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VOLUME 7. October 1, 1909 NumBer 40 
Oct. 2—8. 
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THE postoflice department has issued 
orders to postmasters to drop the word 
““free’’? in reference to rural delivery, 
and the initials ““R..F. D.’’ will there- 
fore give way to ‘“R. D.’’ meaning 
“‘rural delivery.’’ The service has be- 
come so general that the designation of 
‘free’? has become obsolete. All mail 
service whether in the city or country is 
free—that is, free tothe mail patrons but 
expensive to the government. ‘The sys- 
tem to be installed in Manchester in 
December will be known as 
livery’ not ‘“free delivery’ as common- 
ly called. 
“city de- 
THE exceedingly high course of tides 
the last week has done more or less dam- 
age of a minor degree all along the shore 
such as floating away objects supposed to 
be above high-water mark, lifting boats 
from their moorings, and washing floats 
and walks out of position. The high 
tides were due to an unusual condition 
in the astronomical world. On Thurs- 
day the sun, moon and earth were in line 
and the moon was in its nearest ap- 
proach to the earth. The gravitation 
pull was therefore exceptional. On 
Wednesday also it happened that the 
planet Mars was the nearest to the earth 
and almost directly in line with the sun 
and moon, while Saturn was not far 
from the same lirfe. 
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The term chauffeur literally _ means 
‘““fireman,’’ and before the advent of 
the automobile it signified, in France, a 
person who looks after the fire of a forge 
ora machine a vapeur. There is also, 
however, another sense in whtch the 
word has been employed, suggestive of 
the American .chauffeur’s too frequent 
disregard for his victims. In the French 
dictionary of Larive et Fleury, the sec- 
ondary definition is translated as follows: 
‘“ Chauffeurs, aband of brigands who, 
during the Revolution and the Res- 
toration, particularly in the West, burned 
the feet of their victims to make them 
tell where their money was _ hidden.’’ 
The modern chauffeur thus traces his an- 
cestry much further back than most 
people suppose, his prototype being 
found in the Reign of Terror. 
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The newspapers have been making 
more or less of a joke out of an incident 
connected with the visit of John Hays 
Hammond of the Gloucester summer 
colony and President Taft to the old 
Leanard copper mines at Helena, Mont., 
Monday. Mr. Hammond is reputed the 
greatest mining expert in the world. 
The attendants did not recognize him in 
oil skins and sou’ wester, and one started 
to explain the system to him. 
ce . 
But perhaps you have been in a 
mine before,’’ suggested the guide. 
““ Well, I have seen pictures and read 
about them,’’ replied Mr. Hammond. 
‘The President, who was just ahead 
on the narrow mule track, carrying a 
lamp (the others carried candles), heard 
the conversation and stopped the pro- 
cession. 
“Jack Hammond!’ he shouted, 
““don’t get funny this far under ground!’’ 
‘Oh, is this Mr. Hammond?”’ asked 
the committeeman, hurriedly, ‘‘ I’ve of- 
ten heard of you. Pardon my ques- 
tion.’’ 
‘*That’s all right,’ Mr. Hammond 
said Jaughing. ‘‘I don’t blame you for 
not recognizing me in this costume.’’ 
* * * * 
Jeffrey S. Reed, proprietor of the 
Beach Street Cafe, Manchester, received 
a letter through the mail the other day, 
=. G EB. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
‘Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER QLD SOUTH BLDG., BOSTON 
which ought to make some people in 
Manchester ‘‘sit up and take notice.’’ 
The letter was from no less prominent 
a personage than William Jennings Bry- 
an, Democratic candidate of long stand- 
ing for President of the United States. 
It was an invitation to Mr. and Mrs. 
Bryan’s 25th wedding anniversary. It 
might appease the feelings of those 
more ardent in their efforts for the Neb- 
raskan’s victory in the past than has been 
Mr. Reed, to know that it was all a 
mistake, and that the letter was wrongly 
addressed. Very plainly was the en- 
velope marked ‘‘Major and Mrs. J. S. 
Read, Manchester, N. H.’’ There be- 
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ing no Read’’ or — Reed’’. answering 
that description in the New Hampshire 
city, the postoffice forwarded it to Man- © 
chester, Mass. Here there is no ‘‘Maj- 
or J. S. Read,’’ but there is a ““Mr. J. 
S. Reed,’’ and the letter was consequent- 
ly placed in Mr. Reed’s box. The con- 
tents of the letter is self-explanatory. It 
follows: ‘* Mr. and Mrs. William Jen- 
nings Bryan request the pleasure of your 
company on the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of their marriage on Friday evening, the 
first of October, nineteen hundred and 
nine, at eight o’clock, at Fairview, Lin- 
coln, Nebraska. No Presents.’? Who 
knows? Mr. Bryan has a‘ pretty long 
head; he may be playing his cards just 
right. He may be trying.to make a De- 
mocrat out of our good friend, the Park 
Commissioner, so that he. will have an- 
other hard worker on hisside when 1912. 
rolls around. 
Mancuester, Mass., 
Sept. 29, 1909. 
Editor North Shore Breeze. 
Dear Sir: 
I was interested in what you had to 
say last week about maintaining several 
‘mounted police, officers at Manchester 
and at other points along the North Shore 
in the summer season. I think they 
would go a long way toward holding the 
fast-speeding autos under restrain. Bear- 
ing on this subject I enclose a short clip- 
ping from a New York paper. last Sun- 
day. , 
Very truly yours, 
BeCeke 
The clipping referred to in the abov 
communication follows: M 
The utility of the mounted police 
has been strikingly demonstrated on Riv- 
erside Drive since the preparations for 
the Hudson-Fulton celebration began. 
Automobiles were running at the rate of 
thirty miles an hour before the. mounted 
men were stationed there, but with blue- 
coats on duty the scorching. has ceased 
almost completely.’’ . es 
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