t Weekly Letter From zs 
: ot Washington 
By F. J. Dyer. 
(Special to the North Shore Breeze.) 
_ Washington Oct. 20.—Not all the 
yolifies in Washington is of the na- 
al brand. Among the office hold- 
in the Capital are many men who 
p up their residence and party 
jations in their respective states 
when possible, go home to cast 
their ballots. One impelling reason 
for this is the fact that originally 
‘they secured their appointments 
through home influence, and many 
of them still depend on that influence 
to keep them on the payroll and to 
secure their advancement. These 
_ officeholders have political organiza- 
_ tions of their own in Washington and 
_ during a campaign they hold meet- 
ings and listen to speeches and do 
_ what they can to promote the inter- 
est? of their favorite tickets and 
_ candidates. Many of them, especi- 
- ally those living in states not too 
remote to make the necessary travel 
a burden, will go home next month 
~ to vote. 
The South’s Awakening. 
__ Ex-President Roosevelt attended a 
- gathering of prominent Southern 
_ business men at Atlanta the other 
_ day and took occasion to praise the 
movement by the Southern Commer- 
ial Congress to boom the South. It 
has been a source of wonder for a 
- long time to many persons that the 
South has not made more rapid ma- 
terial progress. With the wealth 
lavished on it by Nature the South 
has been a land of neglected oppor- 
tunity and outsiders have scarcely 
known of the advantages it has held 
_ for enterprise and brains. Now that 
- the entire South has apparently 
united to secure the development of 
its latent resources, there is due for 
it one of the greatest periods of pro- 
gression any part of this country has 
ever seen. The South is rich and its 
potentialities are almost beyond com- 
putation. Its wise men have decided 
that it is time that it. was realizing 
larger returns on its unworked capl- 
tal. 
Skilled Farm Mrporis’ in Demand. 
4 There is an increasingly attractive 
| field for young men skilled in differ- 
ent branches of farm management 
and farm practice. This is made 
strikingly apparent by a recent an- 
nouncement that the Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry had asked the Civil 
Service Commission to hold an ex- 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
amination to secure eligibles for ap- 
pointment as animal husbandmen. 
There are vacancies worth $2.040, 
$1,740 and $1,380 a year for men 
qualified in the subject of feeding 
and breeding sheep and goats, and 
in the subject of herdbook methods 
and administration; also $1,380 a 
year for men qualified in the subject 
of feeding and _ breeding horses. 
There are other positions as good 
for men who ean qualify in feeding 
and breeding beef cattle, feeding 
and breeding hogs, feeding and 
breeding poultry, stockfarm manage- 
ment with special reference to any 
section the applicant may select, in- 
cubation and breeding, packing stor- 
age and marketing of poultry and 
eggs, principles of animal nutrition, 
principles of animal breeding, animal 
husbandry literature and _ lbrary 
work. The Department of Agricul- 
ture not only offers a field for ex- 
perts in these and many other lines, 
but it is training up a class of young 
men who often find excellent open- 
ings in private employment or in the 
service of foreign governments. 
Thorium a Rare Mineral. 
Many strange and recently dis- 
covered minerals are playing an im- 
portant part in the industrial affairs 
of the world. Thorium, for instanee, 
is a constituent of monazite, and it is 
in great and constant demand for use 
in making incandescent mantles for 
gas lamps. Brazil and the United 
States, oceording to the Geological 
Survey, supply the world’s demand 
for monazite. Most of that obtained 
in this country is from North Caro- 
lina and South Carolina, the produe- 
tion in 1909 being 541,931 pounds 
valued at $65,032. Deposits have 
been discovered in Idaho which 
promise to be valuable. 
Practically all the monazite of 
commerce is derived from placer or 
-gravel deposits, all attempts to ex- 
tract it from its original rock matrix 
having failed. The deposits are 
worked hke placers—by sluicing and 
hydraulicking—and the crude mona- 
zite sand obtained is further cleaned 
on concentrating tables and by elec- 
machinery, which re- 
moves its iron contents. 
Whitewashing Whitewash. 
““T think you said, ’Rastus, that 
you had a brother in the mining bus- 
iness in the west?’’ 
‘““Yeh, boss, that’s right.’’ 
‘*What kind of mining—gold min- 
ing, silver mining, copper mining ?’’ 
‘““No, sah, none o’ those; kalso- 
mining.’’—Hverybody’s Magazine, 
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Banat Farewell for President Taft. 
President Taft’s vacation ended 
last Sunday. Monday morning he 
started for Washington by way of 
New York. Three thousand Bever- 
ly school children lined up on Loth- 
rop street and waved him good-by 
with little American flags as he 
started on his automobile journey to 
Boston. Sunday, at the Beverly Uni- 
tarian church, the President was 
called upon to make a few remarks. 
Mr. Taft said: ‘‘I should be most 
reluctant to break into the regular 
course this morning if it did not give 
me the opportunity on behalf of Mrs. 
Taft and myself to express the grati- 
tude we feel at having had the privi- 
lege of worshiping with you during 
this beautiful summer season in a 
church so full of history, with such 
a wealth of usefulness in the last 250 
years. It is a church that illustrates 
in its history the growth of liberal- 
ism in religion, and the development 
of the Orthodox tenets of those who 
came here to make the beginnings of 
New England into our faith of Uni- 
tarianism.’’ 
The President then paid a tfibute 
to Dr. Benjamin R. Bulkeley, pastor 
of the church, and concluded: ‘‘I 
hope we—I mean my family and my- 
self—are going to be able next sum- 
mer to be here, or, as they say in the 
West, ‘hereabouts,’ and certainly if 
we are within any practicable dis- 
tance, and you will treat us as well 
next summer and as hospitably as 
you have this, we shall be numbered 
among the worshippers under this 
roof. I thank you sinecerely.”’ 
The announcement as to the loca- 
tion of the President’s home next 
summer has not yet been made. All 
the chances, however, favor Beverly, 
and it is believed. that within a few 
days a lease will be signed for a cot- 
tage within easy walking distance of 
the present summer White House. 
New Directory Out 
The 1911 edition of the Gloucester 
directory, which contains also the 
directory of the towns of Manches- 
ter and Rockport, has made its ap- 
pearance and as usual is a well 
gotten up book, accurate and reli- 
able. The book contains 15,397 
names, including 12,046 in Glouces- 
ter proper, 2,088 in Rockport and 
1,313 in Manchester. Sampson & 
Murdock Co., 246 Summer street, 
Boston are the publishers. 
Twentieth century dialogue. 
Jones: ‘‘How did you travel, by mo- 
tor or train?’’ Smith: ‘‘By neither; 
I flew.’’ 
