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

nan speech is never quite so apparent S IS when one attempts to describe a :, through and through, as was our broth < CTS, with a strong and striking tn- 1ividuaHty. New Milford has been blessed with such men-alas, they are leaving us all too rapidly,-men \ who are up to something with all their ( might, men who are willing to throw into the scale of our prosperity the , full weight of their strong personality, Q with its tremendous energy, it's un- Tagging zeal, it's noble public spirit, they love, her institutions and her < people. Could they speak to us to-day nay, are they not speaking with an eloquence more powerful than that which can fall from any living lips, speaking with silent language, touch ing, persuasive, appealing irresistibly 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
 places, if those places are ever to be
 filled: 'tSee ye to it that the work
 which we began, and for the success of
 prayed, be carried bravely forward,
 and in this bi-centennial year do not
 be content to live on the glories of a
 dead ancestry, but yourselves do some.
 thing for pOSterity to cOmmemOrate.' y It would be interesting at this time
 to look at the story of our brothers | life, that remembrancer that records | no 'flatteries and no deceitS, only the | plain. honest truth, but truth in 1 this case stranger than fiction, "-the young man coming from a foreign shore, learning new language, fight | ing the battle with poverty, struggling | against odds which crush the timid
 but make the brave man braver, stand l ing at times under storm clouds black
 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 citi-
 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
 more appropriately by others at other
 times and in other ways: Nay, it has
 been told already in the public press
 lof this old Commonwealth, through
 whose length and breadth he was
 known and whose interests be was more than once called upon to serve. Rather let it be for me at this hour
 and in this place to call up to remem- i. | OrdDC6 some I6dUUTeS OI HIS CQ TdCCoI hidden from the great world which knew little of his inner life and his warm, generous heart that so often went out in sympathy and helpfulness to his needy and suffering fellow mOr-
 taIs. You may be thinking to-day of , his public life and service, but that which will live longest in my memory is the impression which he gave me as I used to meet him in the homes of the poor and the sick, and see the
 tcfr cixyn nh rod into the tenderest of nurses and the most sympathetic of friends, pa , tiently ministering through the long hours of the night after the hard . work of the weary day. Just as straws show the direction of the wind, little , , acts, unknown to the world and never . seeking to be known, show the direc- l tion of the currents of the life of the
 inner man, which is after all the real
 man, the man of affections. sympa- thieS, aspirations, impulses, motives I chose things in which true life has its !, root I remember that on one such 7 occasion as those to which l have re- { ferred. he said to ne: s'The Master right sort of religion is in the parable
 of the Good Samaritan" Now, S friends, we may differ here. but can . not keep back the conviction that whatever mans creed may be, un- 2 2 less he has heart within him kind and tender and true, heart with love to God and love to man in it he
 can be neither pleasing to his Q Maker DOT useful to the world I love to think of him to-day in his z beautiful home life whose fruits re main in the character of his sons o1 , whom he was justly proud and who, f know, will not fail to carry out his s wishes and follow in his footsteps f poor attempt to give a glimpse here . and there of the character of him fol
 whom so many mourn to-day. You al s know his conscientious devotion to hi' j work, public and private, to his family f to his friends, to every one with whom |, | he had to do; and you know, alas! how , the clear, steady light of his presence o is now withdrawn from earth save as { d reflected blessing.
 d R RESOLUTIONS OF UPTON POST, NO. IA }, At a regular meeting of Upton post 2 No. IA, G. A. R., held at Memoria l. hall, Wednesday evening, January ? e 1907, the following resolution wa U adopted:
 WHEREAS, The messenger of deatf has again visited Upton Post, calling c and comrade, William G. Lathrop. a WHEREAS, The death of our lat c comrade leaves vacancy which cause IS us to mourn the loss of the deceased v comrade. Therefore be it
 )s RESOLVED, That the members o u said Post extend their hearty sympa 'r thy to the wife and relatives of Com n rade Lathrop to mourn with them. T. RESOLVED, That the charter of tn 1T Post be draped in mourning for 3 u days and that page of the Post bool le of records be set apart for these reso K lutions, and that a copy be sent to thu 'e family of the deceased comrade ant
 that they be printed in the New Mil y ford Gazette and THE NEwTOwN BEE SC SC L. W. MosHER,
 o1 oG c. A. Way, Committee. .. ~ N. H. Root,
 le
 "a ERASTUS JONES.
 Ie Erastus Jones, aged 40 years, died o $, Friday at the Town house. He leave Id a wife and three children. The fnnera ;e took place on Saturday afternoon, Re