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Vol. V. No. 51 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1907. 
24 Pages Three Cents. 
A LAWYER’S LIBRARY 
I wonder if any of our young readers 
have ever visited a lawyer’s office and 
noticed the great shelves filled with buff 
colored, leather covered books. If so 
they have probably thought it strange that 
there were so many law-books, and have 
wondered if all of them had to be read 
by those who make the law a profession. 
Books are the tools with which judges 
and lawyers perform their work. With- 
out books they -would be as poorly 
equipped to try and decide suits at law as 
a carpenter would be if he should attempt 
to build a house without a saw and plane. 
In these buff colored books, looking so 
ponderous and forbidding, is to be found 
the law, and in no other place can it now 
be found. But youask, how did there 
come to be so many law books? Is the 
law so large that it takes a whole library 
to contain it, or are there so many laws 
that they cannot be printed in a smaller 
space? What is law anyway? 
If you will read ona little farther I 
will try to tell you as clearly as I can 
what the law is, and how it has come to 
pass that there are so many law books. 
A law is arule of conduct made by 
authority. The law as a whole consists 
of all the many rules of conduct which 
now exist. God’s law which is printed 
in the Bible was made by God’s authori- 
ty and is therefore perfect. Man’s law 
as we find it in the law books is not as 
perfect as God’s law, for it represents 
only man’s idea of justice and right. 
The law has been written and printed in 
books a great many, many years, but 
there was a time when there was no 
such thing as written law. “The ances- 
tors of the English people once lived in 
tribes, and no one among them could 
read or write. Nevertheless they had 
laws. 
Every nation, no matter how uncivil- 
ized it may be, must have laws. Even 
among savages it is law that when one 
man has made a fine bow and a bundle 
of good arrows, no one else who is 
stronger than he shall have the right to 
take them from him, for they are his 
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NEED OF SUMMER HOTEL 
In Manchester. 
This Fact is Emphasized in report of Bureau of Statistics 
of Labor. 
In the second report on ‘“* Industrial 
Opportunities not yet utilized in Massa- 
chusetts,’” in connection with Part III 
of the annual report of the Bureau of 
Statistics of Labor for 1907, Manchester 
is credited with being a summer resort 
pure and simple, but it is pointed out 
that ““there is a grand opportunity to 
erect an up-to-date hotel.’’ The report 
says in the ““ descriptive information’’ : 
Manchester [Pop., 261.8] ‘There 
isno land suitable for manufacturing 
or business purposes. Manchester is a 
summer resort, and although the greater 
part of the summer colony own their own 
houses, there isa grand opportunity to 
erect an up-to-date hotel. The town is 
noted for its combination of beautiful 
scenery— woods, hills, and ocean. It 
has well-kept macadam roads, and the 
only Singing Beach in the country. 
There is one large hotel, several board- 
ing houses, and numerous cottages which 
will accommodate 5000 visitors.”’ 
In another part of the report Man- 
chester is alluded to as ‘‘A_ beautiful 
summer resort; 5000 guests accommo- 
dated in the hotel, numerous boarding 
houses, and cottages. Another hotel is 
needed.’’ 
From the foregoing information there 
seems to be great need of a new 
hotel, and it is surprising that some en- 
terprising individual, or concern, does 
not seize the opportunity and build an 
up-to-date house. The Masconomo 
house property near Singing Beach is for 
sale; the old hotel should be torn down 
and a new structure built either on its 
site or nearer the beach. 
WITHOUT FOOD AND SHELTER 
For Six Days. 
There was considerable excitement in 
Manchester Thursday when it was 
known that a strange woman, evidently 
much demented, was discovered in a 
small shed in the rear of the Isaac -West 
estate at Manchester Cove. 
It was afterwards found that the 
woman was Miss Catherine Crawley, 42 
years old, of Gloucester. She had wan- 
dered from her home in that city on Fri- 
day night of last week, and until she was 
found Thursday morning about 9 
o’ clock, nothing of her whereabouts was 
known, though friends and the police 
had been searching for her all the time. 
Five days and a half spent in an ice 
cold shed, without a morsel to eat in all 
that time, and only half clad, especially 
at this season of the year, and the snow 
storm of last Saturday, Sunday and Mon- 
day, with rain intervening, is an experi- 
ence which very few human beings could 
endure. 
The discovery was made by William 
Cook, who is employed by the town in 
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CATAT CAST Ore 
Gloucester Woman Found in Shed at Manchester Thursday. 
moth suppression. The men_ were 
working [Thursday morning on the West 
estate, just off the main highway between 
Manchester and Gloucester. As Mr. 
Cook opened the door to a small out- 
house on the place he was amazed to see . 
inside a woman. He could see no 
tracks in the snow, which showed no 
one had approached the building since 
Sunday, at least, and he was naturally 
greatly frightened to see a woman 
crouched in the corner as he drew open 
the door. 
Chief Peabody was notified and he 
hurried to the scene and the woman was 
brought to the police station, where Dr. 
W.H. Tyler attended her. He gave 
her malted milk at intervals and by noon, 
when her brother and sister arrived from 
Gloucester having been notified of her 
discovery through the police, the woman 
was able to be taken home. 
Atthe station the woman would not 
tell her name, until the chief asked her 
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