"What's in a 



to him than the soil; but he certainly 

 has a genius for assembling, manu- 

 facturing and distributing merchandise. 

 He can get nothing much out of Mount 

 Monadnock, but just watch him make 

 and sell mouse traps! There is not a 

 great deal to be had from a sterile, 

 stony soil, covered with scrubby brush 

 and straggling second growths, save 

 blueberries; but observe him harness 

 that brown water down there in the 

 stream, and grind out toothpicks. 

 What the village Edison has done in 

 a thousand ingenious ways for the re- 

 moter nooks and corners of this re- 

 sourceful land farsighted financiers 

 have wrought upon a prodigious scale 

 in the Lowells, Lawrences and Lynns 

 of a densely-populated territory. 

 Everything known in manufacturing 

 and merchandising, from watches to 

 worsteds, from shoes to ships, from 

 earrings to engines, is on the list of 

 New England's inexhaustible line of 

 "notions," luxuries and necessities. 



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