The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-07-27

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| in his town, would be a source OF inapi.
ration and help TO the young men. That
it might possibly inspire some of them to
start out on higher lines in life than 9th
erwise would be the case If the library
was not here.
Albert G. Wilson Of New York, repre-.
| senting the architect, Grosvenor After.
bury, was introduced by Mr. Linsley to
ledgements.
Rev Mr. Lins ley stated that letters OF
regret had been received from Rev Nj
Guernsey, who was away on his vaca-
ton, Rev o. o. Wright, who was indis-
posed and unable to be present, and Rev
P. Fox, who was out Of town. Father
Smith was present, however, to repre-.
sent the pastor of st Rose and to show
his interest in the worthy movement.
Rev o. W. Barker, the vice president
of the association, was introduced and
made taking and felicitous address.
He said:
I feel this afternoon in congratulate
~ mood. congratulate you, my friends,
that the clouds have cleared away, at
least long enough for US to meet on this
well-favored occasion (when we get
through the storm can come just when 1t
pleases.) congratulate you upon this
interesting historical sketch which has
just been read, showingi''the day of small
1hinga," showing how there have been
progress and growth all the way
through. Especially do 1 congratulate
Professor and Mrs Charles s. Platt, who
seem to have borne the stress and strain
OF the early days, that they now behold
what their dreams have sighed for, what
their eyes have longed to see, a building
rising that shall be great credit to this
town and Of untold benefit to the genera
tions yet to be. The stone hewn out of
the mountains is not to grow indeed into
a kingdom that shall fill the earth, but
it is to. be the cornerstone of structure
that shall fill the minds of youth and age
with ideas that are to shape and mould
their lives. But, Of course, our chief
reason tor congratulation comes from
the fact that there 10 in our presence, this
afternoon, the generous donor Of our new
Library, Miss Rebecca Beach. She Is
the main one here, the rest of us are but
undellings; without her to grace the feast
our menu would surely be incomplete.
You will now all admit that though the
first woman came from rib in Adams
side. to-day woman can by no means be
called side issue.
Looking over the wo1l, 8 history, you
will find no great achievement that has
been wrought, no labor of love that has
been done, no noble enterprise that has
been successfully brought to completion,
but that woman has given to it her
gracious hand and heart and life. Have
valorous deeds upon the battle. field wa
kened the cheers Of the multitude? Then
it has been because in the seclusion of the
soldiers home there has been true, pa
tient, loving woman who has pledded on
knitting the socks, who has written love
missives to fire the heart with courage,
who has kept the light of home burning
on the hearth while the husband and
father was far away. Aye, the flesh and
blood that have turned into adamant to
meet the onsets Of the foe, the sinews,
supple and weak, that have changed in
to sinews OF steel, have undergone this
change because, even on the stern cid
of battle, there was a sweet, unseen pres
ence by the soldiers side. Look. through
the worlds history, say, and you will
find woman grazing every line of life
with the witchery Of her sweet helpful.
ness and the charm of her potent IL flu
ence for good.
''They talk about woman's sphere,
AS though 1t had a limit;
There's not place in earth Or heaven,
There is not a task to mankind given,
There's not a blessing or woe,
There's not a whisper, yes or no,
There's not a life, or death, or birth,
That has feathers weight OF worth,
Without woman in it."
What fitting time it is, almost on the
verge of the new century, to erect a
building like this! The boosted 10th
century has been one of swift material
progress; our wealth has been counted
with dollar marks, our territory has been
spreading from sea to sea. Inventions
have reached their eliminating point, we
have been moving with giant strides to the
height OF an electric age. 1t rather seems
out of place in rock-bound New ENGLAND
to speak of pioneer days. Pioneer days
are no longer, over all our broad acres
| our domain is now fixed. The white en-
igrant wagon has ceased to climb the
hills or cross the plains. Pioneer days
required men of muscle and nerve to con.
| quer the forest primeval, the unbroken
glebe and the bear; but these days are nc
more. We have been working so fast at
material things in this century that We
have had no time to settle questions ; the
new century, the rustic of whose advan