The Press., 1908-04-01

One who has known William Wal
ker all his life advances the theory
that he never had vacation, and
that he, is enjoying the present one
in sunny Mexico SO intensely that he
is invoking ALI the powers of it's
government to have it prolonged,
having, probably, no prediction for
plebiAn Wethersfield, where his next
sojourn of any length is likely to be
made.
g preached touchy sermon Sun
day morning." said our Rev. Mr..
Gardner, who is 83 years young, COM
ing in just now. "It was from Matt
1877. Topic, 'On being in touch
with others. - And that reminded
that our national pastor, DR.. Edward
Everett Hale, chaplain of the U. s.
senate, will pass his seth birthday
Friday, and is as active" and as in
f1uential as ever. His Good News in
the Christian Register week by week,
bright, cheerful, full of hope for man
kind, is an inspiration and full of the
simple, manly strong philosophy that
made his writings SO delightful away
back before the war. And that
brilliant man, Rev. DR.. Charles q.
Ames, "Who being about to enter up.
on the period called old age which
will be in sight after my eightieth
birthday, etc. - is about to deliver a
series of sermons on his experiences.
There is lesson in such lives as DIR.
Hale and DR.. Ames, and in the lives
of some others, approaching that
period called old age," nearer home
as we'll. TO those who feel that old
age is condition far distant from
there, there will come a surprise be.
fore they know it to find that they
have already arrived. Better it is,
as Thomas Higginson says, mot to
be thinking who is old and who is
young. it is not for any one to draw
the line, but to be content to be the
age of everybody. -
Word has been received in Willing
ton by Mrs Preston of the death in
Baltimore, Md, on Tuesday, the
Oath, of Mrs. Mary Bardwell, 80,
widow of the late Rev. William Marsh,
pastor of Congregational churches in
Ellington and Woodstock Mrs
Marsh had been failing in bodily and
mental vigor for some time, and
bod boar Aardor1x oarod Ror - Aho
Church Home, Broadway, Baltimore,
Md. The immediate cause of her
death was pneumonia. Fred Marsh
Preston, of Lord & Taylor's, Broad.
way and Twentieth street, New York
is a grandson. His sister, Alice,
Maud Preston, graduate nurse of
Johns Hopkins, was with her at the
last. Mrs Marsh was an army nurse,
affectionately remembered by many
soldiers, aud was U. S pensioner
She was a native of Williamstown,
Mass, a member of the we'll known
Bardwell family, of whom only one
Henry Bardwell, civil war veteran,
in Michigan. Her late husband, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was graduate of
Williams college. Her daughter,
Mary Marsh. was wife of the late
Lawyer Charles TsPreston of Will
lington, and her daughter, Charlotte
J. Marsh, who died in Boston last
September, was the wife of the late
Herbert Glazier Preston. The body
has been placed in receiving vault
in Baltimore, but will later be taken
to Wellington for burial in the old
cemetery, near her daughters. She
for several years owned the place now
known as Maple Corner and lived
here with her family, three sons and
two daughters, of whom she Oldest,
Burr Marsh, is now living. After
her removal from Wellington she
lived for some time at Stafford
Springs. Mrs Marsh was beautiful
and useful Christian woman, an
affectionate mother and active in all
good works.