NORTH 
SHORE | 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Much of life is mere asquerade, but 
there is such a thing as real, honest liv- 
ing; all the world is not a stage, nor all 
the men and women merely players; 
there are true and earnest souls to whom 
life is not a farce or the world a puppet 
show. 
How true is it that the poorest things 
are the dearest, that the best things are 
the cheapest; many find this out to their 
cost in running after bargains; but noone 
has ever put it more forcibiy than Lowell: 
Tis heaven alone that is given away, 
*Tis only God may be had for the asking. 
Yet so perverse a thing is human 
nature that people often prefer to do 
without a thing rather than receive it as 
a free gift, and pay a high price at the 
devil’s booth for their own destruction. 
Like sunshine through a cloud-rift are 
the mercies and blessings that often shine 
through trial and suffering; they may 
sometimes not last long, but it is well to 
be thankful for them and enjoy them 
while we have them. 
Organizations do not give life, but life 
may be trusted to provide its own sufhic- 
ient organism; machinery is not power, 
machinery and organization are very 
secondary things, however important 
they may be in their place; but this 1s 
often overlooked in trade, in business, 
in the schools and the church, and show 
is made to take the place of substance 
and form is substituted for life. 
A rough and barren district in one of 
the midland shires of England is quaintly 
described by an old chronicler as * ‘full of 
much emptiness;’’ the phrase is a para- 
dox, but it is highly expressive, and it 
exactly describes many minds that are 
filled with nothing. 
It was from this unpromising locality 
so graphically set forth by Stow, the 
old topographer, that William Carey, 
the first of modern Protestant missionar- 
ies, eminent as a translator and Oriental- 
ist, went forth to his heroic and honor- 
ed life-work. Out of provincial and de- 
spised Galilee prophets and masters still 
spring. 
Are not things getting inverted. when 
a sporting man who commits suicide gets 
as much space in the papers and as eu- 
logistic mention, as a governor, or a 
mayor, or a poet? Has the world gone 
daft on amusements? Is the king of the 
Revels being restored to his mediaeval 
rank? !the lord of Misrule c»ming to his 
own again? Have plain living and high 
thinking gone out of fashion, with the 
passing of the stage-coach and the pillion 
BREEZE 
MANCHESTER Ae: PAYERS 
Twenty-Five Who Pay a Tax of Over One Thousand Dollars. 
A List 
of All Who Pay Over Fifty Dollars 
The Manchester assessors have com- 
pleted the tax list for the current year, 
the list showing an increase of $486,691 
in valuation over last year. ‘The total 
valuation this year is $11,886,238. The 
town will this year raise by taxation $14, 
000 more than last year, the total levy 
this year being $110,000. In order todo 
this it has been necessary to increase the 
rate $1 a thousand, the rate being $9.60. 
As usual, T. Jefferson Coolidge is this 
year the heaviest tax payer, he paying 
and the advent of the automobile? 
Selfishness, under whatever form it 
poses, is always sure like curses and 
chickens to come home to roost; it re- 
acts upon mind and heart, narrowing, 
belittling, hardening, until it may pro- 
duce a Pharaoh, a Caligula, a Judas, a 
Titus Oates; we all need to incorporate 
in our leary the petition, ‘“‘From all 
kinds of self, from righteous self as well 
as sinful self, good Lord, deliver us.’’ 
$9760.16, which is almost one tenth of 
the total assessment. ‘There are in the 
list of residents and non-resident tax pay- 
ers 25 who pay $1000 or over, and 54 
who pay upwards of $500. Those paying 
$1000 or over are, in addition to T. Jef- 
ferson Coolidge, Gordon Abbott, $1247.- 
12, T. Jefferson Coolidge, jr., $1048.- 
40, Mrs. Charles Head $1492.80, R. 
C. Hooper $1767.44, trustees estate of 
Helen A. Hooper $2640, Clement S. 
Houghton $1472.72, Alice G. Howe 
$1243.68, Emma G. Lane $1140.96, 
Manchester Electric Co. $1046.40, 
George Putnam $1009.04, Catherine D. 
W. Rockwell $1408.28, Margaret Stur- 
gis $1310.88, Louis C. Walker $1269.- 
84, Francis M. Whitehouse $3618.37, 
Benjamin G. Boardman heirs $1101.36, 
Greely S. Curtis heirs $1176.48, trustee 
Adele Thayer $1060.99, Anna C. Grew 
$1012.80, Mary Hemenway heirs 
$1746.24, Ida A. Higginson $1428.96 
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SALEM COMMERCIAL SCHOOL 
126 Washington St. 
IS NOW IN SESSION 
This school offers advantages not to be 
found 
in any other in Essex County. 
The largest enrolement in the history of 
the school proves conclusively that the 
Salem Commercial — stands 
supreme. 
New Students may Enter Any Day 
Those desiring immediate accommoda- 
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school as soon as possible. 
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