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Ssummer Stvle and s of Their Own. 1€ MESSAGE, Benedict‘s the St X T t10OuU3 ';np Oul»natioge rt M L N0( t hore, but & t while sailâ€" thisee aboard * entire fleet ht Club, comâ€" y boats, valâ€" tX yedrm M nce is reâ€" mewhat isâ€" imed by a loose from Mâ€"tformt s bette; «helle, on rewn with P D l was sn has N "T Aqueduct torm, is : freight Railway as being ers, and p on the loosenecd, toned, vriste W sc vesgâ€" liMiL Howard N. W Aad Salem latest Ashore iL 8 tent cadâ€" ined tho bat wo koely 1 by (at» t wop he W A 8 N by he de= P® When a little one is sleepless and cross it is the surest sign in the world that it is suifering from some derangement of the stomach and bowelsâ€"the seat of nineâ€"tenths of all baby ailments. In cases of this kirsl Baby‘s Own Tablets act like magic. They sweeten the sour littie storaach, relax the distended little bowels, cool the parched, fevered mouth, and bring natural, healthâ€" giving sleep. An experienced mother, Mrs. Ed. Godin, Griffith, Ont., says: "I have used Baby‘s Own Tablets for many aiynents peculiar to babyhood, such as levers, indigestion, diarrhoea, etc., and I have found them the most cflective medicine I have ever tried. I can only add I would not be withâ€" out them in the house, so much do I think of them." Other mothers who wish health for their little ones cannot do better than follow Mrs. Godin‘s example. You can get the Tablets from all medicine dealers or they will be sent by mail at 25 cents a boxr by writâ€" Ing direct to the Dr. Willams‘ Mediâ€" elne Co., Brockvilie, Ont, . She remained looking down at tho stream for full a minute, then sho moved to the other side of the bridgo and leaned against the rail, her hoad bowad as if in deep thought. ‘Then he saw, her fling her hands beâ€" lorec her eyes as if to shut out some vision from her sight. She stood in this attitudeo for a moment, apparâ€" ontly overwhelmed and absorbed, then she crossed to the other side again and looked down at the stream, and, as it seemed to Gerald, on theo very spot on which Charles Sherwin had been found. o 4089 3 Still, by his touch, exhorting Luigl to sileace, be waited, and presently Tho blind man covered his face with his hands. It was evident that a foarful struggle was going on withâ€" in his mind. Gerald waited, watchâ€" ing him with burning anxiety. At last Luigi spoke. "I can say nothing !" he said hoarse 4. "Nothing ! Do you hear ? Nothâ€" Wfioo(”” exclaimed Gerald grimly. "Thonâ€"well, I can only say that I can do nothing, nothing! No man can savo him !" Luig! shook and trombled. "I havo not one point to bring in his favor! ‘The fact that he was out thoreâ€"by that bridge at the time of the murder, the wet coat, the spots o[ blood, the dagger found in his pocket, all go to prove him gullty, and Iâ€"I have nothing to set against It. If ho is guiltyâ€"â€"*" "Ho guilty ! _ Nairne stab a man in thoe dark!‘ he began with almost furious tndignation, than ho sank on to the seat again, and his head drooped. Gerald watched him. "3o," he said, "you thisk him inâ€" nocent. Thenâ€"listen to me, Lugi: Who is guilty ? Who did it?" Luigi shook his head. "I will not speak, I will not say another word. Like him, I must be silent. Like himâ€"alh!â€"" he stopped and listenedâ€""What is that ?" he stopped and listenedâ€" "What is that ?" he demanded in a whisper. wl. "No one comes here;, they are al! afraid t*" Gorald motioned him to silence, and watehod. ; Fanny, for it was sho, crossed to tho middle of the bridge, and, leanâ€" Ing on the low rail, looked down at tho stream. â€" He could not see her facoe for a moment, but presently sho shifted her position and then ho saw that the face was deathly whito and wore an expression which It was a palo, thin face surmountâ€" ol by a thick coil of redâ€"gold hair. Ho had not time to notica more, for, as if reassured, she went past them with a light, quick step, in the dirâ€" ection of the bridge. % s Luigi sprang to his feet and turned his sightloss eyes upon him. ho "It is one of the servants," said Imig\ in a tow voice." There is no one else," "Keep quiet," whispered ‘\Gerald, and still gripping Luigi‘s arm he leaned forward and looked through the hedge. The footsteps came nearer and more distinctly, and presently Gerâ€" ald saw a slight, girlish figure comâ€" ing down the path. She was walking quickly, and yet as it seemed to him, cautiously. nLuigl felt for his hand and held « it "It is a woman!" he whispered. "Hush!" said Gerald warningly. The slight figure came abreast of them, stopped for a _ moment, and _ looked _ round _ cautiously, and Gerald saw her face distinctly. "What is what ?" said Gerald, who had heard nothing. Â¥te" . ar k _"Some one is coming," replied Luigi. "A woman, I can hear the rustle of her dress !" Gerald felt that Luigi was troembâ€" ling violently. "Whoâ€"what is sho?"* ho whisperâ€" wl. _ "No one comes here;, they are "Coming here ?" said Gerald. "Yes, here!" replied Luigi, and he rose, Gerald took his arm and drew him behind the shrubbery. i ho ie ol {ound difficult to describe to himâ€" &.LLAA J.',:M % 4d 4{“/“’ @MMA a» SLEEPLE3S BABIES. EVUID: es c . i oo n o eee ene ue + "Good alternoon, Miss Inchley," Gerâ€" ald said gravely. ring in | She made hin; a bow that was half 6e was n..curtesy. st the ‘Gooiâ€"afternoon, sir," she respondâ€" : coat, d meekiy and sadly, the light lashes : Cung | covering her eyem vo him | Â¥ 180 you are not z'x,fra.\d of _ the ?'0 “tia‘l.u‘e' Miss Inchley ?" he remark * |, "Miss Inchley is far too sensibls," turned ‘ broke in a voice. It was not that |of Luigi. but Saunders. & man; Gerald started, for he had not 31!“'!05‘ | seen the detective approach, and had Fanny turned away from her contsmâ€" plation of the etream, slowly and reluctantly as it seemed to Gerald, and retracing her steps came toâ€" ward them. s HBe waited, still holding Luigi, until she had nearly reached their hiding place, then stepped out. She started, and stopped short, but uttered no cry, and stood lookâ€" lng at him with hor sharp eyes, which ae‘emed to have grown larger. _ ME e ie ouus c 2B is 1 "Why, come, come," said Saunâ€" ders, with a laugh. "Whoever would dream of suggesting that you did know â€" anything about it ! I asked if you weren‘t sorry for the marquie ?*" } ol is Ghe raised her eyes to his face slowly. _ 3 L d vel "Yes, I am very sorry for hiim," she said, as if guarding the _ very tone of her voice as well ags her words. "It seems too dread{ful to be true. But clever men like yoi, Mr. Saunders, never make a misâ€" take, do you ?" _ ho ( _ fRaunders half shut his eyes, and ewayed his stick to and fro like a penodulum. . "Oh, we do, sometimes," he said, agologetlcnlly. "The folks w ho comâ€" mit murder, and forgery, and that kind of thing, are not all fools. They are sometimes agood deal cleverer than we are. You see, their danâ€" ger makes them sharp. _ Selfâ€"preâ€" gervatior is the first law of nature, ien‘t it, Mr. Locke? Bat it‘s rather singular that with all their sharp nessa they generally leave a chink in their armor through which we can get at ‘em. They nearly always do something, or leave something un : done, that puts us on the scent and helps us to run them down." "Yes," said Gerald. "Not that I mean to say the matrâ€" quis used much caution. I shouldn‘t Lave kept that dagger in my pocket . now, should you, Miss Inchiey 7" k Sho looked at him with an air of sad reflection. "I don‘t know," she said, impassiveâ€" ly. "I don‘t like to think about it." "xo, no," murmured Saunders, syMâ€" pathetically. _ "Of course you don‘t ; very natural !" She looked up at him again, not quickly, but with a faint expression of surprise. "I mean that it‘s not the kin@d of thing a lady likes to think of. I‘m not over fond of a murder case my self ; it‘s unpleasant, and if it weren‘t for the satisfaction of dropping on the right person and getting him hard and fast, why, it would be more un~ pleasant even than it is. Did you ever hear how I nabbed that gentleman who set fire to his house, Mr. Locke?" Gerald shook his head. no suspicion of his proximity; but Fanny Inchley expressed no sutâ€" prise. _ She stood, her hands meekly folded, her head slightly bent. "I came to get some flowers for Lady Scott," she