adams became a mem.

ber of the editorial staff and now for more than thirty years I have known him and felt that I had a share in his friendship. We were college graduates of the same year, though not of the same college, and there were many things, academical, historical, literary, In which our minds ran along the same lines of thought, My visits to the sanctum were usually in his hours of when it was not fair to intrude on any one, except for business or a brief salutation, but he always had the time for words of cheer and of active interest. "Of late years he sat at a desk by himself with something of his scholarly and Judicial I was reading a Greek play when news came of his death and it seemed to me that he was like the chorus in a drama, a kind, of Idealized spectator, watching the progress of the action until the time came when he could tell us what should be our judgment on it. "We have missed him these few months while he has been kept from his accustomed place and now we shall miss him from all work that belonged to his life. I may illustrate his common sense judgment and his discernment bywhat he said to me when a student friend of mine had, with others, severed his old ecclesiastical relation to enter on a new one: 'I think that they will find that changing seats on the coach does not make much difference ia the humps of the "The humps in his road ase ended now." 1 TO CUT TOBACCO ON SUNDAY IN WINDSOR Growers Instruct Employees That They Are To Work Today.

(Special to The Courant) WINDSOR, Sunday, Aug. 29. A large number of tobacco growi ers instructed their employees this evening that jf tomorrow Is pleasant they will be expected to work, not withstanding the fact that the day is Sunday. Others who had nearly finished the cutting of their crops yes-terday afternoon worked late into the evening getting the tobacco safely under cover. Sales are being reported frequently.

Constable Maurice Kennedy spent a busy day yesterday serving subpoenas on witnesses, at the request of the secretary of the state, In connection with the auto accident at Hayden Station in which Morris Greenhut of Hartford figured uromi- and was fined by Justice of the feace James A. McCann for reckless driving. Mr. Greenhut appealed from the decision of the local court. His hearing before the secretary of the state will be held Tuesday.

There will be a special meeting of the Windsor Fire District tomorrow evening in the town hall. Mrs. Sarah M. Cobb and daughter. Miss Edna J.

Cobb, have gone to Win-sted, where they will spend their va-' cation. and Mrs. George A. Jones and family of Spring street have gone to Grove Beach for their vacation. Miss Mary R.

Haynes of Pleasant street, entertained a number of her friends on Friday evening at her home. The evening was pleasantly spent with dancing and instrumental and vocal selections. J. Johnstone of Hartford entertained with songs and Miss Loretta Mullaley gave a number' or tancy nances. i lano soios were played by the Misses Louise and Mildred Bouche, and by Miss Elizabeth Mullaley.

Refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton P. Gregg and family have gone to Stony Creek, where they will spen.i their vacation.

Miss Florence West left yesterday for Short Beach, where she will spend a part of her vacation. The first corn roast of the. season to be given by the Tunxis River Canoe Club was held yesterday afternoon at Break-Neck on the Farmington River. A large number attended and had an enjoyable time. A large number of the members of Eureka Chapter, O.

E. No. 56. will attend the Robert Morris day outing which will be held at the Motnauguin, East Haven. Tuesday.

Dinner will be served at 12 o'clock followed by a business meeting. of Eureka Chapter are requested to leave on the 7:05 a. m. trolley from Windsor Center. Don't miss the Big "Monday Only Sale at M'ise, Smith Company.

the thoroughness and sanity with which his preparatory work was done, and of the never failing common sense with which he tested his own work. "He was a staunch friend, a kindly, sympathetic and wise adviser, a de-l'ghtful comrade, and a wonderfully entertaining and instructive conversationalist. The fleeting years rob us, who have passed the meridian of life, of the friends of our youth and of those with whom we have borne the burden and heat of the day, but they cannot take from us the memories of the delightful hours we have spent with the friends we have lost, and, to those who were privileged to know Charles Hemmenway Adams, there remains a wealth of pleasant memories which will abide during life." Charles W. Burpee. "Mr.

Adams has gone." How strangely those words would have sounded prior to 2 o'clock' in the morning any night on paper only such a short time ago and through so many years. Many were the nights, after he first was stricken. about 1900, when we felt that we should be able to say it, but no, he would not let us relieve him even by reading his final editorial proof. He would resent it if we insisted that he quit before 2:30, and the first of us In, next morning, would find him at his desk, finishing up. the mass of newspapers from the post office and just about picking up his quill for his day's writing.

No youth of however strenuous ambition ever could equal Mr. Adams's record as a stayer. He never measured by the amount of copy he turned out; quality alone counted with him, whatever the circumstances. Nor could there be such a thing as haste, no matter how long he had to stay. Every thought must be carefully formed before it was re leased on paper and then every dot and letter must be perfect so that the printer could make no mistake.

Of how few great writers is that true! He lived by himself and worked by himself, in his own room at the office, and the public knew him not by sight. But there was the policeman on the beat, the waiter at the hotel, the chambermaid who arranged his chair and books they knew him and loved him. And the children whom he knew he was their chum, their saint, their dispenser of joys and gifts. And this was the man at whose learning and ability as a thinker and a -writer the rest of us marveled. Even Mr.

Warner said he never saw the like of him. Was it a question by a cub reporter or by the political writer or by the library critic never bother to look it up, "just ask Mr. Adams." What was there ho did not know, from prehistoric times to the last battle in Europe? Political, historical, scientific, literary, profound or Bimple, Zoroaster or Defoe, Chaucer or Mr. Dooley, Kubla Khan or Villa, Goethe or Caroline Wells, In Latin, Greek, French, German or. English? And with what playfulness he could scribble on a scrap of paper at his elbow the most ingenious parodies and burlesques, phrasing them in any of the languages.

Without having traveled abroad, he was better than a iiaedoker and he could give the points ot some old debate in Congress or an outline of the latest novel with equal readiness ana never Boring you with one unnecessary word. The language he spoke like that he wrote was the purest. The public that knew his work- without perhaps knowing his name had reason to feel favored; we who knew, his heart are to be envied. A. W.

Green. During my connection with "The Courant" Mr. Adams was in the full zenith of his remarkable mental and literary powers, although sorely afflicted with ailments of the flesh. I shall never forget his kindness, patience and helpful willingness to" assist those younger in the business, who had so onuch to learn from a man of bis" character and ability. With a mild voice, a kindly smile and a delightful recognition of any intelligent appreciation shown by an was always ready to assist the novice by indicating the correct source of information if unable himself to answer the questions Indeed, he was a walking encyclopedia, and rarely had to refer his questioner to any other Bource for information which he was always willing to impart.

A master of the English language and a past master in the art of expression, it. was a liberal education to read his editorials and his salient comments on current events. It is douDtlul if any newspaper writer in England for many years possessed such a wide vocabulary as did Mi, Adams. The writer had many opportunities to experience, personally, the goodness or Mr. Adumss nature end the kindness of his heart, and will ever appre ciate the good fortune which gave him the opportunity of the friendship of our dear friend, so kind, so gentle, bo patient, and yet so vigorous with his good quill pen, his preference for work.

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