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BEVERLY FARMS 
The Manchester firemen will not 
accept the challenge of the Farms fire- 
men for a card tournament. 
Tur Conoureror’s PHONE NUMBER 
The teacher said: ’When did Wil- 
liam the Conqueror invade England?” 
After the silence had become pain- 
ful, she said: “Open your history 
books. What does it say there?” 
A boy answered: “William the 
Conqueror, 1006.” 
“Now,” said the teacher, “why 
didn’t you remember the date?” 
“Well,” replied the boy, “I thought 
it was his telephone number.” 
WHEN Prayers ARE PARTICULARLY 
NEEDED 
The attendance at prayers, especial- 
ly in the House, is scandalously small 
this year, especially when an election 
of a United States Senator is pend- 
ing—Boston Daily Advertiser. 
Tue Caprarn Forcot 
The steamboat came churning along 
her course at full speed, and the first 
thing the passengers knew she had 
crashed head on into the pier. 
“Mercy!” cried a passenger, as the 
bow crashed and the splinters flew. 
“T wonder what is the matter?” 
“Nothin’,” said one of the deck- 
hands. Nothin’, ma’am; it looks to 
me as if the captain just forgot that 
we stop here.” f 
PEACEFUL TACTICS 
Village Grocer—What are you run- 
ning for, sonny? 
Boy—I’m trying to keep two fellers 
from fighting. 
Village Grocer—Who are the fel- 
lows? 
Boy—Bill Perkins and me!—Puck. 
Omr?trED By ReEcorDING ANGEL 
At a factory in New Jersey the em- 
ployees last year resolved to dock 
themselves a cent for every swear- 
word used, the money to go to the Sal- 
vation Army. The opener of the re- 
ceptacle found the year’s proceeds 
$4.98, whereupon he promptly emitted 
a couple of “damns” and raised the 
amount to an even $5.--Boston Trans- 
cript. 
A CoMMON SITUATION 
The Boy (company  present)— 
Mother will the dessert hurt me to- 
night, or is there enough to go around? 
—London Opinion. 
Everybody reads the Breeze. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Tom Gunn, Chinese Aviator, 
Who Can Do Stunts in the Air 
Photo by American Press Association. 
HIS is Tom Gunn. Who is Tom Gunn? Well, to begin with, he’s a 
Chinese; also he is an aviator. 
Outside of that it doesn’t interest us 
what Tom Gunn is. China has taken up a jot of modern things lately. 
She adopted a republican form of government She handed over the 
vote to the ladies. Now she has taken up aviation 
Tom Gunn is one of the 
best of Chinese air men, of whom there are at present only a few. He has 
been exhibiting near San Francisco 
Liked the Family. 
“Dick proposed to me last night.” 
“What did you tell him?” 
“T said he had better ask mamma. 
And what do you think the wretch 
said?” 
“Goodness knows.” 
“He said he had asked her already 
and she wouldn’t have him.” 
Preferred the Cash. 
“Did you attain the high ideals you 
set for yourself when you were young?” 
asked the friend of his boyhood. 
“No,” replied the millionaire. “and 
I’m glad I didn’t. I see now that there 
was no money in them.’—Lippincott’s 
Marcagina 
Kept on Not Looking. 
“When she wasn’t looking I kissed 
her.” 
“What did she do?’ 
“Refused to look at me for the rest of 
the evening.”—Wasp. 
Work. 
If you intend to go to work, there is 
no place better than where you are. If 
you do not intend to go to work, you 
eannot get along anywhere.—Abraham 
Lincoln. 
The wise man should be prepared for 
everything that does not lie within his 
control.—Pythagoras. 
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