said. "She prefers wild flowers." "And very pretty they are," said Saunders, in a dry, matterâ€"olâ€"{fact voice, and looking at Gerald and not at Fanny. "I never saw, so many wild flowers as there are in these woods. I suppose you call them woods, miss?" Gerald nodded, and Fanny, with anâ€" other hallâ€"bow, halfâ€"coprtesy, was moving away ; but Saunders, taking ber into the conversation with a look, said quickly : . "No? Well, I don‘t know( that I am to be envied" said Gerald. * "No," said â€" Bannders, gravely. ‘"The evidence is dead against you. You‘ll find it hard to rebut it. I‘m sorryâ€"and I‘m sure Miss Inchley here is sorry, now, aren‘t you ?" . tC "I know nothing about it," she said, slowly and impassively. "I was in bed at the time." "Well, now, there was & clever man," _ said Saunders, cheerfully. "Really clever, Miss Inchley. He had a splendid collection of pictures and curios, old masters, and all sorts of things, and he‘d them insured for a big amount. Then he got into diffiâ€" culties; he was & stockbroker, and they do have runs of bad luck someâ€" times, you know. Well, one night his house up West caught fire. Burnt clean out ; So clean that the insurâ€" ance people got suspicious. They had an ideaâ€"It was the right one, 48 it provedâ€"that he had removed the most vailuable of the things, and then set fire to the house for the sake of raising the money. They sent for me. It all seemed straight enough. The fireman who was first on the scene found t.he.gen'tlem:{l: "We call it the park," replied Fanny, ball lifting her white lids. "The park? Yes. ‘Well, Mr. Locke, the marquis is committed." "You‘ve got a hard case, Mr. Locke; I don‘t envy you." _ 10F ImC. 44 CBE" RFDVEITTCT i © enough. The fireman who was first on the scene found the gentleman in bed, or just slipping 00 his things. His wife and children were at the seaside, but there were serâ€" vants in the house, of course, and t y# + " That was rery sharp of you," said Gerald, absently. * Luigi remained silent, and apparâ€" ently uninterested. "I don‘t know. I only told you the story to show you how little a thlng, will help us. Going, Miss Inchley ? for Fanny had moved away. " Aren‘t you going to get those wild flowâ€" pro 9* " It‘s consumption, I suppose?" reâ€" marked the lady next him, a Polish countess, who spoke English and half a dozen other languages as well as she did her own tongue. "It is the curse of England! When I was there last year I saw so many lovely girls with creamâ€"like complexions and that fatal dash of red in their cheeks. It is a grand country, your ijronâ€" bound island, colonel, but its cliâ€" :jnnte!" and she shrugged her shoulâ€" ers. " It‘s not consumption the poor young creature has got," he reâ€" sponded, rather testily. "The doctor says her chest is as strong asâ€"As mine. Something has gone wrongâ€" there has been some trouble." F MR BC PATCIES TRU HUW* ers ?" " Wild flowers? Oh, yes," sald she quietly. * They are in the park farther on. Good morning, Mr. Locke; I hope you will be able to save the poor marquis." s SBaunders looked after her admirâ€" ingly. ** Nice young lady, Miss Fanny !" he said, approvingly. " Her aunt ought to be very proud of her, for she‘s quite the lady. Wel!l, Imust be getâ€" ting on. Nothing you want to say to me, Mr. Locke, Isuppose?‘ and he looked at Gerald‘s anxious, thoughtâ€" ful face keenly. Gerald shook his head. f " No," he said. Saunders touched his hat, glanced at Luigi, still seated bent and moâ€" tionless, and strolled on. Gerald looked after him for a moâ€" ment or two, wondering what fasâ€" cination could have drawn Fanny Inchley to the bridge ; then he said : 1 L Oe 0 PATC AAPOMBC , CITOM NC DORIL " I‘ll take you home, Luigi. I‘m going back to the rectory." Luigi started slightly and raised his head. " Will you lend me your handkerâ€" chief?" he said in a low voice. "I bave torn my hand with the brambles while we were hiding in the bush. I have left my handkerâ€" chief at home." + "Those thorns are like needles," said Gerald, giving him the handâ€" kerchief ; " May tore a great rent in her frock one night." "Luigi took the handkerchief, and If sympathy