Gentle Unselfishness

    Miss Caroline Everest, whose death occurred Friday evening, May 26, was born in Pern, N. Y. , Jan. 27, 1821. She carne to Michigan with her parents in 1830, locating in Ann Arbor, where she spent her life. In girlhood she became a member of the M. E. church of which she continued a faithful member until her death. Her pastor, Rev. D. McElroy said of her:

      "Miss Caroline Everest was, according to the Word she read and cherished, one of those "meek and quiet spirits which are in the sight of God of great price. " To know her was to love her. Always cheerful, contented and happy, both in health and sickness, hers was a life from which emenated love, gentleness, peace, and unselfishness, as a sweet smelling savor to God.

    Her life was a long and quiet one, whose later years were spent chiefly indoors with her books and magazines. She was an inveterate reader and was never more contented than when seated in a quiet comer with a good book. She read widely and was an excellent critic of what she read. The coarse and sensational had no place in her life. She had a beautiful habit of culling the best from what she read for the pleasure and profit of her friends. For a woman of her years, she had a remarkable memory and always delighted in relating things she had seen and read ia the past.

    Nothing but good can be said of her. She was a lady ia every respect, refined and gentle, thoughtful of others, neglectful of herself and, above all, sincere.

    "A sweet spirit has passed from earth, but her influence remains and her memory will ever be cherished by her friends and loved ones." 

    "In the words of one who long knew her and loved her, 'Her book is full, and every .page well written. ' "