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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 43. 
SATURDAY, MAR. 11, 1905. 
Addenda. 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
In the paper on Francis Bacon, last 
week, the following was inadvertently 
omitted in the “copy.” It should 
follow the quotation from Emerson, in 
the last paragraph but one. 
Deel: 
Like most pathfinders, Bacon blazed 
the way in which other men afterward 
easily walked. He cleared away the 
rubbish so that those who came after 
him could build on solid ground. But 
he did not live long enough to reap 
the reward of his labors; he sowed 
much good seed, but was not permitted 
to eat of the fruit. His great work, 
‘‘Instauratio Magna,’’ was to consist 
of six parts, of which we have only 
one, the ‘Novum Organum,”’ and 
that is incomplete. The work as 
planned was too vast for any one man 
to accomplish. Like other pioneers, 
Bacon left his work unfinished ; as 
Cowley sings, he 
‘‘ Did on the very border stand 
Of the blessed Promised Land ; 
And from the mountain-top of his exalted 
wit 
Saw it himself, and showed us it; 
But life did never to one man allow 
Time to discover worlds and conquer too;” 
a conceit which Macaulay has worked 
out with his usual elaborateness of 
diction in one of his brilliant essays, 
and which Dean Stanley applies with 
much force and eloquence to the fate 
of the great Lawgiver of Israel dying 
on Mount Nebo, in full view of the 
land flowing with milk and honey, but 
not permitted to enter it. 
NORTH “SHORE BREEZE 
[Written for the BREEZE.] 
The Optimist. 
He fell ten stories. 
At each window bar 
He shouted to his friends — 
“All right thus far.” 
The Pessimist. 
The world is void and vain. 
‘Tis dullness and dearth and dole. 
There’s nothing for me in the doughnut, 
Except the whole. 
The Hesitator. 
The world is a doughnut, 
With rim and with hole. 
What my share is I know not, — 
The hole or the whole. 
The Philosopher. 
I am always cheerful and happy, 
As all of us ought to be. 
I never care what happens, 
If it doesn’t happen to me. 
—J. A. TORREY. 
FRANK G. CHEEVER, 
Manchester’s New Town Auditor. 
The Early Town Meeting. 
BY DEA. A. E. LOW. 
[Deacon Low, who passed his 96th birth- 
day last September, writes the following 
very interesting sketch of the town meeting 
of the early years of the 19th century. When 
he first voted in town meeting about 1830 — 
#500 was considered a generous appropria- 
tion for school purposes, and all road im- 
provements were made through a labor tax. 
When he was town treasurer he received 
$50 a year for his services.—ED.] 
Inthe early years of the Nineteenth 
century the selectmen had no stated 
salary. They charged a dollar a day 
for their services. In giving their 
yearly report of expenditures, the bills 
were all footed up, and from the sum 
total the sum of the principal or larger 
expenditures was deducted, and the 
remaining amount recorded as mis- 
cellaneous bills, the larger bills being 
specified, viz.: bills for school de- 
partment; maintenance of the poor, 
etc. At the town meeting consider- 
able time was occupied by certain 
cranks whe would ask questions or 
make speeches, as they were moved, 
to the great amusement of the citi- 
zens assembled, after being en- 
couraged and helped by those who 
liked a little sport. When carried to 
the extent of disorder, the Moderator 
would order the Constable to remove 
the disorderly party or parties, and 
on one occasion after meeting ad- 
journed, and the Constable appeared 
outside, the man who had been forcibly 
ejected demanded satisfaction. The 
officer dealt him a heavy blow and the 
citizens were obliged to interfere. On 
another occasion one troublesome 
person was put into the lockup. Dur- 
ing the first part of the century the 
town meetings were held in the 
church. They were continued longer 
than one day. The last Article in 
Warrant, viz.: “Any other business 
which can legally come before the 
meeting,” was often passed over as 
‘‘not amounting to anything” in the 
Moderator’s opinion. 
Mr. Morgan Resigns. 
After eighteen years of service Mr. 
Nathaniel Morgan last Saturday tend- 
ered his resignation as janitor and 
caretaker of the Memorial hall and 
Public Library building in Man- 
chester to take effect on or before 
April 1st. 
At the time Mr. Morgan took charge 
of this building the compensation al- 
lowed by the town was $200 per year 
which at that time was a fair return - 
for the duties which the janitor was 
required to perform, but as time went 
by more societies were formed, which 
made this building their meeting 
place, thereby increasing the duties 
many times. While the janitor re- 
ceives a small income for this work 
direct from the societies, the long 
hours required, together with that of 
the Public Library combined, does 
not pay the attendant an average of 
four or five cents an hour. 
It might also be said that the Li- 
brary at the time of Mr. Morgan’s 
first taking charge was kept open 
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons 
and evenings only, which hours today 
would not be adequate to supply the 
needs of the patrons of the library. 
At this time we think we are not 
amiss in stating these facts, and we 
do not hesitate to say that whoever 
Mr. Morgan’s successor may be, an 
increase in the compensation should 
be made sufficient at least to return a 
fair reward for services rendered. 
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