NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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a Mexican place of worship—a place 
where the Catholics gather in place 
of a church, and back where the 
cowboys will not interfere with the 
services. There are no Mexican 
churches or priests in this locality, 
the Mexicans simply meeting and 
going through a sort of chanting 
praise service. 
Coyoutes are almost as thick as 
jack-rabbits on the divides, and the 
sheep man pays a big mutton assess- 
ment to them every year, despite the 
bounty on their heads, the trappers 
who make a living by catching them 
and the spreading of strychnine. 
The big grey loafer wolf is also 
dread to the sheep and cattle men. 
The ranchmen add to the state boun- 
ty on these dangerous fellows and 
$25 is the price of a scalp. They are 
very hard to kill, hiding in caves 
during the day and plundering in 
the night time. 
As for game, deer abound here, 
but it needs a seasoned ranger to 
shoot them. They hide in the cane 
brakes of the rough places in the 
day and graze in the night. Quail 
are here by countless thousands and 
are hunted for meat, not sport. 
Wild cats and skunks are numerous, 
but the fur of the latter is worthless, 
because of the climate. Panthers 
are here, but not often seen, and 
onee in awhile a Mexican lion will 
come up from the Santa Rosa Moun- 
tains of Mexico. 
It has been hard for me to write 
these three letters, for the reason 
that the locality is odd to me, and 
has lost its novelty, and where in- 
terest is stale, descriptions are apt 
to be. 
But I have now fully arranged a 
trip that should, and I believe will, 
be full of interest in every hour, and 
I hope to make the remaining ar- 
ticles of this series assay a little 
higher. Next week I| start on an 
overland trip of 170 miles, direct 
south 120 miles to the southern Rio 
Grande at Del Rio, and then across 
the border and 50 miles south into 
Mexico, through the pueblos of the 
Mexicans and Aztecs and into the 
Santa Rosa mountains. I have an 
old timer for a guide and driver, 
and the price is simply paying the 
grub stake. There are any number 
of men here who will furnish the 
outfit if the visitor will stake it, 
both for the love of the trip and be- 
cause of the stories of opals and gold 
that come from over the Rio Grande 
—stories of richness that remind one 
of the days of °49. Many.men go 
over the border and spend, months 
in these mountains, returning. with- 
out a dollar, only to raise a. grub 
stake and go back. Such is the lure. 
of gold. Year after year they hunt 
the mountains and hope springs 
anew from every failure. The hunt 
for gold has a fascination all its 
own, and one that never dies. 
Ozona, Tex., Feb. 6. 
Bowling. 
The third and final round of tlhe 
bowling league begins this evening 
with the Sons of Veterans vs. Regals ; 
Monday, the 28th, K. of C vs. Red 
Men; Wednesday, March 2, Garden- 
ers vs. Business Men; Friday, March 
4, Greeks vs. Speed Boys. The bal- 
ance of schedule will appear in next 
issue of the Breeze. Last evening, 
a team known as the L. and B. Spe- 
cials, composed of the first and see- 
ond teams of Larcom & Bell’s alieys 
from Beverly, came down ty» Man- 
chester to show a picked team how 
to get a few spares and went home 
with a defeat of four straight points 
against them. <A return game will 
be played at Beverly next Thursday 
evening. Score follows: 
L. and B. Specials. 
Noyes 93 74 78 245 
Sargent 92 91 96 279 
Gorman 90 92 79 261 
Goldsmith 90 81 100 Py/a 
Griffiths 95 91 88 274 
460 429 441 1330 
Manchester. 
W. Bell 107 88 86 281 
C.° Kelliher 89 101 103 293 
H. Bell 87 74 86 247 
E. Semons 96 94 93 283 
A. Jones 102 84 82 268 
481 441 450 1372 
Literary Society. 
The Literary society of the Story 
High school, Manchester, met Thurs- 
day and the following program was 
carried out: 
Recitation ‘‘ The Birthday of Agassiz,’’ 
Margaret Meaney 
Composition, ‘‘ A Day with Will Wimbley,’’ 
Elizabeth Coughlin 
Recitation, ‘‘ They Come Not Back,”’ 
William Cawthorne 
Recitation, ‘* A Dream of Summer,’’ 
Edna Allen 
Composition, ‘‘ Our Sleighing Party,” 
illa Lewis 
Recitation, ‘‘ The Last Leaf,’? Margaret Gillis 
There are strong points of similar- 
ity between a football rush and a 
bargain-counter rush. 
Anti-fat remedies are seldom 
needed by the man who leans on 
hope. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson are 
sojourning in Florida on their house- 
boat. 
Otis Weld Richardson has leased 
the Gardner cottage on Norman ave., 
Magnolia, for the coming season. 
The wedding of Anthony J. Drex- 
el, Jr., of Philadelphia, and Miss 
Marjory Gould of New York is to 
take place on April 19. 
The Boston Symphony Orchestra 
gives a concert in Philadelphia to- 
morrow. 
Mrs. Charlotte Scott, Jr., of Over- 
brook and daughter are at Ormond, 
Florida, for the remainder of the 
winter and will be joined by Mr. 
Scott. The Scotts have one of the 
handsomest show places at Bass 
Rocks, their summer home. 
Otis H. Luke et ux. Fannie L., of 
Brookline, convey to Arthur F. Luke 
of Newton, land and buildings in 
Determining Sex. 
Mark Twain says that he has al- 
ways taken woman’s part. 
‘“‘Wor instance,’? he relates, ‘‘I 
once strongly reprimanded a woman 
out in Hannibal, Missouri. Here 
was the occasion: 
‘¢ “So this is a little girl, eh?’ I 
said to her as she displayed her chil- 
dren to me. ‘And this sturdy little 
urchin in the bib belongs, I sup- 
pose, to the contrary sex?” 
‘¢¢Vessah,’ the woman replied. 
‘Yassah, dat’s a girl, too.’ ’’—Every- 
body’s. 
Two chorus ladies were at one of 
Victor Herbert’s concerts on compli- 
mentary tickets. 
‘‘My,’’ exclaimed one of them 
with a glance at her program, 
‘thas not Mr. Herbert a tremendous 
repertory !’’ 
‘Well, I wouldn’t exactly say 
that,’’ replied her friend; ‘‘but he 
is getting pretty fat. ?__Bivery- 
body’s. 
‘‘What distinguished foreigner as- 
sisted the colonies in the American 
Revolution?’’ asked an Ohio teacher. 
‘‘God,’’ answered ToMINy prompt- 
ly. __Eyverybody’ s. 
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