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yrs 168, k ts, st '_I`C., mg, ich- to ck, Hull` St. -_-s_,V ` , I _ A famous xyriter of _ modern times has pertmently s` d: He who would be great, .t. v`him choose great. parents. _?~Might it not also he remarkedquite truth- fully: He who would be I'?Jest.., let him choose noble friends. It has been said that our frtends are the lengthened shadows of 0urselves.4 This is perhaps true. Tliere is at least a sense i11 which it can be said that our friends An Appreciation of the Late E. H. Human ' (The writer ofthis article con- siders that nine years acquain- tance with the late Mr. Firman is sufficient apology for the penning of these lines)? ,~ Thursday, may 10, 1911, The founafcion not the most important thing True. you can t have a good barn without a good foL}.ndation. but don't forget either that the roof has to stand. n-.-oat of the punishment. Upnn it falls the burden of resisting, the destructive inuences of weather and changing seasons. Acomposition such as Brantford Roong. Now. the question is Where an`: I to nd a roof which will meet these conditions? Certainly not in wooden shingles which have rapidly detericratod during; ne past few years. Not"`in anything so 'petishabZe'as wood,` nor yct iron, which lets in dz"iving`rain. but rat-.er' in a permanent mineral - .- an _ can 1`{-aw, let us look at a section of B1-antford Roong. First, you notice it has a pure. long-iihrgd felt base. This is thoroiighly saturated with a ller coat of asplgalt or mineral pitch. Then it is given another coat. Finally, the surface" is thickly covered with crushed slate. You can imagine what 3. job rain, snow. re or heat would have_ penetrating a roof like that. As for comparing % Nature's Water- Roofing `. . proong with shingles on the score of permanen.cy, or protection, or appearance, or even economy, mere rs no compzrzlscn You put a Brantford Roof on once, and 1t` wm last as long as the -building; it always look we1l_`a`nd it never need repairing. A ' I,-_|_ _,._I_2___. ' 5 1-: Why not let us send y_ou gamples, also acppaggf our t_x_ioklet vy_hicl_1 explains` hpw Bgantford Roong :2 ` always on the Job`: _ Or. 1_; you wx.-1 gwe ps the dvmensxons of your ,har-1 or house roof we W111 giaaly subrmt cstunatcs_ withopt charge or oblxgation. V Brahtford Roong Company, Limits Brantford, Canada _ 485 For Sale by H. H. Otton & son are a part of us; and let it he re-_ membered that they only are the w0rlh-while friends? who appea to the best that is in us. , -A ' During the"period of the writ-| er s acquaintance wlth Mr. Fir- man, as a young man he develop- e" an irlcreasing` admiration for him and shall ever cherish a pro- found respect for this man who was really great, if the standard _of greatness by which I have ad- judged him be `correct, and the writer believes they are. At least he knows of no better. For to be truly nohle,- man must he unifornlly developed `-and in a stain of healthy growth, in every elgment of his triune nature -physical, `mental, moral. _He who emphasizesany one of. these phases of his being to the point where he loses his sense of the relative value of the` others, is,_to say the least, not a perfect- ly balanced being, and the ex- - treine penaltyxof his mistake may be the_ loss of those parts of his make-up, through. neglect. `On the basis of-t these principles, I .repeat"that theilate Mr. Firman was a great man. His excellent ` physique and health of body tted him well for the strenuous, im- portant, and responsible position- in life which he lled-so long and so well. And may I take, Mr. Ed-l itor, the liberty of pausing here to pay trihute to that large body. of men of" like ca'llir_ig with 'the -late Mr. -Firman'? Men respon- sible for the quick, comfortable` and safe transit of millions of persons and millions worth of; goods, every year---men who`; calmly and deliberately follow; where the necessities and exigen-! ciesof their work lead them; men wh0,Where duty calls, or dan- g r, are never wanting there.-- en who thus perform their t_asks twithout hesitation and; without ostentation, without: someone to eulogize them by} singing VVben sL1_all their-glory| fade? etc 'I`here are,even t.hose despicable persons who imagin,e.= that a greasy pair of overalls and` a dirty face are the things which i dele a man." 