NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
government, and wherever that chances 
to be is the place of honor. All have 
helped in the great cause, whether with 
fever in camp or in battle, and when 
peace comes all will be alike entitled to 
the nation’s gratitude. 
WILLIAM M’KINLEY. 
After that she talked to me of the 
Pines, and then it was she told me she 
had never read my letters to her, that 
When | Awoke, Miss Ellen Was by My 
Side. 
the was afraid she might forgive me 
ind that she did not want to do that 
tven in her heart. When I was strong 
¢mough to sit up I was given a leave, 
tnd it was Miss Hllen herself who un- 
lertook to make all arrangements for 
my journey to the Pines, for it was 
there that I wanted to go to recuper- 
tte. Finally the day came when my 
tegiment was to move. I was propped 
ap with pillows that I might see it 
break camp and march away. 
“Hilen,” I said as I saw the last com- 
_ pany, the one to which I belonged, fall 
{nto fours, “but for you I could not 
stand that,” pointing to the retreating 
regiment. 
She turned to me, and, making a low 
courtesy, as she had done that April 
night now many months ago, she said, 
siniling all the while through her tears: 
“You were not made for a soldier, 
my lord. You have been forced to lay 
aside the sword. You must take up the 
pen again.” 
And then I knew for the first time 
that she had not only forgiven me, but 
that at last she had understood. 
THE END. 
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_ Perserverance is the key to success. 
31 
IN YACHTING CIRCLES 
At a meeting of the flag officers and 
members of the committees of the 
Eastern Yacht club Thursday evening 
of last week a very interesting racing 
schedule for the season was approved. 
This will begin with the annual ocean 
race from New London to Marble- 
head for special cups, including the 
Clark Gold Cup, Saturday, June 28. 
The club will also give three special 
open races for yachts not over 46-feet 
rating, Saturday, he 28, Saturday, 
July 26 and Monday, August 4. The 
annual open regatta of the club, in- 
cluding the annual race for the Puri- 
tan Cup, will be held Tuesday, July 1. 
No mention was made of a special 
joint race off Marblehead for the New 
York and Eastern Yacht club boats, 
while the New York Y. C. visits Mar- 
blehead on the annual cruise. 
The Eastern Y. C. cruise this year 
will be started from Marblehead, 
Thursday, July 3, and will disband at 
Bar Harbor, Thursday, July to. 
Peaks Island, Boothbay Harbor, Cam- 
den, North Haven, Eggemoggin Reach 
and Swans Island will be visited by 
the fleet. 
The races of June 28, July 26 and 
August 4 will count for the North 
Shore championships and the Lipton 
Cup of Class P. For the racing runs 
of the cruise, cups have been offered 
by the flag officers, the fleet captain 
and F. M. Whitehouse. These will be 
raced for during the whole cruise on 
a point system. 
ol|o 
The most important event of the 
Boston Yacht club’s season each year 
is the annual cruise, which this year 
will start from Marblehead Saturday 
July 12, and extend to the eastward 
to Camden, Me. 
The fleet is to rendezvous at Mar- 
blehead on Friday and the first day’s 
run, Saturday, July 12, will be Little 
Harbor, where there will be an enter- 
tainment that evening at the Hotel 
Wentworth. 
The remainder of the itinerary is: 
Sunday, July 13, Little Harbor to 
Peaks Island; Monday, July 14, Peaks 
Island to Bath; Tuesday, July 15, 
Bath to Christmas Cove; Wednesday, 
July 16, at Christmas Cove to Cam- 
den; Friday, July 17, start of ocean 
race back to Marblehead and _  dis- 
banding of fleet. 
Since the original arrangements of 
the cruise were made an invitation 
has been received by the club to have 
the run of July 15 stop at Linekin’s 
Bay, as the yacht club at that port 
wishes to give a yachtsmen’s ball in 
honor of the Boston Y. C. 
MOTORING TO THE POORHOUSE 
Over the hills to the poorhouse, I’m set- 
ting a sizzling pace; 
mortgaged the home for an auto, 
and I’m playing her straight and for 
place. 
There are others well up in the running, 
but I’m holding my own, you bet— 
I can see the roof of the county farm, 
but I’m going to get there yet. 
I’ve 
Of course, I couldn’t afford it—there are 
very few who can— 
But the family whinned about it and in- 
sisted I wasn’t a man 
If I didn’t get six cylinders, a tonneau, 
some tires and plugs, 
And go out and speed on the highway 
with the automobile bugs. 
The girls had to hire a ‘‘shuffer,’’ a lan- 
tern-jawed son-of-a-gun, 
And when sonny goes out for a joy ride, 
I’m sorry he hasn’t one, 
For whenever he hits a lamp post or sends 
the old car in the ditch, 
I cough up some more spondulix to fatten 
the bloated rich. 
Whoopee! Clear the way for I’m coming 
—just passed by a bunch of my 
friends, 
All bent in the same direction, where the 
= 
road of the scorcher ends. 
It’s the pace of the drunken sailor at the 
helm of a rudderless ship— 
Over the hills to the poorhouse, I’m hit- 
ting a heluva clip. 
—Houston, Tex., Chronicle. 
“THE OLD HoMEsTEAD” At Boston 
THEATRE 
Dear old Josh Whitcomb! You 
haven’t changed a mite in twenty- 
seven years—not since ye spent that 
three weeks in Bustun, an’ learned to 
.steer clear un bunco men. 
It’s wonderful Josh, how you hold 
yer age. But that’s ‘cause yer allus 
young hearted, and ‘cause yer clean 
and honest and good. Everybody who 
knows yer jest warms up to yer good- 
natured old soul, and kinder feels es if 
they’d allus knowed yer. It’s won- 
derful, Joshua, what a hold you’ve got 
on us folks. 
We’ve met you here at Boston 
Theatre ever since that first trip of 
yourn to New York, where you saw 
that marble woman without no clothes 
on—ha! Gosh, you was surprised 
that night, warn’t you? You’re just 
the same, Josh, but we’re not. 
Come again, next year, Josh. May- 
be some uv us won’t be here to meet 
ye, but come jest the same, and where- 
ever we be, we’ll send ye our blessin’, 
for you’re a good old soul. Pity there 
ain’t more like ye-—Boston Journal. 
An extra matinee will be given 
Decoration Day. Special prices will 
prevail during the engagement of 
“The Old Homestead,” 25c, 50c, 75c 
and $1.00. No seat over $1.00. 
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