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In? Ia maker and Jowolu. Merry y New re rs! We do repairing all kinds bv tings Meth airs? able Rates, Big 4 ordon S M l DES. Too low IVQ 2m! Fleece-lined Duck. irrnrrnrnrrnm 'H A R USH. 13 HO“ UGGIST ping Here Satisfaction. done tops. More \SH SYSTEM facility and and it will with OI. harm likg I RIGHT, up .IJ Road. Bentinck. gitnatcd about hails: from Dnrb: m. Comma zoo acres,60acm being in 3' ud state hf cultivution. and the gut in grid ”editing )9: mum, Than These are by no means all the co- operative fruit associations, but the results achieved so to: ehow that where farmers grapple intelligently with the problem of packing and marketing their fruit, there is no need for it to go to waste and a fair profit may naually beeecured. W. A. CLEMONS. Publication Clerk. One of the pioneer cooperative as‘ soc-iations of Ontario is that at Chat' ham. which has been in operation for seven years. The practical benefits have been very much in evidence there as elsewhere. This season lortrthree cars of fruit were shipped to the West by the above organism tion. The St. Catharines cooperative as- sociation shipped during the past year 40“ cars of tender fruit and ap- ples. Members in one township bought. a power aprnyer for co-Opera- :ivo usv. All their boskets. Paris green and blnostono were purchased in tho someway nnd at 3 consider- able saving. The Forest association was organs ized last Spring and has a member- ship of about one hundred. This fall thirty eight cars of apples were ship- ped to the \Vest and realized an average of $1.90 for No. l and $1.55 for No. :3, on board cars at Forest. The apples shipped were mostly Bald- wins. Kings and Greenings. but in- cluded all marketable varieties. The association appointed its own sales- men to handle the fruit in theflVest. At first shipping from the orchards was tried. but it was soon found ad- visable to have two central‘packing houses. Instead of buying barrels the association bought the stock and had them made up. at acosc of about twentyweight to thirty cents, as com. pared with forty-five cents charged by coopers. The railroad and steam-3 ship companies have been found} much readier than formerly to give proper transportation facilities. and tho results generally have been set. isiactory to members. The cost of packing was about fourteen cents per barrel, but atout six cents of this was made up by the sale of culls. all of which were sent to the evaporator.~ ed this season a central comparative packing house. To this cbntral point the members brought their apo plea in barrels which had been pur- chased through the organization. The apples were delivered in hay- raeks. the bottoms of which were well ('OVt'l‘ed with hay. or in spring waggons. and any found unfit for packing were returned, The various lots were net kept separate. but all were graded as they came in and the? proceeds were divided among the members awording to the quantity of each grade they supplied. The expense of packing was from ten to fifteen rents a barrel, which was less than the rust of packing in the or- uhard This year eight ears of fruit were seld. itir'luding soft apples like Duchess and Astraohan, and for the entire lot prices ranged from 31.75 to $2.20 a barrel on hoard cars at VValk- erton. The "oat. of barrels. packing, etc . had to be deducted from this. but Without (to-operation the apples would have been left to rot on the ground. - pg: N9._r»3, Cox. _3, GABAFRAXA vv-vâ€"u mvvv v. I -'i~.;'ls;'(-d vsith‘uth‘e'fruit tautlooltijhm'I completely: cured by Catarrho' Thw have learned by bitter ex~ zene.;o,there ‘8 no reason why you ”Hence that it will not do to (10-,8nom n tstamp out, your catarrh “I“ pen-.5 on the travelling buyers. They '80.1C3tarthozone Tm“ really care you mmt t20~0peratfl in the packing and 9m. “1°?“ the (1180380 (”fl-”m”? marketing of,their apples if they «13. 