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little realize the growing strength 
of the regular nominee of the Re- 
publican party in the West where 
Rooseveltian sympathies have been 
strong. The tide has turned and 
the assurance of Mr. Taft’s return 
is now ceasing to be merely a fight- 
ing chance. His success is certain! 
The American people may learn 
something from the devotion shown 
the leader of other nations. The 
democracy of America should not be- 
tray it into disrespect. William 
Howard Taft has proven himself 
_ worthy of the love and respect of 
all who know him. Lacking many 
of the spectacular qualities of some 
other residents of the White House 
he has quieter but none the less ef- 
feetive virtues which grow upon the 
minds of the people. The Americans 
wish someone as President to whom 
they can look up. President Wil- 
liam Howard Taft has revealed his 
great heart, his sterling qualities of 
faithfulness to duty and unflinching 
opposition to unrighteousness. 
Now is the time parents are mak- 
ing decisions concerning the boy and 
the girl for the coming year. Give 
them a chance. A man once said, 
‘‘he would send his boy to college 
if he had to saw wood for a living, 
he would have more intelligence as 
he sawed and would soon saw with 
more intelligence.’’ But the days of 
education as exclusively classical 
have gone. The great successes of 
the future are in the industrial fields. 
Give you boy and girl the best op- 
portunity you can. It will pay! 
Would our foresires have dreamed 
one short century ago that a local 
church could successfully hold re- 
ligious services in two languages, 
English and Scandinavian? Would 
not they have been surprised to have 
thought of the stalwart sons of the 
Caesars learning English within the 
walls of a church? There is a place 
for a progressive Every Day Church. 
Every such contribution to the life 
of the shore is a stimulus for right- 
eousness. Let the good work go on: 
The Improvement Society of Bev- 
erly Farms neither slumbers nor 
sleeps. It is awake to every inter- 
est of that prosperous ward of Bev- 
erly. The vigorous move it made 
for good sidewalks quickly produced 
results. A new municipal building 
would be a splendid village improve- 
ment. 
It will be hard to convince the 
colored voters of the ‘‘fair deal’’ 
they have received at Chicago. Let 
us see! Progressive? was not that 
problem supposed to have been 
solved fifty years ago? Jane Ad- 
dams, apostle of tight, is right in her 
warnings against ‘‘indiscriminatory 
tacties in the South.”’ 
Watch for the Taft vetoes of the 
tariff bills! They are forthcoming. 
Doubtless they will be the most 
scientific exposition of the folly of 
indiscriminate tariff revision ever 
presented to the American people. 
Mr. Taft’s vetoes are tributes to his 
greatness. A President is known by 
the vetoes he writes. 
The contemplated electrification 
of the Boston and Providence divi- 
sion of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 
brings the date of the electrifica- 
tion of the Gloucester Branch still 
nearer. Electrification of all of the 
suburban railroads is inevitable and 
the first line on the B. & M. will be 
along the tracks of the Gloucester 
Branch. It cannot come too soon. 
The successful termination of 
President Eliot’s mission abroad at 
his age is another tribute to the 
greatness of the man who made Har- 
vard great. He still has years of 
large usefulness before him. 
Every town on the North Shore 
should have an intelligent, interest- 
ing and instructive winter Lyceum 
course. The School House should 
have enlarged uses as a Civie Social 
Centre. 
Would T. R. have been satisfied 
with the Republican party if he had 
been nominated ? 
Just because a man has never had 
an opportunity is no reason why his 
boy should be deprived of it? 
Underground rumblings of the old 
division question keep coming up 
from Beverly Farms. 
The directory of the North Shore 
reads like an honor roll of the nation. 
Just now the North Shore is the 
best place on earth. 
Anti-Suffrage Meeting 
A meeting will be held under the 
auspices of the Massachusetts asso- 
ciation opposed to the further ex. 
tension of suffrage to women, on 
Thursday, August 15th, at 3.30 
o’clock in the school house, Haskell 
street, Beverly Farms. Miss Emily 
F. Bissell of Delaware will speak. 
Miss Bissell is one of the foremost 
workers for the improvement of the 
conditions surrounding industry. 
The public is cordially invited to 
hear her on this occasion. She is 
president of the Delaware Anti- 
Tuberculosis society; member of the 
State Tuberculosis Commission of 
Delaware, First Vice-President of 
the Consumers’ League of Dela- 
ware; secretary of the Delaware 
Child Labor commission; chairman 
of the Social Service Committee of 
the Delaware Federation of Wom- 
en’s clubs, and secretary of the 
Delaware branch of the Red Cross 
society. It was this branch that 
originated the Christmas stamps. 
Summer Home in an Oak Tree 
One of he finest and most remark- 
able trees in Rhode Island is the 
mammoth oak on the estate of Wil- 
lam Barber in the town of Exeter. 
The tree is about eighteen feet in cir- 
cumference at the base and_ five 
great branches which leave the trunk 
about twelve feet above the ground 
form the support for a spacious plat- 
form which in times past was used 
by the owner of the farm as a sum- 
mer house. 
The lowest of these branches, 
which forms the principal support 
for the platform, leaves the trunk 
of the tree almost at right angles and 
the others from a symmetrical dome 
which provides a canopy over a 
dancing platform which has been 
built beneath the tree on the ground. 
The great oak formed an ideal re- 
treat for gatherings of relatives and 
friends of the owner. It is located 
not far from Beach pond, which a 
few years ago was a favorite retreat 
for a considerable number of sum- 
mer visiters. 
Congressman A. P. Gardner of 
Hamilton, who always looks sharp- 
ly after the interests of his consti- 
tuents, has just arranged to have 
two sub-stations of the Beverly 
Postoffice established in the central 
section of Beverly. The handsome 
new postoffice building, recently 
completed at Beverly is removed 
from the center of the city and there 
was an instant demand for some sort 
of postal convenience on the main 
street of the city. Without waiting 
for the working out of the usual red 
tape regulations of the department 
in Washington Congressman Gard- 
ner stepped into the breach and 
guaranteed the support of two sub- 
stations until the department was 
ready to take care of them. 
