The Newtown bee., 1907-01-11
New Milford.

man speech is never quite so apparent @ as when one attempts to describe a ,S life or delineate character, charged W and through, as was our broth S er's, with strong and striking in- { dividuality. New Milford has been S blessed with such men-alaS, they A are leaving US all too rapidly,-men N who are up to something with all their 1 might, men who are willing to throw into the scale of our prosperity the 4 full weight of their strong personality, 0 with it's tremendous energy, it's un- . Tagging zeal, it's noble public spirit, and it's tireleSS devotion to the town e they love, her institutions and her people. Could they speak to us to-day nay, are they not speaking with an 4 eloquence more powerful than that which can fall from any living lips, ( speaking with silent language, touch e
 to our hearts? Are they not saying to you who remain, who have been | won't to lean too much, it may be, up | on their strength, their willing sacri- | fee, and their capacity for leadership,
 but who must now fill their vacant I places, if those places are ever to be | filled: "See ye to it that the work
 which we began, and for the success of | which we toiled and planned and
 prayed, be carried bravely forward, and in this bi-centennial year do not be content to live on the glorieS of dead ancestry, but yourselves do some. | thing pOSUer1Uy to
 It would be interesting at this time
 to look at the story of our brothers
 life, that remembrancer that records
 no fiatteries and no deceits, only the |
 plain, honest truth, but a truth in |
 this case Stranger than fiction, "-the |
 young man coming from foreign |
 shore, learning a new language, fight l
 ing the battle with poverty, struggling
 against odds which crush the timid
 but make the brave man braver, stand
 a f. nndPr storm clouds 0laCK
 as night with defeat apparently hang
 ing from the sky at every turn, but
 calmly and courageously pressing on,
 conquering where men said he was
 sure to fail, rising steadily by sheer
 force of will and wit and energy, and
 finding his reward at last in the honors
 bestowed upon him by his fellow citt-
 zenS in the land of his adoption to
 which he was as loyal and devoted as
 if he had been born upon its soil. = But all this can be told better and d more appropriately by others at other dd been told already in the public press il of this old Commonwealth, through n n whose length and breadth he was ,e known and whose interests he was ,r more than once called upon to Serve ar Rather let it be for me at this hour r. and in this place to call up to remem- ,s brance some features of his ch racter re hidden from the great world which ar knew little of his inner life and his sr warm, generous heart that so often 10 went out in sympathy and helpfulness 1v to his needy and suffering fellow mor- t tals. You may be thinking to-day of ,o ~, his public life and service, but that ,6 which will live longest in my memory n. r is the impression which he gave me as rr' I used to meet him in the homes of the " poor and the sick, and see the ed strong, aggressive man changed II the most sympathetic of friends, pa oe tiently ministering through the long Ih hours of the night after the hard oe work of the weary day. Just as straws in show the direction of the wind, little nr acts, unknown to the world and never o- seeking to be known, show the direc nd tion of the currents of the life of the .e- inner man, which is after all the req 70 thieS, aspirations, impulses, motives iii chose things in which true life has its in in root. l remember that on one suct nv occasion as those to which 1 have re ,ss ferred, he said to me: ''The Mastel ch taught us great deal of what tht n right sort of religion is in the parable
 of the Good Samaritan" Now rs friends, we may differ here. but can
 not keep back the conviction tha ,o whatever mans creed may be, un he less he has a heart within him kind 7s and tender and true, a heart witt of love to God and love to man in it h. m can be neishar pleasing to hi $ I love to think of him to-day in hi af beautiful home life whose fruits re VI main in the character of his sons o nh whom he was justly proud and who, nf know, will not fail to carry out hi IF But I must not pursue further thi rSt poor attempt to give a glimpse her un and there of the character of him fo .d whom so many mourn to-day. You al r's know his conscientious devotion to hi 'rS work, public and private, to his family nf to his friends, to every one with whor ks he had to do; and you know, alas! ho' N'' the clear, steady light of his presenc nn is now withdrawn from earth save as nS reflected blessing.
 ,ed R REsOLUTIONs OF UPTON POST, NO. l. to A. R.
 'ss, At a regular meeting of Upton post 'ed No. IA, G. A. R., held at Memori al hall, Wednesday evening, January ne 1907, the following resolution ws )ut adopted:
 WHEREAS, The messenger of deat Ill has again visited Upton Post, callin me me from the list of membership our frien DIG and cOmrade, William G. Lathrop. ma WHEREAS, The death of our lat 'Ilc comrade leaves a vacancy which cause vas us to mourn the loss of the decease n.y. ny. comrade. Therefore be it
 aps RESOLVED, That the members cal said Post extend their hearty symp IIe ter thy to the wife and relatives of Con [e [en rade Lathrop to mourn with them. yer Post be draped in mOurninp for
 at days and that page of the Post boo aue of records be set apart for these res dsK lutions, and that copy be sent to tt ave family of the deceased cOmrade ar day ford Gazette and TIE NEwTowM RE, on m H5o,
 less n' co,,,.., ,,nn N. H. Root,
 The
 the ERASTUS JONES.
 the EraStuS Jones, aged 40 years, died ( as Friday at the Town house. He leav and a wife and three children. The funer nCp rla Cot RI