small house as well as from those do- 
ing business on a larger scale. 
Everything considered, the parcel 
post is about the most acceptable gift 
that the country could receive, and 
is one of the few measures which suc- 
ceeded in getting through Congress 
that will directly aid the people as a 
whole. The public are also realizing 
how excessive some parcels rates have 
been, and will be quick to see the ad- 
vantage of the government’s innova- 
tion. 
THE Curistmas Lost. 
Many visitors to the shrine of John 
Greenleaf Whittier will miss the old 
relics in the historic building cared 
for so sacredly for many years at 
Amesbury. On a morning when it 
would have been a delight to sit in a 
warm corner of the old home and 
read “Snow Bound” again, a fire be- 
gan its ruthless work and lurid flames 
greedily consumed cherished momen- 
toes. 
Fortunately some of the manscripts, 
although damaged by water and 
smoke, were protected by glass cases. 
The passing generation little realize 
the value of the relics of its famous 
men, but the newer generations who 
know “of” these men who have gone 
cherish the little things made famous 
by their associations. 
The loss of many of Whittier’s 
manuscripts was one that cannot be 
measured in terms of money, and the 
only consolation of the fire is that the 
building has been saved and some of 
the historic momentoes are in a rem- 
ediable condition. 
_ New YeEar’s CourRAGE. 
The following resolution which ap- 
pears on the calendar of a church is 
worthy of emulation and would prove 
a great boon to human life if it were 
fully or only partially realized. Let 
these be your guide-posts during the 
next twelve months: “T will not wor- 
ry. I will not be afraid. I will not 
give way to anger. I will not yield to 
envy, jealousy or hatred. I will be 
kind to every man, woman and child 
with whom I come in contact. I will 
be cheerful and hopeful. I will trust 
and bravely face the future.” 
There is a strange correlation in the 
coincidence that the very day that the 
cat in the State Prison thwarted Jes- 
se Pomeroy’s attempt to escape, a 
scientist at a convention read a paper 
on “Discrimination in Sound by the 
Domestic Cat.” We cannot say what 
the author proved, but the prison 
guard knowns where he had help. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester voted wisely Monday 
night in buying the “Power House 
Hill” property. That hill, with its 
magnificent growth of centuries-old 
pine, is one of the most beautiful hills 
along the whole North Shore. It is 
one of the tuwn’s best assets. ‘i'o cut 
off the trees would be to do irrepara- 
ble damage to the town. The town 
now owns it for ever. True, we may 
have paid a thousand or two more 
than an individual could buy it for; 
but what of that. $8,200 is nothing 
compared to a deforested hill in Man- 
chester’s center. The town sold 
another piece of property for sum- 
mer residence purposes, for $8500. 
The treasury is today $300 richer in 
actual dollars than a week ago. 
As reviewer and purchaser of 
books Dr. Glendenning is rendering a 
valuable service to our town in his 
work for the public library. This is 
indeed a task for a broad mind, as 
too great care cannot be exercised in 
the choice of books that will be read 
in the homes. The library of any 
town is actually an extension univer- 
sity work It is a good thing to give 
publicity to the additions to the library 
that the public may know what the 
books are. 
One of the most striking statements 
of Congressman Gardner in his ad- 
dress at Beverly Farms was that con- 
cerning the supply of iron. It is 
conservatively estimated that the pres- 
ent supply of iron ore is sufficient to 
last one hundred years. What the na- 
tion can do without iron is a problem 
too great to solve with haste. Public 
education cannot begin too early that 
the present supply may be conserved 
and used to its greatest advantage and 
economy. 
The effort which is now being made 
in financial circles to separate commer- 
cial and investment banking is fortu- 
nately gaining headway. For years 
the leaders in financial affairs have 
seen the wisdom of endeavoring to 
draw a line between commercial and 
investment. paper or notes. If the 
question can be solved many of the de- 
‘lays incident to commercial banking 
and the risk in investment banking 
will be avoided. 
The innovation Rev. Albert G. War- 
ner introduced in taking his entire 
choir to Beverly Farms to sing at a 
strvice at the invitation of the Bev- 
erly Farms church is a splendid illus- 
tration of what the spirit of co-opera- 
tion can do in churches. 
13 
John N. Willys of Pride’s is doing 
a great work for public roads and it is 
to be hoped that the Federal Aid 
Good Road Association which he is 
organizing will do effective work in 
enlisting the National government in- 
terests in the construction and main- 
tenance of more good roads. 
The Indianapolis dynamite verdict 
was a triumph for justice. Unionism 
has its place, but it must not resort 
to violence. Instead of a detriment 
to honest union endeavors it will tend 
to benefit organized labor by compell- 
ing ethical standards which in the end 
must be a great help to unionism. 
The reduction in the size of the 
state appropriation for the destruction 
of gypsy and brown tail moths is not 
indicative of a cessation of fight but 
economy in the administration of 
funds. he new gasoline sprayers are 
good ground coverers and money sav- 
ers. 
The logical candidate for the water 
board in Beverly is John L. Salton- 
stall and it will be a serious blunder 
if the city fails to avail itself of the 
experience which Mr. Saltonstall has 
gained in his study of the problem. 
If the old belief be true, that the 
weather of the twelve days following 
Christmas forecasts the weather for 
the corresponding months of the com- 
ing year, 1913, will prove a mild 
and favorable year. 
Better to have a resolution and 
break it than never to have made it at 
all. 
If you take tar out of tariff what 
will be left but an uncertainty? 
Take Mann from Manchester, there 
will be another man just here. 
THOosE 24-CENT Eiccs 
The suspicion of the State Board of 
Health that some of the storage eggs 
being sold in Boston in the 24-cent 
campaign have seen better days is put- 
ting a brake on the sales at the various 
stands. While the movement of the 
campaigners is undoubtedly a worthy 
and deserving one, the methods of the 
co-called reformers who are conduct- 
ing the sales of the eggs should be 
carefully looked into. or eggs unfit for 
use will be unloaded on the suscepti- 
ble public. Another campaign is now 
being planned by Boston women in an 
effort to lower prices on commodities 
other than eggs. 
