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$pecial to the North Shore Breeze. 
- Washington, November 9—Un- 
_ der the pure food laws of the United 
States it is as much a fraud on the 
public to give an incorrect impres- 
sion regarding the origin or place 
of production of an article for hu- 
man consumption as it is to give a 
wrong impression regarding the 
contents , nature, or composition of 
such an article. Foreign govern- 
ments have been co-operating with 
the Government of the United States 
to prevent the misbranding and in- 
-eorrect labeling of food products 
originating in those countries. 
_ France has been very active in this 
respect, and it is now illegal in 
France to label as champagne any 
wine produced outside of certain 
well-defined boundaries. A spark- 
ling wine produced elsewhere than 
in the legally defined champagne 
- eountry cannot legally be sold as 
champagne, even though experts 
might declare that it possessed all 
the qualities of wine so grown and 
even was superior to them. The 
_ same thing holds as regards cognac, 
and it is probable that similar regu- 
lations will be adopted regarding 
certain popular brands of cheese and 
other things which the public as- 
sociates with trade names. 
__Lueea olive oil is another article 
which those who have the right to 
use that name wish to see protected. 
So many inferior grades of olive oil 
have been put on the market as 
“Tueca’’ that the name was fast 
 ¢easing to carry any weight. Olive 
oil labeled ‘‘Lucca’’ has been found 
by the pure food inspectors coming 
from Greece and from Spain and 
from other places aside from Lucca 
— itself. 
Trying to Classify Coffee. 
The Government is now taking up 
the question of requiring the numer- 
ous varieties of coffee imported into 
this country to be honestly labeled. 
At a meeting of the Pure Food Board 
held in Washington last week for 
the purpose of taking testimony re- 
garding the labeling of Brazilian 
coffee, prominent importers from 
New York testified that Brazilian 
coffee had been shipped to Arabia 
in order that it might he re-import- 
ed from Aden as Mocha coffee, and 
they said that the practice was still 
in force, although as Dr. Wiley re- 
marked, the dealers did not always 
go to Arabia for re-export before 
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branding it as ‘‘Mocha,’’ or some 
other brand recognized as fine Ara- 
bian coffee. 
After hearing testimony from ex- 
perts present showing that the prac- 
tice has grown up of labeling cof- 
fee with the name of the port from 
whence it is shipped regardless of 
the place of origin, Dr. Wiley stated 
that an effort would be made to re- 
form this practice, which the im- 
porters admitted to be wrong, and 
that the matter would be properly 
taken up in due form with the Gov- 
ernment of Brazil through the State 
Department to the end that the Bra- 
zilian coffees, which form by far the 
greater part of the coffee used in the 
United States, should be sold under 
their proper designation. It devel- 
oped that the existing practice is 
‘beneficial chiefly to the trade, which 
has been getting about a cent a 
pound more at wholesale for a great 
deal of the Brazilian coffee on ac- 
eount of the system of branding 
with which the trade is very famil- 
iar, but concerning which the public 
at large has been in ignorance. 
Thanksgiving Topics. 
Whatever may be the feeling of 
the average citizen, the country at 
large certainly has a great deal of 
cause for thankfulness. It is not 
plunged in any costly wars, it is 
enjoying a large measure of busi- 
ness prosperity, most industries are 
in a condition which enables them 
to keep a full force busy at satisfac- 
tory wages, and the crops are so 
big that a mere statement of their 
size in terms of bushels or dollars 
conveys a very inadequate impres- 
sion of their value. Standing out 
large in the totals is the corn crop of 
3,000,000,000 bushels—and corn has 
been selling lately in New York at 
60 cents a bushel. For once the ax- 
ion that big crops mean low prices 
does not hold good. It would seem 
as if the farmer, of all people, had a 
right to be thankful. And he has, 
but he would have a still better right 
if the proceeds of his labors were 
not so inequitably divided. Too 
many non-producers take toll until, 
when the crops reach the consumer, 
they are marked up to figures which 
appall the humble wage-earner. The 
farmer is the most prosperous man 
in the country today, and the rush 
of pupils to the agricultural schools 
and colleges proves that many are 
going to.seek on the farms a portion 
of the prosnerity which everyone at- 
tributes to the farmer. 
Classified Advertising makes your 
quest a Business Matter. 
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MOODY. 
«2564 Essex St. 
SALEM 
JOHN F. SILVA 
Forest Street, Manchester 
Announces to the people of Man- 
chester that he is to run a 
FISH CART 
in Manchester the coming winter, 
commencing about November 1, and 
that he will be prepared to supply 
Fresh, Salt and Smoked Fish, in 
season, at Lowest Prices. 
H. BAKER, TAILOR 
Announces to his Manchester Customers 
that he has MOVED from the Kimball 
Block, opposite the Postoffice to the 
North Shore Breeze Building 
BEACH ST., 
Where he will be pleased to see his pat 
rons. He isin the store formerly occu- 
pied by the Chinese Laundry. 
The summer comes and the summer goes; 
Wild flowers are fringing the dusty 
lanes, 
The swallows go darting through fragrant 
rains, 
Then, all of a sudden, it snows. 
If a team of horses pull together 
they are sure to accomplish some- 
thing; and the same is true of men. 
We put hobbles on a horse to keep 
him at home, but the hobble skirt 
is not intended for any such purpose. 
