RAILWAY IN CONNECTION WITH Paciti Railway Srna Tercentendry Ce July 20-Aug. 1. lebration EBEC, $10.00 Riturn From Kingston Tickets Good Going :Y 18 TO 27, INCLUSIVE Réturn Limit Aug, 3. SEEKERS' EXCURSION BA, SASKATCHE- WAN AND ALBERTA, Sood to 3 Xo Tent. 1st, 15th Bnd 20th, eases good to return in 60 days. 11 roicul K. Tiel Office, x Sa Ban. 50; F. CONWAY, Gen, Pags. Agent. - o- BAY OF QUINTE RAILWAY one oo : Smlon aa Ontario y mi undays excepted, d, he, inte no orth. BE Saat Bors ynooth, and nts on mers y Toute your Railway, we gto to Ry W 5:53 Agent, HH) Se Cele- bration, Quebec. RTL RAILWAY [i sell round trip tickets from LEVIS 3 GO bo 13 70 5.50 18.560 | points on Edward all Prince Proportio te rates to ntercdlonial and Island Railways. July 18th--30 (inc.) 1908. Good for return until 3rd, . August Montreal City Office, 141 8¢t. James Street. or General Passenger Department, MONGTON, N.B. LES NE SYSTEM entenary Celebration, + Quebec; P.Q. to August lst, 1908. Round Will be issued from Kingston t $10. Good going Jul 18th ~ ny 7a inclusive all tickets good to return until Aug. 3rd, Vietoria Say Diego $101.10 31.05 gRonadinn Northw days. For Low Rates to Pacific Coast and Portland NEW ONE WAY FARES TO CANAD- 34.05 EKERS BX CURSIONS pullman accommodation, LIMITED. | Winnipeg, Man. random, Man, to Return. Good returning until October 31st. Seattle San Francisco IAN NORTHWEST via Chicago and St. Paul, 1st Sas $39.20 outon, $55.66 $37.56 the ON aan Northwest via Chicago and St. Paul, good going July 31st, tickets and other infotmation, apply to J. P. HANLEY, Agent Vancouver $95.80 Los Angeles Class roportionate Totes to other points tn the the i and 18th, good to return With Cor, Johnson and Ontario Stay Riverd Gulf of St. Lawrence Summer Cruises in Cool Latitudes Twin: Screw . Iron SS. Campana," with electric lights, electric bells and &1} dern comfor: AILS FROM MONTREAL ON MON- PAYS, at 4 pom., 27th July, 10th and 94th August, 7th _and 21st September, for Pictou, calling at Quebec, Gaspe, Mal "Perce, Grand River, Summerside, and Charlottetown, PE. lx N.S Bay, P.E.L, Ssh NEW YORK FROM QUEBEC | __ Calling at Charlottetown and Halifax, 8.8. Trinidad, 2,600 tons, sails from Quebec 25th July, 8th, and 23nd August. IBermuda \8 er Excursions, $40 and upwards, BS. 'Bermudian,' Jor aightty from York, June to 5th Ea tur soled by sea breezes seldom rises abave B50 degrees. The Sucet trips of the season health and ARTHUR "AHL RN, Secretary, Quebec. in tickets and staterooms apply or C. S. KIRK LAr 3k MASA Agents, Kingston Ont. "Lake Ontario & Bay of Quinte Steamboat Co, LIMITED. KINGSTON, ROCHESTER, 1,000 ISLANDS. Strs. NORTH KING. leave * Kin, for of . Commencing ~June 27th, ston for Thousand Island points daily Monday, at 10.15 a.m. Returu- | eave at 5 p.m., for Charlotte, N.Y., rt of Rochester), calling at Bay of | te Forts. STR. ALBTHA--Lsaves, Mondays for Bay of Quinte Ports, at § p.m. Ful Tntormation from JAMES SWIFT + P. HANLEY, & Agen SS KIRK PATRICK, vekes Agents, hints rina Cul" baseball of to-day ! The seams only perfect Look at it--the It is perfectly spherical. of its cover, present the solution of one of the most difficult problems - in the application of geometry. The sewing of the seams presents the omly solution of a pro- blem "equally difficult, yet arrived at by the dogged, stubborn slogging of | repeated experiment. It hds sdved" you fortunes; it has cost you fortunes, It has flung away one vast fortune and it is muking oth- er fortunes, The modern baseball is a. miraslg of mathematics, a prodigy of patience, a triumph of science which the nation has made its work and its play, its world-famed' industry and its world- famed relaxation. And it bids fair, also, to be the na- tional mystery, the eternal. enigma, more dubious than the riddle of the Sphinx, more debatable than the au- thorship of the Junius letters, more puezling than "The Breadwinners' -- more unsolvable, even, than the orig- in of "Beautiful Snow." For whe invented the double figure 8 cover now universally in use? That is the great mystery. of baseball manu- facture. The man who invented the modern cover and neglected to patent it missed' a great fortune, One spotting goods firm alone manu- factures, 1,600 dozen standard hase- | vorking day of the year, Anyone can calculate the millions in the twelve-month; and anyone can count the millions of dollars that to- tal output brings--the best spent mil- BF" i [nok and 1866 lions any people ever paid for the health