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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
of his reply or his smile. Later on I 
knew, and I wished I had not been 
so. gabby. This boy was the banker 
and dealer for-a faro layout. wa! 
watched him for hours that night as 
the gold changed hands over the 
table, and~ when he occasionally 
looked at me and smiled, it seemed 
he thought my name should have 
been Green instead of Brown—Ver- 
dant Green. 
This young fellow with the white 
face and black eyes, looked like a 
consumptive, and the last man im 
the ‘world you would think had 
nerve—this stripling, they tell me, 
is as bad as they have grown them ~ 
since ‘‘Billy the Kid’s’’ time. Fear- 
less of death, sand an inch thick, a 
quick shot, and made up of sheer 
nerve, this youngster follows the 
eamps and the fascinations of the 
came. 2 
They say one need never die a 
natural death in these mining camps, 
for there is always someone ready 
with a gun to save him, yet it is 
my experience in the many so called 
‘tough camps’ | have visited in the 
‘past few years, that it is the “bad 
man’’ and the ‘‘fresh’’ who die with 
boots and spurs on, and that the fel- 
low who minds his business and 
keeps away from gambling and booze 
is as safe in a mountain mining camp 
as at home. ; 
And soon this mining camp 
changes from a morgue to a bee hive. 
As the sun settles down in the west 
men trail in from every quarter like 
sheep—home from the claims for the 
day and the little city of slabs and 
tents teems with life—with healthy, 
active, anticipating American life. 
And the women came out in the 
evening glow—the women of the 
world which the news of gold has 
‘drawn north from Santa Fe and Al- 
burquerque and south from Denver 
and Pueble.. They were there with 
their painted faces, penciled eye- 
brows and ‘‘flash’’ jewelry—there 
for the gold. 
At the boarding home I sat across 
the table from a young American to 
done a_ perfect 
work. -A two-hundred pound young 
giant, so full of life that his every 
move had eat-like grace; a specimen 
of the perfeet health this wondrous 
climate gives to men who do. not 
-abuse it; a man with that ease and 
grace of manner you once in a long 
while see—a manner that fascinates, 
He was edueated ; 
his language told me that. 
After supper he sauntered out, 
lighted his pipe and was about to 
walk down the hill, when a girl 
stopped him, took hold of his coat 
lapel and said: 
‘““Come, Ben, loosen tonight and 
stake me to a red pile. I dreamed a 
hunehback -was thrown from his 
dogie last night, and I can’t lose out. 
I?ll get between the dealer and $500 
before midnight, and half the velvet 
is yours.’’ 
‘‘Nothing doing, Mable,’’ the man 
replhed with a smile. ‘‘Il don’t be- 
lieve in dream hunches. I’m going 
out a -wateh a bunch of baragas 
(sheep) drink, and muse on the sim- , 
ple life.’’ 
Next morning Mable’s body was 
brought down from over the saloon 
‘and laid out in the store room, wait- 
ing for a night funeral—a funeral 
which would not interfere with busi- 
mess. She had taken too much ehlor- 
al—no doubt again trying to find her 
lucky hunchback. 
There is just one topic and one 
thought here, gold, gold, gold.  To- 
day you find it, tomorrow you lose 
it.. If vou strike it, you gamble to 
get more. It’s fever. It fires the 
blood and makes men erazy. 
They tell me that down. on. the 
river any man can wash out fifty 
cents an hour from the sand, but 
that work is too hard and the income 
too slow for gold-mad men. 
if one could but be immune to the 
gold fever, what a place. to come for 
health, what a factory for nerves— 
out here among the mountains, where 
the dry pure air intoxieates and 
breeds health and = strength; out 
where an appetite makes rancid ba- 
con taste lke quail, out here where 
there 1s health, rest and a silence so 
‘deep you ean hear your microbes 
onaw. 
Near Mora, N. M., Apr. 25, 1910. 
Gloucester ,Dramatic Club Gives 
Performance in Manchester. 
The University club of the 
Gloucester Y. M. C. A. gave a splen- 
did performance in the Town hall, 
Manchester, Monday evening, of a 
college comedy in five acts called 
“The Ilero of the Gridiron.’’ They 
prepared this play for presentation 
in Gloucester early in the winter and 
made such a success of it that they 
repeated the show in Rockport some 
weeks ago and they came to Man- 
chester this week. The hall was not 
erowded, but the 200 or more who 
attended gave the young people an 
enthusiastic reception. 
Those taking part in the perform- 
ance were: William R. Ferguson, 
Addison G. Brooks, George lL. Gold- 
thwaite, Roland M. Wass, Raymond 
Adams, Edwin II, Hanson, Alex, W, 
19° 
TOO MUCH SEWAGE. 
North Shore Residents Complain of 
Big City Disposals. _ 
William S. Johnson of Boston, a 
sanitary engineer, is making a study 
of sewage disposal along the North 
Shore. Ile has been retained by 
some of the summer residents. It 
is claimed that the practice of Bos- 
ton, Lynn and Salem of dumping 
their sewage and garbage into the 
sea is harming the North Shore as a_ 
place of residence. The chief pur-,, 
pose of their efforts, however, is to. 
prevent the city of Beverly from 
dumping its sewage into the harbor. ° 
Beverly now desires to build a trunk 
sewer system and an outfall down 
the harbor, with an outlet down 
among the islands. 
Mr. Johnson and his assistants 
have made a study of the sewage 
disposal situation at sea, as well as 
on land. He has shown that gar- 
bage from Lynn and Boston floats 
along the North Shore because he 
has picked up tags of Boston and 
Lynn firms in garbage that has 
washed up on the beaches. He also 
criticises the location of the outlet 
of Salem’s trunk sewer. He fur- 
thermore criticises the condition of 
Marblehead harbor. 
Pure sea laws are wanted by some 
of the wealthy summer residents of 
the north. They want the ocean to 
be as clean and pure as it was the 
day that John Endicott sailed up 
the bay. 
Andrews, Lester C. Kelly, James M. 
liyle, Misses Susie Parks, Mildred 
Gray, Ethyl Parrott and Martha 
Warner. A quartette composed of 
Brooks, Ferguson, Ilanson and Wass 
sang “‘In the Good Old Football 
Time.’’? They were called back re- 
peatedly for encores. Brooks and 
Ferguson also- played a mandolin 
duet. In the closing act a very 
pretty military drill was given by 12 
young ladies. The physical director 
of the Y. M. C. A., Frank 8. Barthol- 
omew, gave a splendid exhibition of 
flambeaux swinging. ~ An. orchestra 
composed of Lester Page of Man- 
chester Cove, John Chane of Mag- 
nohe and two Rockport boys played 
some catchy airs during the evening. 
Miss Jennie Forbes presided at the 
piano. ; 
It is safe to say that if the young 
people ever present a show at Man- 
chester again they will be greeted 
by a crowded house. The perform- 
ance was deserving of much praise. 
All had their parts well and the audi- 
ence was kept in one continual roar 
of laughter, 
