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Volume 9 August 25, 1911. Number 34 
Words. 
The Rev. Dr. John Clifford, ‘‘the 
active and militant head of non- 
conformity’’ in England has_ re- 
turned from a visit to America and 
is investing the information culled 
in his itinerary to advantage in his 
work. His gleanings have the touch 
of the humorous to the American 
because he ‘‘shows up’’ the English- 
man’s mind and lays bare some of 
America’s foibles. The English di- 
vine says ‘‘that he only associated 
with college professors, lawyers and 
others of their classes and succeeded 
in having some new words added to 
his vocabulary.’’ Judging from the 
miscellaneous collection he obtained 
it is well that he did not meet many 
college students. ‘‘Yapper’’ pleased 
him so much that he used it on Lord 
Hugh Cecil, calling him the cham- 
pion ‘‘yapper’’ of England. It 
sounds derisive enough but ‘‘yap- 
per’’ is not an ‘‘New Englandism.”’ 
Doubtless he knows what he means 
for he writes, ‘‘I collected a large 
number of interesting expressions 
and in each case endeavored and 
generally succeeded in learning the 
origin of the phrases. In one case 
I met with failure and that was in 
one of the most interesting words, 
‘grouchy’.’’ Grouchy is not in all 
dictionaries but what a ‘‘use,’’ if 
not a ‘‘good use’’ the word has. 
The doctor is so transparently clear. 
Words are strange. They are our 
life nevertheless. We live in a world 
-. G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
The idea is the substance of lan- 
guage; the words but garments. 
And what a wardrobe of garments 
the vocabulary of most people is. 
There are dainty, well fitting habits, 
snugly, even beautifully setting the 
ideas off to the best advantage— 
then there are the well worn, out- 
worn, and misfits found in every 
wardrobe of words. We cannot pass 
through life without them. But 
these friends of ours, who are they? 
Whence came they? 
Words are like persons. Some we 
like. Some we respect, and some we 
love, love so well, that we make 
them serve when their work is in- 
accurate and disturbing. Words, 
words, words, rivers of words, on, 
how they flow on, from lip and pen 
and printed page, going everywhere 
but getting no where. This is be- 
cause words have displaced thought. 
Every one has his likes and dislikes 
and it is a clever writer who within 
a short volume of a few hundred 
pages does not betray his chosen 
friends and a mere love for words. 
But what dizzy, strange-looking 
characters words are! A _ paper 
turned upside down or the pages of 
an unknown language startles the 
mind with the fact that words are 
‘‘queer’’ and the reason they are 
not ‘‘queer’’ to us is that they are 
all our own, and they are no longer 
scratches or scrawls but represent 
ideas. A page of Carlyle will often 
produce a_ similar bewilderment. 
There are the words, words and 
more words scattered over the page 
like autumnal pickings on a barn 
floor, until the mind stops its mad 
race to read words and reads the 
words to obtain the ideas. The 
scattered words now become ideas 
and order comes out of chaos and 
Carlyle stands commended and we 
stand condemned. He used _ his 
words to express ideas and the read- 
er reduces reading to a mechanical 
process of eye work reforcing the 
mind the stimulus the word intended 
to produce and a type of literary 
aphasia has set in. Most people read 
too much and think too little. Words 
should be stimulants, not narcotics. 
A little cup of water may set a 
child’s toy in motion or serve to 
start in operation the mighty forces 
of a hydraulic press. The use of the 
water and its power is the measure 
of the ability of the child and the 
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‘we put into it—and as little. 
man. There is no clearer indication 
of mental discipline, of intellectual 
training or of true culture than 
the words the individual chooses 
and uses. The maidens discovered 
Peter. His words betrayed him. 
The Sibboleth and Shibboleth, the 
test of ancient tune, is only a marked 
example of a test every where po- 
tentially active. A word betrayed 
in each ease, affiliations, residence, 
training, affections, inclinations and 
nationality. Our words betray us on 
every hand. A man but opens his 
mouth and the words show the man- 
ner of man within. 
Words! What is in a word?’ Let 
him who can sound the depths of 
love, honor, wisdom, spirit, hope, 
comfort, father, sister, brother, 
mother, God. There is everything 
ina word. All life may be wrapped 
in a word. Life may be a word. 
Let a mother live out the word 
‘‘mother’’ and she will have put into 
a word a life. A word is worth all 
Yet 
how profligate men are in their pov- 
erty. They scatter words, words 
but no ideas. Words are great be- 
cause ideas are great and ideas are 
great because man is great. Man is 
great because he is a personality. 
Words are the products of man’s 
intelligence. And as man increases 
his wealth of ideas he is less profli- 
gate with his words. He _ values 
them. He knows them. He chooses 
them. He uses them because he 
knows they are the measure of his 
mind and personality, and the open 
gate to wisdom. 
North Shore Development. 
The great mistake in the develop- 
ment of the North Shore in the past 
has been the want of unity in action. 
The Townships must work out their 
own individual problems but there 
are problems which can only be 
solved by the county or state or the 
towns working in harmony. The 
Shore is interested in every enter- 
prise which helps any one commun- 
ity. There are their direct and re- 
mote interests which contribute to 
the shore development. The opening 
of the largest area of land locked 
water after the construction of the 
breakwater under national auspices 
at Rockport, will have its contribut- 
ing influence. The construction by 
the county of a road to Essex from 
Manchester will open a new thor- 
oughfare. The electric air line and 
tunnel to Boston with a twenty-two 
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