that comes of honest outtoor sport. . Two members of the firm of A. "J. Reach & Co. linger on, hearty as the youngest of them, from the days when professional ball players were the game was strictly a gentleman amateurs' game. They are "Al" Rehch and "'Ben" Shibe. It is an' old-fashioned partnership, where the partners are cronies, with the good old times constantly recalled to cheer the good new times and the vic, tories of youth revived to push the pulses of henignant age. And always the cronies' That ends thus : "Ben, I onder whether we'll ever find out who it was made the first real ball 77 "Al, there isn't a man alive to tell ibe world the name to put on his monument." That four-leal the illustrations, 7 clover thing, among is the cover of the old-time baseball! and that sphere with the straight line of stitching across the top, where the seams of the clover leaves join, is the ball itself, It is ene of the two gilded trophy balls that remain out of the bushel they used. to treasure. One W those balls bears the glorious legend, '""Ath- leties vs. West Philadelphia, Frifyecte,d ¢ 1866: 44, to 19."2 The other harks back another classic yepr : "Athletics vs. Union of Morrisania, August 3rd, 26 to 1h' "The" old ball used to cost us $2." said Mr. Reach. in one of his vain of- "65; mystery. "There were two BY 0) reputations when I began to pi hack. in her. fittiges vey \ Brooklyn, sand Van fro of New Ydrk ¢ sad made of Ro he. naw, ) member" of the e Hen for: i long while the d make . it--and even while he. sold 4, with : ever-increasing success and ofit, he was dissatisfied. * as was the design it. never ut perfectly in the stitching. here---usually. where the tips of '8 - were. fitted' on either side: of 'waist. of the other; the stitches always 'drew, calling for the nicest Morrisania, an Horn ball. "Both were good balls, 'as wel made as man could make them in that dav. Their. one weak spot. was where the ends of the cover were stitched to- gether; it was usually there that the cover, ripped during a hard game, for the batsman was a hitter then and runs were many. "Fxen when 1 went into business, in "66, those two were the stgadard balls. When the naw ball did "appear--oh, what a fortune the mam threw away who invented it and did not patent it -it did not at first sprifig into popur larity. The reputation of: the loss ball was too firmly fixed. But gra: dually the absolute perfection of the new desig, combining . stich simplicity with oh a maximum of strength, compelled the total abandonment of the old form, The figure eight, as they all the umodetn spver, heptane standard recognized . the country over. the | skill of workmen in the adjustment of the cover, yet never making the ab- solate smoothness which insured pro- igotion to the full strength of the hide. For years after the partnership was formed en] Shibe struggled with that. vexati problem, testing, try- ing, measuring, designing--all in vain. But he would not give it up; and, at last, hy dint of sheer, unconquerable pluck and patience, he discovered that the nature of the sphere demanded the stitches at the end of the "8," if they were to fit perfectly with the stitches in the waist they joined, must be more numerous and more closely grouped, © in ao steadily. decreasing space of separation, than the others. He worked it out to the last obdur- Bite stiteh of the 116 stitches. Then, wise where the Columbus 'i the new emispheres had. keen foolish, he took t patent on it in" 1889, To Ben at any problem he undertakes, he- longs the credit of the final victory of mind over the rebbllipus matter that forts recently, just hefore he went to his Adirondack camp for the suminer, ---- "Health" Matiresses Guarantee Satisfaction "Health" Mattresses are made for people who want comfortable, durable mattresses at low prices. "Health" Mattresses are attractive in appear ance, being covered itl art ticking of exclusive designs. Next to the ticking are buoyant sheets of new cotton assuring softness and restful sleep. felt, Between the cotton sheets, are layers of sanitary curled wood fibre laid in even sheets, so they cannot get lumpy. TRADE MARK REGISTERED "Health" Mattresses are made in three grades --all good--all low priced. Last year over 30,000 homes bought "Health" Mattresses in preference to all others, shows their quality. Genuine red cross label sewn into end hand, like the one shown above; trade mark, the sign of absolute satis- faction Pillows. and buy nothing that does not bear