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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
)|_ A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE Oe) 
Vol. V. No. 46 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907. 
20 Pages Three Cents. 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Moderation is a great need of the 
times; we have been living on borrowed 
capital, we have been mortgaging the 
future, watering stocks, defying all laws 
of political economy and sound finance, 
until the bubble has burst. We _ have 
sowed the wind, and reaped the whirl- 
wind; reckless extravagance has been 
the fashion, we have run at full speed on 
a down grade, we have acted on the 
principle, “‘ After us the Deluge.’’ 
And now we must come down to a safer 
and saner kind of living. If we can 
learn the lessons of prudence, thrift and 
common-sense, which the late ‘“ scare’”’ 
should teach us, it will prove one of the 
greatest blessings to this generation, a 
generation dazzled by the glamour of 
riches and ostentation. 
The man with the uplifted look is the 
man for the hour; not he who like Bun- 
yan’s man with the muckrake ‘“‘could 
look no way but downward, so busied 
was he with the sticks and straws and 
dust of the floor;’’ we need not only 
men of wide vision, but men of high 
ideals, men of uplook as well as out- 
look. Such men will impart confidence 
and courage to their fellows, as they 
move among them, by the vision splen- 
did on their way attended. 
We may accept the Copernican the- 
ory in our ideas of the universe, but prac- 
tically we are all of us more or less in- 
clined to be Ptolemaic in our philosophy 
of life, to make ourselves the centre of 
everything. 
It may be that our success as colony- 
builders is nothing to boast of; but it is a 
question whether it does not compare 
favorably as a whole with some similiar 
attempts, as of Spain in America, of 
Holland in the East Indies, of France in 
Algiers; but the twentieth century im- 
poses greater obligations than those of 
the sixteenth or the nineteenth even. 
The art of letter-writing as it existed 
in the times of Horace Walpole and the 
poet Cowper, seems in danger of becom- 
ing a lost art, such are the demands of 
THE ELECTION IN. MANCHESTER. 
Very little interest shown. 
Senate. 
The election passed off quietly in 
Manchester, Tuesday, only 400 ballots 
being cast, against 473 last year, and out 
of a total of 588 voters. The vote was 
strongly republican and Gov. Guild was 
given 211 votes, against 66 for Whitney, 
and 83 for Hisgen, the independence 
James F. SHaw 
Of Manchester, re-elected Senator. 
league candidate. This last vote was 
rather of a surprise. 
Senator James F. Shaw was given a 
good complimentary vote in his home 
town, receiving 272 to 60 for the other 
candidate. In fact, this was the largest 
vote given any candidate, with the ex- 
ception of the sheriff for Essex County, 
400 votes cast. 
Benj. H. Corliss given good vote in Manchester 
James F. Shaw returned to 
who received 280. But the latter was a 
democratic-republican nominee. 
Benjamin H. Corliss, another Man- 
chester man, running for the legislature, 
was given a good vote. “Though he did 
not win out, he received twice as much 
as any other name on the ballot, except 
Cuarces H. Barretr 
Of Gloucester, elected Representative. 
the republican candidates. Barrett, his 
opponent, received 212 votes here. 
About the same board of officers as in 
former years had charge of the election, 
and the votes were counted and an- 
nounced a few minutes after seven. 
Just 400 ballots were registered. 
The result of the election will be 
found on another page. 
this strenuous, quick-moving age and the 
conveniences of the telephone and _tele- 
graph. But what can take the place of 
leisurely, friendly correspondence, or 
atone for its loss; such composition need 
not be formal or pedantic, but it may be 
literary, informing and amusing; and as 
a means of cultivating the amenities and 
OARD 
GATALGGTHE, 
providing for the interchange of thought, 
and not less, as a means of uniting 
kindred hearts in one, it has distinct ad- 
vantages over the inventions that annihil- 
ate time and destroy sentiment, and also 
often substitute for good English almost 
meaningless contractions and _ reprehen- 
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