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VOLUME 7. October 8, 1909 NuMBER 41 
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RANDOM THOUGHTS 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
No. XLIV. 
The interest in the bi-centenary of 
Samuel Johnson is evidence of the last- 
ing influence of a great personality; the 
colossus of English letters of the 18th 
century was not a great biographer, or a 
great essayist, or even a great dictionary 
‘maker, but take him for all in all he wasa 
great man; he was an illustration that a 
man may be more than his work; he so 
impressed himself upon hisage that while 
his writings may now be little read, he 
himself, sturdy, forceful, dogmatic, rough 
yet kind, is little likely to be forgotten. 
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With all the skill of our modern gard- 
eners, and with all the wealth that they 
often have at command, one would go far 
to see a yarden of such princely propor- 
tions, artistic design and floral splendor, 
as Bacon plans for. Indeed, that wise 
man and large observer seemed to con- 
sider a garden one of the highest of hu- 
man achievements, as he says, “‘ when 
ages grow to civility and elegancy, men 
come to build stately sooner than to gard- 
en finely.”” One sometimes wonders 
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whether our gardeners might not get 
some useful hints from the great philo- 
sopher and “‘secretary of all learning’’ 
in his essay ‘‘Of Gardens;’’ that 
scholar-statesman, that man of courts 
and universities, could write as magnifi- 
cently and instructively upon gardens as 
upon empire and law. 
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Thomas Hughes of *‘ Tom Brown’s 
School-days’’ was certainly not one of 
the greatest writers of the 19th century, 
but he was certainly one of the brightest 
and best. MHis patriotism, his pictur- 
esqueness, his insight into boy nature, his 
knowledge of school and college life in 
England, together with his high ideals, 
have given him an honorable place 
among English authors, that should make 
room for his books on a boy’s or young 
man’s shelves. ‘‘The Manliness of 
Christ’’ has a serious and lofty purpose 
and a chastened and beautiful style. 
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One sometimes feels inclined patheti- 
cally to appeal in Tennysonian numbers 
to some writers, lecturers and preachers 
to ‘‘come down from yonder mountain 
height,’’ and to ‘‘cease to move so near 
the Heavens.’’ In fact, many public 
teachers in their desire to appear learned, 
get above the clouds to most of us though 
that is not necessarily getting near the 
Heavens. 
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‘That a trafic so harmful as the drink 
trafic and a habitso deleterious as the 
drink habit, should assume in these days 
of advanced civilization such enormous 
proportions, and so entrench themselves 
in social customs, as to stagger and non- 
plus the wisest minds in their attempts at 
a solution of the problem they present, 
is one of the mysteries of the age in 
which we live. 
And this is just as true of war, that 
fell enemy of human peace and _ happi- 
ness; what infatuation has seized upon 
men and nations that they are content to 
be tyrannized by such demonic forces of 
evil? 
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If we cannot effect anything otherwise 
in the way of reforming society and abol- 
ishing such evils—and others might be 
included, as the Congo atrocities, the 
forced labor in the Portuguese cocoa 
islands, the opium curse, the white slave 
trafic,—we can at least enter our pro- 
test, or as the Friends say, bear our testi- 
mony against them. 
And if the public conscience could 
only be thoroughly aroused and ener- 
gized, how many evils would vanish from 
the earth, as ghosts are saidto disappear 
when they sniff the morning air. 
After all, it is the few and not the 
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many, who have generally started, if not — 
carried through, the great movements 
that have served to elevate the race and — 
caused the world to sweep into the 
younger day. 
Supplies Sent by Manchester People 
Greatly Appreciated in Mexico. 
Philip C. Hanna, consul general at 
Monterey, Mexico, has sent the follow- 
ing letter to a member of the Manches- 
ter Board of Red Cross, which shows the 
appreciation with which the supplies for- 
warded from here several weeks ago are 
received. The letter is self-explana- 
tory: 
‘“‘Thave the honor to acknowledge 
receipt of your esteemed favor of Sept. 
23, in which you inform me that you 
are sending two boxes of clothing, from 
the local Branch of the American Na- 
tional Red Cross, for the relief of the 
flood sufferers of this part of Mexico. 
In behalf of these unfortunate people I 
wish to thank you for this contribution of 
supplies and to assure you that to the best 
of my ability the same will be distributed ; 
to those who are most worthy and needy. 
The cold winter is coming on and it will 
find many of these people very delicate 
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and destitute, and these towns need all — 
the clothes and food that come in. 
Again thanking you, and through you 
the local Branch of the Red Cross, I ~ 
have the honor to be 
Your friend and obedient servant, 
Puitip C. Hanna, 
Consul General, Monterey, Mexico.”’ 
Tolman of Gloucester Named for 
Senator. 
James E. Tolman, former mayor of 
Gloucester, was nominated as the Re- 
publican candidate for senator in the 
third district at the Republican conven- 
tion held at Ipswich, Monday, to suc- 
ceed Senator Shaw of Manchester. 
George S. Sinnicks was elected to rep- 
resent Manchester on the district com- 
mittee. - 
Hollis Street Theatre. 
William Collier opened his Boston 
engagement Monday evening at the 
Hollis Street Theatre in “‘The Patriot,’’ 
the three-act farce in which he kept 
New York audiences laughing all of last 
season. ‘The Boston critics were unani- 
mous in their praise of Manager Charles 
Frohman’s brilliant star and the clever 
players in his supporting company, and 
agreed that Mr. Collier and ‘‘ The 
Patriot’’ were the most successful laugh- 
raisers of many seasons. 
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