Our brother sleeps! His vigorous, manly form is laid to rest. Death came to him, who was so dear to us, when scarce the noontide of his life was reachedwhen hopes were brightest, friends were dearest, joys the sweetest, and every moment rich with love.

Words can but feebly express our love for this true, brave and generous man. He, from his early manhood toiled among us with loyal heart, and climbed to heights of eminence few, of his years, have reached. He was endeared to us by every act of kindness, and we admired him for his worth and merit, and loved him as our own. Well may we say: "There was-there is no gentler, stronger, manlier man."

DR. C. B. CLARK.

It is with a melancholy pleasure, if such a thing were possible, that I appear before you and before this honorable bar and these citizens to express what I understand to be the universal sentiment of the citizenship of Huron, and if the State were here, of the commonwealth, in an entire and hearty sympathy with the exercises that have been participated in by so many of the members of the bar this afternoon. After all, what profession owns a man; this loss lies not with the profession alone, but with the State-with the citizenship-every member of which had learned to honor and admire the man, William B. Sterling; to honor him as a leader, and to love him as a man; for the substratum of all that makes the qualities about which you have spoken this afternoon-the sub-stratum of those qualities is in the genuine manhood of our friend who has gone from us.

There is a manhood, as you know, so called, that is stained with uncleanness, that hesitates not at depths of impurity, and the prostitution of conscience, so that ends may be gained; but this was not the man whom we have lost today. His was a manhood that lived in