NORTH SHORE BREEZE ff 
Everyone interested in the merits of the contest 
now being fought out on the battlefields of Hurope 
should read the posthumously printed addresses of J. 
A. Cramb, who was professor of modern history in 
Queen’s College, London. The volume is short and 
exceedinly well written. It is a marked volume com- 
pared in this respect to Von Bernhardi’s work, which, 
in a sense, it endeavors to answer. Von Bernhardi 
asserted the duty, the right and the necessity of Ger- 
many to make war on England and to crush her power 
and acquire it for itself. Cramb had discovered the 
German ambition and endeavors to arouse the public 
to the impending war. Cramb was not read or heard 
sympathetically. Now Field Marshall Lord Roberts 
writes, ‘‘everyone who wishes to understand the pres- 
ent crisis will read this book.’’ Cramb’s answer 1s 
simple. He discovered in Bernhardi a representative 
thinker reflecting the state of mind in Germany. With 
such a hostile feeling and preparation England should 
take care to prepare for the impending conflict. The 
present war is a testimony to Cramb ’s clear vision, 
put, alas! England had not heeded the warning. 
A great life insurance company is asserting its 
ethical powers. It claims that there have been years 
when more life insurance was written, but that there 
never was a year when the company did so much good. 
Such an ethical notes is somewhat refreshing in these 
sordid days. 
No report has been made as yet on the request 
made by the B. & M. railroad to increase its passenger 
rates. What its findings are to be cannot be foretold. 
But a small increase may be expected. The solution 
of the financial difficulties of the railroads is not to be 
had by raising passenger rates. 
When a young woman is held up in a neighboring 
eity at half past nine in the evening by a robber armed 
with a revolver such evidence of outlawry are alto- 
gether too near home for comfort. 
Monday was the biggest day in the history of the 
New York Exchange since its doors were closed early 
in the fall. Another hopeful sign! 
When complaining of the rain, remember last 
year’s seige of cold weather. 
Now it is Grampy Wilson; and no disrespect im- 
plied either. 
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The California Exhibition is in a fair way to profit 
from the war abroad. In any other year the traveling 
public could choose between a trip abroad and a trip 
to California. The European trip is out of the ques- 
tion because of the war. And the ‘‘See America’’ pro- 
paganda aids the exposition. Arrangements are being 
made by the railroads of the country for trips to Cali- 
fornia that will make it possible to go and return over 
different routes. It is calculated that there will be 
more people ‘‘see America’’ this year than in any year 
since the Chicago exposition. The war abroad has not 
hindered the California project. 
The Bill to be introduced into the State Legisla- 
ture this year providing for the purchase of the Cape 
Cod Canal by the State of Massachusetts ought not to 
become law. There is no doubt that the Cape Cod 
Canal ought not to remain privately owned and that 
such a valuable water highway should be owned by the 
people. But the nation and not the State of Massachu- 
setts is the logical owner. 
Tur Users of Opium will now find it more difficult 
than ever to purchase the drug. The new federal re- 
strictions are more drastic than ever. 
Business depression is often a state of mind. 
A January Thaw with a vengeance! 
Che Chimes of St. Aune’s 
By Joseph A. Torrey 
| the sweet stillness of the Sabbath morn, 
Breaks on my ear the sound of chiming bells, 
And as from far the music sinks and swells, 
To my dulled spirit, weary and forlorn, 
Peace comes and in my heart new joy is born. 
Sweet sounds, that thus can stir the heart’s deep 
wells! 
Dear is your message unto men toil-worn. 
Silent the streets that thro’ the busy week 
Sent up a babel of confusing sounds. 
Hushed is the deafening clatter of the mills; 
Labor and trade forsake their usual rounds 
And men once more the path to Heaven seek, 
Forgetting earth, its toils, its cares, its ills. 
Lowell, 1884. 
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