MANCHESTER. 
An examination was given at the 
Red Cross meeting Monday evening. 
The work of the class is progressing 
rapidly and the forty members still 
show unabated interest in the work. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Valentine 
propose to start early next month for 
Porto Rico, to be gone several months. 
They will return via Key West, over 
the new railroad, up the Florida coast. 
Henry Menkin of the F. M. White- 
house estate is on his annual vacation 
trip to New York city. He went by 
boat a few days ago, from Fall River, 
and will not return until after Christ- 
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M. A. Watton, THE HERMIT OF 
GLOUCESTER, ADDRESSES ARBELLA 
CLUB. 
The regular meeting of the Arbella 
club, Manchester, was held in the 
Chapel Tuesday afternoon. In the 
absence of the secretary, Miss May 
Rogers, the President appointed Miss 
Beth Jewett secretary pro tem. ‘The 
next meeting of the club will take 
the form of a Christmas party and 
will be held at the Town hall Thurs- 
day evening, Dec. 26, from 8 to Io. 
Each girl is requested to bring one 
gift, not to cost over ten cents, to the 
hall on the afternoon of the same day 
between 1 and 3 o'clock. These gifts 
will be distributed from the tree by 
number. An embroidery class under 
the direction of Mrs. Frank A. Rowe, 
who very generously offered her ser- 
vices, is to be started among the more 
advanced girls. A motion was made 
and passed that a Christmas letter ex- 
pressing the spirit of the season be 
sent to Mrs. Fields, the club’s honor- 
ary member, whose kindness to the 
girls has already endeared her to them. 
The first number of the program 
Tuesday was a song, “The Rosary,” 
by Miss Clara Corren. The song, al- 
ways a favorite, was so well rendered 
that it gained enthusiastic applause 
for her. 
The speaker for the afternoon was 
Mason A. Walton, well known as the 
Hermit of Gloucester. Mr. Walton’s 
career has embraced every phase of 
wood and forest life. He was born at 
Old Town, Maine, in 1838. His edu- 
cation consisted of the public school 
course at Old Town and at Alton, 
Me., and he was graduated from the 
Hampden Academy. He married 
Olive Bradford of Alton in 1870 and 
her death seven years later made a 
vast difference in his life. His career 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
has included hunting and trapping in 
the deep woods of Maine, lumbering 
in Maine, campaigning in 1878 for the 
Greenback party and for the next two 
years managing and editing “The 
Greenbacker” and the “Bangor Re- 
cord,” both campaign papers. 
It was in 1884 that Mr. Walton 
came to Gloucester to lead the life of 
a hermit, which is the most fascinat- 
ing as well as the most wholesome 
mode of life in his estimation. Since 
making his home at Gloucester, Mr. 
Walton has written many magazine 
articles, notably those for ‘“‘Forest and 
Stream” and a number of books deal- 
ing with his friends, the animals, birds 
and even reptiles. “Woodcraft,” 
which Mr. Walton had chosen as his 
subject, for the afternoon, was chang- 
ed to “Intelligence in Animals” as 
more interesting to the company be- 
fore which he was speaking. The 
theories of John Burroughs, who 
maintained that animals had no mem- 
ory, power of reasoning or language, 
were refuted by the interesting anec- 
dotes which Mr. Walton told of his 
pets. One strong point, which Mr. 
Walton brought out was that by Na- 
ture’s laws there is “no result with- 
out cause” so the old theory of “in- 
stinct” is being discarded and the term 
“heredity” is being substituted. The 
Hermit told of interesting incidents 
which went to prove that the birds 
and animals had a language. 
. to be entertained by a 
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experiences of “Old Mother Ann,” 
Mr. Walton’s white mouse, were un- 
usual, in some cases very funny. 
A sclo, “I Hear You Calling Me” 
by Miss Corren concluded the pro- 
gram. The meeting then adjourned 
committee 
which served hot chocolate and fancy 
crackers. 
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