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Volume 9 January 13, 1911. Number 2 
Jan. 13 — Jan. 20. 
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The early establishment of agri- 
cultural schools in Essex County is 
being considered by the state board 
of education. 
Danvers, the Merrimac Valley, 
Topsfield and Beverly have been 
suggested as districts for such 
schools. 
Beverly or some other spot on the 
North Shore has been suggested as a 
centre. It has been urged that an 
agricultural school might be estab- 
lished and equipped by subscriptions 
{rom wealthy residents, and that a 
district for its maintenance might 
well be made up of Beverly, Wen- 
ham, Ifamilton, Essex, Manchester, 
Gloucester, Rockport and perhaps 
Ipswich. Such a school it is urged, 
should provide instruction in gener- 
al farming, and should also give par- 
ticular attention to landscape gar- 
dening. 
It is a well known fact that North 
Shore country seats demand much 
skilled agricultural and horticultur- 
al work of all kinds, and that for 
meeting this demand the establish- 
ment and maintenance by the means 
above named of a somewhat special- 
ized agricultural school would be 
warranted. There appears to be no 
little merit in this proposal, and the 
transportation conveniences would 
make a school in this locality acces- 
sible to a large district. 
Two hundred and _ ninety-nine 
years ago this month on the cold, 
bleak shores of Cape Cod Bay, Mass., 
the intrepid little band of passen- 
gers who reverently disembarked 
there from the Mayflower two 
months before were battling against 
the pangs of hunger and tormented 
by the menace of ultimate starvation. 
Out of that same harbor for the 
last three months half a hundred 
huge ships, weighed down with 
grain, have gone forth to feed and 
nourish the world. 
There are now 92,000,000 of us 
where there were but 103 in 1620. 
Out of the virgin soil of the wilder- 
ness that once stretched westward 
from Cape Cod to the Pacific sea- 
board have sprung this year agri- 
cultural products worth $8,000,000,- 
000 a record never before attained 
by any single nation in the world in 
any one year. 
Our national wealth has grown 
from $750,000,000 in 1791 to the 
prodigous sum of $125,000,000,000 
on January Ist last—twice that of 
the United Kingdom of Great Brit- 
ain, Scotland and Ireland and three 
times that of either France or Ger- 
many, our three closest competitors. 
Despite our enormous growth in 
population we now have a per capita 
capital of $1,859 where we had but 
$183 in 1791. We are the world’s 
greatest manufacturers as well as its 
most extensive and richest agricul- 
turalists. We mine more coal and 
extract more gold, silver, copper, 
and iron out of the ground than any 
two countries in the universe. We 
are prosperous beyond the most ex- 
travagant picture ever painted in 
faney by fertile human imagination. 
Unable to profitably employ all our 
own capital at home, we use our 
surplus millions to finance tobacco 
plantations in Porto Rico and the 
Phillipines, sugar plantations in Cu- 
ba, coffee plantations in Brazil and 
- G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
Willmonton’s Agency 
OLD SOUTHBLDG., BOSTON 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER 
‘dog the 
rubber plantations in British Guian- 
na and thus add to our rapidly ac- 
cumulating revenues. 
Favored by nature, blessed by 
Providence, admired by the world, 
everybody’s friend and nobody’s 
avowed enemy, endowed with mar- 
velous physical vigor, animated by 
such enterprise as no other nation 
has even shown, flattered and toast- 
ed the earth over, we should be su- 
premely happy. But we arn’t. 
We fret and fume because a rail- 
road president talks pessimistically 
of the future, as if he was inspired 
or had any better opportunity of 
foreseeing things in advance of their 
advent than the rest of the communi- 
ty who make no presence to being 
prescient. 
Pessimism never declared a divi- 
dend or built two houses where there 
was one before. Like the flea on the 
pessimist is inevitable. 
While his persistent propensity of 
reminding us of his presence may 
intermittently annoy and _ harass, 
when all is said and done, he euts lit- — 
tle ice. How literally true this is 
was never more forcibly or interest- 
ingly emphasized than in the figures 
of our national material pre-emin- 
ence now available. He indeed must 
be a queer American who in the con- 
templation of the stupendous devel- 
opment of his country and its epo- 
chal achievements does not feel a 
sense of patriotic exaltation as he 
reads and studies the significance of 
the record of its growth and trans- 
cending accomplishments since that 
intrepid little band of pilgrims brav- 
ed the terrors of the sea to plant 
their standard on our then inhospi- 
table shores. 
WE ARE in receipt of the Decem- 
ber issue of the National Geographic 
Magazine published by the Nation- 
al Geographic Society of Washing- 
ton. 
The purpose of the foundation of 
the magazine twenty-two years ago 
was to ‘‘inerease and diffuse geo- 
graphic knowledge’’. 
The contents of the December 
number are beautifully illustrated. 
They embrace ‘‘Race Prejudice in 
the Far East’’ by Melville E. Stone, 
General Manager of the Associated 
Press; ‘‘Some Mexican Transporta- 
tion Seenes’’, Walter W. Bradley ; 
‘“The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, ‘The 
Bridge of the World’s Commerce’ ”’, 
Helen Olsson-Seffer; ‘‘Hewers of 
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