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MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 1907. 
20 Pages. ‘Three Cents. 
TWILIGHT MUSINGS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
The types are sometimes veritable 
brownies in the pranks that they cut up; 
in a recent paper Tennyson was made to 
speak of ‘‘a board approach of fame,”’ 
suggesting a plank walk or something of 
that sort. Now plank walks are very 
good fortheir purpose, but they rarely 
lead to fame; verily, there is but a step 
’ from the sublime to the ridiculous. 
The fierce light that beats upon a 
throne or a White House is often very 
serviceable; no ruler is so wise but he 
may learn salutary lessons from public 
opinion; and nothing is so fatal to a 
government or a party as popular indiffer- 
ence to its short comings and faults. 
Originality is something difficult of 
definition; but Lowell has come near 
defining it, 
*“Though old the thought and oft exprest, 
_ *Tis his at last who says it best;”’ 
lines that are worthy of Pope himself, of 
whom Lowell is an appreciative and 
masterly critic. 
This is the age of machinery; we 
have machine-made books, machine- 
politics, and  machine-made 
religion; there is little of spontaneity; 
mechanical methods are invading all 
spheres of human activity; so far as 
machinery eliminates the personal factor 
in the equation, so far is life the 
poorer, so far the vital element is 
sacrificed. 
Much as the old painters might have 
been wantingin a knowledge of tech- 
nique, there is something in their works, 
a depth and color and mastery which 
their successors strive in vain to equal; 
there may be anachronisms in plenty and 
lack of perspective, but there is some- 
thing that is altogether unapproached by 
moderns in Raffaelle, Rubens, ‘Titian, 
Claude and others. So in literature, the 
old masters are often diffuse, labored and 
inelegant, but there is about them a 
massiveness and majesty often that atone 
for all defects, a wealth of matter that 
would supply a stock in trade for a score 
of modern writers. 
Travel, especially if carried on some- 
what on the lines indicated so quaintly 
by Bacon, may be a prime means _ of 
education; but many a person who goes 
not beyond the bounds of his own village 
knows more of the world, is more a 
citizen of the world, than half the globe- 
trotters who having eyes see not. 
‘The tower of the historic Old South 
seems to have sunk forty or fifty feet in- 
to the ground, but it is only that the 
marts of trade have lifted themselves 
pretentiously above it; many good 
- jnstitutions of former times are dwarfed 
and belittled to many by structures that 
have had a mushroom growth; com- 
mercialism often over-shadows patriot- 
ism, sentiment and devotion. 
Politics and medicine have their quacks 
and charlatans as well as the pulpit; but 
professions and organizations are to be 
judged by their best and not by their 
worst members and promoters, as we 
judge of atree not by its few crabbed 
and worm-eaten windfalls but by its load 
of ruddy and luscious fruit. 
A modern successor of the Pizarros 
of history, exploiting the Congo for 
rubber, decimating the wretched popula- 
tion with hideous barbarity, is the rotten 
fruit of commercialism in politics. 
It is not for all men to be great, to 
win the plaudits of listening senates 
and draw the eyes of nations to them, but 
it is in the power of every man to act 
well his part, to serve his own generation 
by the will of God, to wear the white 
flower of a blameless life. 
It is Bethlehem, not Athens or Rome, 
that now rules the world; we count on 
years not from the Olympiads or the 
Founding of the City, but from the 
vision of the angels with their message 
of peace to men and glory in the highest. 
Universiry Mare Quartet 
Of Boston, who are to sing at Beverly Farms on 
February 12, in Lyceum Course, 
INSTALLATIONS. 
Red Letter events in the History of PE 
Lodge, 149, I, O. O. F., and Col. H. P 
Woodbury Camp, S. of V. 
Manchester Club have 
Xmas Tree. 
The features of the week at 
Manchester, socially, were the gather- 
ings coincident with the installing into 
office of the recently elected and appoint- 
ed officers of Col. H. P. Woodbury 
camp, 149, S. of V., on Tuesday even- 
ing, and of Magnolia lodge, 149, I. O. 
O. F., on Thursday evening. Last 
night, too, the members of the 
Manchester club spent an evening in 
merry-making on the occasion of the 
belated visit of Santa Claus to their 
rooms. 
The gathering of Magnolia lodge, 
I. O. O. F, on Thursday evening was a 
red letter event in the history of the 
order. Besides an exceptionally large 
attendance of members from in town, 
members were also present from Beverly 
Farms and Gloucester, and a small 
delegation was present from Ocean 
lodge, Gloucester. A turkey supper, 
with all the “‘fixins,’’ excellently served 
by a very efficient committee, followed 
the installation, and this in turn was fol- 
lowed by singing and a general social 
time. 
Dy De G) Me Charlese]. = Gray of 
Gloucester installed the following named 
officers: Frank A. Rowe, noble grand; 
Chas. E. Williams, vice guard; Arthur 
Fe Olsonsisecy:) d= les Bingham: fin: 
secy; E. A. Lane, treas; Geo. P. Dole, 
rt. sup.n.g.; Geo. L. Knight, |.sup.n.¢. ; 
W. W. Hoare, warden; Louis Lations, 
outside g.; R. C. Allen, conductor; 
Horace Standley, insideg.; J. A. Lodge, 
rt. s. sup.; Wm. Mitchell, lefts. sup. ; 
Lorenzo Baker, rt. sup. v. g.; Edward 
Crowell, left sup. v. g.; Albert Cunning- 
ham,chaplain; F. C. Rand, past grand. 
An interesting fact in regard to the 
installation was the fact that Mr. Bingham 
was inducted into office as financial 
secretary of the lodge for the 26th year. 
The reports of the officers showed 
Magnolia lodge to be one of the strong- 
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