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VIII: CANADA. Crop reports from northern Mani- toba. are gratifying. . The price of bread h~en reduced to 11 ants a Icaf at Ottawa. :I‘be Presbyterian General Assembl.v w.” meet in Hamilton next. year. The capital of the I'nion Bank of Quebec will be increased to $1,550,000. Hamilton has dosed a contract for ml. rm- in mblic huiidinzs at 84 per Hamilton has closed a co: coal' for its public buildings ton. Senator \Iaclnnes offers Dundurn Park to Hamilton City Council for y â€" v A rich placer gold fielgi has been struck at Two Year Creek. a branch of the Stikine. One deethv from smallpox has oc- curred ambng the immigrants quaran- timed at “innipeg. The Town Council of Louisville. Que has decided not establish a. muni- cipal wine and cider (gallery. ) Miners in the Klondike district 81:8 protesting against the existing trail and: transpogtation facilities. IAt Guelph. David irvine. a noted hm'81”, was sentenced to fourteen years in the Kingston Penitentiary. - TWO Hamilton Klondikers have re- turned huzne dlsgusted with their ef- forts to reach the land of gold. The Proxincial Board of Health of Ontario has been notifieJ of an out- break; of smallpox in New York State. According to a report that has reach- ed Vancouver, 3 transfer boat of the C. P. R. has been wrecked on the Skeena river. Caterpillars are tax-aging the. .frgnt trees] and berry bushes in the vxcmuy of Kingston. Whole orchards have been stripped. Your per cent. ‘10 your city water bonds of St. John. NB", sold for 106 1-2. the layer being the Bank of New Brunswick. Three men were killed by an explo- sion and fire at the Asbestos 8: As- beetic Company works near Danville. V ~vâ€"v UL I 'I he Ontario Government has issued ‘ era Instructions for the seizure of all fruit ' ' on which there is any sign of San Jose ‘ Beale. T. *At Kingston a vicious Newfoundland of = dog attacked the youngest son otLieut. . A ('01. Drury and tore the flesh from his firm face and jaw. ion The absence of Senator Sutherland of E Manitoba for two consecutive sessions fro has caused another vacancy in the Up- lan per Chamber. C Edward Lynes, caretaker of the Ber- of lin postoffice. has teen arrested charg' Ha ed with stealing a registered letter sal containing money. A --- r7 from Silver Heights, “innipeg. has been safely landed at Canadian \‘ational Park. In connection with a fatality, the coroner's jury censured the Hull El- ectric railway for not prOperly pro- tecting highway crossings. The indy of Fred. Cope, ell-Mayor 01-?anwcb1‘1‘velv': 8.0.. Who. was drown- ed last winter on his way to the Klon- dike has been recovered. Tim body of young Patterson of Hamilton, who was drowned on Au- gust 31 last en route to the Klondike. has been found near Edmonton. Mr. Archibald Blue, Director of the Ontario Government Mining Bureau. says that the recent strike of oil in Kent. Co., Ont., is the best made in late years. Mrs. XV. A. Mitchell. of Kingston,: strtook of some sliced cucumbers which caused fUCh a violent illness that she burst a blood vessel and died of hemorrhage. (‘hzlrles Moyan. an old Toronto boy. who is now a gunner on the cruiser New York. writes to a friend in that city. ” You will all hear of the end of the war in thirty or forty days. A proposal is to be made‘to the City Council at St. John, N. B., to secure legislation to expropriate the pro- petty. privileges and franchises of the St. John Street Railway Company, to be conduCted by the city in the inâ€" terest of taxpayers. ’_ The Ontario Government and the les- see of the binder twine plant at the Central Prison have made arrange- ments to add to. the plant. at the lesâ€" eee’s expense. sufficiently to establish a mpe walk. and- rope will in future be made almost exclusively. Mrs. Constantinides. wife of Dr. Con- stantinides. was stricken with apo- plexy while walking in Toronto on My, and was taken home in an apparently dying condition. She has materially improved and her condition affords hope of recovery. ‘ ' GREAT BRITAIN. John Trodd. the insane Englishmen who shot a German Count in London. mistook the latter for Colonel John Hey. the American Minister. Lord William Seymour. uncle of the Ismai- of Hertford. has been met- ted mder of the Brltinh t In Genoa to succeed Donia-Gen. A. g. The lurquis of mnsdowne announc- book to the consumptive that vitality u tint 9.11 the officers implicated in which enables him to overcome the the Trauma aid. with the exception add" of disease within himgl'resh air at Col. Rhodes and mjor WflMchn is not uthing to be taken in littlg 2! muwmmmm done. onwaday. but athing to live musi- ot lien-downegnmgnp- the baronetage. Sir Julian Pauncefote. the British Ambassador at Washington. has been notified that he will remain there an- other year to conclude certain matters of imwrtance that he has in hand. A murderer was lynched on the pub- lic Square at Great Bend. Kansas. on Monday night by a mob. The victim was John Becker. He killed a girl 16 years of age on April 8. ”J H" :1). ah the millionaire brew- Anton r er. er of Austria. it is stated..hqs nylon??