coull have restored Elaine to health she would have been well very quickiy.. There was not one who did not pity and adâ€" mire her, from the German landâ€" lord, who seemed to have nothing to do but smoke a long pipe with &A china bow!, to _ the litâ€" tle Swiss chambermaid, â€" who, wtih moist eyes, hovered about the sickâ€"room door in the chance of hearing good news from the graveâ€" faced doctor, who spent nearly all h}sl time beside the feverâ€"stricken girl. " I don‘t think she has spoken twenty words to me," said the coloâ€" nel, sadly ; "and yet I feel as if it were my own daughterâ€"she‘s a bonny woman, and a wife and mother, thank God !â€"and I used to look forward to the smile with which she always acknowledged my bow when she came to take her place at the table or I met her in the garden." 4 "I fear for the poor old major, her father," said the countess with a sigh. "Sometimes he seems almost demented, and one is afraid to speak It was not only her loveliness but her native modesty and sweetness which had won all hearts, and a gloom settled down upon the table dhote as they glanced now and again toward the sickâ€"room and talked of her in subdued voices. "I aon‘t know, ma‘am," replied the old colonel. "The major has not conâ€" fided in me, it is only what I gathâ€" er from hearsay. I can only say that if any scoundrel has been playâ€" ing fast and loose with that sweet young creatureâ€"well, I shoald like to have him within reach of my arm! Her‘s is the last woman‘s heart he would break !" L "Ah ,yes!" said the countess, symâ€" pathetically. "They say women of the present day have no hearts, that they are all callous and uufeeling.:: ‘"But it is not so. They learn to hide it better than their grandmothâ€" ers did, but their hearts are beating warm enough in their bosoms. This poor girl, the major‘s daughter, has had an affaire de coeur, is it not ?" to, him to ask him how she is! And he was soâ€"so debonnaire, so sprightâ€" ty at times. Ah, here is the doctor," she broke off as he passed the open window, and she ran and called to him. "What news of our sweet paâ€" tient, doctor?"" _ 5 "No, nu!" responded Luigi, and he whipped it round his wrist. "IL am ready now," he said in a low voice. CHAPTER XXXIII The good folks at the Hotel Penâ€" sion, on the side of the beautiful lake, did not know which to pity most, the young girl lying sick unto death, or the whiteâ€"haired father who at times seemed wellâ€" nigh distracted by his Aaughter‘s peril, and at others sunk into a deâ€" spairing lethargy. _"I never said so, for one, countess," he muttered. s “E"J'p‘&‘?s;fi', .looking- at his gloves as he pulled them on, and avoiding held it a moment as if he. were thinking intently, and had forgotâ€" ten his scratched hand. 10#¢t, and the insurance company wouuluvehudtopayulhudn't chanced to ask a question of the fireman who saw. the _ gentleman slipping on his things. I asked him what he had managed to get on. ""Ob, his trousers and a ahirt, and a waistcoat,‘ he said, _ "‘What had he got on hisw feet ? I asked. "The man thoughit a moment. " ‘Well,‘ he replied, ‘now I come to think of At, he‘d got his boots on.‘ " ‘Lace or spring sides ? "‘Lace,‘ said the man, ‘I noticed ‘em as I was belping him down the escape, and they .woere laced up tight, too t‘ "That was enough for me! A man doesn‘t stop ‘to lace up his boots when the flames and the smoke are all around him. It was the only mistake he‘d made; going to bed in his boots, and carefully laced ; but it set me on the track, and I worked it out all right. He‘s doing his seven years now," "Let me wind it round for you," said Gerald. ‘~oman who saw. the m‘n slipping on his things. I asked him what he had managed to get on. "/Ob, his trousers and a shirt, and a waistcoat,‘ he said. f "‘What had he got on his‘ feet P I asked. "ThG MAND FhomohF a muaccili for * Young man," returned the editor, blandly, ‘"it won‘t help your case to try to shift the blame on ‘to your parents." f c i The youthful author pocketed his rejected verses, but he could not awallow the editor‘s criticism. _ "Bir," said he, not without dignity, "a poet is born, not made."" é _As James Russell Lowell said: ‘‘‘There‘s a deal of solid kicking in the meekestâ€"looking mule."