Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-06
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Death OF MRS. George Tarbell.
A telegram received by Mrs. B. e..
Nickerson Monday announced the death
OF her mother, Mrs. Sarah NJ. pratt,
widow OF the late George Tarbell. In Van
couver. B. c., at twenty minutes past
four O'Clock that morning. The end vas
not unexpected a. previous messages had
4 given discouraeing reports OF Mrs. Tar
BELLS case. and had stated that the fiisal
triumph OF disease could only be qucs-
tion OF time.
She had for long been in failing health
from an abscure stomach trouble that re-
fused to yield to any treatment, and last
summer did not gain in strength as IL
was hoped she might. Believing that a
change CT climate would prove beneficial,
she decided to accompany her daughter,
Mrs. L. L. Dickerman, and family to
Vancouver in February and bore the
journey very well. A week after her ar
rival there, however, she Was taken IN
and in spite Of every effort made for her
relief she could not rally her enfeebled
forces. Hoping constantly that the i'll
ness might soon take q more favorable
turn, Mrs. Dickermsn delayed sending
for her sister until, when medical
opinion finally pronounced the ailment
fatal, it was too late for Mrs Nickerson
to start for Vancouver with any expecta-
tion Of seeing Der mother alive.
Mrs. Tarhell was in q sanatorium for q
while but week before her death was
carried back to the Dickerman home to
meet the end with her friends around her.
She was born in Braintree about ca
years ago and, except for q year or two
4 speut at South Royalton just after her
IL. IL
tive town. Mr.. Tarbell, who was an ex-
tensive lumber dealer and well known
throughout the state, died eight years
ago, leaving his wife with the two daugh-
ters, who now survive her.
Mrs. Tarbell had the gracious presence
and gentle manner Of the lady, whose re-
f1nement is innate and whose unstudied
courtesy is but the simple expression OF a
kindly heart. She was loved aud hon.
ored By children and grandchildren and
held in sincere affection and esteem by all
who knew her.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Dickerman and son,
Kenneth, started from Vancouver with
the remains Tuesday and are expected to
be in Randolph next Fonday il no delays
occur. The funeral service will be held,
the day after they reach here, at the H.
w. Tewksbury house, at present the
home of Mrs. Nickerson. Burial will be
in the family lot in Southview cemetery.
"liss-5aksc Men,"
LEY. j.. NJ. Frost, for eight years q
Methodist pastor OF st. Johnsbury, leo
! tured in Chandler Music hall Monday
night under the auspices Of the Christian
Brotherhood on the subject Of "Half-
! Baked Men"
! The speaker was introducsd by the
} president of the Brotherhood, C. c.
: Roundy, who thought he detected on the
Eaces OF the masculine element in the an.
diencs . trace Of gloom. This faint
: symptom Of melancholin be attributed ts
nervous dread lest the ladies Of theii
households should, as the lecture pro
gressed. dnd out how badly the men folks
occasionally need to be roasted brown.
= Mr.. Frost began his lecture by an apol.
: ogy for fools, whom be proved by many
4 anecdotes to be quite capable CT con
2 founding the wise. He argued from
e these stories that there is some good ever
: in half-baked men and assured those pres
Z ent that there Was no occasion for theil
{ being very much frightened il their la
' dies were with them and should hear al
I be had to say.
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tration OF uaderdone humanity and tols
: the old legend of the cakes, which tn,
! incoming youth was set to watch in th'
peasants hut and allowed to burn until
Z smart box on the ear from the hand o
the angry housewife awoke him to a sens
:, | of responsibility. The sound OF that bo,
4 on the ear has never died out, so tn
I speaker thought, hut has BEEN bringim
= the world to q sense OF duty to other
: ever since; that box was heard in tn
Z White House during the last administra
! tion and felt by the ears of predatoV,
wealth. senators and other undesirable
citizens; it was heard in the trenches q
I Cuba; it is waking the nations to though
Z for the other fellow and is showing us al
7 that some good can come out OF a batcl
J. Of spoiled cakes.
! He then took mp the unevenly baked il
= another way and, turning them over
= showed them, overdone on the side Of in
:. tolerance of amusements, underdone o
Z the side of honesty; overdone on the sid
Of Bible reading, underdone on the sid
= of Christian charity; oyerdone physically
. underdone educationafly, and vice versa
= There are good things in all people, bu
{ the trouble is that they are either ovel
= done or half-done-spoiled in the baking
= so to speak.
y In religious matters men are prone, |
y Mr.. Frost's opinion, to give a materis
!. Interpretation to spiritual things and, Sc
are led into infideIity. They ignore th
' God-given means for apprehending Go
\ and arrive ct as wise conclusions as the
y would IL they were to attempt to see wit
their noses, taste with their ears and hea
with their elbows. The Christian Scier
fists, who number among them some 9
the most beautiful people in the worl
e and in whose method of healing are man
beautiful things, have. on the oths
le hand, cultivated the spiritual side at th
q expense of the material and thereb
missed the just balance OF perfect deve
opment.
Is Church Notes.
se Rev. Joseph Hamilton win preach Il
the Federated churches next Sunday.
Christian Science chapel-Service SUI