- ed that. he intends. estabhshlng 1n 3 1.- Waukee a 8? 00 (.001 00_brz}_nEh Of his busi- 3â€" .u‘nnfg in The death sentence of Salter D. “or- den will be commuted to life imprison- great railroad strike of lfi-fi helped to wreck a Sauthern Pacific train. near Sacramento. killing an engineer and three soldiers. Insanity is the cause of this move. The engineers, stokers and orqinary seamen who have been in servxce on the scout ships Yale and Harvard M'lll connot‘be compelled to go into ser- v1ce on a. warship, especially as most of them are subjects of foreign powâ€" Thirty lives were lost by the collapse of a building in Biot, France. An English syndicate will work the iron deposits in Bay de Verde. 3 New- foundland fishing settlement. Horrible tales of starvation com? from the French coast of \‘ewfoumd- Owing to the apparent impossibility of enforcing the prohibitory law the Hawaiian Lpgislature has licensvd the sale of opium. A revolution which has existed in Venezuela for the past six months is at an end, Hernandez, the leader of. the rebels having been captured. and his forces defeated on Sunday night. An English company with a million dollars capital has been formed to work the iron deposits of Bay‘de Ver- des, Newfoundland. These deposits are regarded as the best in the‘ world. The new German tariff excludes Can- ada from the most-favored-nation priv- ileges. The inference is that Germany is attempting to revenge herself up- A _._1A 3 Seat. We make our windows fit, we 3 pad: our doors. we shiver at adraught we surround ourselves with woollenl curtains, dusty carpets, and fluffy? luxurious upholstery; we breathe the same air over and over again. and then ; we wombr that we are not strong and vigorous. The fact is we are daily using up the exuberant vitality with 5 which nature has rovided us in strng. ' sling against arti icial conditions. How P powerful. for evil, hOW deteriorating " these conditions are. is shown by the tact that their more removal gives |~ book to the ‘oongumptivo that vitality I I'll? Present Mode 0! Lite In "all for the} Health. point to the conclusion that there is something definitely injurious in the indoor. life which is now the common mode of existence among civilized peo- ple. It is astriking and startling thing that the mere removal of a pa- tient into the Open air should lower his fever, should remove his night sweats. and take awsy his hectic, and U'V‘JVVH it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that if these symptoms are removed by the purity of the air outside they1 must have been largely caused by the impurity of the air within the house. Nor have we any right to assume that it is the consumptive only who suffers. Doubtless the healthy struggle against and overcome evil influences before which' those who are tuberculos‘ suc- cumb, but that is not to say that in the struggle we do not suffer, and, indeed, the facts recently brought for- ward are sufficient to show that the stuffy life of warmth and comfort which civilized man now “enjoys” is bad. for the health even of the health- THE VALUE OF FRESH AIR. ngineers, stokers and ordinary who have been in service on Lt ships Yale and Harvard Mill 0 'go to sea on the vessels when .ve NeWport News as auxiliary . These men were in the em- the American Line when the n-__‘___‘ GENERAL. lodge to do D, Wor- that have a tendency should be thinned, and this is especml‘ ly true of fruits that set in clusters. A tree, vine or shrub has only so much vital force, and it it expends it upon a limited amount of work, the work will be well done, whereas if the power ’is scattered over a great deal of sur- face. none of the work will be more .than half done. So tree. says “’is- i cousin Farmer, should be permitted to . E be so loaded as to require propping or _ to cause the branches to bend materi- lauy, or the growth of the fruit will {be checked and its quality injured. lWith the grape the desired result is ! reached by pruning back severely, and ;no one expects to have good grapes iwithout it, but with fruit trees this! » is not practicable, and resort must be: éhad to thinning. Every time a tree i is permitted to overhear, its vitality is . ; reduced to such a degree that it must ‘ % rest for two or three years, or worse I §3till, its growth is checked and it is] F~P‘31‘manently injured. Moreover, an] i overcrOp requires the tree to mature,l Eor at least try to