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- The H. W. Cunningham property 
on Harbor street, West Manchester, 
has been sold thorugh the agency of 
T. Dennie and Reginald Boardman to 
; . Lester Leland. The land is 192 by 
_ . 221 feet. 
The extension of the new sea wall 
at West Manchester is nearing com- 
# pletion and the two divisions of the 
-_wall will be separated by a gate 
with attractive concrete pillars. 
Miss Emily McGuckin of New 
York has given the contract for her 
new summer home at Bass Rocks to 
Benjamin Clark of Gloucester. Work 
has been started for its erection. 
Leonard H. Phillips et al., trustees 
under the will of Maria L. Phillips of 
Swampscott, to Winslow Warren 
trustee under will of Susan B. War- 
ren of Boston, land on Marmion 
Way, Rockport, 91 by 103.63 feet. 
Hathaway & Son of Boston have 
secured the contract to make the ex- 
tensive improvements to Miss Louisa 
L. Dresel’s summer home at Mingo 
_ Beach, Pride’s Crossing, work upon 
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Fi REDON ~~ 028 SPREE OONCPRLDL, PIII CIID MEDS," 
Our iterkly Letter From 2: 
Washington 
BeSOOLL LENORE EE PPPOE RPOLEPRIE, 
Washington, D. C., Oct. 27.—It’s a 
sad era of misrepresentation and 
substitution. Even the lower ani- 
mals are subject to it, for occasion- 
ally the Pure Food Board of the De- 
partment of Agriculture has to get 
aad oe o 
ce oe oe 
after some conscienceless chap who: 
puts out foodstuffs for horses, cattle 
and other domestic animals which. 
are not what their labels claim for 
them. And now, the fishes in the 
sea have been made the subject of a 
eruel jest. Long enough they have 
been expected to bite at bits of red 
flannel, or artificial flies and shining 
bait, contrived in simulation of min- 
nows. The latest crime practiced on 
them is the substitution of artificial 
roe in place of cod roe as bait in sar- 
dine fishing. Inasmuch as this was 
done by French fishing boats, Dr. 
Wiley can’t step in to claim the 
cause of the sardines as his own, and 
so the outrage may be permitted to 
go on. But how chagrined the sar- 
dines must feel to learn that they 
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have been greedily biting at stuff 
made from fish refuse, costing, in its 
prepared form but 21% cents per 
pound, when their patrician tastes 
have been pampered heretofore on 
Norwegian cod roe at 7 to 10% 
cents per pound. 
Coal Consumption. 
The Bureau of Manufactures re- 
cently compiled some statistics on 
the world’s coal production, from 
which it appears that the United 
States consumes more than twice as 
much coal as any other country, and 
almost as much as the United King- 
dom, Germany, France and Belgium. 
The United States also produces 
much more coal for each miner, and 
to prove it the Bureau of Manufac- 
tures cites British reports showing 
the production in the United States 
in 1908, by the 690,438 persons em- 
ployed in mining, to have been 126,- 
562,000 tons of coal more than was 
produced by the 966,264 persons 
similarly employed in the United 
Kingdom. The production per per- 
son employed in this country 
amounted, therefore, to 538 tons, 
while in the United Kingdom it 
amounted to 271 tons per person em- 
ployed. The value per ton at the 
pit’s mouth was $1.43 in this coun- 
try to $1.98 in the United Kingdom. 
Whether the difference in produc- 
tion is accounted for in part by the 
employment of a large number of 
women and children in the British 
mines is not stated. The total annu- 
al consumption of coal in the differ- 
ent countries is stated to be 882,093,- 
000 tons. This does not include lig- 
nite, the production of which is con- 
siderably over 110,000,000 tons an- 
annually. 
The President’s Homecoming. 
It’s no small task to make ready 
for the President’s homecoming. All 
the work in the interior of the 
White House, the cleaning, refur- 
nishing, and stocking up of pantries 
and larders the public sees nothing 
of, but it goes on just the same, and 
when the family reach Washington 
they find everything in apple-pie or- 
der. Outwardly, there are more in- 
dications that something impends. 
The spacious lawns are clipped and 
raked; the drives and paths are 
made even neater than usual; the 
gardeners and painters and other 
help put everything in the best pos- 
sible condition. An always inter- 
esting operation for the tourists is 
the transfer to the grounds of the 
potted ornamental trees and plants 
which ornament the spaces above 
the east and west one-story wings. 
These are transferred on trucks and 
are wheeled across temporary stag- 
ings to their resting places. 
Washington is always glad when 
the President, returns. It knows that 
this is a signal for a resumption of 
social and business activities. The 
boarding houses and hotels begin to 
fill their vacant rooms, the stores 
take on a greater activity, and the 
capital throbs with new life. Even 
though the President makes an oc- 
casional journey after reopening the 
White House, the season is now on, 
and activity takes the place of the 
summer stagnation. 
Blueberry Culture 
At last the advocates of blueberry 
pie are to have an inning. The De- 
partment of Agriculture, having giv- 
en the culture of this fruit earnest 
study, has worked out a system of 
pit culture under which.the blueber- 
ry attains a development beyond all 
previous expectations. Bulletin 193 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry tells 
all about it. The blueberry does 
well in acid soils, found over wide 
areas In the eastern part of the Unit- 
ed States. 
We All Do This Way At Times. 
He had worked hard to bring in 
his favorite story. At last in des- 
peration he stamped his foot and 
shouted: ‘‘Hark, children! what 
was that? Was that a gun? Now, 
speaking of guns, that reminds me 
—’’—Everybody’s Magazine. 
Have your 
Christmas: 
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made by . 
MOODY 
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