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Day
29
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Frtwn ttoe Púickwy Dispatch o Dec. 23, ive tiake the following Item wliich perbaps same of the older compoeDíiftrs oí tdwj city will be late-rested In : "Jaimes Danrfs, aged 00, a weit bncuwn cfaaraicter in and arounc Pinckroey, the past few yius, dled at tilie hotel early Smiday morn. ing'. He lius beo alble to care for hiimself up to the last, Bditurday he was on tlhe stroeis as usual, aJthougtl for tlie past few weeks he ha.s knowu thiat liie wjaa short with hini. Ihj his earTy liíe lie w(afi ome oí the type 8et. ters in tha Aan Arbor Argu-s office, later years he lias oiccasicwially help. ed ovut in the Dispatch office. He had a wife anid oine son in Ano Aiior. Funeral was held irom the hotel, eomdueted by Re-v . AVallace and hls rematas were buried In the Plnct. ney ceanerteiry." Along in 1860 Jam.es Davis was ome oif thö promteingi young men of tbU city. His ilathen at that time was a minlsteir ia tbs M. E. ehucch, and tllie editoir a.nd propriet-or of the Michigan State News, a Local newsP'apea- fhat had quite a large circutetion, and was doing a prospe-r. aus business. The deceased was foireman of his fathers office, tos a cliurch member, sang, lm the M. Ë. chcir, and no young mam In the cityhad better prospect Por the future. He nieiriied aai estimable younjy lady and started out prosperously. But the war times were ha,rd timos young míen, and many oi th.e typo; o' ttoo.se d.iys were no noted for 1 !■■■ pieby or their sobriety. "Jim" gov into t,hie íasb eliquO and went down, and kept continmally going down. His wi.ie remaiued faithiul to him a considerable leiij.Hi o: time, and did -lier best to make him seO the error oí hls ways. But ill to no ava.il. ShO liaalb' .-e:iuiv] a divo ree and witlhi her youing son fouaid it better to care for herself. For nianur yeara Jim. htuing about t'he city and its eaiaoos. would do -aii'y odd job ïor a drink. He woiuld swoep out or cleaoi spitboons ior t;he reward it brougUt in tlie shlape o; liquid fire. He was a kiud, generoois feliow, at heart thorougi.'.' good, and had it mfc been for the ")ai habita atquired, wonld have imada a usöful citizein. 0n day about 15 yeara ago, Jim was mlssed frO'm his haunts. Xo one seemed t:o know what Jiaid beccime oí him. It. was auterwai-d learned üiat he had giome intio the. counbry to woi'k oa a i'arm, had a-bandoned his distio.ute liabits, and had deterinined to e.irai am lnonest living, by iionerit toil. Later on it wató underetood here that he had inairriud a. widuw lady ou whotie farm hO woa'ked, and was doing wei. TJnerei would be occastonal Inquirlee ayüout lúmi oi people who lived in hi neighborhood, and the reporta were alv;iys iavorable. As the yoars rojled on. Jimi rolled uut of m.mou"y nearly. The haiunts thai knew hún passed oub cüi existeiice. The oíd baya lei;D the city or died, iúc fram penhaps two. there la noc a printer now In tflie city who knew Jiïn in his palmy days, U,nd but f&w who knew him in later yearis, when his luck was down on hi'in. ïhe artfcle aftxjive U the last paragraphin hie &omewhíi,t extended long primer chapter. His eharacter was pied in youth, was nver íully set up agaí'n. The cha.se Avas so weaken-' ed by the sbraiiiu thatb the quoiiin i; good deds could not hold the i'omi secuireily in place. But the atttinpc to straóighteai his "pied" aiud '■j-quabbled" linee oí life. was a noble one. For that he Is deservinfi of igraat pr-aise, and when Jim stands 1i io re 'tlie bar oí God, om the Judgment seat, weaik and troinbling, with no guile in his heart but with that gtieat efffort to hiis credit, we believe that his chamces for the future wil be cqua'l to tho.se of the mam who nevar 'met and ov&rconio that grea desfbnoyer of life and happiness : Á bad habit.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier