Vol. Il. 
No. 18 
One of Manchestet’s most 
Faithful Servants Passes On. 
A quarter of a century of true and 
faithful service for the town of Man- 
chester is the envious record which 
* Bill’ leaves behind him —a_ record 
of years which few other beings can 
boast. For 25 long years he has 
toiled, and toiled hard at times, too, 
in behalf of the town’s poor. He has 
plowed the fields and harrowed the 
grounds, and the fruit of the soil he 
has brought to the village and mar- 
keted. But he can do this no more. 
He has passed to the dark beyond, 
and his death brought sorrow to ail 
who knew him, and tears to the eyes 
of his master, Wm. H. Haskell, who 
has driven ‘ Bill’’ during his 18 years 
of service. The horse is: familiar to 
almost everybody in Manchester. 
Tuesday night he became cast in his 
stall, and Dr. Reardon was called upon 
to shoot him the next day. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
; A:WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED:TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS:OF THENORTHSHORE 
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MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1905 
RE ERANCIS!) CxuBRIGGS, 
Who returns to his mission work in Japan 
next week, after a visit with his friends and 
relatives in the United States, anda briet 
visit with his former parishioners in Man- 
chester. 
FAITHFUL “BILL” AND HIS MASTER, AT THE ALMSHOUSE. 
Three Cents 
THE VALUE OF 
GOOD LANGUAGE, 
N38. SARGENT. 
BY 
The season of the year has come 
again when many thousands of young 
people will lay down the oar and bat, 
take up the pencil and book, leave 
with regret the out-door sports, and 
bravely take up the school-room work. 
It is well for the student to inquire 
sometimes what of the many studies 
offered him will help him most in 
business, give him greatest influence 
in the world and add most to the joys 
of social life. 
Few young people know the power 
of beautiful language. Well-formed 
sentences, wisely-chosen words, clear- 
ly, easily and pleasantly enunciated, 
have a magnetic power over the cul- 
tured mind. And we are rapidly 
becoming a cultured nation. Our 
linguistic taste is becoming more and 
more refined. Each generation pass- 
ing through our public schools is see- 
ing more clearly the beauty of good, 
pure English. The more clearly we 
see the beauty of choice language the 
more intensely we shall hate slovenly 
speech and composition. 
from a vice we generally need only to 
see its hatefulness and the loveliness 
of the opposite virtue. To see the 
ugliness of coarse language and the 
attractiveness of fine speech is all 
that is needed to create in the intelli- 
gent youth a desire for the beautiful. 
Of all the languages in the world 
none other is half so important to the 
American boy or girl as the English. 
It is exasperating to a teacher who 
has some pride in his own native 
tongue. to hear a student rattle off 
with great glibness and much of self- 
satisfaction eimi, sum and étre, and 
then trip, stumble, and fall flat on his 
own little verb zo de. We would not 
underrate,' in the least, the value of 
foreign languages ; we would only put 
the true estimate upon our own. The 
average boy or girl will use only Eng- 
lish after he leaves school. His name, 
his fame and his success will depend 
To be freed. 