198-1.. t Silvery pleasau,3ust alsamlc sin: to be reasonably Isure of a fair fim‘ ““e vapor,--â€"no 9"“390‘13 “mm from thvir orchards. rugs. Absolute cure guaranteed to H , ~ users of Catarrhozone ; 1t can’t fan], . lhtf co-nperattve system of market‘ try it. . Complete outfit $1.00 ; sample mg: new proved a great success m , . . . , , size 230. COHI’WCUUH With the Cahforma. from ‘ . (1 . M «mm». the Iexas tomato crop, and m manpv other cases in the United Bright“; The Longlyfiome', States. It is rapidly gaining ground .__._ in Canada. and the practical IGSUIIS Those who know the gregt West of of its Operation at several Ontario Canada'cgu easily picture to thgupi points. an. worthy 0f consideration selves the country‘ the scattered! by every 0f"b8f‘1i8t. The Walker- homesxesde, the primitive shacks, {OD ilSSOCiittiOD. WhiCh started in fil the miner’s huts, which are inhabit. small way three 3 ears ago, establish- I ed bv thnnn ninnnurn mum M... -gnt..- parking, with consequent easier «In at better prices, might be scouted. This season upplo buyers have not been competing as usual for the (arm- or’q «rap, and the prices oflerod for applpq have bsen unusually low. A good many farmers have not been able to sell their apples at all and in mnsoqm-m-e they are more or less disgusted With the fruit uutlnnlr For tho put throo your: rho Ink Division. Ottnwn, ha been outlast], ndvocuing oo-oporntion onion; Iran growers. not only in mnrkotin. their products. but in many other way. to well. It has been pointed out thnt beginners might co-opernto to but the trees best suited to their diatriot at the lowest: price ; that uniform methods of orchnrd mnnngonunt might be adopted in order to ensure a uniform quality of fruit , that of~ femive anti systemntic aprtying might be secured by means of power ou'fits. serving a. neighborhood in the same manm-r as the threshing! mawlfim- ; that cheaper supplies, such: as implements. chemicals for spray-J in; am] pm-kages for shipping. might: h-- nhfaiflwl; and than by putting up? ("firt‘ign-rafive parking houses at pro-3 pH' (‘ street. uniform grading and? marten man: or at Farm for Sale. Packing and naming Fruit. Purchasing Supplies. There is the home, with its walls bare of pictures and ornaments; the little shelf in the corner with its treasures which have been read and l Those who know the great West of Canada can easily picture to them- selves the country. the scattered .homesxeads, the primitive shacks, the miner’s huts, which are inhabit- ed by those pioneers who are winning for us this vast and fertile territory at the cost of endless toil and hard- ship. Such conditions are insepar- able from a new country. however full of beauty and natural resou.ces. Where there are families of children, a little school house may be within reach daring perhaps six months of the year, and possibly a church. The other resources of civilization are ! conspicuous by their absence. l i What makes Catarrh such a dread- ed disease. If you have catarrh taint, dropping in the throat, if you ; hawk and spit. and have a. scufied up, ;feeling; in your nostrils you should I‘use fragrant healing Catarrbozone. fiat once and get cured. Thousands: iha‘fe been sewed from Consumption: â€"-f400,000 has been expended by the National Sanitarium Association in 8 years to maintain and extend its work in Muskoka. -â€"1,500 Patients have been cared for in these Homes. â€"â€"Since the Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives was ~ opened in 1.902, not a single patient has ever been at refused admission because of his or her poverty. ““311011‘13561313 are under sentence of death." reader who does not know of homes where the exiatence of such an institu- tion would establish hope where now there is nothing but despair. It isdifli- cult to com'vive of a. more tragic fate than that of the bread-winner whosees the swift allKroach of death. and yet knows that t e destroyer could he van- quished had he but the means to carry him to where climatic conditions are favorable and enable him to remain there long enough to profit by the cure.- tiyg influences, _ ‘ “These pm plasma will have to be faced. but above .t hem all remains the sorrow and SUYYBPIHQ that. such an institution would 0 a great way towards allevi- atin . 