â€"Youth‘s Sometimes as he sat looking at her, or reading the accounts in the papers, he asked himself whether he ought not to communicate with the marquis, with the police. Every day, he expected, dreaded, to kee Elaine‘s nameâ€"his ownâ€" mentioned in the accounts in the newspapers ; and it puzzled him that the name was not mentioned. She seemed to have been completely forgotten â€"she who, as he felt, was the cause of the trouble! If his hair had not been white aliâ€" ready the days and nights spent beâ€" side Elaine, with the newspapers hidâ€" den in his pocket or held in his hand ready to be thrust out of sight at the entrance of the nurse, would have blanched it. i (To be Continued.) What should he do? He asked himâ€" gelf this question hourly. He almost dreaded Elaine‘s return to consciousâ€" ness for the words she had shrieked before she became delirious were alâ€" ways ringing in his ears. Would she insist upon going hack to England, would she insist upon being present at ithe trial, in mixing hergelf up with thisg awlul tragedy ? ps Blood: | Dpepartment or Ag (From the Advocate, Exeter, Ont.) missioner‘s Branch, All diseases of the skin and comâ€" Ottaws plexion are causal by bad blood. Bome timely and : Paleness and pimples, blotches and on the selling, pickir boils, ugly rashes aml open sores, w is given Itching eczema and burning erysipâ€" nnon, Chief of sipelasâ€"ail these blemishes come from vision, Ottawa. Even bad blood. ‘ A bad skin is a sure siga ed in the growing of bad blood â€" thin biood, watery of :&plu should wr bioced, blood poisoned with impsriâ€"« of . McKinnon‘s | ties You can‘t have a healthy, clear "Export Apple Trad skin till you make your blood pure Selling the Crop.â€"Â¥ and rich with Dr. Willliams‘ PinkiPlis. er is not also an ex Thkese pills are a sure and speedy sell the apples in on cure for all skin diseases, for ngonizâ€" either at eo much ing eczema of bothersome little pimâ€" at a lump sum for t plesâ€"for a baid compiexion or ugiy ard. As buyers oft cpen ulcers, No claim is ever made contracts long befor for Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pilis not backâ€" either method invol» ed by the most positive proof, and tion ol ‘the probable w ‘this connection we offer the tesâ€" during fall and win: timonial of Mre. Nicholas McAvoy, a be regulated by th lifeâ€"long, much esteemed resident of and Gdemand, influ Exter, Ont. To a reporter of the changes in the quali Advrocate Mrs. McAvoy said: "Some When to this uncer years ago I was taken with a slight the difficulty of esti itching under one of my arms I in advance the tot: gave it little attention at lirst orchard, subject to thinking it would pass away, but in weather, to droug this I was mistaken, for as time wind storms, the went on it became worse and soon character of bargs developed into an aggravated case of lump" is apparent. | eczena, causing a great deal Of gains an undue a pain, irritation and suffering. In trade suffers from lapt I was compeolied to erdure torâ€" any other kind of g tures. I corsuiteal a doctor and system was strongly took his mediciune for several months, the National Apple â€" but the troubie did not leave, neither ciation, and our Ca Cld it get any better. In fact it describe it as an took a train for the worse and deâ€" GBurely no more need veloped into scrofula. As the do#â€" Guce both buyers tor‘s medicine did not help me I abandon such guess tried several advertised medicites, buy and sell by fixe but with so better results. Fipally measure. a lady friend strongly urged me to Picking.â€"All _ apple try Dr. Williams‘ Pick Pilis. The efâ€" carefully picked by | fect was almost magical. In a !