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RANDOM THOUGHTS 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
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Among our poets, Bryant, Whittier, 
Lowell and Longfellow have caught the 
charm of our autumnal scenery which 
robes the hills and fields in such golden 
array, and transferred it all glowing to 
their canvas. Especially, perhaps, has 
the Quaker poet in ““The Hustlers ’’ re- 
produced the glories of our Indian sum- 
mer; and Bryant, with a more sober 
tone, in ‘‘ The Death of the Flowers,”’ 
is not far behind. The pomp and pa- 
geant that filled the splendid year have 
passed, but they are a radiant memory 
still. 
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A celebrated German writer on educa- 
tion has spoken of teaching as ‘‘ work, 
work, and again work;’’ and any one 
who has tried it, whether in the kinder- 
garten or the university, will agree with 
him in this. Teaching is no profession 
for the indolent and incompetent, it calls 
for the best that is in a man, or woman, 
as the case may be; and the demands 
upon the teacher are increasing with the 
widéning of the sphere of knowledge 
and the competitions of modern life; it 
is ‘‘work, work, and again work.’’ But 
the work of the real teacher has rewards 
which princes might envy. 
Women teachers are having in our 
day their innings; they are even said to 
be successful in many cases in teaching 
athletics, managing the boys without fric- 
tion as the male teachers often fail to do. 
It is told of a New York president of the 
board of education, that on his request- 
ing a male principal to take a certain 
course of action, andthe man answer- 
ing that he could not do it, the president 
said, ‘‘Very well, there are plenty of 
women who can.”’ 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
People should be rated not by their 
foibles and eccentricities and weaknesses, 
but by their solid and worthy qualities; 
there are few in whom the critical judg- 
ment may not detect some flaws, who 
are very useful and estimable persons 
notwithstanding. It is hardly worth 
while to be always on the watch for spots 
on the sun. 
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The unfortunate, not to say disgrace~ 
ful, dispute connected with recent Polar 
journeyings seem likely to leave the pub- 
lic mind in doubt whether two men have 
independently reached the top of the 
world, or whether neither of them has. 
At any rate, interest in Arctic discovery 
is likely to wane sensibly in the future; 
it has lost with many its dignity and _ its 
old spell of heroism. But the fame of 
men like Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, 
Parry, Franklin, Kane, Hayes, Greely, 
and others of like bold and adventurous 
spirit, is not likely to be dimmed by those 
who have followed their lead and gained 
by their successes and failures. For 
courage, endurance and devotion to an 
ideal, the early explorers will never be 
surpassed. 
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The motorist in the Berkshires who 
fails to see one of the oxteams at work 
on the state road around ‘‘Jacob’s lad- 
der’’ will fail to see oné of the sights; 
‘the auto is now becoming commonplace 
and the ox team romantic; so the old 
order changeth, giving place to the 
new. : 
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Quite significant it is that a philoso- 
pher of the last century, famous in two 
hemispheres, who did much in his day 
to overthrow the faith of some, should 
have said when near the end, ““I have 
spent my life in beating the air.’’ Yet 
this man has been revered and almost 
worshipped by many as a great light in 
realms outside of christian circles and 
apart from christian thought. 
Riches Aplenty in New England Farms. 
Thatthe future of New England is 
brilliant beyond question or doubt; that 
agriculture, with especial emphasis on 
fruit raising and apple growing in_parti- 
cular, is soon to be a leader among the 
most profitable pursuits; that abundant 
capital is available; that many have at- 
tained marked success in this direction, 
and that the opportunity is being and will 
be more eagerly seized now that the 
_ movement has been auspiciously started, 
_ was declared amid thunderous outbursts 
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of enthusiasm at the chamber of com- 
merce’s dinner last Friday night in Bos- 
ton. 
The meeting was devoted to the sub- 
ject of agriculture and commercial or- 
charding in New England. Manchester, 
and it might be said the North Shore, 
was represented at the gathering by 
James Salter, president of the North 
Shore Horticultural society, and William 
Till, a former president. 
The speakers told plainly and yet elo- 
quently the story of the riches that lie in 
the hills of New England; how no sec- 
tion of the country can give the farmer 
a grearer return for his energy and in- 
dustrious application and how the men 
of the city and the men of the farm were 
ready to give each other the shoulder 
touch of encouragement by which insur- 
mountable obstacles are overcome and a 
wide and sweeping benefit is certain to 
accrue. 
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We are prepared to handle any kind of a 
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NOVEMBER. 
BY JOSEPH A.. TORREY. 
Gone are the long, bright, golden Summer 
hours, 
And thro’ the valley, o’er the hillside bleak 
The chilly winds of Autumn moan and shriek, 
Scattering with ruthless hand the leayes and 
flowers. 
Ah! what a weary, fruitless life is ours! 
What vain delights, what phantoms do we seek 
Ere time has plucked the roses from our cheek 
Or planted thorns in youth’s enchanted bowers! 
Soon disappointed with its killing frost, 
Ushers the Winter of our Discontent, 
The harvest past, the joyous Summer spent, 
Hope fled, joys scattered, peace and comfort 
lost! 
Patience, poor Heart! there is a softer clime 
Where Spring abides, beyond the walls of Time. 
— Boston Transcript. 
“1915” Boston Exposition. 
Preparations for the ““1915’’ Boston 
Exposition in November have reached 
the stage of placing the exhibits in posi- 
tion for display in the show, which opens 
Monday, November Ist. Final allot-- 
ments of space were made this week and 
considerable material is already in the 
building. A clearer idea can now be 
given of what this showing of civic ac- 
tivities will consist. There are about 
two hundred exhibits. 
The ‘1915’’ Exposition will include 
the sort of features that have been promi- 
nent in the city planning exhibits that 
were recently made in New York and 
Washington, but it will be a great deal 
more live and interesting. This will be 
accomplished through many practical 
and graphic features, some of them in 
action, by which various interests will 
show what is being accomplished in 
their particular fields. 
The object of the Exposition is to 
show the citizens of Boston and the sur- 
rounding places within the metropolitan 
area, what are the present needs of the 
city and how these needs may be met. 
‘Tt is intended to give every organiza- 
tion interested in the betterment of Bos- 
ton an opportunity to show the public 
what it is planning to do, and what it 
would like to have the public feel it ought 
to be supported in doing for the next 
five years.’’ 
The former Art Museum building on 
Copley Square has been renovated and 
considerably altered. Walls and ceilings 
have been redecorated, new doorways 
cut through solid brick walls, lecture or 
entertainment halls constructed, and 
other changes made to suit the needs of 
the building’s new public service. 
The Exposition is not a money-mak- 
ing enterprise, for no charge for exhibi- 
tion space is made to the philanthropic 
and civic organizations which make most 
of the display. A few commercial ex- 
hibits, the only ones that pay for space 
occupied, will be restricted to such things 
as relate to the Exposition. 
The ‘‘1915’’ Boston Exposition will 
be open to the public November Ist, and 
will continue until the night of the 27th. 
