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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
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of March 3, 1879. 
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 45: 
SATURDAY, MAR. 25, 19065. 
Whisperings. 
My good friend George S. Sinnicks 
certainly has not lost his propensity 
for a good joke during his short stay 
abroad. Superintendent Kimball re- 
ceived a souvenir postal from him a 
few days ago. On the card was writ- 
ten: ‘One like this for Manchester.”’ 
Above this was a picture of the Liver- 
pool Town hall, a magnificent granite 
building, with beautiful marble pillars 
in front, and, withal, a most imposing 
structure. Mr. Kimball has passed 
the postal over to Town Treasurer 
Stanley for his approval. But never 
mind; Manchester’s new town hall is 
not so very far in the distance, and it 
may not be built of wood, either. 
* * * * 
Lots have been said of the doings 
of the wild winds and the capers they 
cut up sometimes, but when they 
drive a person from their nice warm 
abode out into the cold snow, what 
they say and do is more’ of a reality 
than adream. The experience of a 
certain young married woman in Man- 
chester came to my ears yesterday. 
It was during the snow flurries. of 
Tuesday that she opened the front 
door of her house on School street, 
and with broom in hand swept the 
accumulating snow crystals from the 
piazza. She had turned to re-enter 
the house when the door closed with 
a bang. But how unfortunate! There 
was a patent lock on the door, and 
curiously enough the door refused to 
open. The key was inside ; but —her 
husband had.a key, and it took less 
than half an hour for him to come up 
from down town and let his wife in. 
Oh, ye wintry winds! 
[Written for the BREEZE.] 
The Rubatyat of Omar Cayenne. 
Wake! for the Spring with her internal fires, 
The heart of Nature and men’s hearts in- 
spires. 
The Citizens discuss affairs of state, 
And the Town Warrant thrills with new 
Desires. 
Come! shed me ulster, brush the shoe and 
nat, 
The time behooves to reckon where we're at, 
Who best shall guide municipal affairs, 
With Ed or Fred or Winfred at the bat. 
And as they Ag! all those who stood be- 
ore 
The tavern, shouted, ‘‘ Open wide the Do or! 
You know how little we can get to drink 
This side of Gloster. License will give more.” 
Some said, ‘‘Prohibit is the thing, of course, 
To cure the evil at its very source ; 
But then again, of Course we do not mean 
The Law too drastically to enforce.” 
A Jug of Liquor underneath the rose, 
We do not wish to needlessly expose. 
‘Tis not your business, neither mine, you 
Know. 
Who sell or drink we care not, these or those. 
Whether at Yarmouth or at Tater Row, 
Whether at Caliban’s or Mascomo, 
Or at the truly rural Hockey Club, 
Who love the Drink will get it, don’t you 
Know ? 
Time was we meant and voted Yes or No, 
To stop or check the Liquor’s ceaseles flow. 
Now we have found an easier way to do: 
Our sentiment is Yes, our ballot No! 
Sometimes I| think there never was so cute 
A plan our laws and morals to comfute,— 
To whip the Devil round the Temperance 
stump, 
And keep intact our piety and repute: 
Shall I with force and law and bigot rage, 
Invoke the aid of sneaking espionage? 
Shall we give license and a loose, free reign? 
Or to raise public’sentiment engage? 
Can we by Law remove the general curse . 
Without entailing something greatly worse? 
This but evokes evasion and revolt, 
So long as human nature is perverse. 
Ho, Fellow Cits! make clean the Cup, and 
clear 
Today of past regret and future fear. 
Tomorrow, Yes, tomorrow you may be 
Where you must give account of deeds done 
here? 
“So when the Angel of the darker Drink 
At last shall find you at the river-brink, 
And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul 
Forth to your Lips to quaff, you shall not 
shrink.” 
The Song is passing, and Town Meeting’s 
past. 
The tumult and the shouting dies at last. 
Forsook the Forum, silent is the Hall, 
Hooper is hoarse, blowers have blown their 
blast. 
Nedwin and Knate—their stipends have been 
raised, 
George, the Highway man, criticized and 
praised. 
And Charles! O how we miss your dulcet 
voice, 
And thine, Jocrusticus, the classic phrased ! 
Freddie is chief, he of the moistened brow, 
And Ed, the flower of knighthood, knighted 
now. 
The achiever of Victory has wrung the bell, 
And to the people’s will the people bow. 
Ui’tt is It, who long in office throve, 
Nitfil again doth represent the Cove, 
The Town has settled to its work again, 
And topers gather round the Tavern stove. 
Manchester Public Library. 
To the Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
Will you kindly allow a brief space 
in your columns for a list of instructive 
and entertaining books cataloged in 
our No. 3 finding list and other books 
purchased since it was issued : 
Roosevelt, T. American ideals. 
Strenuous life. 
Hale, E. E. New England history in 
ballads. 
Subaltern’s letters to his wife from 
South Africa during the Boer war. 
Morris, C. Marvellous record of the 
closing century. 
Stead, W.T. Americanization of the 
world. 
Clark, Rev. F. E. New way around 
an old world. 
Borrow, G. Wild Wales. 
Johnson, C. New England and its 
neighbors. 
Highways and byways of the South. 
Along French byways. 
Isle of the Shamrock. 
Parsons, W. B. American engineer 
in China. 
Higgin, L. Spanish life in town and 
country. 
Palmer, F. H. E. Austro-Hungarian 
life in town and country. 
Carnegie, A. Empire of business. 
Martin, W. A. P. Lore of Cathay, 
intellect of China. 
“This book portrays the intel- 
lectual life of the Chinese as it is 
developed under investigations 
extending through many years of 
intimate association with Chinese 
scholars.”’ 
The following poem is taken 
from the chapter on the poets and 
poetry, and is the oldest temper- 
ance ode in the world, and proba- 
bly antedates the founding of 
Rome: 
“The voice of the cricketis heard in the 
hall, 
The leaves of the forest are withered and 
sere; 
My sad spirits droop at those chirruping 
notes, 
So thoughtlessly sounding the knell of the 
year ; 
Yet why should we sigh at the change of a 
date, 
When life’s flowing on in a full, steady 
tide? 
Come, let us be merry with those that we 
love, 
For pleasure in measure there is no one to 
chide.” 
Gregory P. cae of the well- 
known firm, Connolly Bros., has been 
in New York city and suburbs the 
past week in connection with several 
contracts which the firm have under 
way there. Mrs. Connolly accom- 
panied him. 
