The Press., 1896-12-31
WELLINGTON.

(Correspondence.)
 The dog stars loose; nay, t1s so, past doubt, So much poor, scurrtle doggerel is about. The doggerelist may doggerelize his brain, Spend time and money, and c GO0-0O41ed fool
 remain
 It was cold hereabouts Monday morn ing, but the thermometer varied widely in localities. On the Hill it stood de- grees above zero, while in some of the hollows it ranged from IS to 21 degrees below zero.
 Carol Webber and Bertha Young have been visiting at Lucius Preston's.
 Pupils neither absent nor tardy in the Daleville district last term were: Flora Walker, Florence Walker, Grovsenor Dave, Lyman Dave. Eddie James was absent one day.
 The annual parish party will take place at the Baptist parsonage tomorrow even ing. Supper at the town hall adjoining A general invitation is given, as usual.
 The recent grange entertainment and banquet at Holland is highly spoken of by members of the local grange who were so fortunate as to be present. The threat ening weather prevented large delega- tion from driving thither.
 Preston Merrick, the little son of Origen H., and grandson of the late Timothy Merrick, died at Chicago recently. The body was brought to Holyoke, Mass, for burial.
 As was remarked at the last very inter- esting grange meeting, the possibility of such gathering in this rugged country in these hard times goes to show the ad- vantageous position of the small farmer even, and also proves the grange to be a helpful factor in the quiet and in some cases isolated lives of the farming com munity. The impression continually gains that the grange is good thing. Its edu- cative power is not to be belittled, and every member ought to be loyal to the or der. When some "entertainment' or some ''rehearsal' doesn't interfere there's generally good attendance at the meet ings, and sensible talks on practical top ics, and consequently something to be learned, especially during "lecturer's hour"
 The following clipping from The Ex- aminer will interest older readers in this vicinity and elsewhere. Confessedly the most learned and distinguished divine ever settled in Holland county, Ex-P Pres't. Jeremiah Chaplin, D. D., was pastor of the Baptist church here at the time indi- cated
 Not as college president do l write of Dr. Chaplin the elder] but as pastor of county church. It was in the spring of 1886 that the Baptist church in Willington Conn.,, extended call to Dr. Chaplin to become their pastor. The call was &C., cepted, In due time Dr. Chaplin and his family came among us, taking up the or dinary duties of the pastoral office. In person the doctor was tall and angular, inclined to stopping, and in no wise pre- possessing in personal appearance, except dark eye of unusual brilliancy for. and countenance richly expressive of the kindly virtues. In the pulpit he was un- demonstrative. He never "sawed the air" and seldom raised his eyes toward the congregation. He delivered his sermons from carefully prepared manu- script. There was no "hap-haZard' ''wOrk i n his sermons, and nothing to capture the crowd in his manner. Hence he was not, in the popular sense, a pulpit orator. He just preached that was all, and that was enough. In manner he reminded one of the late William R. Williams, of New York. His preaching was a wise and judicious distribution of the 'milk" and ''meat'' of Gospel truth, with no attempt at sensationalism or word pictures but it was rich in the fatness and marrow of the Gospel. "honey out of the rock" Ii was what he said, rather than the manner of his saying it, that gave inestimable value to his preaching. I recall being present at a mid-week prayer -mc cetiag, held in the parsonage, when Dr. Chaplin read and expounded the twenty fourth chapter of Luke-the walk to Emmaus- and so rich and life-Iike were his worde | that that chapter has carried radiance and interest to me peculiar to itself, and sixty years of varied experience have not affaced the memory of that meeting. His prayers had the simplicity of child l hood and the reverence of age, the con- triton of penitence and the faith of a patriarch. He was man of God, to the limit of human possibilities; and now, after sixty years of campaigning, the memory of no man, living or dead, carries the moral force to the mind of the writer of real, unalloyed goodness, as does the memory of COlby's first president in his three years pastorate at Willington. Only a sense of obligation, long overdue, has promoted this feeble attempt to portray, in few words, the character of one whose duplicate Is not easy to find.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Miss Edith Scott spent Christmas with her cousin at Manchester. l J. w. Harrison and wife have been wis iting friends and relatives in Yantic.
 Arthur Raney and wife, Florence Den man Raney, have been spending few days at Thos. A. Denman's.
 w. H. Bracket inspected the road be. tween Stafford and South Willington last Saturday night, and reports them in good condition for walking.
 The question which is puzzling South Willington people at present is "whC wrote that piece of poetry which is being circulated about town?" That is toe much of a good thing.
 Miss Mary Miller, teacher in Brattle boro, Vt., is spending her Christmas va cation at home.
 Miss Gertie Allen, of Westfield, has been visiting old friends in town. The annual election of officers in the Sunday school for next year will he held Sunday. All over ten years of age are entitled to vote.
 George Baxter, of Newark, N. J., has been visiting her sister, Miss F. Grace Baxter.
 Mrs. Mary Mundell and daughter Georgiana, spent Sunday with her broth CT in New Haven
 Mrs. Frank Preston, of Willimantic but formerly of this place, visited friends in town last week.