it. « T. F. HARRISON C2 229-237 PRINCESS ST. J. 0. HUTTON, Esq., Agent, Canada Life Assurance Company, 18 Market St., ston, Ont. Dear Sir--~Re my whole life policy No. 10,465 (with profits) in your Company--I am obliged for your cheque, being amount of That "Health" Mattresses have a as well as this in Mattresses, Springs and Look for it whenever you buy, Kingston, Ont., June 27, 08. King- {from mysteries -of the -medern ball 'GARDEN SPOT NOW enters into she modern cover of the ! (baseball. VAI Reach was in the sporting goods busingss in. Philadel- phia, while Shibe was a manufacturer | 1864. = In. 1881 the. two formed | their partnership, mutually: advantage- | ous as giving Reach an interest in the control of van. excellent smanuiacturing business and Shibe a partnershin ina leading sales 'woncern. Shibe,at the time, was deep in the eoyer, for the inventor--that great nuknpwn, learned ~mgtnematiuanor untaught, inspired gemus--had: not perfeeted his wondrous scheme of things. In 1868 ball player who had bovght the queer novelty in some shop gave his stray, sample to Shibe, and that ex- pert. | of -the whirling. + sphere pompre- hended at first glance the marxet-that had keen wrought. Yet, when he came. LAND IN OKANAGAN COSTS $1,000 AN ACRE. Peach Crops That Yield $1,200 An Acre ; and Strawberries [hat Bring $1,935 An Acre. Canada is all the fertile districts of which it calls garden spots. school geographies years ago gave that name Annapotis valley in Nove where the apples grow. Then Western Ontario got into the fruit raising game and earned the un- official title. 'It didn't keep it - very long, for to-day it is the Okabhagan Valley ~ of British Columbia that moves the patriotic Canadian into hyperbole of speech. 'the Okanagan is a depression in the mountains, running north and south for more than 150 miles: It holds 'a lake of the same name which is eighty miles long and of + an average width of three miles. The area from this lake to the doothills is fast filling up with orchards. The climate there is something to wonder at. Fruit trees blossom in time discovering * limited . extent The Cana- of twenty to the Beotia, dian surplus J the March. The mildness and dryness of air ~make it possible to raise over premium, which is indeed very gratifying to me at my age to fruits which could net be raised clse- know that I have no further premiums to pay, but continue to re-. where in the same latitude. ceive an increased annuity each year, as long as I live, ahd $1,000.! payable to my estate. Yours 'truly, JOHN LOVICK. 152 University A venue, Kingston, Ont. ALLAN 52" LINE Montreal to Liverpool Victorian sails ... July 17. Ap. 14. July 24. a 21 Corsican sails y § Virginian sails ...July 31. Aug. 28. MONTREAL TO JAVRE AN LONDO Sicilian sails renduly 18. Aug. 29. Corinthlan sails ...Aug. 1. Sept. 12 Rates of and full intarma- tion may be obtained from J, HANLEY, A at G.T.R.,, o# OC, 8 |_KIRKPATRIOK Agents. STEAMER WOLFE ISLANDER LEAVES WOLFE ISLAND if MON. 7.80--9.15 a.m, 1,004.00 TUES, 7 80--90.15 a.my 1. ey WED. °° 7.8309, 15 amy 1. THURS,., 'Breake ey's Bay . | FRI. SAT, SUN, 9.156~12.30 a.mq 5 LEAVES KINGSTON i= THURS. 8.30--1. 00 p Breakey's Bay, 8 p. FRI. 8.830-~11.30 a. SAT, 8.830--11.80 a. A SUN. 9.45 a.m. 1.15--5:30 p.m Sat --Special trip 0 Simcoe Island and Spoor"s dock, at" 3 Time Table subject to Be] without notices Boat calls at arden Island 'going - to from CIEE OIPEEIEIIREIREOER COAL! The sudden changes in weather ought to suggest the "wisdom of putting in some good coal. We sell good Coal. t's the kind that sends . out thd most heat, and makes the heme Comfortable; the best money buy, there is none better Mined. We deliver it to you clean and without slate, at the very bottom prices. Booth & Co., Phone 133. Foot of West St. it's and Win ARG WomER Us Big ® upnstur flachars.iud Tera; sacre for his strawberry output. Of course there are apples, as there are almost everywhere in Canada; but peaches, apricots, mectarines, grapes, and even figs flourish in the southern part of the valléy. Ope enthusiastic writer has spoken of this region as the Italy of Canada. The rainfall is less than ten inches a year, so irrigation has to be resort- ed to. Seil amazingly fertile, an orchard earning its keep in a few | seasons. It is a prosperous commun- ity. I'he names of the towns have a prosperous sound. There is a Stun- merland and a Peachland. Presumably it is all Happyland. The valley is filling up rapidly with a high class of settlers. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy; president of the Cana- dian Pacific railway, which skirts the upper end of the Okanagan, has a place at Summerland. The Earl of Aberdeen has a ranch at Vernon. 'Some figures © will show how well this district deserves the title Wf gar- jden spot. A resident of Peachland sold the érop bf peaches on hig five- | year-old trees for $355 an acre, the purchasers picking and packing the fruit. A Summerland man got $300 for the fruit of 110 peach trees, at the rate of $1,200 an acre. Still an- ther Summerland man got $1,935 an i i Land in the Okanagan costs now up to, $1,000 an acre. Imagine that price ion mucous membrane nlass, and not astru RE EVANS CHENOA. ont or poironous. 'Sold Ww sent is plain hit Ha ® hotles x | # dil on Foduer for 'a worked out farm in the east! irrigation. long for returns. > snipe, indomitable slogger |¢ Specigl values, 50c., 75¢c., $1, 81.9 $0 Bc. § 8 It costs from $100 to $200 an acre for your mind A man can make a profit - "I hands you, whether you like it or not. able living out of five acres of virgin, }. ground, and: lie doesn't! have 16 Sait is more dignified to he a breadwinner "Phe - patent "has expired now; but, Qiring its lile, it went far to déter- mine the cantrol of the baseball = in- Wustry. If the inventor of the cover design had taken a patent, as the in- ventar of its stitching did, he could bave commanded, in the opinion of Mr. Reach, a royalty 'of at least 25 cents on every dozen balls made in the United States. He could have . made $400 a day from 'the output of . one big factory alone. He certainly miss- ad a fortune. Who was he? 1t is too late now-- it was too late from the haur when the firstiruit of his genius was put on sale 'without the magic safeguard of its patent, to reap the riches that he longed te his golden Hesperides--ior him to receive his reward in money, But~is there not, among the millions whose memories carry back to the early seventies, some lover of the game who can give the clue to the unknown benefactor, whom all of wus should hail with his missing meed of praise ? ! - 4 TERRIBLE DISASTER." -- Captain and Friend Speared to Death, Southampten; July, 17.--~The Elder- ] Dempster hoer Albertville, which ar rived at Southampton, yesterday morning, from the west coast f Africa, "brought details of the terrine disaster on the River Congo, in- volving the wreck of the steamer Ville de Bruges and the loss of between seventy and eighty lives, While on a voyage from Stanleyville to Leopoldville the vessel suddenly en- countered a violent tornado, and was driven - on to a sandbank, where she overturned. In additeen to Capt. Lundgren, who was a native of Swe- den, there were six. Europeans on board, Belgians and Swedes, the rest being natives. Capt. Lundgren and a friend 'with much difficulty = succeeded ith swim- ming ashore, but directly they did so were seized by natives. Some, it is understood, clamored for. the lives of. the captives, while others counselled the chieftains not to bring reprisals on them by slaying the white men, After much parleying Capt. Lundgren and his friend were speared to death. The engineer ofthe Ville de Bruges, {who had managed to keep himself {afloat, and was a spectator of this {terrible tragedy, succeeded latgr in Whe day in escaping, and though in terribly exhausted state was able to | comununicate with the commandant of {the nearest station. So far as can be 'ascertained, 'he is the sole survivor of the disagter. Mpasures were at gnce taken to in- vestiga tesgthe affair; a search : was made for the bodies of Capt. Lund- gren and his friend, but without avail and there seems little doubt that they were eaten by ihe natives. Many arrests have been made connection with the afiair, and the Albertville left Congd ports two chieftains were awaiting trial. The engineer--af the Ville dé Bruges had dost his reason thfough the terrible ordeal he has undergone, and was lying in hospital, ---------- Rebellious Stomachs. When the stomach has lost tone or there is an insuflicient secretion of digestive fluids the stomach rebels and allows food fo sour and ferment. Then it is time to take Day's Dys- peépsig Cure which will give the stom- ach precisely the help needed. This preparation has digestive, ton- ic and laxative properties. Each bot- tle contains sixteen day's treatment. For sale only at Wade's drug store. chen Temni------ The Probs. Say Rain. 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