mature, amuch‘ 3 larger number of seeds, and seed pro- i duction is the most exhausting work ithat vegetation has to perform. The lseeds that a propped apple tree makes ‘ are a greater tax upon its vitality than l it is to make the fruit. There have not i been many extended experiments at ex- - l Periment stations to ascertain precisely 'fihow great the advantage of severe thinning is, but there have been . enough to make the fact that it 18 l profitable, apparent. Such experi- l ments have been tried in a limited way I I such as plums, apples, peaches. etc., and even currants are improved in quality when the tips of the fruit clusters are clipped off. In the case of currants it is not regarded as pro- fi‘table to do the work. but the fact that it has been experimentally done with the results stated, is valuable be- cause it proves the universality of the Dl'iDCiple. In a great many com- mercial orchards. particularly in peach orchards. thinning is practiced as re- ;gularly as any other detail in man- i agement and is always found profita- Ible. The advantages resulting from thinning are many. In the first place the size of the fruit is increased. it has a. higher color and better flavor. In other words, the tree does better work when it is not overtaxed. Next. it reduces the amount of inferior fruit and vu'ndfalls. we often have a good deal of complaint about trees dropping their fruit. but the evil would be great- ly diminished if thinning were regu- I larly practiced. It is especially neces- sary in the case of all varieties that have short stems and grow in clusters. and on which, on this account, the in- dividual fruits so crowd each other as they increase in size that they actually “pull each other." so to speak. Thin- ning also decreases the amount of rot, particularly in the case of peaches and plums. because the disease can spread less easily when the fruitsudo I v I â€"â€"â€" râ€"wâ€"v VVV spread less easily when the fruits do not touch each other. If the thin- ning is done by hand, those fruits that have been attacked by insects can be removed, and insect injuries are thus reduced. The vitality of the tree is spared by thinning, it is longer lived and is a more regular bearer. The better deve10pment of the fruit al~ lowed to remain on the tree generally makes a larger total yield in bushes. and the better quality makes it bring a higher price per bushel. The Missouri . Horticultural ‘ So‘ciety announced a couple of years ago its belief that if. from a heavily loaded tree. a half or even three-fourths of the fruit were removed. the product in bushels would be greater than if all were permitted to remain. besides being of better quality. As to the time when the thinning should be done, the purpose being to prevent the tree from wasting its vital force, the earlier the fruit be taken off the better. provided it be de- layed until the danger of dropping through lack of pallinationhtrost.‘ etc... is past. Plums are usually thinned when about half grown and before the pits harden; peaches at about the same stage and apples when they are about the size of hickory nuts. It should be thorough enough to leave the individual fruits not less than four in- ches apart. It the reader doubts the‘ advantages of thinning or thinks he' has not time to attend to it. let him select a couple of trees and do a little experimenting. Let the trees select- ed be of the same variety and such as have set a large amount of fruit. Thin one of them quite severel . leaving not less than four inches tween each fruit. and leave the other untouched as _a check tree. and then watch the results. The results he may expect. are more and better fruit from the I thinned tree. with a good_ crop next year as well is this yeaâ€"r. when {he un- thinned tree will probably be resting. One of the most common causes of broachy animals on the form is poor fences. and we may go further and ooy thotonoodport ottho injury to stock: from birboa‘who tonooo. in duo to a. pooroondiflonotthobnoo. nowh. fruit it growers. generally. re- fact that thinning fruit is Lt as cultivation. pruning. KEEP FENCES GOOD. boom impossible for $11113:th wllâ€"Iii “808 0‘ Goqld turns the bum into a sort 0! a poor convalescent homo which is filled dur- and “y! in: tho wink; 1:.an g varbm chil- . duo’s ham! , cood work. 33°: "51* y; 115?." $35233?“ WI , N uwim hot our“ " of the others to be like them. “ jth I wire fences properly built. care being I taken to have strong corner posts well I braced. it is not much work to keep? them in good condition. But no mat- I ter what kind of fence: there may be ‘ on the farm it is good plan to go over I them every few weeks and see thatI they are kept in good repair. 