CORYDON W V HIGGINS corydon W higgins the associate editor of the mining review is dead his work on earth is done but its results and influence will not die the whole community was shocked shock edon on the afternoon of tuesday the to learn of the sudden blotting out of the life of one so well and strong in his young manhood in the morning he was in perfect health and happy in his preparation of the new home for himself and the sweet bride of two months it was while he was engaged in this pleasant work that he was stricken the apartments were being fumigated with the deadly gas and he without the slightest suspicion entered the rooms and fell this is briefly the record of the tragedy v af 41 I 1 corydon W higgins there is a ripeness of time for death and when a man dies whose threescore three score years or more have been crowned with honor and glory in the service of his god and fellow men we do not mourn as for one who has been taken from our midst in the prime of his early manhood when everything ery thing looks bright and he is rejoicing in the prospect before him mr 1 higgins 11 tz gins had only just begun the great work which meant so much to him imd to those who were leaning already on his stron strong shoulders and trusting to his clear head and wise counsel the founder of this periodical was confidently entrusting to his son soil much of the editorial work and preparing to live give over to him the heavy tasks for which his education and training had so well fitted him the father was looking forward with hope to the time when he could leave these cares to younger hands and retire to his domestic comforts mr higgins was graduated with honors from the high school of this city and spent three years in the state university giving especial attention to the study of mining en engineering he was very popular both in the high school and in the university he had a host of friends in the state and was looked upon as one of the young men who had a prospect for a very promising career he was an honor and comfort to his parents and the community he was esteemed 10 for r his strong clean and manly character for his genial disposition and for his tender thoughtfulness how surprising how sudden the chack from the possession of vigorous life I 1 and strength to be reduced in a few short moments to this fatal extremity all his ambitions all his expectations all his noble longings cut short we shall however feel the loving though saddened influence of cf his cheerful hope and buoyant youth the light of his love will brighten our re days and the strength of his faith will help us to bear tire th ne burdens of life that are bearing bearick heavy on us who are left to struggle for perhaps a few short years mr higgins was twenty four years of age at the time of his death the interment was wab at mt olivet BY A FRIEND