ly the perplexities of the present, 
Vol. VI. No. 15 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL i, 1908. 
24 Pages Three Cents. 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
One of the most hopeful signs of the 
times is that so many of the recent words 
of publicists, statesmen and __ political 
economists, frankly admit the failures 
and mistakes of the past, face intelligent- 
and 
refrain from predicting with ecole as- 
surance the future. The sanity of 
many of our leading men is unquestion- 
able. 
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Cloudy skies, chilly winds and a back- 
ward season do not necessarily mean a 
cold summer or poor harvests; and a 
‘dull childhood may be followed by a 
_ fruitful and honorable manhood; 
patience with childish development is 
im- 
not any more wise than impatience with 
the seasons; we may well bear with 
slowness and mediocrity, where there is 
an evident attempt to do the best. 
‘Why do you scold me, sir,’’ pathet- 
ically pleaded a rather poor scholar; ‘‘I 
am doing the best I can;’’ and perhaps 
_ April is doing the best it can. 
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It is a high encomium that Roger 
Ascham, Queen Elizabeth’ s tutor, gives 
in the eice to ‘‘ The a halemaster,: 
to his friend, good Sir Richard Sackville, 
“that worthy gentleman, that earnest 
favorer and furtherer of God’s true re- 
ligion; that faithful serviton to his prince 
and country; a lover of learning, and all 
learned men; wise in all doings, courte- 
_ ous to all persons, showing spite to none, 
doing good to many; and as I well 
_ found, to me so fast a friend, as I never 
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lost the like before.’? One may well 
grapple such a friend to him with hoops 
of steel. But to have a friend of such 
worth, one must himself be worthy. 
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A writer who claims to be original, 
and who boasts, Rousseau-like, to have 
broken with the past, only proclaims his 
own ignorance and presumption; while 
imagining himself a century ahead of his 
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$15,000 TO BE SPENT IN MANCHESTER WOODS 7 ? 
This will be decided at the Adjourned Town N Meeting Monday Evening. $10,000 
Forth-coming, if Town Appropriates $5,000. 
Manchester’s adjourned town meeting 
will be held next Monday evening at 
7.30. Besides ‘‘ winding up’’ a few 
odds and ends, so to speak,.two very im- 
portant: matters will come before the 
meeting and each in itself ought to be 
sufficient to draw out a large gathering 
of the voters. . 
It is understood that the special com- 
mittee appointed at the March meeting 
to wait upon the Manchester Electric 
Co. and ask for-an extension of the 
option which the town has of purchasing 
the plant, said option expiring on Sept. 
18 of this year, will make a report. The 
committee met the company’s represen- 
tatives last Saturday. Everyone in- 
terested in the matter—and, it is a very 
important one—should attend the meet- 
ing. 
The other matter of interest is—moth 
suppression. It is understood the select- 
men will recommend an appropriation of 
$5000 to be spent under the direction of 
the state as outlined previously in this 
paper,—with the understanding — that 
$5000 more will be forth-coming from 
the state and $5000 from the summer 
residents, —$15,000 in alli. 
Col. Wm. D. Sohier and State Super- 
intendent Kirkland will probably be 
at the meeting 
This is a very important matter and 
should go through without a hitch. If 
so the work will start at once. The 
matter is set forth more in detail in the 
following self-explanatory communica- 
tion received yesterday morning from 
Col. Sohier: 
Bosron, April 9, 1908. 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
As your readers perhaps know, the 
question of whether Manchester will 
come into the general scheme to have 
the State clean up the bad colonies of 
gypsy moths in her woods will come up 
at the adjourned town meeting Mon- 
day. 
An appropriation of $5000, will be 
asked for to be spent in cleaning the 
woods under the direction of A. H. 
Kirkland, the State Commissioner. 
If this appropriation is made, $15,000 
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TREE PLANTING AND AFTER-CULTURE 
The address of Windsor H. Wyman 
before the North Shore Horticultural so- 
ciety, at Manchester, on Friday evening 
of last week contained many practical 
suggestions that: should interest 
everybody and deserves more space than 
we can give. 
In planting trees, he said, in beginning, 
he would consider all plants as trees ex- 
cept herbaceous plants and his remarks 
would apply to soil that was adapted to 
growing corn and any other soil would 
be an exception to his general rules and 
require different treatment. 
The ideal time to plant, he said in the 
course of his remarks was when the life 
a 
most 
of the plant began to assert itself. In 
the selection such plants as are best 
adapted to the natural condition of the 
soil should be first considered. All the 
best trees and plants should be considered 
as nothing but wild trees cultivated and 
do not need the hybrid culture usually 
given them. He put much emphasis 
upon the proper preparation and _fertil- 
ization of the soil for planting. He dis- 
agrees with those who disturb the natu- 
ral condition of the soil and sub-soil by 
deep digging and pulverizing. After re- 
ceiving the trees or plants from . the 
nursery he advised care in pruning the 
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