The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1903-02-14

duNaHceu age OF 20 years. Inc fun-
eral will be held at the First Pfesby.
! terrain church at three O'Clock tins
afternoon The remains will be ac.
companied by his son, Judge d f.
/ Roberts, and taken to Constable
Vile, y. y, and laid at rest by the
side of wife and children in the Gem
etery at that place.
MIR Roberts was born in Denleeigh-
shire, North Wales He came to AM
erica in lS4S young man aged twenty
one years and settled in Lewis county,
n y. At that time he was unable to
talk English, but he had learned to
read and write and to love his own
sire ng and noble language well in the
Sunday Schools. After coming to
this country he attended the country
public schools two winters and learned
TO read and write English.
He WAS married to a Welsh girl.
Jane LNhliS. III 1000, ana bought
farm in Oneida county. n. Y He fol-
lowed farming all his life, retired in
1898 after his wife's death and came
to Superior. Wis, to close the aven-
ing of his life with his surviv q chill.
dren, Judge d. F., Ella, Mary Louise
and Anna F. Roberts, who were then
and are now all living here.
To him life was no holiday, but a
mo t earnest and serious affair in all
its aspects. A promise made must be
performed no matter what in cost
His credit was always good; and dol
lars we're things to be earned not
acquired by means to be mentioned
sidewise or under your breath. He
had no sympathy with idlers and
looked with horror upon a waste o
time and opportunity.
He Stunned everything ard every
body who could not give good ac-
count of themselves at all times.
He was kind hearted; but Just and
firm, He refused to give to those
able to work; he offered them a job
instead.
Since coming here he apnarently for
pastime and mere employment
cleared up, fenced and cu'tivated a
half dozen blocks of vacant land and
made useful crops grow where brush
and weeds had up to that time -four
'hed in tangled ugliness.
He never spu" fine theories or maao
long speeches about his business; but
worked and ACCOMPLISHED something,
however humble, that counted one.
Though deep ly religious man who
contributed to the American Bible
Society and supported churches every
year he had no sympathy WITH relig-
iosity or hypocracy. He appreciated
the worth and beauty of literature
that stands the test of ages, but light
and trifiing compositions did not APP.
pea! to him.
He appreciated the purpose and
methods of Jurisprudence, and rel
ished a legal combat. In his active
years he frequently sat upon juries
in the county in which he lived and
enjoyed a term of court He was
never blinded by appeals to emotion,
and the majesty of the law appealed
to him stronger than doth the "ma
esty" that enshrines wealth. place or
power.
He never sought and was never
elected to prominent public Office
He was content to keep step in the
ranks through life, to DO the hard
work TO be done in the world and to
do it we'll While he wanted those
employed about him to keep moving
he never shirked himself He was
one of the million whose counsel and
example are always good, who keep
the world moving upward, who die
unknown to fame but who leave the
earth materially improved and NOR
ally better because they lived upon it