'l`o those who! knew `(and for, that rnat_ter tot those who did not) Mr. Fir-man. it was a treat to ride behind him. He was not only an engineer; he lwas: an artist in his work. The dictionary speaks of an artist as one who tastefully executes his - labors. It is such men as these, Sir, who gi e a dignity to labor because they dd to-it. the crown- ing touchof love for, and manly pride_in, the work in hand, be that work the plowing o-f a straight furrow, the guiding of an ocean greyhound across the tracklcss waste of submarine haunted waters, or the controll- ing of the giant. "iron.horse that .hunders onward irrespective of noon-day s lnirning_l1eat. or the black darkness of midnight, car- rying behind it a cargo of hum- anity precious in the sight of eartheancgl heaven. Such a con- ception of the_,ioy of his calling. made Mr. Firinan a man In he loved as one who could teach those who knew him to think of life not merely as the occasion of and. circumstances <-onnected with, the more business of lllt.ll(- ing a living.` And in his leisure hours he had time for the study of those things which give breadth to the mind and give vision to the soul of a man and so make him a per- sonality among people -- rather than a mere unit in amiigbty un- iverse. He was int"erestcd in the problems that concerned the wel- fare of men as cu-eatures ol` Div- ine handiwork. For him human- it" was more than a piforligious aggregation of pawns oh the chessboard of Chance, to be played with by the \\\ l`lllllSl(_'lal fin- gers of Fate. He grew more and more to see people as objects to be l()'\'G(l_. encouraged, inspired in their efforts to develop the nobler aspects of their natures. The writer well remembers _a recent conversation with hnn in which MI`. .l.*`_irrnan said : ` \Vel|, I l1ow_ are things going in your l:V'\l\`),, A.-`A ,.~n I-.nu'nn lull] ilunf JJUDDQ . - . M1`. F1rman s tlmughl, as Pill- bmllvd m that 1lll(`,l`l`n. .`iillUl1, will live long`. To him . . All common l,hings,.nau-h <'lay s| .....$.. l\1 llUVV_ alt: l/1111165 5U.lll5 lll. _yuuL line??? And on being` told that `*Lhin'g`s were not going" as well as might be rlesi1`-ed, 110-said:-- \Vell, are you doing your hwest? r1-1 - I, ,_ ______,|,_ [There will he no nnuro s(>a.1-c.l1- ing qtlestion in the mmds uf nun- tals "when their c.ha1`a.c.tm's aria Ilmler the scrutiny of the wllite light of the .ludgn1ent Day than this pointed and th(lLlg'hL-[)1`(lV)k- ing query Are yuu dning yuur best? 11:_____4__-9, 1l-...-.-.LA ._. ....~. All: IJIJIIIIIIKIIA 1.1:-use-_v, . \'|~\.nn 1l|.ll`V ll (`IV 9 n ts, T '1_`h:1.tyv1i,l| the hour h0.g'1n am! and, Our pleu.s:u1`0s and our d1s(tm1- fnrxln \J\lL lIl|.JL/|.A.`\,l.L I.-J lI.llV.l `J-.an u;x-\:\;nn* trmts, \Vm"v1'min.d.s' by wh|(:h we may ascend. \Vith-him lho. (V-. that, .Nnt e11j>yn'wnt, and `nut. .~'o1`1-ow, Is 0111: des_tim-I and or `way, - But, to livo that e;u*h t.mnn1'I'nW Find 11svhnt,l.e1` than l,uday`. .1<'m` he had caught in seine `measure the spirit of the great Apostle Paul who, -inure-tl'ian any other mortal, drew hack the veil that hangs between life here and imn`m1'tality and who epitomized the only doctrine by which man can correctly estimate the value efthis world and what it has for us, and a conviction without which we cannot mould charac- ters that `shall stand the test. of time and eternity, when he de- claredvthat The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not geen are eternal. \Y.\.`.-.IA,-..-`\ *:.\- iAv|n'/\';`t\.r` n1;`k Lynx? King Solomon once wrote: A good man loavelh an heritage up- to-his c.l1il(lrm'1. Yes Solomon, and you might also have added that a good man loaveth a pre- cious remenihrarice unto all who knew him. for, Lives of greatmen all remind us_ We ,can make our lives sublime, And departing. leave behind us, Footprints -on the sands of t,i_fne. Fon`tprint.s_.ethat perhaps another, Sailing B`er- life s solemn main, AA forlornfandp shipwr`ecked bro- lln.-uca - . UbC1'ua.l. _ _ Napnleon is (arnditnd with hav- ing. said i,ha_t the greatest, need of France in his day was moth- eI`s.~ The vvritm` will ever `re- member Mr; Firman as _a faithful friend and a true conipanion in the aihsmiqn of a fathc-,r, dead now. over fourteen years. 1,. `LA 1'1 1U1lU1ll uunu ..uu1.:u..,.,..\.. 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