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Vol. VI. No. 2 
1@J|_A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE |G) 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1908. 
20 Pages Three Cents. 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
‘Truth may be crushed under moun- 
‘tains of ignorance, prejudice and selfish- 
ness; but truth has an inconvenient way 
of rising again, in the strife that free- 
dom wages wrong; is sometimes for a 
time the victor, but the triumph of in- 
gustice and error is short; evil is bound 
finally to suffer defeat, the stars in their 
courses will fight against it. 
The crescent promise of a _ poet's. 
fancy may be one thing, and the prosaic, 
every-day working of a common mind 
another thing. there are all sorts and 
conditions of men, high and low, obtuse 
and gifted, cultured and ignorant, rang- 
‘ing all the way {from the poet laureate 
4 himself to -his Northern Farmer and old 
a ae ll ee ee a ee 
Philip; but one touch of nature makes 
the whole world kin; how foolish the 
artificial distinctions which so often 
divide, alienate and embitter, distinctions 
dften as important as those betwixt 
‘tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, and which 
must appear.to higher intelligences much 
_as the grades of:animdlcules in a drop of 
water appear to us. 
Things seem to move in constantly 
‘recurring cycles; as in the times of the 
Judges it was rebellion, punishment, re- 
pentance, restoration, so now it is in- 
flation, contraction, depression, and so 
round to frosperity again. The pendu- 
lum forever swings from one extreme to 
the other of the arc, it is never at rest. 
A colored church once voted to in- 
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‘quire into the whereabouts and 
““whatabouts’’ of certain of its mem- 
bers. It would do most of us no harm 
to ask ourselves occasionally where we 
are and what we are doing; it might 
bring us up sometimes with a sharp turn, 
but it might save us from the precipice. 
Some one has called man a “‘ bundle 
of habits,’? so given we are to doing 
things by routine, as we have been 
accustomed to do them; hence the value 
of good habits, for bad habits are as 
likely to propagate themselves as good 
ones, as thistles are as sure to yield a 
harvest as corn; manners, too, are not a 
matter of indifference, they come very 
near being ‘‘ minor morals.’’ 
Motoring, we are told, is being held 
responsible in England for a_ general 
coarsening of face, temper and manners; 
can a difference of longitude avert sim- 
ilar results among us? We shall see 
what we shall see. ‘The past is gen- 
erally voted slow; but there are some 
things that are better than speed, and 
among them are humanity and refine- 
ment; it matters more how we. get 
through the world than how quickly we 
get through it. 
Atthe pace that is now set by our 
ocean greyhounds, doctors will have to 
stop advising nervous people to take a 
sea voyage; the crack boats with their 
constant record breaking will come to be 
avoided by many; one great advantage 
of an ocean trip has been that it took one 
away for a week or so from the city’s 
rush and distractions; but what if the 
city with all its rush and distractions is 
taken aboard at New York or Liverpool? 
A little thing is often all that is needed 
to unlock the cells of memory, and make 
the past live again in all its realty and 
distinctness—a little shoe, a lock of hair, 
a yellow letter, some long-forgotten 
keepsake—and faces that have long been 
absent beam upon us from out the un- 
known, and voices that have long been 
silent sound once more in our ears. 
Happy they whose past is stored with 
memories that are a source of delight and 
not of sadness, of fond recollection and 
not of useless regret. Alas for those 
who must drug and drown memory, lest 
it make life unbearable with its sting. 
Some decry all belief, as if it were 
something that belonged to the child- 
hood of the individual or the race; but 
strange as it may seem, the greatest be- 
liever is the unbeliever, the man whose 
creed is, ‘‘I believe in all unbelief,’’ 
paradoxical as it may sound, there is 
nothing so credulous as skepticism; for 
amanto be a thorough-paced skeptic 
must believe things that are vastly more 
improbable than the objects of faith, such 
as that out of nothing something comes 
and that this universai frame is without 
a mind. 
OFFICERS INSTALLED. 
Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Manchester, 
has big gathering of Members. 
The newly elected and appointed 
officers of Magnolia lodge, 149, I. O. 
O. F., Manchester, were installed into 
ofice Thursday evening by Dep. 
Anthony C. Rogers and suite of Ocean 
lodge, Gloucester. A large gathering 
of members attended the installation and 
enjoyed the collation served afterward, 
and the social hour. 
The officers are: Wm. W. Hoare, 
noble grand; Howard M. Stanley, vice 
grand; F. C. Rand, secretary; Henry 
T. Bingham, fin. secy; Edward A. 
Lane, treasurer; IT. C. Rowe, warden; 
Edward Crowell, conductor; Arthur E. 
Olson, r.s.n. g.; F. A. Rowe, |. s. n. g.; 
Horace Standley, r. s. v. g.; Lewis 
Andrews, |. s. v. g.; Lorenzo Baker, 
r._s. 8. 3°S>-A.. Sinnicks, |. s. s.; James 
Hoare, i. g.; A. E. Hersey, o. g.; Al- 
bert Cunningham, chaplain; C._ E. 
Williams, acting past grand. 
The deputy and staff performed their 
work most efficiently and were afterward 
highly complimented on their work. 
Short informal speeches were made after 
the installation by the deputy, members 
of the staff and members of the lodge. 
An interesting fact in regard to the 
installing of the officers was that Henry 
T. Bingham was inducted into office as 
financial secretary of the lodge for the 
27th consecutive year. ‘The reports of 
the officers showed Magnolia lodge to 
be one of the strongest, both financially 
and in point of membership of any in 
the town. 
A collation of which Manchester’s 
famed dish, cock stew, formed the prin- 
cipal part, crackers, coffee, fancy crack- 
ers, doughnuts, cheese, frozen pudding 
and ice cream was served and the rest 
of the evening spent socially. Fred 
K. Swett presided at the piano. 
The second degree will be worked 
on the evening of January 23, when a 
delegation will be present from the 
lodge in Salem. 