'hm'e ts probgbly scqrgely a. _-_ __ _-_L‘ I are to receive any rmanent, benefit. from the treatment. hen therearothe b number of afflicted who would ’re mavail themselves of the boqn~ stargreatcr number than-could possxbly b9.a_9.comm0dawd- , “One 01' the difficulties is to remove from the public mind the impression that consumption is incurable. the be- lief being: almost universal that once it has seized hold of its victims all that can be done is to leave them to die. Another of the difficulties, andpcrhaps the main diliiculty, is the question of finances. The maintenance of an hospi- tal for this class of patients would in- volve more than usual expense. The curative in finances are necessarily slow, and patiems will require to spend con- adorable time in the institution it they Read the following extract from “Globe” editorial, reflecting public opinion in 1896', ‘u'hen it was first pro- posal to . slablish a Consumptive Sana- tori u m in. )1 uakolca : We. therefore, teke greet plenanre in presenting you with this Ruby u as n smell token of the estimation in which we hold the service you have rendered as, and hope :5 you use it‘ it will remind yon of the dnye and weeks you spent in Latone School Signed on behalf of the School. BEATRICE SIMPSON. BELLA RAY, MAGGIE MORTLEY. LARGE DECREASE IN DEATH - RATE SINCE .THE OPENING MUSKOKA HOMES FOR CONSUMPTIVES. 1896 “The Consumptive Under Sen- tence of Death.” A Pk VVinnino' Fight ize that ion h'svs trioa- 1231155} and by attending assiduously to your work have raised the school from a. low to a high standard. .â€"_v â€" w,“ v. Union School Section No. 3., Bon- tilck cad Glcnclg. tool the V. no indebted to you for the chlo cud cf- ficiont mums: in which you hove dilchsrgod your duties to our teacher during thqpast year. We fully recl- To Mm E. Loan,â€" Every Dollar h more could be done if only the means were forth- coming. Will you help ? It’s What It Leads to Against Consumption "Wrx V“! w :‘ .W than... 1 . 4:)». Mn 42 “ If there be some weaker one, give me strmgth to hm’p him on."-â€"‘\Y1uT’rIER. ma 3’36 39 atest [391 “Mari [3 Wu. R. 5113320173, K1, 4 Lax:- . FAQ, 54 Front St. West, Toronto. Following (lingrum, giving figures from the Report of the Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health, tells a wonderful story of a. decreasing dentin- rate from consumption since the be- ginning of our crusade. Note that in the first four years there had been a gradual increase in the death-rate : Government Reports Show Decrease of 40 per cent. in 3 years. Dentin in Ontario Reduced During the Past Tin ce 1 car.»- from . ”.lm‘l; to 53,0?2, not- re ithstanding an Inc-waxing Population. IN TEN "EARS, “'IIY Sllfllfl.” 'I‘IIEIII‘} I") 200 IIBA’I‘IIS ll" NECESSARY MONEY AND HELP BE GIVEN? 1904.â€"CONSUMPTION FAST BEING STAMPED OUT ! Not Avail- able. 3291 3154- A disordered stomach my cause no end of trouble. When the stomach fails to perform its functions the bowels become deranged. the livm‘ and kidneys congested. causing num erous dismees, the most fatal of which are painless and therefore the more to be dreaded. The important thing is to restore the stomach and liver to a. healthy condition. and fo: this purpose no better preparat’o can be used than Chamberlain?» Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by H. Parker-4 . What can be done to brighten the; homes of those who live marry or" thirty or lorty'miles away from post office or village. and where neighbors l are few and far between ? The Ab'er~ «deen Association is answering this, l question by distributing. large quant i lities of grod reading matter, pictures 5 games, flower seeds. etc.. among} those who cannm afiord such things i for themselves. Unfortunately the' supply is entirely inadequate. In i most Canadian homes there are ‘qnantities of books, magazines.’ . pictures. Chri~tmas cards, calendars. = and so on, that are looked upoula-é guselces lumber, and yet. these WOUlll : ' be greatly appreciated by many i=0 late'l families Whynot srart now t0: lsend a parcel of the best of thwe things at regular intervals to the; noaresr branch of the Aberdeen A~ soviation for distribution? \Vha'} could better vxetnplify the" spirit 0’ .