°w stems on and withou weeks there was a decided change fOr skins or bruising th the betier, a«l as time went on the way, trouble gradually left and toâ€"day I As a goneral rule it anr entirely free from it. I owemy growers to harvest . compicte recoveryâ€"if not my lifeâ€" own fruit, whuther | to Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, a fact I g.li it on the premices wish to put on record that others eign maurkets. In eith may benefit as I have done." . groat advantage to And day aiter day that was the bulletin. Day after day the major eat Leside the bed, the wreck of his former Qelt, the shadow and ghost of the dapper, lightâ€"hearted major who had fronted the world so cheerâ€" fully and bravely, but to succumb to this terrible and least expected ol calamities, He sat ior nours looking at the thin, wagted face, now white as marble, and now flushed with the burning crimson of fever; sat for hours holding her hand as the parchâ€" ed lips moved restlessly, and the strained ‘voice rambled over old times in the wild, purposeless talk of delirium. And then worn out and exhausted, she fell into silence, the major would draw a â€" newspaper from his pocket, the newspaper he had found lying beside her, and read with fresh horror in his eyes every, time the account of the murder in the Castle park. EoTe: ‘That the marquis was guilty the major felt convinced. The evidenceâ€"and he read the London papers each day with feverish terror, read all the details, the surmises, the comments and gossip about the caseâ€"seemed to him as convincing as it appeared to every one else. of Captain Sherwin‘s proposal . to Elaine ; the two men had met, quarâ€" reledâ€"about herâ€"andâ€"andâ€"â€"! Yes, there seemed no chance of his innoâ€" cence! And Elaine‘s name would be connected with the case! His would tooâ€"the name of Delaine! The shame of it would kill him! Yes, at times he felt himself almost wishing that she might never come back to the consciousness and knowâ€" {ledge of the misery that awaited er, } There is absolutely nso disease dus to poor bloodâ€"and most diseases are due to this ‘troubleâ€"that Dr. Wilâ€" lams‘ Pink Pills will not cure. You onn get these pills from any «drugâ€" gist or they will be sent post paid at 5 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Reâ€" member that substitutes cannot posâ€" sibly cure. #A And it was now dawning into his mind that he could supply the moâ€" tive. No doubt the marquis had heard "No good news as yet, I‘m sorry, to say, madam," he responded graveâ€" ly. "Miss Delaine, is still unconâ€" scious and very weak, There is very, little change, if any." _ her eyes after the fashion of docâ€" tors. Invariably Due to Poor and Watery Blood Rashes Easily Cleared From SKIN DISEASES The Editor Turns. came. The case is certificd to by a prominent Sunday School superinâ€" terdent of St. Catharines. h Mrs Wm. Millar, St. Catharines, Out.. writes: "My daughter, Mary, when «ix months old, contracted ecâ€" zema, and for three years this disâ€" ease bafflied all treatment. Her case was one ol the worst that ever came to my notice, and she suffered what no pen can ever dewcribe. I had her treated by three different doctors, but all to no purpose whatever, and all sorts of baimes, soaps anmd lotions Many of the cures brought about by Dr. Chase‘s Ointment are so much like â€" miracles that people can scarcely bcliove them. When Baby Millar became a victim of eczema her parents did everything that could be power, but wilNnOUl sSUCCObE, 440M â€"17"~ all sorts of remedies were the vain bope that something would bring reâ€" lief from the disease that seemed to be burnoing up the living fleah. It was not until Dr. Chase‘s Ointâ€" ment was used that relie! and cure done to get her cured. Three aocâ€" tors tried all the means in their nower. but without success, and then After Three Years of Terrible Suffering Little Mary Millar was Permanently Cured by DR. CHASE‘S OINTMENT eam> market ; and some early var‘â€" cties shoul1 have more than one jick»= ing to got all the fruit at the proper stug> of maturity. Only the grower is in a position to watch his orchard and harvost thr erop to the bost adâ€" vantage, and it 1s she irower who loses when he entrusts his task to another, for buyers are certain to allow for shrinkag> from this cause, Another loss to the grower arises from car:clewness ol hired help, who often injure trees by breaking limbs ang fruit apures. A Removal _ of "Drops."