Lith 
ey, but to the 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
cannot become operative until the 
agreement has been ratified by a 
special meeting of the miners. It is 
not likely however, that the general 
meeting will repudiate the prelimin- 
ary agreement made by their leaders. 
This will mean of course the avert- 
ing of a serious coal famine next 
winter. Everything was ripe for a 
serious winter. The coal supply ow- 
ing to the cold winter is short. I 
a long continued strike were con- 
ducted the experiences of other 
years would have been repeated. It 
is a matter for general satisfaction 
that matters had not progressed 
farther. The slight increase in coal 
period. The increase in wages to the 
miners will result in an advance- 
ment of about twenty-five cents a ton 
on last year’s prices. That a coal 
strike has been averted and the pos- 
sible suffering during next winter 
has been avoided another worry 
passes from the public mind. 
The Inevitable. 
Criticism will follow any action of 
a municipality as will be seen by the 
following comment on the purchase 
of a new engine for Beverly Farms 
from the Medford Mercury. 
“The city of Beverly has bought 
a new horse-drawn steam fire engine 
to cover the Beverly Farms district. 
Why didn’t the ‘summer capital’ 
show its up-to-date-ness and get a 
piece of motor apparatus?”’ 
The city government acted wisely 
in its choice of a steamer and every- 
one is satisfied. The problem of lo- 
comotion in the fight for the steamer 
was secondary to the fight for an 
adequate fire protecting apparatus. 
The time will come when city ec- 
onomies will permit it to purchase a 
tractor. Meantime property owners 
are grateful that a powerful steamer 
has been placed in the district to 
protect property interests. 
To the business man time is mon- 
business woman 
method is more—it is peace, comfort 
and prosperity—Smiles. 
Just to do the little things 
And do them well from day to 
day, 
Enough of satisfaction brings 
To those who tread the simple 
way, 
To make the striving here worth 
while 
They do not ask for glories great; 
They’re happy with the rank and 
file 
And are content to work and wait. 
SILOAM. 
By Joseph A. Torrey. 
Those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam 
fell, and slew them, think ye that they were 
sinners above all men that were in Jerusalem? 1 
tell you Nay: but exceptye repent ye shall all like- 
wise perish. Luke XIII: 4, 5. 
I have no pleasure in the death of him that 
dieth, saith the Lord; therefore turn yourselves 
and live ye. Ezekiel XVII: 32. 
Sad to tell 
The bitter doom 
Of those on whom 
The tower of Siloam fell! 
Sinners above all others, 
God-forsaken, 
By retribution overtaken, 
Thus to perish? 
Such thought were ill to cherish. 
Nature’s laws are stable, 
Inexorable! 
Stern Nature hath no space 
For saving grace, 
Will not vicariously atone 
The careless or presumptuous 
Who her just laws disown. 
Good servant is she but a cruel mas- 
ter, 
Nor swerves a hairbreadth to avoid 
disaster ; 
Iler ways are never devious, 
Her course she will maintain 
Like to a railway train :— 
Get on it and your journey will be 
rushed ; 
Too near, aside you will be brushed ; 
Beneath it, crushed. 
The primal, universal laws must be 
obeyed, 
Nor ean aside be swayed. 
"Ts well for us the laws are stable, 
Inexorable, 
Else there were nothing sure 
Nor could the universe endure. 
If, by that token a law be broken, 
Cometh reprisal. 
Obedience shall suffice all, 
And disobedience—your fault— 
Bring, impartially, assault. 
God will never by His power 
suspend the falling tower, 
Nor forefend, a single hour, 
Impending and inevitable doom ; 
Nor should we thus presume. 
The tower’s base was not 
built— 
The builder’s guilt !— 
Therefore it fell 
And dragged to death the innocent 
as well, 
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Well it should fall, 
Thought the catastrophe appal. 
Unless we do repent and build with 
care, 
So we, likewise, shall fare. 
Be heedful, hence, and watch, 
Build, and not botch! 
In sooth, 
Build on eternal truth 
And righteousness, 
As God and Nature build, 
Divinely skilled, 
So build and bless! 
Think! Should gravitation’s law be 
turned aside, 
Stars and planets would collide 
And the whole universe to ruin 
rush! 
And where would you and I be in 
the erush? 
Dame Nature hath a school for 
our instruction, 
Yet may we reconcile God’s mercy 
with destruction, 
Our suffering with God’s goodness 
and His glory. 
But that is another story. 
MANCHESTER 
Miss Gertrude Ryan was in town 
Tuesday, renewing old acquaint- 
ances. 
The Winter club gave the last of 
its series of dances Friday evening, 
April 26th. While the affair was a 
shirt waist party, a number of 
dainty gowns were worn. The dance 
was well attended and all agreed 
that, not only this one, but all the 
other parties given by the club this 
season have been successful in every 
way. 
George Rust has severed his con- 
nection with the Hood Rubber com- 
pany. He will again accept a posi- 
tion with Benjamin Allen, the drug- 
gist. 
Mrs. Monahan of Pine street, is 
entertaining her niece, who has just 
come to this country from Ireland. 
Miss Susie Gould of Boston is the 
guest of Mr, and Mrs. George Allen, 
