But alas! the uncertainty of life.

The coming of death when least expected was strikingly illustrated in his case.

During the latter part of April he went to a nursery for some trees, and while coming home late at night he caught a severe cold and was taken seriously sick, with lung fever.

Mother did everything in her power for him.

She could not have done more had he been her own son, but notwithstanding her motherly care and attention, and the skill of a physician from Leavenworth, he rapidly grew worse.