NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A New Ordinance the Remedy. 
Beverly Farms has not won her 
fight yet for better sidewalks. A 
partial victory has been obtained 
which should be followed up. It was 
supposed that when the Board of 
Aldermen voted a generous amount 
of money to be used for sidewalks 
at Beverly Farms as a part of the 
budget that the end had_ been 
reached. It is now known that this 
amount is not available for exten- 
sion work along a definite plan. The 
sidewalk money is available upon 
the old plan, helter-skelter, method. 
This is not what is needed but con- 
tinues the old trouble. Beverly 
needs a new ordinance which will 
permit the Sidewalk committee un- 
der the direction of the proper 
superintendent to expend the whole 
of that budget on a single continu- 
ous stretch of sidewalk somewhere 
in the town and permit the exten- 
sion of sidewalks next year from 
the point of discontinuance this year. 
Would it not be in the line of pro- 
gress to present a petition from the 
ward, now, to this effect, through 
the alderman of the ward? 
Learn This New Word. 
Under the management of Francis 
H. Rowley, the society for the pre- 
vention of cruelty to animals, is 
making great strides. He made a 
diseovery—a new word—and he 
would pass it on—philozoic. George 
Herbert Palmer, professor of Har- 
yard university has said ‘‘that a 
great impetus would be given to our 
language if each one would learn 
and use two new words a day.”’ 
Philozoic is a good word in expres- 
sion, content, use and etymology. It 
will be well if it can control the 
purse. After the word has been 
added to your vocabulary Mr. Row- 
ley would be pleased to have you 
make use of it by sending a remit- 
tance for the new animal hospital 
in Boston. ‘‘We had never seen the 
word. We wanted it and were 
tempted to make it. When men de- 
sired to express that within them 
which went out toward their human 
kind with emotions of kindness and 
affection they put two Greek words 
together and we had ‘‘philan- 
thropy.”’ Then all organizations, 
societies, guilds, associations that 
sought to relieve the suffering of 
men and aid them in distress or bet- 
ter their condition were called 
‘‘philanthropic.’? Why should we 
not take the two Greek words, one 
“to love’? and the other ‘‘animal,”’ 
and make the word ‘‘philozoic,’’ 
just as ‘‘to love’? and ‘‘man,’’ in 
Greek, had been made into ‘‘philan- 
thropic?’’ Our societies for the pre- 
vention of cruelty to animals, our 
refuges and shelters for them, our 
various associations that seek their 
welfare we could not quite speak of 
as ‘‘phianthropic;’’ we did not like 
to call them ‘‘charitable.’’ 
Had not this same desire oceurredl 
to someone else? We turned to the 
Century dictionary to see and, lo, 
there we found it: ‘‘Philozoie hav- 
ing tenderness for brute creatures, 
characterized or prompted by fond- 
ness for animals.’’ Perhaps it sounds 
a trifle strange,.just as all unfamiliar 
words must till we recognize their 
helpful service and avail ourselves 
of them. The readers of this paper, 
henceforth, will understand what is 
meant when they see such a phrase, 
for instance, as ‘‘the philozoic soci- 
eties of the country are agitating 
the subject of humaner methods: in 
the slaughter of all food animals.”’ 
If Archbishop Trench is right in 
saying, ‘‘It is sad to note how much 
richer our vocabularies are in words 
that set forth sins, than in those that 
set forth graces,’’ then shall we not 
be doing our common speech a real 
service if we help to add to it one 
more beneficent word? 
Spring. 
The season is still backward, but 
undeniable signs of earth’s awaken- 
ing are with us. The fields are still 
unplowed and no one has dared to 
test nature’s good intention with a 
row or more of hardy peas. In-dther 
years this has been done earlier even 
than now. The birds were return- 
ing one by one a week ago, but are 
still more numerous now. The pheas- 
ants which stay about through the 
winter have been shy. Many have 
been seen at Preston Place, West 
Beach Hill and on the open lands of 
Monsterrat. One, more trusty than 
the rest of a trio of pheasants found 
his way into the dooryard of a Hart 
street cottage to eat with the hens, 
only to stay awhile to return again, 
which he did on the following day. 
At the Hooper estate in Manchester 
a bluebird was heard but not seen, 
late last week. <A flock of black 
birds made merry about Central 
square at Beverly Farms, in the 
storm of a week ago. The robins 
are still scarce. Two have been seen 
about, but they are keeping away, 
noticeably, for they are the most 
neighborly ‘of the feathered kin. 
The song sparrows are more numer- 
ous. The Juneos still remain and 
the fox sparrows as well. On Thurs- 
day a lone frog broke the stillness 
of the evening hour with his spring 
song. Beneath the accumulated 
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leaves on the forest fioor a fully 
leaved clover has been found, while 
the courageous celandine has been 
doing wonders. Spring comes. 
‘It appears that the city of Bev- 
erly cannot be said to have gained 
a point through the amendment of 
the petition of Mrs. Fanny He 
Morse to register title to land at 
Prides Crossing, by which amend- 
ment the parcel of land lying along 
the beach was stricken out from the 
petition. This parcel has been sold 
by Mrs. Morse, and as she had no 
further interest in the parcel she 
did not care to press for registering 
complete title thereto. The pur- 
chaser of the parcel was not a party 
to the proceedings in the. land court, 
and did not wish to become a party 
and engage in what might prove to 
be protracted litigation over a com- 
paratively small piece of land.’’ 
—Boston Transcript. 
The Governor wishes to extend 
the field of legal investments for 
savings banks. This may be a de- 
sirable move in the face of some of 
the present limitations, but it is bet- 
ter for the commonwealth to subject 
its savings bank directors to a lim- 
ited field of operation than to jeop- 
ardize the safety of the funds of de- 
positors. 
The dicision by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission relative to 
the railroad rate dispute in Texas, 
raises some interesting questions and 
may result in a readjustment of rail- 
road rates for first-class traffic. 
Beverly is to be congratulated up- 
on its successful enrollment of one 
thousand members in its YMCA, but 
Beverly Farms and Manchester need 
an institution which will do a simi- 
lar work. 
The local committee are wise in 
not leaving a stone unturned for 
‘Mr. Taft’s support on April 30, 