‘ good will to men that: prevails at th» Christmas season ? The branch 0r- ganizations are at Brandon. Calgary. Halifnx'. H; milton. Kingston. Letitia:- Montreal. Omma. St. John. Toronto. Vancouver. Victoria and Winnipeg» and there are local secretaries at g each place to whom parcels shouldl: be addressed. The general secretary l . is Mr. C. F. Whitley, Dept. of Agri- l; culture, Ottawa. who will gladly givel I further information concerning tl el'1 work of the Association. I 1 M- __._. .. _- __...<__.. ro-rned, end on the tnhle the "We newepeper which in pnhliehed week- ly in the town twenty miles 08. and which in the only source of informe- tlon no to whet in going on in the {enter world. Think of the men, 'cepeciclly the hechelore. who are living out their lives nmid these enr- ronndinge, who have to come heck to them after their herd day’s work. Think of the women who cannot have even the variety of getting awey to the fields or the mnrltet, and who : have to face the moneteny and drudg gery of the housework. year ,in and} yenrflont. if the children are to be' cared for and the home kept togett er. ! Think of the children who are grow ing up amid this environment. -..â€".._. 137 114- 79 24-1 Stomach Troubles 1902 1899 1898 1897 1896 Free Hospital opened 25' Pattenu‘l'mtmi Muukuku l mugs _8_anaturium 99¢:de 327 f8 6‘ 189 116 147 Tinâ€"13x3; Fathents Treated I’m than? Thanked Patients Patients Treatrd died rather suddenly. Sudden. Tomâ€"But isn’t your love for um Plainugn rather sudden? Jack-I sup- pooe so. But. you see. her rich flint Its Sustaining flower. “A hundred dollar bill will sustain a weight of forty-seven pounds length~ wise.” says a treasury statistician. It will also sustain a man for a couple of ponths in a fairly good boarding Tommy Knew. 'Mamma (to a friend who is lunching With her)-I don’t know why it is, but I always eat more when we have com- pany than when we’re alone. Tommy (helping himself to a third piece of cake)â€"-I know why it lsâ€"’ca use we have better things to eat. -A Candid Critic. Candid Criticâ€"~Awfully good song that! You ought to be with Carl Rosa. Jones (feeling rather flattered) â€"Really, do you think so? Awfully kind of you to-erâ€"but Carl Rosa is dead. Candid Criticâ€"Yes. I said .you ought to be with himâ€"London Tatler. first to apply the term to a malady which was prevalent in 1802 among the miners of -Anzin, in the north of France. and- of which he gave a detail- ed description. Anaemia. The word anaemia is of modern ori- gin. It was first mentioned by Albert Michel in 1732 in a thesis entitled “De Anaemia.” However, if the nomencla- ture is new, the morbid condition indi- cated by the "word was at all times well known. Hippocrates devoted sev- eral pages to a description of this par- ticular condition, but Halle was the Parkeâ€"He any: A Mathematical Puzzle. Here is a strange little puzzle, which has the same ans“ er, independent of the fact that no two people solving the puzzle we1e how the same year and consequently use the same figures. Write down the figures or the year you were born and {10111 this take away four Add your age at next birth- day if it comes before January, other- wise your age at your last birthday. Multiply the result by 1000 and from this deduct 685, 423. Substitute for the figures corresponding letters of the al- phabet, as A for 1, B for 2. etc. The reshlt is a ' Chinese table delicacy which is used in this country for elec- tioneering purposes. Strike out the first letter and transpose those that re- main to form a word. Yet in a few years he found him- self in command of the largest steam navy the world had ever seen. The last words he brought out with tremendous emphasis. Steam power in men-013W”, with boilers which at any moment might be shattered by an ene- my’s shot--this was a prospect he could not face. “Mr. Speaker, when we enter her majesty’s naval service and face the chances of war we go prepared to be hacked in pieces by cutlasses, to be riddled with bullets or to be blown to bits by shot and shell; but, Mr. Speak- er, we do not go prepared to be boil- ed alive.” Fighting the Inevitable. Nearly all great scientific discover- ies have