The Republican journal., 1912-01-18

OF the village. IL y from this land that he
has generously offered the gift Of lot to the
grangers ON which to build new hall the
coming year.
Mrs Hale Rose came down from the hill to
her fathers, F. H. Brown. the first day of the
stormy weather and has remained since that
time as it was lonely up there in the drifts
whiie Hale was attempting to deliver mail on
his r. F. D. route There was days when 1t
was impossible to get far away from the viii
lage.
One OF the saddest episodes which has oc-
Cured here in years, and has shocked and con-
vulsed the entire village, is the passing away
of Carrie, wife of Fred Moulton on Sunday
night Jan. 18th. leaving an agonized husband,
little son of IL and an infant about month
DID, Her last illness was utterly unexpected.
as she seemed to be getting around the house
even better than usual in such cases. but
little more than week ago she was taken sud-
denly i'll with what the family thought to be a
bad cold and neuralgia, and rapidly developed
the fatal signs of acute Brights disease. living
but few days. She was faithful Christian,
whose deeds and words were always for God
and whose daily life threw good influence on
all around her. Such woman is much needed
in community. She and her sister Gertie
lost their parents when very young and have
lived nearly all their lives among US; good,
pure lives, without blemish. Besides the hus-
band and children, she leaves to mourn, the
sister, Mrs. Scott Godding, the elder Mrs.
Moulton whose home was with the son and
wife, with numerous other relatives, and in
deed the entire. surrounding community, as her
friends we're innumerable everyone Loving and
respecting her. Our pity and sympathy goes
out especially to the bereaved husband. who is
devoted to his family and is now brok heart
ed over his sudden and irreparable loss.
Owing to the severe cold and biting winds OF
the past ten days there has been but small
amount of business, comparatively. and town
gossip somewhat lags. Everyone has been
busily occupied outdoors in shoveling snow,
and indoors in shoveling coal into stoves and
furnaces. 1t has been a continual struggle to
keep warm, and with an abundance of good
fuel, such as our Maine farmers are blest with,
! we have much to be thankful for while such
severe climatic conditions prevail, but what Of
the poor of our cities, with their large quota OF
, sick and old? and what of the sufferings Of the
poor dumb creatures that God has placed in
our care, and in SO very many instances are
but SO poorly cared for? To my certain
knowledge there are many barns through
Waldo county-and doubtless throughout all
the farming sections of Maine,-where cracks
cape everywhere about tie-ups and stalls,
where biting winds whistle through and snow
Sits in even onto the backs of the poor ami
mails tied up closely by the neck through the
long winter months, with not half the amount
of bedding needful for comfort and in some
cases none at ALL Straw will sell, you know. or
else is fed out for starvation rations, while
creatures can but mutely suffer and 'spring
out" weak and miserable. Hen houses which are
but little better shelter than the open air, where
poultry is so benumbed as to fall from the
roosts. Hogs which are kept in almost totally
dark places. in barn cellars where the filth and
water freezes and they may stand and lay in
the noisome dampness with the ground under
them and walls Of the basement glistening
with frost. And many of these instances are
among our so-called well-to-do farmers, who
have so little thoughtfulness and sympathy
for the brute creation in providing comfort
able quarters for those in their care. These
conditions prevail year after year with our
ordinary winters. and we can but think with a
heartache of what these weeks of bitter cold
and piercing winds, such as Maine has not seen
for many years, must mean to the majority of
our dumb friends.