NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Silence. 
[Written for the BREEZE.] 
When an idle tale is told you 
Of some one gone astray, 
Of some one who was respected 
That now treads the downward way, 
Do not judge, or tell the story, 
Let your ears hear not a sound, 
But as Jesus did when with us, 
Write in silence on the ground. 
Every story when repeated, 
Like a rolling snowball grows ; 
Everyone just adds a little, 
Friends may pass it on to foes, 
It was bad enough when started ; 
Now it scarcely has a bound. 
Better all were deaf to scandal, 
Write insilence on the ground. 
If you find a man has fallen, 
Gently take him by the hand, 
Brush the earth stains from his garments, 
Do not stop to reprimand, 
Close your eyes upon his error, 
Other men may drag him down, 
Seal your lips when others question, 
Write in silence on the ground. 
To Change Auto Laws. 
Although the personnel of the next 
Legislature is unknown, there is a be- 
bief among the automobilists that the 
opponents of automobiles will make a 
strong effort to bring about a further 
reduction of the speed limit, and also 
introduce measures which, it accepted, 
will be detrimental to the owners and 
users of the motor vehicle. 
The present season has shown that 
motor cars can be driven at the legal 
rate of speed without any trouble, 
without accident, and, if anything, the 
limit of speed in thickly settled parts 
of the country, which is little enough, 
might, without infringing on _ the 
rights of others, be increased, so long 
as the present safeguards are main- 
tained. 
The motorist, as a rule, do not ob- 
ject to the law. The thing they do 
object to is being blamed for the wild 
actions of a few operators, who dash 
through a city without regard to place 
or person, and the odium of whose ac- 
tions is placed on every man who 
drives a motor vehicle. 
The motorists, while they have no 
great objection to the present law, so 
far as the speed regulations are con- 
cerned, havea decided distaste for the 
manner in which some cities and 
towns make speed laws to govern 
their particular section. Should any 
effort be made to bringabout a change 
in the present law by the opponents 
of the automobile, the motorists will 
defend their rights and endeavor to 
bring about the enactment of a state 
law governing the speed of automo- 
biles. 
A thing of vital importance, not 
alone to the automobilist, but to every 
user of the highway, is the carrying 
of lighted lamps on every vehicle us- 
ing the roads one hour after sunset 
and one hour before sunrise. Auto- 
mobiles and horse-drawn vehicles for 
hire are compelled to carry lighted 
lanterns during those hours. and the 
motorists can see no reason why 
other vehicles should not be compel- 
led to do the same.-— Boston Globe. 
Names Fit and Unfit. 
In New York there are a number 
of firms whose callings are quite 
appropriately fitted by their names, 
but they are wholly unconscious of the 
whimsical turn fate has given to their 
affairs, and no one but a_ habitual 
traveler on the elevated and trolleys 
would ever note them. ss 
There is a real estate man who 
comes with the name of A. Swindler 
(which is doubtless a minsomer), and 
another firm of real estate” brokers 
who are called Pickin and’ Gardner. 
There is a druggist whose sign bears 
the quaint legend Pincus Hertz (pro- 
nounced Pinches Hurts), which name 
is curious if ungrammatical. Lovejoy 
and Noyes rent flats with appropriate 
cognomens, and Dr. Root pulls teeth. 
—A warp. 
English Champion Here. 
Miss Charlotte Dod, the champion 
golfer of Great Britain, spent a few 
days on the North Shore this week, a 
guest of the Misses Harriet and Mar- 
garet Curtis at ‘“Sharksmouth,” the 
summer home of the Curtises at Man- 
chester cove. Monday Miss Dod 
played over the Myopia Hunt club 
links in a four ball match with Miss 
Harriet Curtis, against Miss Margaret 
Curtis and Miss Driscoll, Miss Dod 
and Miss Curtis winning 5 up, 4 to 
play. She expressed herself charmed 
with the North Shore and expressed 
a desire of coming here again. She 
wanted to play on the Essex County 
club links, but the club being closed 
they did not go over the links. Miss 
Dod left Manchester Tuesday after 
noon. 
Shows up Well. 
Manchester ranks well up in the 
list of Essex county cities and towns 
for valuation and low tax rates. The 
Secretary of the State in his report 
shows Manchester to be the richest 
in the County, with only the seven 
cities of the county surpassing it in 
valuation, and only four towns having 
lower rate of taxation. Manchester 
has a valuation of $10,150,240, an _ in- 
crease of about half a million over last 
ear, and a tax rate of $8.60. 
Beverely shows a valuation of $19, 
128,150, an advance of about one mil- 
lion, and a tax rate of $16.60. 
Subscribe for the BREEZE. 
Wild Antics of Auto. 
A medium sized, but ferociuos look- 
ing auto cut up some funny capers on 
Union street in Manchester, Wednes- 
day night. The machine was of the 
species known as Ford, and is owned 
by a Beverly man, who with a male 
companion was wending his way to- 
ward the Garden City, when the run- 
ning gear of the car refused to work. 
The gentlemen alighted and were 
endeavoring to sooth the balky ani- 
mal when, without warning, the 
machinery started up and evinced a 
desire to trot along ata 40-mile clip. 
Simultaneous with this the robe on 
the seat became entangled in the con- 
trolling lever and with a snort and a 
bound the car jumped forward giving 
the two men scarcely time to board. 
And then, such actions! It swerved 
andturned. Over the curbing toward 
Dr. Blaisdell’s house it jumped, then 
across the street, over the high curb- 
ing, toward J. A. Torrey’s house. 
Then another tack brouht it plumb up 
against the granite wall fronting the 
library, when the driver managed to 
get the car under control. In its wild 
dash it tore mud guards and brakes 
off the machine and lifted Louis La- 
tions on its ‘cow catcher” as he was 
endeavoring to escape, and incidentally 
scared the occupants of the car out of 
their wits. Chief Peabody was one of 
the witnesses to the affair. 
Change of Address. 
Subscribers who are leaving the 
shore will confer a great favor upon 
the proprietors of the Breeze uf they 
will send in their winter address, either 
to our Manchester or to our Beverly 
office, as soon as they know when they 
are to leave. 
This will greatly factlitate matters 
and will insure a prompt continuation, 
of the paper at your new address. 
North Shore Breeze: 
Gentlemen: Please send the 
Breeze to the address given below 
months. 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA 
Undeveloped parcels of land from one to thirty acres. 
Good view 4 3 ocean. Great ey atesae he uy for 
building purposes or investment. ORRIN A MAR- 
TIN, Summer street, Manchester, Mass. 
