When the vote of thanks was 
proposed in the Lawrence theatre to 
be extended to the proprietor who 
had opened it to the Wellesley 
Professors, an awkward situation 
was presented, but Miss Sara Per- 
kins earned her degree Master of 
Assemblies by her quick wit and ac- 
tive mind. The similarity of the 
names of the theatre owner and a 
leader in the mill struggle confused 
the minds of the-people in the audi- 
ence and the vote was noticeably 
feeble. Five words from Miss Per- 
kins and the turn of a hand changed 
the cool indifferent audience to a 
cheering crowd. It was a trying 
moment, but Miss Perkins was mas- 
ter of the crisis. 
Yuan Shi Kai, the new President 
of China is a diplomat of ability. 
During the Boxer rebellion, the 
Empress Dowager sent word that 
every foreigner in his Province be 
killed. Despite the telephone, tele- 
graph and railroad facilities he sent 
a courier on foot to have the drastic 
order verified. It was verified, but 
when the courier had returned there 
was not a foreigner in the province. 
This is a significant testimony to 
the character of the new President. 
He knows how to wait as well as act. 
The Lynn crusade against the 
moving picture shows, irrespective 
of any moral question involved is 
worth while. Excited nerves, tired 
eyes, false views of life and per- 
verted imaginations in children are 
the inevitable result. If anything 
can be done to mitigate the harm 
dene to young children it ought to 
Se done. 
The City of Beverly, while it lost 
the Shaw tax, is fortunate in not 
being obliged to meet the obligation 
by taxation. The wise headed as- 
sessors laid aside the seventy-three 
thousand dollars against just such 
an emergency. Consequently there 
will be no increase in the tax rate 
from this cause. 
No civilization ought to maintain 
the present match manufactories. 
The terrible results of ‘“‘phossy 
Jaw’’ are too great a price for con- 
venience. No man or civilization 
has a right to profit at the expense 
of another’s health and happiness. 
Plan your spring work early. The 
winter has been a severe one. Work 
has been dull, money has been 
searce and the weather has been un- 
usually severe. If work is laid out 
and planned early it will be better 
done, Think it over. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The Chief of Police in Lawrence 
may have made a legal mistake in 
endeavoring to intercept the chil- 
dren at the railroad station: but ev- 
eryone appreciates the endeavor he 
was putting forth to stop a glaring 
wrong. 
High prices are the inevitable re- 
sult of an equitable adjustment of 
the rewards of labor, industry and 
genius. The problem of high prices 
is the readjustment of lower wage 
levels to the inevitable rising prices 
of commodities. 
Honk — Honk—Honk—the Auto- 
mobile manufacturers are trying to 
break the grip of King Frost with 
an early automobile season. 
“The Prodigal has returned—it 
remains to be seen if he will have 
killed (politically) for him the 
fatted Taft.’’ 
What’s the difference between 
riches and poverty? The difference 
between a full and an empty coal 
bin. 
The unanswerable riddle of the 
modern sphinx, ‘‘What is Social- 
ism.”’ 
Memorial Resolutions Passed 
At the Manchester Town meeting 
Monday, the following memorial 
resolutions were presented out of 
respect to the late Delucena L. 
Bingham by his co-worker on the 
Board of Library Trustees, Roland 
C. Lincoln: 
It seems fitting that at the first 
meeting of the citizens of the town 
after the decease of Delucena L. 
Bingham, the venerable librarian of 
its library, a public recognition of 
his long and faithful service should 
be made, and a testimony thereto be 
entered upon the records of this 
meeting. Here, whither he so often 
came as a good citizen and valued 
public servant, it is well to revive 
the pleasant memory in which he is 
held by all who knew him. 
For forty years he served the Pub- 
lic Library both as trustee and li- 
brarian and he enjoyed the distine- 
tion of being the oldest librarian in 
this commonwealth. He earned and 
maintained the respect and confi- 
dence of his fellow citizens and of 
his associates in his long career; 
and they desire to have placed upon 
the records of the town this evi- 
dence of their wish to perpetuate 
his name as a citizen and as a libra- 
rian in the town to whose interests 
he was so long devoted. 
15 
ASK ABOUT i 
33 33 
3% 33 
33 | 3% 
‘ TronCapCopper | 
+ 33 
33 3% 
33 33 
i 
| Com 
pany 
3 it 
33 3 
a 7 per ct. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS 3 
i LEE W. MARSHALL, Manchester, Mass. 38 
40604040 90400090 499909090909 0090-04-00 000000 
At the morning session W. C. Rust 
offered the following resolutions on 
the death of the late Franklin K. 
Hooper, for a number of years mod- 
erator of the town meeting: 
Whereas, there are times in the 
history of communities as well as 
of individuals, when it is eminently 
proper to pause and consider the 
path along which they have come, 
to review the ideals that have in- 
spired them, and to cherish the 
memory of self-sacrificing and pub- 
lic spirited men who have helped 
them by wise counsel and unfalter- 
ing interest for the public good, so 
that the community may be better 
fitted to press on again with cour- 
age and determination to work out 
the problem of good citizenship, 
and 
Whereas, the late Franklin K. 
Hooper was a man of unusual abil- 
ity as related to public affairs, hav- 
ing been honored with two terms in 
the Legislature where he served his 
constituents faithfully leaving an 
untarnished record; having served 
many years as moderator, presiding 
over the deliberations at Town 
meeting with ability and even- 
handed justice; his voice often 
heard on the floor when questions 
of vital interest to the town were 
under consideration; his mind, 
keen, active, and well stored with 
useful information, able to grasp 
the underlying principles of a ques- 
tion quickly; advocating with vigor 
and determination conclusions he 
believed to be right; never surren- 
dering even though the cause he 
represented went down; and 
Whereas, he was a potent factor 
for good, whether considered from 
the standpoint of public affairs, bus- 
iness relations or citizenship, it is 
Resolved, that we show our ap- 
preciation of Mr. Hooper’s service 
to our town by a rising vote; that 
these resolutions be spread on the 
records of the town; and that an 
engrossed copy be sent to Mr. 
Hooper’s family. 
