NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A Good Investment 
Be your own landlord. 
Better and safer than banks or stocks. 
Buy a piece of the land, now for sale, adjoining the beautiful Mont- 
serrat Station. 
Put by five or-ten dollars a month and own oneoftheseattractive house 
lots. Later build your own cottage; make your own garden and pay no 
more rent. 
This is an ideal location, between Beverly and Prides’s Crossing, on 
electric and train lines near High and Grammar schools and not 
erowded. 
Houses rent and sell rapidly and land values are steadily imcreasing. 
All grades and prices from $300 to $3000. 
The boys’ playground, opposite the station, 
neighborhood tennis court is now ready. 
The 
has been openei. 
Leave the noisy town-and come out for a glimpse of the fields and 
woods of Montserrat; only five min utes from Beverly. 
Our representative will be at the office, 157 Essex St., every day ex- 
eept Sunday and evening appointments may be made by phone No. 
‘i 5 ee 
721, 
Montserrat and Prospect Hill Syndicates 
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@ur Weekly Letter From z i 
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By F. J. Dyer. 
Washington, July 15—Ilt is in- 
evitable that the views of the East 
-and West should differ regarding the 
conservation of the nation’s natural 
resources. Senator. Borah, of Idaho, 
one of the young intellectual giants 
of the Senate, delivered a speech 
shortly before Congress adjourned, in 
which he. gave his view on the sub- 
ject. He said that 150,000,000 aeres 
of the public domain had been 
granted to railroads and other public 
service corporations, and that a 
most liberal policy had been fol- 
lowed toward them, even when they 
had not earned their land grants. 
To homesteaders about 115,000,000 
acres had been granted. The home- 
steader said the Senator, was 
required by law to ‘‘take his 
family upon the land, improve it, 
and reside upon it for five years. 
No matter how desolate the lovality, 
how imsufferable the cold of the win- 
ter or the drought in summer, no 
matter what crop failures or sick- 
ness occurred, he had to remain or 
forfeit the title. He was chained like 
Prometheus to his rock. If he left 
for a time to gain a liveliheod to 
support his family his title was 
promptly challenged and the most 
strict interpretation of the law ad- 
ministered. A few years ayo by a 
eruel, unjust and illegal system 
a method was devised which, as a 
practical matter, extended the resi- 
dence period to seven or eight years. 
It not only extended the residence 
period, but it put upon the settler al- 
ready limited in means an extra bur- 
den for attorney fees and expenses 
of litigation.’’ The Senator con- 
tinued : 
‘‘The settler would make his proof, 
and a special agent would appear 
and file an objection to the issuance 
of patent. In other words, the spe- 
cial agent acting for the Govern- 
ment, was proceeding upon the theo- 
ry that every settler who came in 
eontaect with the public lands was 
dishonest and a perjurer. The spe- 
cial agent was accomplishing in this 
way two things which added greatly 
to his zeal. First, he was overseeing 
and supervising the honesty and in- 
