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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 5. NuMBER 40 
WESTERN CYCLONE 
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other, a big oak, was thrust one end of 
a yoke, such as is used for cattle. It 
was driven in,about four feet, and could 
not be pulled out. Perhaps the strangest 
thing that happened was this: two big 
stacks of wheat, about to be thrashed, 
were swished in the air and not a straw of 
either stack has been seen since. ‘This 
may seem exaggerated, perhaps, but it is 
the truth, I saw the stacks before they 
‘sailed for other climes,’ and two 
weeks later the owner told me he had 
“ no tidings from them as yet, gosh darn 
em.’ 
Fortunately no one was killed though 
several were injured, some seriously. 
Had I the time I could give you an ac- 
count of still stranger happenings of 
these cyclones, happenings I have been 
told of by eye witnesses, but you must 
excuse me until I have more leisure 
time. I heard, what perhaps was 
a joke the other day about a cy- 
clone. You know cyclones sweep 
every thing in their path from a 
plant to railroad train; they leave abso- 
lutely nothing behind, but destruction. 
Well, a man told me recently about a 
cyclone he saw some fifteen years ago 
that'took the big pump out of his yard 
and then came back and got the well. 
‘* Kindly remember me to inquiring 
friends and believe me 
** Sincerely yours, 
‘ST. J EAGLESTON]e 
Town Clerk and Mrs. A. S. Jew- 
ett are expected home tomorrow from 
their trip to Saratoga and the South. 
They have more recently been visiting 
the battlefields at Gettysburg and Hag- 
erstown, where 43 years ago Mr. Jew- 
ett came near losing his life. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
THE LABRADOR FISHERMEN 
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large majority do not always re- 
ceive just returns in beneficial legis- 
lation and adequate wages for their 
perilous labor. 
The merchant supplies the vessel 
and its equipment for the season’s 
voyage “down on the Labrador,” 
and compels the men to trade at 
the company’s store at the fishing 
station and at home and at a hand- 
some profit to the merchant. Most 
of the men go to Labrador in the 
early summer in debt to the house, 
obtain a scanty living for their 
families while absent and a very 
rough, hard existence in the fog 
and ice water for themselves. They 
fish upon a very hard profit-sharing 
basis and return in the autumn after 
a summer of the most severe toil 
and exposure still in debt to the 
house or just even with their ac- 
count at the merchant’s store. 
One merchant at Harbor Grace 
stated to the writer that he had 
over 300 men thus employed on the 
Labrador fishing grounds, and that 
with all his expenses of fitting out 
the schooners, the payment of the 
share money through the store and 
the shipment of the fish to Oporto, 
that he would net from 80 cents to 
$1 per quintal,—112 pounds. He 
stated that he would ship not less 
than 100,000 quintals in a good sea- 
son, and at the minimum would net 
$80,000. Now this is a pretty good 
season’s business for any firm. The 
reason is that between 300 and 400 
men have practically worked for a 
scanty subsistence and most of 
them are always, (on the books), 
in debt to the merchant. 
In the two months’ seal fishing 
in the early spring, if the catch is 
good the men fare a little better. 
There are seven firms engaged in 
this industry in Newfoundland, and 
last spring they sent out to the ice 
floe a combined fleet of 23 ships and 
3851 men. A total of 8289 seals 
were taken by the S. S. Vanguard, 
Capt. Blanford, 179 men. ‘The net 
value of the catch was $15,581.36, 
of which each man received $29.18. 
The attitude of the merchant to 
the fishermen is a gross injustice, 
especially with the cod fishery and 
nothing has been done to stop this 
evil except the heroic labor of Dr. 
Wilfred Grenfell of the Deep Sea 
Mission to Fishermen. To quote 
the doctor: “The system entirely 
kills any idea of thrift, for the men 
are born, live and die in debt, al- 
ways mortgaging tomorrow’s catch 
for today’s food and clothing.” 
He has started five small co- 
operative stores, with a co-oper- 
ative schooner to serve them and 
has a co-operative lumber mill and 
a schooner building yard. The 
people in authority, the merchant 
class in the centers of population, 
are not in sympathy with this work 
of the unselfish doctor and the rea- 
son is obvious. They belittle him 
and his work and give one to under- 
stand or infer, without making a 
direct charge, that his missionary 
work is a cloak to cover a money- 
making scheme in competition with 
themselves. After visiting Battle 
Harbor and Indian Harbor (Lab- 
rador), where the doctor maintains 
a hospital and discussing this ques- 
tion with the fishermen who are in 
the co-operative work, all doubts 
as to the singlemindedness of this 
generous doctor are completely dis- 
pelled. _He is doing a nobte and a 
Christian work. May he live long 
and enjoy the fruit of his sacrifice 
in his wish to elevate the condition 
of this people. There is need of 
more sterling champions of the 
people along that shore, fearless 
men, above criticism, living un- 
selfish and devoted lives. 
Concluded next week 
Furnished Rooms 
TO LET, with use of bath. 
=—S-Ap ply 
MRS. JOHN DILLON 
Brook St., Manchester 
Boy Wanted 
—— Apply —-— 
Boston & Maine Station 
Manchester 
LOST 
A small charm in shape of thistle with a 
setting topaz and amethyst. Reward if left 
at Mrs. Thornburg’s cottage, Norman 
Avenue, Magnolia. 
WANTED 
A girl for general housework. 
——Apply— 
MRS. D. T. BEATON, 
Cor. Ashland ave. aud Bridge St., 
Manchester 
Tenement 
Four rooms, everything new with im- — 
provements, rent reasonable to small 
family. 
JOE WILKINSON, 
Manchester Cove. _ 
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