4 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
Miss Edith H. Foster, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles H. W. Foster, and Albert D. Farwell of 
Chicago, Yale, ’og, will be married at noon on Jan. 6, in 
the First Parish Church in Dover. A reception will fol- 
low at Castle Farm, the Foster home in Charles River 
Village. The engagement was announced early in August. 
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Mrs. Charles C. Aiea who summered at Bev- 
erly Farms, is among those interested in the “‘Advertise- 
ment Dance” in New York, Dec. 7, benefiting settlement 
work. 
Billy Sunday 
Methods, spectacular, 
Sayings, oracular, 
Speech, the vernacular. 
His antics shock us sadly, 
Offend propriety badly; 
The people hear him gladly. 
The grammar and the grace of Truth 
(Alas, the pity and the ruth!) 
He drapes in shapes uncouth. 
To hungering hearts 
Truth he imparts 
By his own arts. 
Unbridled, he defies convention, 
Certes! he secures attention. 
Sawdust paved with good intention! 
John Baptist he, 
Heaven-sent ; 
Summoning you and me 
And all men to repent. 
Shouting to all the land, 
“The day of the Lord is at hand!” 
Peter at Pentecost! 
Seeking to save the lost— 
The decent, the depraved, 
A mighty host 
Daily are being saved. 
All hear the message plain, 
Each in his own tongue; 
Swept as by hurricane, 
See the advancing train, 
Hear the triumphant song! 
—JosEpH A. TORREY. 
He—Will you share my lot? 
She—No; I do not care to break wild land. 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
The remarks of His Honor Mayor Curley a few days 
since to the gentlemen who came to prepare the way for 
the Reverend “Billy” Sunday to raise Hell in Boston 
were to this effect: The efforts of a man who can make 
men think of the Hereafter are deserving of the com- 
mendation of all of us. 
It is hard to make appropriate remarks about far 
off things. 
At one time the Northern soldiers in confinement at 
Libby Prison in Richmond had to listen to some very 
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pointed references as to their possible future conditions 
made by their visitors. 
The prisoners were somewhat cast down by these 
interviews and one of the more cheerful of them tried to 
remove the depression by saying, “If you cannot be happy, 
be as happly as you can.” “Think of ‘Home, Sweet 
Home.’” “Think of your Heavenly Home!” ‘Too far 
off,” responded a voice from the rear. 
Further attempts at consolation were suspended. 
CHARLES L. PEIRSON. 
191 Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 
Brevities 
“It’s a poor business looking at the sun with a cloudy 
face.” —Alice Hegan Rice. 
Whate’er we leave to God, God does, and blesses 
us.—Thoreau. 
There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed rela- 
tive in the circle of his own connections—Hawthorne. 
“Politeness is becomin’ rarer every day. I teil you, 
suh, the disease of bad manners is mo’ contagious than 
small-pox.”—F. Hopkinson Smith. 
This that I do is good, and yet there is better than it. 
A man’s vocabulary depends very much on the com- 
pany he keeps.——John Stuart Blackie. 
October turned my maple’s leaves to gold!—T. B. 
Aldrich. 
“The new firm is going to make shoes out of all 
kinds of skins.” 
“Not out of banana skins?” 
“Yes, indeed! They'll make slippers out of them.” 
—Philadelphia Inquirer. 
- The men who actually do the things best worth do- 
ing in American life are, as they always have been, purely, 
and usually quite unconsciously, American—Theodore 
Roosevelt, 
