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ereat execution; given, stalwart arms, 
valiant hearts and brave leadership, and 
the difference between armies is largely 
a matter of mechanical invention and 
skill; the men who fought under Alex- 
ander and Charlemagne were for soldier- 
ly endurance and daring every whit the 
peers of the men who fought under Wel- 
lington and Grant, Dewey and Samp- 
gon. 
The old is not to be blindly clung to 
because it is old, any more than the new 
is to be run after because it is new. 
Sometimes, the new is a great improve- 
ment; we are never tired of saying, 
“better fifty years of Europe than a 
cycle of Cathay;’’ but old institutions 
and customs are not always to be dis- 
missed off-hand like last years’ almanac; 
they are sometimes old because they have 
proved better than the new; the quiet, 
restful, church-going Sunday of our fath- 
ers had some distinct advantages over the 
pleasure-seeking, excursion-going Sun- 
day of today; even though the grind and 
pressure of modern business life may 
be held to be largely responsible for the 
latter. 
Sentiment and sentimentality are two 
very different things; sentiment is a very 
good thing often, as the poetic sentiment, 
the patriotic sentiment, the religious sen- 
timent; sentimentality is a weak, and 
sometimes a foolish thing, allied to un- 
reason and gush. It is often well to 
cultivate sentiment; but sentimentality 
needs rather to be repressed. 
To be able to distinguish between 
things that differ, but which are often 
confounded, as in the above instance, is 
one result of mental culture or true 
education; half of the misunderstandings 
and disputes in the world have been 
caused by the want of such power. 
Nowhere more than in Tennyson’s 
later poems is seen the utterly dismal out- 
look of the Naturalistic philosophy, 
which the poet so keenly dissected and 
repudiated with all the intensity of his 
soul, standing “‘on the heights of his life 
with a glimpse of a life that is higher.’’ 
But the closing quarter of the century 
might have spared itself wading through 
sloughs of despond and sinking in abys- 
mal depths of conceit, had it taken 
counsel of a Greater thana Hegel, a 
Huxley, a Swinburne, a Matthew Ar- 
nold, or evena Tennyson. After sixty 
years of sore travail, it found itself even 
more dark and hopeless, and farther 
from the goal, than at the start, when it 
‘* caw the vision of. the world and the 
wonder that should be.”’ 
Miss Mary S. Wells of Boston has 
been the guest this week at the Hesper- 
us, of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Rowe. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
—————| ANNOUNCEMENT | 
Beginning with this issue the North Shore Breeze will be issued 
on Fridays instead of Saturdays. 
A change of this nature toward the close of the summer season may 
seem strange tomany. We believe, however, that in making the change, 
we are taking a step forward. ~The principal reasons for making the 
change are these: 
First. So that our out-of-town subscribers may get the 
paper before Sunday. The suggestion has been 
made to us several times by members of our sum- 
mer colony ; they complain that they do not get 
the Breeze until Monday. Under the present con- 
ditions the papers do not leave Manchester un- 
til the 5.21 mail train Saturday. 
To benefit our advertisers. Our big advertisers 
are continually reminding us that an advertise- 
ment appearing in our Saturday's paper does not 
do them half as much good as if it appeared 
Thursday or Friday, so that readerscould glance 
over the ad. before doing their Saturday shopping. 
Because it will make the work easier for our help. 
Publishing a 40-page paper every week is not as 
easy a task as one might imagine. There has been 
scarcely a week the past summer that the last bun- 
dle of papers has been carried to the postoffice 
before 4 o’clock. And that doesn't allow much 
time in the remaining hour to do the “rush” jobs 
of printing, church calendars, etc, that customers 
“must have” before Sunday. . 
Now, then, we havethis one favor to ask. Will those who have 
been accustomed to send. in notices to the paper,—social notes, personals, 
advertisements, etc..—please remember that such must be sent one day 
earlier than usual hereafter, and must reach this office Thursday, or 
early Friday morning. 
Second. 
Third. 
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We offer a stock of over 35,000 assorted Evergreens from 2 to 8 feet in height, consisting of 
Norway Spruce, Coerulea Spruce, White Spruce, Colorado Spruce both blue and green, Scotch 
Pine, Austrian Pine, White Pine, Mugho Pine, Cephalonica Fir, Nordmans Fir, Douglass Fir, Bal- 
sam Fir, American Arbor Vitae, etc. All have been several times transplanted and most of them 
will lift with a ball of earth at the roots. 
mens and 10,000 well rooted Dwarf Box for border and edging purposes and make very reasonable 
We also have a choice lot of imported Evergreen Speci- 
prices for this season’s planting. Call or send for price list. 
Southworth Bros., Beverly, Mass. 
Lk. A. Johnson Co. 
Fine [Provisions 
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