The Newtown bee., 1900-11-23
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TABLET UNVEILED IN HAWLEYVILLE
 CHAPEL
TO THE MEMORY OF ALPHEUs CHER ICE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
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Rev George Thomas Linsley, rector of Trinity church. After the singing of A hymn, prayer was offered by Allison F Smith. The first address was given by Rev Otis w. Barker, whose admirable tribute to Mr Baker, was appreciated by all. Among other things he said were {:
 We have come here thls afternoon to d. a very simple and plain thing. We have come simply to read story that mas been written, simply to open again . book that has been penned and whose lids have been brougn together. It is the story of life, 8 plain, everyday sort of life, not wonderful lte, and yet one that was much above che ordinary. We are to relate the story of life that did not have the ten talents, but chat did have far more than one talent and used those talents well.
 It is the story of auseful life. We all dislike to see things going to waste. You no doubt have stood on the brink the great cataract of Niagara. You have watched with intent eye and wiCh grow ing rapture the waters as they came down swirling, tossing, heaving, rolling, danc- jag, tumbling, and, at last, made. their awful plunge into tue yawning abyss be- low; but, even your feelings 0f ecstacy and delight, the thought has come to your plebeian and utilitarian soul that 1t was too bad to have so much good water power going to waste, and you have not greatly mourned to learn that much of that power is being utilized and is to be sent all over the marvellous Empire State. We all like useful things and useful peo- pie. The Psalmist tells us that the righteous shall flourish like the palm. tree. The palm is useful tree. In an old Persian poem some $50 different uses of tho yo m. uiuon and can imagine that the Bedouin Arabs and shieks of the desert love that tree that shoots up from the little patches of green amid the surrounding sterility. The merchant takes his money and uses 1t in his business, and his main effort seems to be to use his money over and over again and to keep it turning and jumping like the grain in the lively hopper. The nim- ble six pence is worth great deal more in what it does for the world than the dullard sovereign. A live dog any day is better than dead lion. can testify from my own contact with hlp to the exceeding usefulness of Mr Baker. never asked him to help me in any enter prise in which was interested but that he responded cheerfully and just 80 far as so busy 8 man could be expected to help, when I was only one of 8 hundred who were making demands upon his time and strength. l ask you to bear witness to-day whether Mr Baker was not a use- full man in this community. Is not that exactly what this memorial tablet means If Mr Baker had not done something, and many things that shall endure, you would never have dreamed of, placing it here. Many of the Bible biographies consist Of little more than to record the fact that the man was born, lived so many years-SO or 500, in some cases 1t matters very little which-and died /; that is about all there is to 1t. or many a man to-day the epitaph might pc writ ten with appropriateness, at his death, \ upon the slab that marks bis grave ! ''This man was born. He consumed sG many pounds of beef, he drank so many gallons of water, he passed through-he did not live-so many years; and then he died." That Is the whole story. He | goes, and the world Is none the richer, none the wiser, none the stronger. He goes, and in his going no one 9heds a tear or slacAens the furious pace of life
 MT Baker lived while he lived. He lived and when he went away, he left this community all the poorer, because of it's
 loss, and left us, his friends, all the lone.
 Her, but he left every thing and every
 person tbat he had touched all the richer
 because he had been here. He went daway, but he still lives in the lives that
 he blessed and in the warm affection o1
 us all.
 All that have said can be said witt
 strictest honesty, and MT Baker was tht
 last man who wopld want the mere frotf
 of euloGy to cover the clear statement o1
 truth. He was man of sterling integ
 rity. He treated others with rigid fair ness, and as a man of honor demanded
 from them return equivalent in kint
 and degree. l happen to know of law , suit in which he had engaged. The gun
 involved in the suit was trihing; witl
 MT Baker it was nOS the sum Involved
 but the principle involved. He had bee1
 meanly taken advantage of in bushes
 transaction, and he wanted to show thoa
 who had wronged him that they coul'
 not thus lightly play with him and h. not show that he resented the wrong This little incident illustrates the char
 acter of the man. ! remember havin
 once sent him an invitation to come t some little entertainment that we had i
 our church, and having, as . parenthesi
 thrown in, hinted that he try to brin
 some of the HawleyYille people wit
 him. He did not come. Thought nott
 ing about it at the time, but was eul
 prised, little later, to receive ssr not saying: 'I was ready to come to you
 entertainment, but man comip& in 6
 the last minute kept me away. Enclose
 you will find about what our partywoul
 nave spent, had we been tbere." Yo
 say that was little thing. Yes; ,but = doubt if you could find ten other men
 town who would nave thought of doin
 such thing. In this trait of hones ty { purpose, uncloaked fquareneps of dea ing, trying to do the things to others th'
 he wanted others to do to him, MT Bakl closely followed the teachings of Jest 1' Christ. Christ hated sham. You lco