1 “'RAPPING CHOICE FRUIT. In this age of strong competition the farmer and fruit grower must be “9‘ to-date and take advantage of each and everything that promises to give him a better price for his product than the average market price for an average crop. If the grower has a crop of ex- tra fine fruit or vegetables it will cer- tainly pay to spend some time and money in putting them on the market in the most attractive form. Take early tomatoes. peaches and plums for example; the choicest specimens can be wrapped carefully in tissue paper. P1113 up in small packages and sold for a fancy price. Extra fine specimens of strawberries and other small fruits could be attractively packed in the ordinary wooden butter plate, for a novelty. after first covering the plate math tissue paper, or they could be melted in the ordinary basket or box. which should be new or clean. and}? 'V “LL“ wuuau W uvvv v- â€"_'.___. being made attractive bring a. high price. In this day of large shipments of the ordinary grades of fruit and vegetables it will not pay to putoa choice lot of stuff on the market In the ordinary way, for nine times out of ten it would only serve to bring up the price of the medium grades rath- er than gain for itself the extra price it deserved. 0n the other hand. the care and small expense necessary to put this extra fruit on the market so attractively packed that it will attract the attention it deserves, will be Paid for many times over. ‘ SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. For five weeks agents of the Ontario Department of Agriculture have been giving instruction in the spraying of fruit trees at thirty orchards in dif- ferent parts of the Province. Reports sent to Dr. Orr, superintendent, in charge of this work, have just been re- ceived at the Department, to the ef- fect that fungus is now appearing upon apple and pear trees, and threatens to i do extensive injury to these crops un- less checked at once by spraying. In- sect enemies also are more numerous than usual this year. Apples, with , the exception of the Spy, have set well. 'r'â€"'â€" -- and xyhere properly cared for, there is promme of a good crop. In spraying apple trees to check or prevent the spot. use the Bordeaux mixture. made astollowa: Bordeaux Mixtnraâ€"COpper sulphate. 4 lbs.; lime, fresh, 4 lbs.; water. 310 gal. Suspend the copper sulphate in five gallons of water. This may be done by putting in a bag of coarse material. and hanging it no as to be covered by the water. Slack the lime in about the same quantity of water. _Th_en mix the tub. and. add the remainder of the forty gallppe _ot eater. Warm wite} will dissolve the copper sulphate more readily than cold water. It the limp is at all dirty. strain the lime solution. Miss Helen Gould. of New York. the daughter of the famous millionaire. in fast becoming known as a philanthro- pist. She is a young woman who takes great interest in the welfare of the children of the poor. She has an estate at a place called woody Crest in Tarrytownn a. couple of miles from her own house in Irvington. which she de- votee entirely to charitable purm. This estate consists of a lame build- ing which stands in some thirteen acres of land. It is capable of housing twen- ty or thirty children comfortably. and it is never empty. Every fortnight a number of little ones from the vari- , on: mission schools arrive to take the place of others who have just depart- As soon “they much the house their clothes are taken from them. and after they have been thoroughly washed. they are given new garments. _In order to run this house properly thouNioesot smatmn. ants. as well as six hon awry. There in tho 3 coochintn who take: the children out for long drives ov day. As soon as tho warm we; :- opus: and outdoor m. A FAIR PHILANTHROPIST. h the summer espedally M the bowels be kept free, sotha. poisonous material shall remain'. the system to ferment and dc:: and mfect the “hole b0d\. remedy has yet been {011mlk to B B B for Cur1" gCODStlpa mo“. even the most ch onic and Stub born cases )ield to 175 influence “I cannot say too much in f“ Burdock Blood Bitters, as there remedy equal to it for the Cured stipation. \K'e always keep it 3‘ house as a genera! 12.31in median. would not bewizhout it." MRS, J; MOSHER, Pictou Landing, x,5_ B. 8.8. not oniy cures Cami?“ is the best remedy known for Bilious- Bum ness. gyspepsia, Sour tomac h. Jaundice, Liver BIM Complaint, Kidney Cousnmfi BRISTING AND enema nun- ”. Tnuronn. VUIBIynuao-s, . ;-u.n. Disease and 81003 Human Bitten. FLOUR, OATMEAL and F *- THE SAWMI] ~ "“358. SHINGLESAND LN TH! FINEST TEA IN THE WORLD “'8 are now prepared to do a A FIRST CLASS on worm: notice und «wanes entranced. MILLS confldenthl. Oldest .ilit ‘m Americg._ “'9 mm? 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