Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-04

well, giving dignity to labor. As tiIlers of the soil they have ranked among the most honored and successful. As architect and builder we have made a good record, some times leading the van. In mechanics and inventions much has been accomplished that is useful and will be lasting. As business men they have in all generations been pre- eminently among the most successful, in many cases making large fortunes and often being associated with great enterprise, but never retiring in dishonor. In the field of letters we are not without eminent scholars. In the profession of the ministry ours rank beside the most eminent divines. In the law we are far above the average. In the field of medicine and surgery we have fur nished disciples that would have gladdened the heart of an Erasmus or Darwin, men who have given their lives knowingly, going heroically to their death as ever martyr went to the stake. In drawing
 with the pencil, giving the first school sys- tenn adopted in many of the best schools. in
 scenic and landscape painting, the perfection of the art has been attained. In sculpture no American name has been written above that of Edward Sheffield Bartholomew, of whom it has been said one of his years, since the ancient Greeks, produced finer work, of which the collection of figures and busts and works in bas-relief in the Bartholo- new gallery of the Wadsworth Athenaum at Hartford abundantly testifies. As legisla- tors in many States of this Union they have left the stamp of statesman and lawg1ver on their works. In times of great commotion, when patriots were needed, men of our clan 1 have always been found well to the front. When kingly prerogative encroached upon the rights of the subject under the protest you will find written, in bold letters, our name. When colonial schemes were about to fail for want of financial support our name was all powerful. When legislators, in their enactments, were inclined to be ar bitrary and trespass on the civil and relig- ious right of the individual, you find men of our name protesting that the legislative ser ; want is not master. In every danger and emergency, from early colonial life down, when the savage war whoop made many cheek to blanch, when resistance to taxation without representation gave us Bunker Hill, Lexington, Concord, Saratoga and Yorktown; when in 1872 our navy establish ed the freedom of the high seas, and again when our flag was dishonored in the war of the rebellion, our clan has been honorably represented by men who stood ready to pray or fight as the occasion might require. In whatever direction the mind of Barthol- omew concentrates, there you will find some thing accomplished to his credit. And, in fact when men have been needed for great or minor responsibilities, someone bearing our name has been found ust fitted to that need.
 Having said something of what we have been, and what we are, l may with great pro priety ask, What of the future? Are we to hold on to what we have attained as foun- dation, and build still more nobly for the flu ture? That depends (This I say to our young mea). The speed attained by Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See is not as by accident; it came after the most careful breeding and systematic training. Let us borrow knowl- edge from the agriculturalist in his culture of the potato and cabbage, of corn and wheat, of grasses and fruits, of horses and cattle. There is much natural vigor in our life stream; it can absorb much from other life streams without losing it's identity. To make our name much greater, and more of power among our fellow men, we have but to be careful in our future training And as we go outside of our clan for wives and mothers, let us remember that the staying qualities of the life stream are strengthened, ennobled and refined, or weakened or debased through the maternal current. If the wife and mother be of good blood, has healthy and well formed physique, is a true, refined and noble woman, she is the source of the highest type of manhood. The laws of transmission and physiology alike proclaim this truth. Is there specimen of grand and noble manhood among us? If his dear old mother has not gone home, if she sits in some old fashioned chimney corner, knitting all the day long, if pain has distorted or ob liberated all the former curves and lines, of beauty, if she sits with shoulders bowed, withered- and scrawny, the lustre of |
 nightfal1 speak to her lovingly and gently, l take her in your arms, fold her to your heart, and let the boyish kiss nestle again in the
 wrinkles of her old cheek, for that will bring you nearer heaven than you ever will be this side the pearly gates.
 In closing let me speak not of the past, not to those whose lives all before them, but to us of the present who are in the field with the battle of life on. The successful need no encouragement except to remember the less fortunate and strive to answer well their stewardship. The tools with which most of us must work are those that at hand. What might have been cannot be. If life to many of us seems to be unsuccessful drudg cry, and we float without a purpose, we can at least so far revolutionize the current as to accept it, saying this is the way, walk ye in it and become in love with it's drudgery. The average woman, who bakes, and brews, \ and mends, and feels that life goes hard, can \ do much toward changing that drudgery into \ a sanctifed labor of love that shall manifest itself in the sacred sweetness of home life. ! Here is the broadest field for cultivation Here is where true heart qualities have the { advantage over every other quality. Here is where wealth and station finds a level with the most humble. Here is where blood is cleansed and made pure. Here is where the sowing is.done; and almost to a certainty it is yours to say what the harvest shall be.
 Brethren, greater things are yet ill store for our family name. The beams of our hab- itations are laid broad and deep in almost every field of human enterprise. The eighth generation, then, bequeath to their children a wealth of memories and achievements, wig orous mental, moral and physical powers, and name unsullied. May they accept and prove themselves worthy of the trust be- slowed upon them.
 After the address it was voted to hold an other reunion, the date and place to be fixed by the executive committee. Much interest
 
 George w. Bartholomew, jr., 8 work which has occupied his leisure since 1872 or there abouts. The reunion broke up at about 5 o'clock, all much pleased with the days events. During the afternoon many went sailing in Captain Henry Pages fine and com modious boat and took cruise about the far-famed Thimbles.
 Following is list of all who registered at the reunion yesterday.
 Francis c. Bartholomew, Timothy Bartholomew,
 MT. and Mrs. George Wells Bartholomew. jr; and son, Austin, Texas omew, Harry Ives Bartholomew, Joseph Peck Bar | tholomew, Bristol, Ct.
 Nelson P. Aldrich. Wauregan, Ct.
 George w. Bartholomew, Augustine L. Bartholo- | mew, Philadelphia
 Andrew Bartholomew, Springfield
 Mrs. G. W. Bartholomew, Mrs. c. c. Houswick, |
 Wooster Ives, William Bartholomew, walling- l
 Prof David N Camp, New Britain.
 George W. Bartholomew, Bristol.
 Henry Merriman, druggist, New Haven
 w W. Bartholomew and son. Meriden.
 Mir and Mrs. Samuel Bartholomew, North Bland | ford Mass
 Mir and Mrs. Silas A. Lewis, West Pennington | Ohio.
 Elijah J. Spencer and daughter, Nepaug, Ct.
 MT. and Mrs. William C. Goodwin, Louise Upson l Bristol, Ct
 Mrs. H. K. Burnham and son. Mrs. Emily Car | rington and son, Bristol
 Mrs. Fanny c. King, Mrs Allie E. Hedges, New l Haven.
 E. W. Parsons, Helen c. Parsons, MT. and Mrs l Frank S. Parsons Branford
 MT and Mrs. Dana Bartholomew, Ansonia.
 Mrs. Laura B. Way, Miss Fannie Way, Indian Point | Branford.
 Chas. H. Bartholomew, Glastonbury Conn.,
 Frank H. Bartholomew, Truman Bartholomew, l New Haven.
 Oren B. Parks, Westfeld, Mass. -~
 Joel L. Bartholomew, Cuba, New York.
 Alison B. Bartholomew, WallingfOrd.
 Rudolphus Bartholomew, Branford.
 Samuel I. Bartholomew, Wallingford.
 Mrs. Harriet Elisabeth Bartholomew, Henry A. | Bartholomew, Wallingford
 Mrs. Rachel Bartholomew, Albany, N. Y.
 Mrs. Mary Jane Bartholomew and son, New Haven.
 John Bartholomew, Hudson, N. Y.
 David s. Osborn and son, New Britain.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank NJ. Bartholomew Walling l