Ow Weekly Letter From: 
oo) Washington 
A LD EPROM ERLANG LS PLEAD PELE LIO ING NSLS SE, 
Special to the North Shore Breeze . 
The result of the election could not 
_ be ealled surprising in view of the 
apparently settled conviction every- 
- where that there would be a Demo- 
eratic House, but the extent of the 
~ landslide surprised even the Demo- 
erats. Whether their claims that 
Col. Roosevelt has lost his influence 
in view of the result will be born 
~ out by. events is an open. question. 
_ There «is a good deal of talk about 
- the effect of the change on legisla- 
a “mind people generally that the com- 
ing session of Congress will be the 
ag - same in character as the one which 
a ended last summer, None of the 
F newly elected members will take 
_ their seats until a year from this De- 
ean ic so that President Taft will 
still have a chance to put through 
- some of his legislative policies before 
ae the fourth of March next. The 
certainty that he will try to do so 
: makes it highly probable that the 
4 coming short session will be one of 
_ the liveliest the country has seen for 
2 ~ years. What the Democratic majori- 
ty may be able to do when it gets 
hold of the reins remains to be seen. 
- 
S ~ Postal Economies. 
There is no little danger that in 
seeking to enforce more rigid ec- 
onomy in the Government service a 
loss of efficiency will result. For 
_ this reason, it is likely that the spec- 
ial Board appointed by the Presi- 
dent to cut down expenses will find 
it necessary to view with the closest 
_ attention all the plans submitted for 
promoting economy. One proposal 
_which has already encountered erit- 
 icism in the plan suggested by the 
Post Office Department to save mon- 
ey in the registry division, amount- 
ing to some thousands of dollars an- 
nually, by not returing to the sender 
a receipt for a registered letter or 
package unless an explicit request 
’ is made for it. One of the principal 
- things which makes the registry ser- 
vice effectual and desirable is the 
return of receipts to the sender, 
- showing that the person to whom the 
article was addressed received it. 
Many persons will not think about 
the new rule, and there will be a 
flood of complaints following the 
putting into effect of such a rule, 
which will be likely to convince the 
department that the rule was un- 
wise. Another result will be the 
decrease of registry business. The 
tion, but it may not be amiss to re-_ 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
latter, probably, is not looked for or 
desired, but it will follow. Economy 
is a good thing, but it has always 
been held heretofore that in the 
Post Office Department especially, 
efficiency should come ahead. of 
economy. Otherwise, means might 
long ago have been found to cut ex- 
penses, and the rural free delivery 
service, among other things, would 
never have been inaugurated. 
War on Profanity. 
‘ Washington, where many crusades 
originate and where others find 
congenial soil for their propaganda, 
has taken up with enthusiasm the 
war on promiscuous and indiscrim- 
inate profanity. On a recent date 
7,000 members of the Holy Name 
Society of the Archdiocese of Balti- 
more paraded Pennsylvania Avenue 
and other streets of the Capital, and 
were reviewed by high dignitaries of 
the Catholic Church, which has been 
active in organizing this movement 
in various cities of the country. The 
church is striving to curb the grow. 
ing tendency to profanity among the 
boys and young men of the country. 
Aside from the religious phase of 
the question, it has been declared 
that no gentleman would use pro- 
fane language. It is annoying and 
disgusting to hear striplings ex- 
pressing themselves in a manner 
which shocks religious persons and 
disgusts every rightminded person. 
This crusade is one which will be 
likely to receive very general ap- 
proval. 
Consular Notes. 
The average yield of oysters in 
the Dominion of Canada is about 
30,000 barrels annually. The im- 
ports of oysters into Canada amount 
to about $350,000 a year. 
As a result of two years of good 
crops, Russia has large wheat re- 
serves for exportation. 
Russia raises more rye than any 
other sort of grain, the production in 
1910 being estimated at 25,000,000 
tons, while the production of wheat 
is estimated at about 23,600,000 tons. 
India is not generally associated 
with the production of hides and 
skins, yet in 1909 she exported 7,- 
512,454 cow hides, 1,010,917 buffalo 
hides, 15,171,717 goat skins, and 
229,841 sheep skins. The United 
States took a large share of the buf- 
falo hides, goat skins and sheep 
skins, but very few of the cow hides, 
most of these going to Germany, 
Austria, and Italy. It seems that 
fear of the spread of anthrax kept 
down the importation of the cow 
hides during 1909. 
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The Spanish vintage has been ex- 
ceedingly short this year in some 
districts, owing largely to late frosts. 
The new Egyptian cotton crop ap- 
proximates 700,000,000 pounds, 
which is an increase of about 8 per 
cent over the last previous average. 
The yield last year amounted to 
500,000,000 pounds. 
The cotton crop of Laguna Dis- 
trict, in Mexico, which was estimated 
last spring at 300, 000 bales, will not 
amount to more than 80,000 bales on 
account of the lact of moisture. 
Consul Byington, of Bristol, Eng- 
land, reports that fewer hogs are be- 
ing raised in England. 
Exports of American manufactur- 
es show a material gain over 1909. 
For the first time such exports will 
exceed $800,000,000 in value for the 
ealendar year. 
Commercial Agent John M. Turn- 
er, in a report on Rio de Janero’s in- 
fluence on Brazilian trade, says that 
he is very much impressed with the 
small trade the United States has 
with Brazil in the way of selling 
goods. He says he went looking for 
American houses and found only a 
very few. All the large foreign 
houses were either English, German, 
or French. He found one small 
dealer selling $4 American shoes 
for $9 a pair. He comments on the 
lack of news from this country in 
the Brazilian papers, although there 
is an abundance of cable news from 
Europe. He thinks that Americans 
are neglecting great opportunities in 
Brazil. 
The total traffic of the German 
Rhine harbors in 1909 amounted to 
45,781,485 tons. 
Projects are on foot in New South 
Wales for the material increase and 
advance of the iron manufacturing 
industry. 
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able Work for Your 
Brain, Your Hands or 
Your Dollars--is 
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This sort of work is a part of the 
*“isual usefulness’ of the classified 
ads. They accomplish so much of 
it——at so little expense, with so 
little delay-——that other ways of 
finding work for either people or 
money are going out of use. 
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