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56 "Good Words," which is "replete with a touching pathos and significance, and enforces the thought that "the light of good deeds will still shine on," when all the pomp, pride and parade of earth will have vanished away as a bubble upon the deep.

"It was a sad funeral to me," said the speaker; "the saddest I have attended for many years."

"That of Edmonson?"

"Yes."

"How did he die?"

"Poor—poor as poverty. His life was one long struggle with the world, and at every disadvantage. Fortune mocked him all the while with golden promises that were destined to know no fulfillment."

"Yet he was patient and enduring," remarked one of the company.

"Patient as a Christian, enduring as a martyr," was answered. "Poor man! He was worthy of a better fate. He ought to have succeeded, for he deserved success."

"Did he not succeed?" questioned the one who had spoken of his patience and endurance.

"No, sir. He died poor, just as I have stated. Nothing that he put his hand to ever succeeded. A strange fatality seemed to attend every enterprise."

"I was with him in his last moments," said the other, "and thought he died rich."

"No, he has left nothing behind," was replied. "The heirs will have no concern as to the administration of his estate."