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 long and severe illnesses, one of which took him into the very face of death, and proved to him that he did not fear death. He remained home, this week of January, to rest. It was pleasant to be there, among the children, just after Christmas. Still, he felt uneasy about staying away from his desk. Word came to the office on Tuesday, January 9th, that he would "report without fail Thursday." But that Tuesday evening, before anyone thought he was definitely ill, a fatal seizure laid hold of him. And there in his lakeside home, he died as unobtrusively as he had lived.

HENRY J. SMITH.