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That Thanksgiving Dinner. 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
Our friend D. F. L. who furnished 
your columns, last week, the account of 
a Thanksgiving dinner at Danvers was 
deceived, as have been many others, in 
taking it for veritable history. 
It is pure fiction. It was written 
many years ago as a hoax, by the late 
Fitch Poole, librarian of the Peabody 
Library and editor of a local paper. 
Poole had a rare humor and a ready 
pen. He was fond of writing such skits, 
and sending them forth, usually on All 
Fools’ Day. The article in question 
has been going the rounds of the press 
for many years as authentic. It is an 
annual that blossoms about “‘Thanksgiv- 
ing time. No amount of contradiction 
will kill it. “The conscience of our Puri- 
tan fathers was queer enough, and their 
righteousness sufficiently bleak, as_illus- 
trated by the true chronicles, without be- 
ing libelled by fiction however plausible. 
Still, the delicious humor of the story 
will be appreciated when its orgin is 
known. It will bear a second reading. 
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The Essex Institute. 
The Essex Institute, 132-134 Essex 
street, Salem, is one of the points of in- 
terest in Salem which is well worth visit- 
ing. [he Institute was organized in 
1848, by the union of the Essex Histor- 
ical Society (1821) and the Essex 
County Natural History Society, (1833) 
and was incorporated the same year. It 
has for its objects the promotion of his- 
tory, science and art in Essex County, 
and is supported by an annual assessment 
upon its members and by the income 
from its funds. 
In 1906, the Institute purchased from 
the Salem Athenaeum the adjoining 
Plummer Hall property. <A staircase 
hall was built, giving access to both build- 
ings, and extensive alterations provided 
a well-lighted picture gallery, a museum 
hall of fine architectuial proportions, a 
bookstack accommodating 300,000 vol- 
umes, and modern conviences of heat- 
ing and lighting. The museum hall 
was opened to the public on Sept. 9, 
1907. <A picture of thenew home of 
the Institute is printed on our front page 
this week. 
The attention of all persons interested 
in the preservation and exhibition of his- 
torical objects is called to the facilities 
offered by the new museum hall. All 
objects which show in any way the home 
life, the trades, professions, military and 
business life of the past will be gratefully 
received and carefully preserved and ex- 
hibited. Almost every house has some- 
thing relating to the past and it is by 
bringing these separate objects together 
that large collections are formed and the 
history of the ‘“‘by-gone day’ is the 
more fully illustrated. Every article re- 
ceived will be marked with the name of 
the donor and, when desirable, with a 
short description of its use or association, 
thus preserving for all time the object 
and its history, both of which otherwise 
might be lost forever. “The scope of 
the museum and the nature of the mat- 
erail desired is especially called to the at- 
tention of those intending to remove 
from one house to another and to those 
having the settlement of estates, for 
many interesting objects are destroyed at 
such times which, if preserved in the 
museum of the Essex Institute, would 
help to make the collection what it is 
most desired to be—a complete record 
of the life of our forefathers. 
““Arm high’’ is a noble aspiration, 
but the trouble isthat most of us are sa: 
all-fred near-sighted. 
A FABLE. 
There lived a man, in days of old, 
In a beautiful garden, I have been told. 
But the fruits and flowers in their display 
He never knew, for all the day 
He was digging deep in the garden mold 
In ardent quest for coveted gold. 
And the bee and the bird and the passer-by 
Enjoyed the riches that ’scaped his eye. 
When the day was done he had digged full 
deep, 
And the time had come for his last long sleep. 
His quest no longer could weary or worry him; 
The gold he gained was enough to bury him. 
—JosEepH A. TORREY. 
TO THOSE WHO ARE FOND OF 
TREES. 
The bulletin on Shade Trees, in the 
publication of which the Massachusetts 
Forestry Association and the Agricultural 
Experient Station have united, will meet 
a long felt want. 
and much time and money are spent in 
planting and caring for them. The re- 
sults are not infrequently disappointing 
on account of injudicious selection, 
wrong methods in setting, or improper 
or insufficient care. This bulletin gives, 
first the substance of the laws pertain- 
ing to shade trees and tree wardens, and 
discusses the duties of the latter. The 
selection of varieties suited to different 
localities are considered. Statistic show- 
ing the rates of growth of different kinds 
and directions for setting, for transplant- 
ing and pruning are given, Methods of 
preventing or repairing damages to trees 
receive attention, and such topics as chain- 
ing and bolting, treating decayed cavities, 
filling, etc., are fully treated. Injuries 
to trees due to leaky gas mains, and con- 
tact with electric wires, and. other -elec- 
trical injuries are considered and the best 
methods of prevention described. 
concluding section of the bulletin § gives 
‘descriptions of the .more.serious insect: 
enemies and explicit. directions. for ..de- 
stroying them or preventing their in-. 
juries. 
This bulletin will be sent to members 
of the Massachusetts Forestry Associa-.: 
tion, to tree wardens in all parts of: the 
state, and to public libraries. Other in- 
terested parties desiring copies should ad-. 
dress, Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Amherst, Mass.. 
A Few Conundrums. 
At what time of the day was Adam. 
born? A little before Eve. 
cause it is full of sharps and flats. 
What class of women are most apt to 
give tone to society? ‘The belles. 
Why is life the riddle of all riddles? 
Because we must all give it up. 
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