Show HE UE WAS AVAS A KIND THE 81 SIMPLE STORY OF A MAN MA WHO AIMED TO BE PLEASANT A suburban Su barban ent lentan whose memory I 1 is although AIth cili lie ile never did any but spread sunshine wit borover lie Us Tra traveled voled lile courtesy the other lay there tl re died in a little north bore thom suburb it man whose memory I 1 a would hold buck linck for a moment from the j eternal silence i I 1 e nee other 4 fi fit r k greater amter than he lie jr J bw have jol joined ned the pau pale ph phantoms antonis of the dead the be pa kist at few Avee kic but I 1 doubt if f fifie has entered the ali audience chamber of 0 the great king of kins rings with w iab better chance of recognition I 1 le was not a man otholen of asplen did intellect indeed I 1 doubt it if within his simple him pie brain waa ever formed a solitary u conception higher thin than the faithful ful willment fill ment of duty ditty lie ile worked dully daily for the brawl that only cornea comes by honest toil toll nod and was always at lis until pot a stronger tit bt ronger thin than he met him by the way md and bade him ittel out of line for eight years it has been my almost dally privilege to take the same train to town with this manof man of whom I 1 write and through these eight ahti years ears I 1 can truthfully truth fally lay I 1 hau have never heard lit ird one cross or corn pla ining laing word from hit bis lips nor seen an action that was not kind considerate and courteous how Is that for fora a re record corill D do a you not really think nich such a one I 1 Is better than almost any other you could choose jie ile neer never meddled with politics that inky pool wherein men emirch smirch their reputations and their souls ho he did not concern himself himsel f about anything but his own affairs and had no higher mm aim in life than to be kind we used to smile a little in awhile at the almost exaggerated courtesy of his hi manner and yet now that be ile has him cone ione we look through tear tears toward tie tle place hi once occupied and miss him sadly hadly was never er it morning in blo blooming weather that be he did not riot enter the car with w ath a spray of the season seasons special blossom lu in his hand handl jn in spring it waa was a violet or two grouped with golden buttercups or the starry dand dandelion ea ton in bummer iani it a as wild u rows tied together with feathery grow graw ard later on ft it was w at always and pur pie asters that lie earned carried we were v c I 1 to look upon him aa as a nort of peripatetic dial of the year liy by the flower lie curried carried we knew what floral hour had bail struck he ile had an all art artimi artl lItts mi soul and was wont to choose the u set bide of the train that he might marl mark the glardes loriea of the sky u he be painted a little now ind and then and I 1 nave have a sketch hanging liali ging upon my wall thit that he be gave me with which I 1 would not part for money so excessive was hl his 4 politeness and bo u unusual its manifestation that be h always rode 1 on tc t c t anin afia I 1 could a as soon imagine jula julia the baptist playing poper ns thirk of my tit lintio io antl mai rn cu esi he iler v anid fir f carroon ir poon tr haro havo been shot than know taly have h e rn an the str arger he ile was ii ncr ver offensive any more than goda gods u 1 ia or the robin or the ciacomo spring apt lis nin 4 he lie wax was neer never obtrusive and yet wan nl tit wai ways w ai ready with w ath it mlle smile or a cheerful word w ord I 1 doubt if it he be luew knew enuch about books and yet he carried with him a higher charm than is attained by mere culture loo much learn ing sometimes inkes mak the buirt pl plen null and icily dull 10 bo truly lov able one must retain something Hom Kom ething of the bin aim and humility of ignorance one of the peculiarities of my ruy friend WM wms his remembrance of the absent cormany for miny years the train by which we came to town was an accommodation train and topped stopped nt itt e ery of course w agol to know nl everybody on the road and comradeship in many instances devel developed opeil into friendship it chanced within the past few alo month n that the railroad company thought albest al ima jest t to change our ey u going train into a i a fl yer so that we da dashed through thron gli the that smaller suburban station stations and left their platforms I 1 tf rills dusky with the friend friends wo we should hould 5 t know no do more its anatro travel cling ing com tomp inious not many of it us 4 ge gave it belond thought to the te ie verance of such an all ephemeral tie ile vo we glanced out of window laughed little and speedily forgot not ot u so with the man of whom I 1 write for months ap up to the very last fast day clay of bi his riding on oil the train he neer never neglected neglect wl to raise hi his window a trifle or go to the rear platform form and wave a greeting to the comrade comrades m s from front whom a sullen corp cormont orn tion ruthlessly separated him he lie never forgot up to ane last morning of his boarding the train be he never ne er forgot to p ss a pleasant plea sint boni won with the brakeman braat man or venture at 11 shy pleasantry plew antry with the conductor it would be difficult to imagine an employee crusty as not to melt a little under the influence of his manner r we W for or two tw cold mornings ill lit that his place was dimant on the train and it proved how much he w was to all of UK that not a inlo pa passenger wilger failed to inquire the reason of bla his absence storm no had ever been too severe cosnow noi now too deep dem no cold too keen to keep the he oll ingleman in ileman from his place pt ce uy by that token we knew be lie I 1 must be ill III only cold homebody who knew and no we hoped to see him again it ns usual when w hen the inning trifling alli ailment tient should have nin hlll e hut but the mere cold worded with it deathly d athly touch and quickly trilled the pills etc of or a nolle noble heart only ft a day or two ago they laid tit that was Ill ortal of or thi swint gentleman of whom the oitt nide world knew nothing in luth the grave rie 1 the lie lie peculiar culiar essence of that lovable per k 11 c the bondage of the tomb it out its deathless errand all that is left to us u isa memory as RA fair iw AS it may morning and it model it well us to bhame OUT our awil 1 live after I 1 tl it will matter little to you or to mo with our mediocre e powers what maybe may be said ol 01 our achievements after we are gone even though we may wield it ready pen or an artis artisan tn brush woo w oo 00 the auw or charm with our till that will be fie forgotten in a world so full cf rf scribbler scribblers and daubers and but if somebody iball stand by our coffin and u hay she w wilm so good t to me nie she abec comforted me she lent me a i helping liand hund or even en she was eo so picas pleas ant atit we hhall not have lived in 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