The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-05-16
Terms OF Courts
Memorial Windows.
Dedication In NJ. E. Church. solon, Friday.
May 10. Interesting Exercises.

Dedication In NJ e. Church. Scion, Friday,
May 10. Interesting Exercises.
Friday of last week was day full of
interest to Solon people, particularly to
representatives. of several prominent
families of that town ana the Methodist
Episcopal church, there.
The occasion was the presentation to
the church of four memorial windows,
their acceptance by the church and appro-
pirate dedicatory exercises. Despite the
unfavorable weather the church was
well filled with attentive and interested
listeners.
The exercises began at o'clock p. m.
with an organ and eornet voluntary by
Mrs. Dir. S. F. Greene, organ, and the
Misses Clarke, comets. Rev. Wm. &.
Wade, pastor of the Congregational
church read selections from the scripture
aud prayer was offered by Rev. Thomas
Whitesde, pastor of the church. Capt.
Moses French presented a pulpit set to
tie church from himself and family as a
token of appreciation for what his COM
rades and the church had done for him
self and wife. Rev. Mr.. Whitesde ae-
cepted the set in few appropriate re.
marks.
Mrs. W. F. Berry, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs, Moses French, read an interest
ing paper entitled Pictures of Home LIE
of my mother, as follows:
In Imagination see gentle girl of
twenty summers, blushing bride
brought to a humble farmers home, aud
given the delicate duties not only of
mnistering to her husband and invalid
mother-in-law and little brother-in-law
David, but of being ministered unto aud
ministering to robust brother Joseph and
sweet sister Mary. These vie as con-
genial spirits in their ministries to
each other as they each have need.
Little brother David fades and slips
away from them and after weary days
of waiting, patient mother French joins
the heavenly throng. SO
"Year by year our hearts best treasures
Bending angels heavenward bear,
And the circle here that narrows,
Year by year is widening there"
Bro. Joseph accepts the call to preach
the Gospel and pursues his studies at
kents Hill and Concord Theological
School, fitting himself for the fulfillment
~ interest and welcomes him, as a brother
beloved as he returns for his vacations.
In the meantime two little babies come,
smile awhile and are transplanted.
Then others come longer to tarry and at
last after four little boys have been
welcomed comes tiny slip of girl, so
small they dare not trust her to sleep
unmatched lest she be smothered by the
blanket, so with untiring love she is
watched night and day. Two years
later another little boy comes, play
mate for the tiny slip of girl, and eight
years later in troublous national times
comes the patriotic little sister whose
birth is SO soon followed by the burning
of the old homestead. Now these boys
and girls who have been spared TO grow
up look across the years and see pictures
memory brings 20 them. We see a
happy home, plain and simple in its
furnishings but garnshed aud sweet and
resplendent with an atmosphere of love !;
mother, wonderful ia courage and I'M
selfishness, energetic and industrious,
able with her deft fingers to transform
the crude material which was plentiful
all about her, into supplies for the family
needs; table beautifully spread.
Their own hands raised for food
And the bread so light and the honey white
And the milk so pure and good"
She spun and wove from the black
sleeps wool the cloth for fathers and
the boys homespun suits. She made
pretty and warm balmoral skirts for the
girls. Spun, colored and wove black and
red, fine plaid cloth for the girls school
dresses. How lovely they were, and
how servicable Out of the flax she
made the table cloths and towels. She
fashioned pretty rugs for the floors and
carpets for the rooms. Prepared the
candles for lighting the house by night,
and, amid all these ceaseless industries,
kept gentle and sweet in spirit so that it
was an unheard Of thing for her to be
impatient with the children. Tom
Clark, who was hired man for several
years when the family was small, in
after years held her up to his family as a
model mother in gentleness and patience.
Another picture memory brings, the
! country needs men, Brother Joseph
heeds that call; takes his three little
motheress children to the farm for
Moses and Sarah to care for, and for the
little ones sake, the country's sake and
Joseph's sake,
Their troubles they kept out of sight
And their faces smiling and bright,
The struggle that's only for self
No Joy among angels may wake,
But the brightest crowns will be given
To those who have suffered and striven
For somebody's sake"
With the &c ming of Joseph's children
her own number of children is restored
but all are between the ages Of three and
twelve. But mother had a saying that
we could get along all right if we would
Biliousness is a condition character
lied by disturbance of the digestive
organs The stomach is debilitated, the
liver torpid, the bowels constipated
There is a loathing of food, pains in the
! bowels. dizziness. coated tongue and