UP PR Se awe 
R. K. McMillan 
Successor to 
D. H. Mampre 
Ladies’ Tailor 
Importer 
and Designer 
4)I respectfully solicit your  pat- 
ronage and guarantee satisfaction in 
every respect. 
A large Assortment of latest 
FALL and WINTER 
NOVELTIES. 
Mr. McMillan was formerly with E. M. Wil- 
son & Co., Boston. 
163 Cabot street, BEVERLY 
Telephone 107-1 
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ROOMS TO LET, or do you want BOARD- 
ERS? 
ge=-Perhaps you want a POSITION for the 
summer as GARDENER, or COACHMAN, 
or CHAUFFEUR. 
Whatever you want it ought not to require 
AN ALARM CLOCK 
to awake you to the fact that the easiest, the 
quickest, the least expensive way to gratify your 
wish is to patronize the 
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North Shore Breeze 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
MENACE OF ICEBERGS. 3 
One Danger of Sea Against Which 
Wireless Is of Little Avai! 
The fear of icebergs has | 
partly removed in recent ye 
wireless telegraphy, but thei 
ence on the seas is still menacing 
enough to cause anxiety. 
The government every summer 
and fall makes out an iceberg guide. 
When some ship reports an iceberg 
in a certain latitude and longitude 
a little red dot is placed on the ice- 
berg chart. 
It is drifting in a southerly di- 
rection, and allowances are made 
for so many miles of advance every 
twenty-four hours. So the red dot 
is moved slowly forward. But ad- 
verse winds, seas and currents may 
change the course of the berg, and 
this sort of reckoning may prove 
all wrong. 
Later another ship reports the 
same or another iceberg in a differ- 
ent place, says Harper’s Weekly. 
More red dots appear on the chart, 
and as the season advances the dan- 
ger points increase. These charts 
are issued as warnings to mariners. 
Ships sailing in certain northern 
latitudes must study the location 
of the icebergs, and for the sake of 
safety the captains provide them- 
selves with duplicates of the charts. 
Icebergs are dangerous obstruc- 
tions to navigation on clear, dark 
nights as~well as in times of fog. 
They carry no lights, and they can- 
not be detected in the dark until 
close upon a ship. 
Iixperienced sea captains possess 
a certain instinct for detecting the 
presence of icebergs. Some cap- 
tains claim that they can smell an 
iceberg miles away. Something in 
the atmosphere warns them of the 
danger, and they double the watch 
and reduce speed until out of the 
danger zone. ‘Then, again, when 
near an iceberg the air grows sud- 
denly cold and chilly, and some- 
times there is a drop of several de- 
grees in the temperature. 
Many unaccounted  disappear- 
ances of ships and steamers are at- 
tributed to collisions with icebergs, 
ships and all on board going to the 
bottom without so much as a rem- 
nant left to tell the tale. 
} Bidding In a Bride. 
While some furniture was being 
sold at auction at Orkellyunga, in 
Sweden, a curious incident occurred. 
A young girl pushed her way 
through the crowd until she was 
quite close to the auctioneer, so 
close indeed that she somewhat im- 
peded him when he desired to make 
1? 
éffective gestures. Being a man of - 
humor, he resolved to get rid of her 
in a novel manner, and therefore, 
taking her by the arm, he shouted: 
“Here, now, is an excellent bargain 
—a young girl, aged nineteen, very 
pretty and well educated! What 
am I offered? Come; we’ll start it 
at 3,000 crowns!” At once there 
was brisk bidding, which continued 
until an elderly bachelor farmer of- 
fered 10,000 crowns. The auction- 
eer tried to get a higher bidder 
than this, but failed, and so he de- 
clared the farmer to be the pur- 
chaser of the girl. All those pres- 
ent thought that it was a good joke, 
but it was more than that, for a 
few days later the farmer and the 
girl were married in the presence of 
the mayor, and before the ceremony 
the farmer presented the young 
woman, an orphan, with 10,000 
crowns, the exact amount which he 
was willing to pay for her at auc- 
tion. 
Victim of a Soft Heart. 
The prison visitor looked at the 
occupant of cell 49 through eyes 
that were dim with tears and passed 
a few more fragrant blossoms be 
tween the iron bars. 
“You poor unfortunate!” she ex 
claimed. “So you were brought t 
this through sympathy for anothe. 
Tell me all about it. Perhaps some- 
thing can be done to set you free.” 
“Well, mum, *twas this way,” ex- 
claimed the convict. “When me an’ 
my mate cracked the crib we found 
the bank watchman asleep, an’ we 
tied an’ gagged him. It was him 
as arterward identified me.” 
“Yes, and the sympathy for an- 
other?” asked the visitor. 
“Tt was fér him, mum. My mate 
wanted ter stick a knife in him. If 
I hedn’t been a fool an’ done it I 
wouldn’t be here a-talkin’ ter you 
now.”—Boston Traveler. 
His Luggage. 
An Aberdonian went to spend a 
few days in London with his son, 
who had done exceptionally well in 
the great metropolis. After their 
first greetings at King’s Cross sta- 
tion the young fellow remarked: 
“Feyther, you are not lookin’ weel. 
Is there anything the matter?” The 
old man replied, “Aye, lad, I have 
had quite an accident.” “What 
was that, feyther?” ‘Mon,’ he 
said, “on this journey frae bonnie 
Scotland I lost my luggage.” “Dear, 
dear! That’s too bad. ’Oo did it 
happen?” “Aweel,’ replied the 
Aberdonian, “the cork cam’ oot.” 
