stated the necessity of training a 
child almost from infancy. The 
Boy Scout movement is an interna- 
tional one. Baden Powell, the dis- 
tinguished Englishman, started the 
movement in Africa during the 
Boer War, Thompson Seton in the 
United States. There is a triune in 
every boy to be developed, namely, 
the physical, mental and moral sides 
of his make-up. Boys are called 
kids. It is too helpless a name. 
Powell calls them man-cubs. 
The danger which surrounds a 
boy is that of his lower or animal 
nature, which is not sufficiently con- 
sidered. In fact he is a little ani- 
mal. Ilis energy must not be sup- 
pressed or neglected. The boy’s 
physical nature should be directed 
properly. He should be allowed to 
exercise his physical capacity but in 
a manly, thorough and reliable way. 
A boy will accept such advice from 
older people, men especially, if they 
discover the older person has the 
faculty of adjusting themselves to 
boys. The scout movement teaches 
a boy that it is manly to do things 
right. Patriotism is impressed in 
the movement. Respect for the 
country’s flag and sacred _ institu- 
tions is taught. Truthfulness, loy- 
alty and helpfulness are other qual- 
ities expected in a Boy Scout. Good 
citizenship is the strongest element 
in the movement. Mental acumen 
is developed along the lines of in- 
dependent thinking, observation in 
the open of birds, animals, the stars, 
the sea, in fact all the wonders of 
nature and the Creator. Duty to 
home, loyalty to home institutions, 
social and civic duties, reverence 
for existing laws and_ property 
rights are also thoroughly taught. 
Rey. Mr. Ruge also cleared away 
doubts and conflicting impressions 
as to the local status of the society. 
It is non sectarian, not purely re- 
ligious, but the greatest universal 
organization for boys now existing. 
The boys were called upon to des- 
eribe various departments of the so- 
ciety: Ralph McNeal, preparation; 
Frank Knight, badge; Raymond 
Purdy, tenderfoot examination; Ir- 
ving Baker displayed great skill in 
tying nautical knots with rope, es- 
sential during fire, on the water, in 
the woods, ete. The other boys con- 
tributed their quota of information 
as to the moral uplift and expected 
habits of the Boy Seouts. 
Rey. Mr. Ruge and his aids re- 
ceived a vote of thanks and many 
personal congratulations for their 
fine and instructive demonstration. 
During the social period light re- 
freshments were served in the first 
grade room. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
DELUCENA L. BINGHAM 
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which passed into the hands of the 
town in 1872, and which has grown 
into one of the finest libraries of 
any town in the State, housed in a 
beautiful building presented the 
town by T. Jefferson Coolidge, who 
was moved to make the gift through 
some remarks of Mr. Bingham at a 
gathering of the elder brethren. 
Ilis mind was a_ perfect store- 
house of information on a_ wide 
range of topics, and the writings of 
all the world’s most famous authors 
were at his instant command. 
During the great anti-slavery 
movement Mr. Bingham was ex- 
ceedingly active in the cause, and 
he was closely associated with Wm. 
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips 
and men of that stamp, who were 
stirring the country by their elo- 
quence. In politics he was succes- 
sively a Liberalist, Free Soiler and 
a Republican, but, said he, on one 
oceasion, ‘‘I am always for the best 
man, and as a Republican I voted 
for Cleveland and was never sorry 
for it.7? 
In religion he was a Unitarian 
and gave this as his ereed. ‘‘I be- 
lieve in one God; I believe in 
prayer; I believe in spiritually lead- 
‘ing a righteous life, and I believe 
in the life immortal’’; and by this 
he lived and won the esteem and re- 
spect of his fellow townsmen and 
the many men and women high in 
social life with whom he came in 
frequent contact in the course of his 
caily duties as librarian. He is sur- 
vived by a wife, who is quite well 
and active at the age of 92. 
Funeral services were held yester- 
day from his late home, School 
street, the Rev. L. H. Ruge of the 
Congregational chureh, officiating. 
A Tribute 
During the present week one of 
our most venerable and highly es- 
teemed citizens has been ealled to 
his long home- Endeared to this 
community’ by the tender associa- 
tions which eluster about a_ life 
reaching back almost far enough to 
touch the Colonial period in our his- 
tory, his days were spent in earnest 
striving to lead a helpful unselfish 
life. His aetive and vigorous mind 
was a storehouse of knowledge, 
filed with a wealth of material 
called from every souree, all of 
which seemed to be ready at hand 
to be most effectually used and ap- 
pled to illuminate or illustrate the 
subject. under consideration. An in- 
tense love of humanity lead him to 
enlist and with great zeal to work 
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for the advancement of every just 
and righteous cause for the upbuild- 
ing of the people, indifferent to 
race, color or creed, it was enough 
for him to know they were all God’s 
creatures and belonged to the great 
human brotherhood. Ilis life was 
touched and quickened by the in- 
spiration which close acquaintance 
and fellowship with the great lead- 
ers in the Anti-Slavery cause and 
other reformatory movements.  Ilis 
chivalrous nature chafed under the 
limitations which the law imposed 
upon the women of the land, and 
so he could not do otherwise than 
advocate equal rights, duties and- 
privileges regardless of sex. At an 
early age he espoused the cause of 
temperance and endeavored by pub- 
he speech and private discussion to 
lead others to put aside the fascin- 
ations of the cup and devote their 
lives to the development and im- 
provement of all the talent which 
had been given them at their birth. 
His mind was ever busy with the 
contemplation of higher things—the 
atmosphere in which he lived was 
pure and bracing. The intellectual 
life of the town greatly concerned 
him and all matters pertaining to 
education and the work of the 
schools and the library were so care- 
fully pondered over by him that his 
fellow citizens unhesitatingly placed 
him upon boards and committees 
where his activity could find ex- 
pression. 
He was one of the number, in the 
days when books were a rarity, to 
join with those of a like mind in 
forming an association for the col- 
lection ‘and gathering together of 
material for the nucleus of a li- 
brary. The erection of the Memor- 
ial Library Building gave him an 
opportunity to carry out his long 
cherished hopes, and the remarks 
dropped by him at the festival of 
the ‘‘Elderlies’’ was the seed corn 
which in due season ripened and the 
fruitage all of us can now enjoy. 
Our dear friend, Mr. D. L. Bingham, 
had found his appropriate work. at 
last, and it was his high privilege 
to die in the harness, as the librar- 
ian of the institution which was 
ever uppermost in his” thoughts. 
With the passage of such a life, the 
life of the idealist, principles ever 
to the front, do we not look about 
us with anxious solicitude asking: 
Have we one among us who ¢éan fill! 
the vacant chair? —A.S.J. 
Stella: ‘‘Wouldn’t you like to know if 
you are the first girl that Tom _ ever 
loved???’ 
Tsahel: ‘No, I’d rather be certain 
that..I’m the last- one.?’ ae 
