Vol? V. No. 12 
MANCHESTER, ES par RDAY, 
MAR. 
23, 1907. met pages. Three Cents. 
TOWN MEETING Aa MANCHESTER. 
Business Pretty Well Cleaned up at second Adjourned Meeting this week. 
Matter of reconsidering vote relative to salaries and pay of Town Labor 
caused some discussion. 
Meeting adjourned to April 8. 
At the second adjourned meeting Wed- 
nesday evening practically all the balance 
of the business of the annual Town 
Meeting in Manchester was disposed of, 
though there are yet at least two matters 
of much importance to come up at the 
adjourned meeting in April. “These two 
matters pertain to the suit of the “‘In- 
habitants of Manchester vs. Frederick 
Burnham,’’ and an additional water sup- 
ply. 
‘The meeting this week was put through 
with the greatest despatch, lasting only 
45 minutes. Besides cleaning up a few 
odds and ends the matter of salaries again 
came up, being introduced by a motion 
to reconsider the action of a former meet- 
ing whereby the salaries of the selectmen 
were fixed for the year. 
The vote to reconsider lost 17 to 71. 
W.C. Rust then gave notice that he 
would move to reconsider the vote re- 
$500 appropriated for Celebration of the Fourth. 
garding the amount paid for town labor, 
at the next meeting. ‘This will probably 
meet with favor when taken up as Mr. 
Rust’s object is to incorporate in the 
motion fixing the pay of town labor a 
clause discriminating between resident 
and non-resident labor. “The amount to 
be paid according to vote already passed 
is $2.40 a day, which amount is much in 
excess of that paid by contractors both in 
and out of town, and the result is our 
citizens have to compete with what might 
be termed transient labor that come here 
for what they can get out of it. 
When Mr. Rust had concluded Samuel 
Knight gave notice that at the next meet- 
ing he would ask for a reconsideration of 
the vote whereby the auditor’s salary was 
to be $500. “Town Clerk Jewett said he 
was of the opinion that this could not 
legally be changed; the ‘‘reconsideration 
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RAMBLING NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS. 
BY J.9. Wea DUNCAN 
Asst. Supt. of the Boston Parks and Gardens. 
(The following excerpts are from a paper by Mr. Duncan before the North Shore Horticultural 
Society at their meeting last Friday evening—Ep. ) 
Within the last two decades remarkable 
advancement has been made in out-door 
gardening in almost every section of the 
country. This has caused more attention 
to be paid to all kinds of hardy plants, and 
especially to trees and shrubs; and the 
gardener, to properly fill his position, 
must have a good idea of fine landscape 
effects, and a thorough knowledge of the 
many hardy plants that may be required 
for the ornamentation of the place of 
which he may have charge. Not only 
should he be familiar with the varieties, 
but, if he does not verse himself in the 
practical methods of cultivation, he will 
not only prove himself incapable of hold- 
ing his position, but, perhaps, do more 
damage in a few years than can be repair- 
ed in a life time. Itis for the purpose of 
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. giving a few hints on the management of 
the out-door home grounds that this paper 
is written. 
I have seen very few places where 
much attention has been paid to native 
woodlands; and yet in these woodlands 
there are ample opportunities for a man 
to make splendid effects of what would, 
otherwise, be a neglected wild wood. 
Where there are native woodlands that 
need attention the first work to be done 
is to judiciously thin out all dead or half- 
dead trees that may be destroying the 
health and development of others. 
It should be seen too that the trees re- 
ceive attention that will cause a renewed 
root action as well. “This may be done 
by giving a top dressing of several inches 
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THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
It is often said that corporations have 
no souls; but a town or any corporate 
body cannot afford to be unjust any more 
than an individual can; there is not one 
standard of right for the individual, and 
another for firms, trusts, corporations, 
towns and nations. Let justice be done, 
though the heavens fall. 
‘Peace hath its victories no less than 
war,’ and peace hath its dangers no less 
than war; but is it not the very irony of 
fate that a warship built for the destruc- 
tion of enemies should be the destruction 
on soterrible a scale of its own crew? 
‘The question arises, Why have warships 
at all? What need have civilized nations 
of armies and fleets? Why not go back, 
or forward, to the Golden Rule? Why 
not let justice, humanity, common-sense 
reign, and not greed, ambition and vio- 
lence? 
‘There is a vast difference between the 
truly comic and the merely silly, a differ- 
ence of which many people and many 
papers seem hopelessly ignorant; the 
comic, to save it from utter insipidity and 
dreariness, must have an element of san- 
ity in it. 
‘The supineness and indifference with 
which the public treats great moral issues 
and grave dangers to public morals, of 
which many examples have lately been 
seen, is owing no doubt largely to the mat- 
erlalism of the day. 
Many things have served of late to dis- 
credit expert testimony, so-called, if not 
to make it ridiculous; many people can- 
not help feeling that an ounce of com- 
mon-sense is worth a pound of expert 
knowledge that boasts such great things. 
Building castles in Spain is generally 
considered a thriftless and disappointing 
employment; but it may furnish innocent 
occupation to those who are never likely 
to build castles anywhere else, provided 
they do not addle their brains with great 
expectations never to be realized. 
We cannot hope to make the world 
better by Act of Parliament; public sen- 
timent may mould legislation, but legis- 
lation will not outrun public sentiment; 
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