The Boy Artist

Sohuylor Grunt Haywood, eldest on of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Haywood, of Ypsilanli, was transplanted Nov. 24, 1880, from this garden where disappointment, blight, decay and the frosts of winter, blast the f'airt'Ht buds of promise, to that land of light, wherc no cliilling wind evor mar the reaira of perfected art, where color and uliade are arranged by the All-Wise to harmonizo, where Grant can perfect hiwell begun work under the guidanee of one that will not direct a oopy of ''The Knotty I'oint," that many have admired so much, which was ezecuted by Grant'a hand wlien lio had juat passed bis sixteenth year; il hung in the probate office in our city for Heveral weeks on Hale, it was removed to Detroit and sold when it ought to have been purchastid by our citizens and kept as a beginning of what we as a city so much need, viz: an art gallery. Young 11 ay wood has since h.- decline opent many days in te writers horae, we feit aasured as wc listenod to his overflowing heart, and answered his niany questions, that ho had been and was being taught by the great Teacher. At his last vi.sït before le&vine for Colorado, where he went aloDe, among strangers, for the purpose of recovering his health, that he inight bc able to üclp his family financially, and as he expressed it, reiurn if possible some of (he efforts that had been made for him ; I said, Grant, please teil IDO jast how you would feel if you knew that you would never get woll, he looked at me a tnument and said, I want to get well, yet I have no disposition to do or afk anythiug that is not best in the thought of Him that makc mistakes for it is progresion hereafter as well as herc if we will it, is it not ? I answered yes, and added that no sin would be permitted in that Beulah land. He replied, I have found the good and the true here, and congenial helpers, so I belicve it will ever be, the result will be all right. So lived this uianly youth, whofe honor and purity of mind won for him the friendship of all, and the link that binds loving hearts was not broken when he passed to peaocfully away ; may his exatnple guide many, and prove a stimulus