been combated and misunder- stood even by the intelligent. Even Sir Charles Napier fiercely opposed the introduction of steam power into the royal navy and one day exclaimed in the house of commons: the light reflected from the fltont 1.3 not dispersed at these points of the design, and they appear brighter on the screen-London Globe. The “Marlo hurl-or” of Japan. The “magic. mirror" of- Japan is a 56181: of bronze, usually from six to ‘ eight inches in diameter. It is silvered on the front, which is a little convex, and there is a, raised pattern on the back, which is rather concave. The polished pattern is. generally a land- scape, flowers, animals or Chinese characters. It is not visible in the trout of the mirror, but when strong sunlight is reflected from the front or the mirror to a wall or screen the pat- tern of the back is visible on the screen in bright lines on a black ground. Professor W. E. Ayrton, F. R. 8., with Professor John Perry, F. R. S., was the first to give the true scientific explanation of this magical effect. It seems that the design on the back alters the convexity of the front, making it flatâ€"in fact, along the lines of the pattern. Consequently Another Cayuga mystery is its ir- regular tides. There is no stated time for their appearance, but when they do come they are very decided, the water often instantly receding 50 to 100 feet and as quickly returning with a roar that can be heard for miles.â€" Exchange. this mystery say that the bottom of this remarkable sheet of water is sim- ply a series of large openings and craterlike cavities, the entire lake bed having the appearance or being one huge honeycomb, each of the well- like holes being reputed to be bottom- of its peculiarities is this: Although hundreds or persons have been drown- ed in its waters since the settlement of the adjacent territory, not a single corpse has so far been recovered, and it is a common saying that “Lake Ca- yuga never gives up its dead.” Those wrho have made an attempt to fathom lake Oar-CW. listen-lea. zugj JAS. IRELAND st". '1.\‘ w 923‘ IE-‘ii'é .9;Highest Prices Paid for Fowl on Friday§fii .; av ’. l A“ '4 A‘ 3", vi? \' 3" h‘ \‘I’ ensure a large crowd of Friday and Saturday. listed below are of the very if Choice Walnuts, per lb, rsc 9,, Choice Almonds, per lb, 15c '3? Choice Filberts. per lb, 15c :92 ##fifliflififlifii lines of Christmas Groceries should shoppers for All the goods finest quality. $32 Choice Turkish Layer Figs, per lb, 15c VA? vb SKA. Rubber Goods. I Muh- . Wrrmmmm‘u m 3. DRESS GOODS. WRAPPERE'I‘TES. WOOL BLANKETS. MEN’S AND BOYS’ REEFERS °‘ OVERCOATS. BEA DY - MADE CLOTHING. MEN’S LEATHER AND KID HITS AND GLOVES. MEN’ S, WOME N’S AND CHILDREN’S UNDER- WEAR. Our Stock=Takin g Sale Is Now On. We have one of the lamest stocks of Cluietmns Dry Goods in town. Also the 1111 «Test and p1ettiest assortment of Handkerchiefs. 0111 new Neckwear 101 ladies and «rentlemen shuns many new things in shapes and colors and 1110 going lapidly. One of our nice DOWN communes or museums QUILT ;315 l W111 prove a very acceptable gift for the home "§ aaeeaei We want to see all our friends Christmas Eve and wish them a "Merry Christmas ” We have a. few CALENDARS left for those who did not receive one. H.H.MOCKLER§§ REIEUIER THE PLAOE - That means great reductions in all lines of 3 winter goods. The following me a {9“ of 1 the many lines xx hele prompt buying xx 1h 5 effect great savings fox you. i Their last call. 3 only Men’s Fur Coats. 9 only Ladies’ Astraehan Fur Jackets, just. a dozen coats in all. If you are interested in a fur coat, now is the time to buy one and save .money. We won’t take stock of them, for we’d rather take the money. We still have all sizes of Lumbermen’e Rubbers in severe! diflerent styles and quelities. These we wiil sell a ontfpricee rather then carry them over. anbermen’e Bach and Legginge must be cleared. end soon. to. You hue three months to wear them, but we hue only 3 few deys till emk-teking. We want lots of TURKEYS and GEESE and can pay big prices for them on Friday. Remember 339$ "a %}s n :5 9 IA $71; I ’3' W4 .5": , '7» 955% \ K, ’r SW Q in. W