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Rh perfectly sound man of magnificently formed dimensions, erect in stature, six feet in his stockings, and, in fact, he was almost god-like in every feature.

His face was of the Roman cast, with a most happy and indomitably energetic and affectionate disposition. He possessed a full, round and well proportioned forehead, with eyes black and like sparkling diamonds; nose, mouth, chin, cheeks and complexion in the image of God, or after the acme of perfection, the whole central globe of the soul surrounded with hyperion curls, which hung gracefully over the superbly shaped head, and his trunk and extremities harmonized with these features.

Victor Juno had many warm friends, although there were few who dared, in such perilous sectarian times, stand by him openly, which he regretted very much; but yet he was most hopeful of living down all opposition, and conquering every element of strife. However kind, loving and generous he was toward friend and foe, he possessed the faculty of hardening his manly heart toward every body, if such was necessary to gain a natural end.

He reasoned thus—: "What would it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lost his own soul; his own manhood and self-respect; and why should not we be willing to sacrifice the few, and the good of the few, for the many, and for the improvement of the race of mankind; for the perpetual good of a god-like and fixed law-abiding race?" Our hero was truly a man, and we fear we shall not look upon his like again; he loved the sinner, but despised his erroneous ways; he would not prosecute any one for money and worldly glory, but would slay millions for justice and principle, and he taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes, hypocrites, or pharisees.

The weakest point of his character, to live amongst haughty sinners, was his wonderful benevolence, which caused him to confide too much in what people said,—he believed everybody was honest, like himself, until he had gone through the fiery ordeal of martyrdom, when he