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VOLUME 4. NUMBER 25 
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1906. 
To our readers one and all we wish 
a “Merry Christmas and a Happy 
New Year.” 
GIFTS 
(Emerson) 
Jewels, rings, and such as these, 
True gifts are not. Apologies! 
Thy gifts must never smack of pelf, 
They are portions of thyself ; 
Thou must of necessity, 
Giving truly, bleed for me. . 
The poet, if a poet born, 
Brings his verse ; the farmer, corn; 
The shepherd brings a lamb; 
The miner brings a gem ; 
The sailor brings as well 
Gifts of coral or of shell; 
The painter comes, his picture showing ; 
The maid a kerchief of her own sewing. 
Each giver makes a shift 
To give himself in his gift. 
JosEpH A. TORREY, Boston Transcript. 
Improving Highways 
The matter of improving the high- 
ways at Gloucester and opening up 
new and old roads along the shore is 
being agitated, and there is reason to 
believe that tangible results will 
follow. Included among the roads 
mentioned is the Hesperus avenue 
along the Magnolia shore. 
They Want a Drink After Show 
A movement is on foot in Glouces- 
ter to have the theatre train, so-called, 
now leaving Boston at 11.24 for the 
Gloucester branch, leave an hour 
later, or about 12.30 o’clock, on ac- 
count of the new 12 o’clock law, so as 
to enable the people to partake of all 
liquid refreshments after the theatre. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
IN MEMORY OF J. G. WHITTIER 
The 99th Anniversary of His Birth, Decem- 
ber 17, 1906 
(BY KATE RESTIEAUX) 
Beneath the moonlight and the snow, 
The old world sleeping lay. 
The chilly air, the cold gray sky, 
The shortening wintry day, 
Told all New England once again, 
That winter came a’near, 
And bleak December wove his shroud, 
To wrap the dying year. 
But one low farm-house, white with frost, 
Seemed wide awake that night. 
The miracle, fresh shapen there, 
Revealed at morning light, 
A baby boy, a new born child, 
A gladdened mother’s heart, 
And fatherhood, thus deified, 
Bore up its sacred part. 
And yet above that little child, 
Who could forecast the day 
When all the world would on his brow 
A poet’s laurels lay. 
Or who would dream that by his aid, 
Grim slavery’s clanking chain 
Would drop from off the freeman’s limbs, 
Ne’er to be worn again. 
O, Whittier, our Whittier, 
Dear manly heart and hand, 
The God of all the fatherless 
Thy doings did command. 
Thou wert a nation’s shield and stay, 
When storms beat fierce and high, 
And none have lived since slavery’s day, 
Who dared to pass thee by. 
Where rose the fierce dissent of law, 
Where stood the staunch and brave, 
Thy voice rang out, thy word rang true, 
For bondsman, as for slave. 
No thought of fame, no thought of self, 
Seems ever to have led 
The mind that asked but liberty, 
For every grief bowed head. 
And nigh a hundred years have passed, 
Since first thy star arose, 
To shine a nation’s beacon light, 
Full bright o’er friends and foes. 
Yet ever young, in loyal hearts, 
Beloved, thou shalt stand, 
And if it be that sorrow’s clouds 
Shall threaten this fair land, 
Or should a wealth of undreamed good 
Be ours, to take and hold, 
If upward borne by moral law, 
Or to oppression sold; 
God grant that fate may raise us up 
One heart as true as thine, 
One star of pure white radiance, 
A-down our path to shine. 
THE NATIVITY 
(*T. J. EAGLESTON), 
Two travelers journeyed, in rainment plain, 
down from Nazareth to Bethlehem 
To be enrolled, so read the decree, everyone 
in his own city ; 
The inns were lighted and filled with guests, 
but the travelers two, 
Had no place to rest. 
At length they shared a poor man’s table, of 
whom, they asked a place in his stable, 
Where they might stay ‘till morning’s dawn, 
sheltered some 
From the cold and storm. 
Now in this same country on the forest’s 
height, : 
Some shepherds were watching their flocks — 
that night, 
When lo! they saw an angel appear, 
Shining with God’s brightness, and they © 
were filled with fear. 
And the angel said to them “ Fear not this 
hour 
For behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, _ 
For today to you a Saviour is born : 
Who brings you peace this Christmas morn.” 
“It is Christ the Lord come from God’s 
throne, 
For the sins of the whole world to atone, 
See yonder stable? you shall find him there 
Wrapt in swaddlings in a manger bare.” 
Then singing praises to the heavenly throne, 
The angel departed leaving them alone. 
“Let us go to Bethlehem,” the shepherd 
said 
“And find the manger where the infant is 
laid.” 
Mary and Joseph were the travelers plain 
Who journeyed from Nazareth to Bethlehem ; 
The shepherds found them in a stable there, 
With the infant Jesus in the manger bare. 
And seeing, they believed what the angel 
had said, 
And adored the child in his humble bed. 
They related to Mary the angel’s glad tiding, 
And returning, praised God for with them 
abiding. 
The angel choirs in wondrous tone 
Then “gave thanks” at God’s high throne, 
And all the hosts in heaven’s domain 
santa Glory to God, on Earth Peace to 
en.” 
[*Mr. Eagleston, who has many friends at 
Manchester, sent these lines from St. Paul 
Seminary, where he is studying for the 
Priesthood. They were written by him re- 
cently when he was recovering from the 
effects of an operation for appendicitis. Ed.] 
Red Men Elect 
Conomo tribe of Red Men, Man- 
chester, elected the following officers 
Wednesday evening: Manuel T. 
Lopes, prophet; George Gould, 
sachem; Wm. J. Lethbridge, senior 
sagamore ; Wade A. Brooks, junior 
sagamore ; C. T. Loomis, collector of 
wampum ; Leonard Andrews, keeper 
of wampum; E. F. Preston, keeper of 
records ; D. Elmer Butler, trustee for 
three years. The installation will be 
on Wednesday evening, Jan. 2, prob- 
ably. ‘Two palefaces were adopted by 
the tribe Wednesday evening. Next 
Wednesday evening Deputy Peabody 
and staff will practice at the lodge 
rooms, and every member of the staff 
is requested to be present at 7.30. 
A pair of SLIPPERS 
Always makes a nice 
CHRISTMAS PRESENT 
OVERSHOES ana GAITERS, 
too, are always acceptable. 
See what we have. 
CHAS. HOOPER, 
11 Central Square, . . Manchester, 
