NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
THE SOCIAL GLASS. 
Liberty of the Individual Destroyed by its 
Foul Touch, says Manchester Minister 
—An Illiterate at the Polls is 
Safer Than a Drunkard. 
A congregation that filled every 
seat in the house heard Rev. E. H. 
Brewster preach at the Baptist church, 
last Sunday evening, on temperance, 
the subject being “Ways and Means.” 
As the people entered the church each 
was presented with a little white bow 
of ribbon by the temperance commit- 
tee of the B.Y.P.U. J. Davis Baker 
and Mrs. E. H. Preston sang a duet. 
Mr. Brewster took his text from 
Mark 10:39. He said in part : 
“In discussing the temperance 
problem as it affects our community, 
it is incumbent upon the speaker to 
conjoin the suggestion of some specific 
remedy with a truthful relation of the 
malady. 
“In our day we are accustomed to 
hear much about the social qualities 
of the saloon, and to hear this act of 
physical debauchery disingenuously 
styled ‘the taking ofa social glass.’ No 
glass of liquor ever yet promoted 
sociability. The hilarious and often- 
times riotous vein so often assumed by 
a circle of debauchees is no evidence of 
sociability, and contrasts poorly with 
the delightsome mirth and geniality 
witnessed among sober friends. Nor 
does the home of the drinking man 
enjoy any rare touch of charming 
fraternity, as some would lead us to 
believe. Leaving the company of the 
social glass, ‘the prince of good fel- 
lows’ stumbles through the silent 
by-ways to his home. The windows 
redden with no welcome. The door 
croaks a hoarse warning to the in- 
mates as he enters. The family of his 
bosom have long since been wrapped 
in troubled slumber, the vision of a 
swaying form flitting through their 
dreams. Such is the social triumph 
of the saloon. 
“It has been claimed that drinking 
is stimulating and enables one to 
respond more successfully to the 
reveille of commerce that summons 
us to toe the mark for another day’s 
race. Gaze with me at the long, dark 
buildings which house the criminal 
throng of our nation. 
“Look at the chains, rusty with 
hopeless tears, that bind their feet ; 
observe the lack-lustre eyes which 
haunt you with their gleamless depths. 
Listen to the orders issued periodically 
by America’s railways, in which an 
impartial anathema is pronounced 
against drinking employees. Walk 
the streets of your fair town and 
identify the ne’r do wells, the inevita- 
ble failures, the unprosperous and 
degenerate. All these views are sec- 
tions of a horrid panorama which runs 
its uncanny scenes before us at the 
mention ot the st¢mulating glass. 
“The habit of drinking has done 
much to debauch our State, and covers 
with its fumes the cradle of many an 
unholy alliance. It has mocked our 
nation at every step in its march of 
progress. It has defied legislation 
because it has been backed by the 
passions. The liberty of the individ- 
ual has been menaced and in instances 
destroyed by its foul touch. An 
illiterate at the polls is safer than a 
drunkard. 
“The only remedy for such evils 
is the baptism of courage ; the courage 
' that made Jesus supreme on his cross ; 
the courage that made China revolt 
at the importation of opium; the 
courage that made handsome the 
pitted face of Mirabeau; the courage 
that made Beecher the master of pro- 
rebel assemblies in Liverpool; the 
courage that made Theodore Roose- 
velt the 26th President of the United 
States. 
‘“We need, too, the Baptism of the 
Golden Rule; that we shall no longer 
think because we are not directly 
concerned with this evil we are not 
concerned at all; that we shall labor 
diligently and vote intelligently for 
‘somebody’s boy,’ the summer of 
whose youth has vanished in an un- 
timely fall; that the shadow on the 
dial of girlhood’s hours may be turned 
back and the earth be sweet again.” 
Anniversary of Camp 149, 
The fourteenth anniversary of Col. 
H. P. Woodbury camp, 149, S. of V., 
of Manchester, is announced to take 
place on Tuesday evening, March 28, 
and a committee is now at work mak- 
ing preparations for the event, which 
always proves one of the social events 
of. the winter. Among the invited 
guests will be the members of Post 
67, G.A.R., Allen Relief corps and 
the post associates. E. H. Lynd of 
Holyoke, the division commander, 
will be present, and probably several 
members of his staff. 
Bankrupt Sale. 
Dane-Smith Co. of Salem and Bos- 
ton advertise on another page a bank- 
rupt sale of $10,000 worth of hardware, 
carpenters’ tools, paints, tinware, etc., 
at 226 Cabot street, Beverly. The 
stock was bought at a fraction of the 
cost from the bankrupt Woodward & 
Ober concern and the prices at which 
these goods are selling are amazingly 
low. 
WANTED 
A good Brooder. Must be in first-class 
condition. Apply to 
J. R. WILKINSON, 
Manchester Cove, Mass. 
Mt. Pleasant Dairy 
R. & L. BAKER, 
Deaters im RMIILEK. 
Teaming done to order. Telephone Connection 
Gravel and Rough Stone. P.O. Box 129. 
MANCHESTER, MASS. 
Morley, Flatley & Co. 
GENERAL GONTRAGTORS, 
17 Brook Street, TIANCHESTER. 
FRANK H. DENNIS WILLIAM CAMPBELL 
DENNIS & CAMPBELL 
GROCERS a 
Telephone 243 
16 School St., - Manchester 
HERBERT B. WINCHESTER, 
Practical Qlatchmaker. 
Repairing on all kinds of Watches, Clocks 
Towels and Optical Goods. 
65 Middle St. 
Chisholm’s 
JEWELRY STORE 
Established for 30 YEARS at 
161 Main Street, GLOUCESTER. 
GLOUCESTER, Mass. 
George S. Sinnicks, 
MASON BUILDER 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA. 
THE PHELPS STUDIO 
120 MAIN ST., GLOUCESTER. 
Portraits, Views, Amateur Work. 
Telephones 53-5 
225-4 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, 
FLORIST, 
Dealer in Fine Plants, Bulbs and Seeds. 
FLOWERS for all occasions. 
44 School St., Manchester-by-the-Sea. 
J. E. WHITNEY, 
Mfg. Sewing Machines, 
Special Mfg. Attachments. 
Factory Outfitter. 72 BEDFORD ST. 
Phone 65 Oxford. BOSTON. 