â€"Beforo any fruit is taken from the trees, every apple, good, bad and indifferent, should be cleared off the ground and carried away, to be used for feeding stock, or for any other purpose for which they may be {fit, but not for export. Similarly, apples which drop during the picking process should bo kept by themselves, We must give the fruit a fair chance from the start; wormy, rotten or otherwise diseased apples spread contagion, and bruised or defective fruit will _ Ladders and Baskets.â€"Step ladders may be used for getting at the lower limbs, and long pointâ€"top ladders for the upper branches; the baskets should be small enough to turn easily not pay for labor, heavy freight charges and commission. _ _ Ottawa, Bept., 1903. Bome timely and valuable advice on the selling, picking and grading w is given by Mr. W. A. nnon, Chief of the Fruit Diâ€" vision, Ottawa. Everyone interestâ€" ed in the growing and marketing of :zplec should write for a copy of . McKinnon‘s builletin on the "Export Apple Trade." Selling the Crop.â€"When the growâ€" er is not also an exporter he may sell the apples in one or two ways, either at s0o much per barrel or at a lump sum for the entire orchâ€" ard. As buyers often make their contracts long before picking time, either method involves sconsideraâ€" tion of ‘the probable market price during fall and winter, which will be regulated by the total supply and demand, influenced, too, by changes in the quality of the crop. When to this uncertainty we add the difficulty of estimating months In advance the total yield of an orchard, subject to all changes of weatlher, to drought, hail, and wind storms, the unbusinessâ€"like character of bargaining "by the lump" is apparent. Whichever party gains an undue advantage, the trade suffers from this, as from any Oother kind of gambling. ‘The eystem ‘was strongly condemned by the National Apple Shippers‘ Assoâ€" clation, and our Canadian buyers describe it as an unmixed evil. Burely no more need be said to inâ€" duce both buyers and sellers to abandon such guesswork, and to buy and sell by fixed standards of measure. As a goneral rule it is advisable for growers to harvest and pack their own fruit, whuther they eventually g:.ll it on the premises or ship to forâ€" eign murkets. In either case it is a groat advantage to the seller to k.:.ow exactly the quality and varicty of the fruit in every pagkage. It is a still groater advantage to have each varloty pickeod at just the Sroper time. No wholesale buyer is le to A Case of Eczema No Pen Describes bave his men arrive at each orchard just when the ayples in it are ready, Tue resgult is thil every season a great many orchards throughout Canada are pickod either too late or too carly. Fruit pickes too eaily may keep, but is apt to become tough and tagtcless ; if picked too late it will not kee;, as the process ol <eâ€"ay has already begun. _ _ _ $ Time to Pick â€"Tender varieties should not b> allowed to ripen on th> trees, or they will rot carry well. Certain others, «ometimes styled "winter varieties," such as the Baldâ€" win and Spy, will gain in color and flavor if loft on tie trees as long as th> fro t will allow, bei‘es being loss J ble to s;ot and mould during storeg :. It wil pay the farmer well fto pick his own fruit and gee that ‘this first step in marketing enâ€" tails no nce less waste. s mfidrgofv&-‘ra:l-li}aifit'l& of apples are not ready for pickl:g at the same time, even if Geatined for the HOW TO SELL, PICKâ€" GRADE, ETC. Picking.â€"All apples should be carefully picked by hand, with the stems on and without breaking the skins or bruising the fruit in anoy way. Department of Agricullure, Comâ€" Expert Advice as to How to Handle the Fruit. THE APPLE CROP. ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO has ever shown itsel{f since, the cur@ must certainly be a permanent one At tho time of this cure we were living in Cornwall, Ont.. and the doctors there feared that if she was not curel of eczemra she would @ into a decline." Mr. 8. Richardson, jun., Suporig terdent _ Christ‘s Church Sundag Bchoo!, St. Catharines, Ont.. writess "I am acquainted with Mr. and Mrs Wm. Millar, and believe they would not make any statement knowing 18 to be in any way misleading or uis Dr. Chase‘s Ointment, 60 cents a box. at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Company, Toronto. To proâ€" teoct you against imitations the por» tarit and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, ‘the famous recsipt book aue thor, are on every box of his rewms» " Finally I decided to use Dr. Chase‘s Ointment, and to my surâ€" prise she began to improve immediâ€" ately, and after reguiar treatment for a time, the disease of so longâ€" standing completely disappeared. Ag that was four years ago, and not & Droaking off the Irait apars, which off the fruit spurs, which contain the promise of next year‘s crop. » Grading.â€"Grading always pays, whether the crop be light or heavy. When the wormy, bruised, misâ€" shapen and spotted apples have been removed, the following qualities should be q?u-nt in the hl?w fradu: 1. Uniformity in size, 2. Uniâ€" ormity in color. 8. Freedom from delfects & > â€" Two grades will usually be found suflicient for ecport, and both of these should be practically free from insect or other injuries, the second being inferior to the first ornly in point of size and color. All the apples in one grade cannot be uniâ€" form in size, but the apples in a single package should be so, for the fruit will be viewed and sold by the package. L "Chewing the rag" is an Iri@Â¥ form of expression never heard by the writer out of Ireland. Like "How well," it leaves room for wide application. When Oliver Cromwell bssued "A declaration of the Lord« Lieutenant bf Ireland for the Un« deceiving bf Deluded and Seduced People," given at Youghal, Jan« uary, 1649, he said in that remark« able documentâ€"which Carlyle de« scribes as "one of the remarkablest State papers ever published in Ire« land since Strongbow, or even since Bt. Patrick"â€""I will give you some wormwood to bite on." Ao it is with "chewing the rag.‘"" It is the giv= ing of something disagreeabie to biteé on ; the launching of some topic for public discussion «and consumption of an unpleasant nature. As a rule, Irishmen are kept by their political and other leaders "chewing the rag" "ever and always," as the Irigh were tried with no benelicial reâ€" sults. that was lour years ago, and not & symptom Oof this distressing allmen® phrase is,â€"l.e., kept "chewing the rag" of some grievance, past and present. And there is an inconâ€" scious, and perhaps unsuspected, truth hidden in the saying, for many of these "rags" are rags pure and simple.â€"London Apectator. It may well happen that a thir® grade, exclusive ol culls, will be found to consist of fair, marketable fruit, which the grower feels dis posed to export ; but this grade, lack» Ing any epecial features of excele lence and showing a greater perceBe tage ol waste, often eats into the profit earned by the finer fruit, bea sides reducing the general reputatio® of the shipper‘s brand. Much betteR average results are likely to be olbm tain in local markets or {from evar porators. t The merits of mechanical gradw ers placed on the market from tim@ to time, should be carefully inves tigated by all whose shipments are large. a really good and rapid grade er will effect a great saving in tim@ and money and produce a wonder!ud difference in the appearance of the fruit when each sise is placed is packages by itsel!. + L French fruit for market, perform the ?poutlm witl:ou‘:,° moclh;nlcnl ald. A ow day@ pract with measuring ringse is sufficient to train the ey@ so that fruit is accurately graded within a quarter of an inch. lu.a who are attempting to grade hand will find that the use of & plece of shingle or other light woods in which holes are cut measuring tw@ and a quarter, two and threeâ€"quare ters, three and three and a "w Inches respectively, will be of amgistance in this work. By Mum an apple now and again the pa will soon become expert in determin« ing the aize, without the use of th® testing board. Yours very truly, W« A. Clemons, Publication Clerk. 1 A young man in his shirt sleove® and a straw hbhat was obsorved, one of the bhottest afternoons this week wheeling a baby carriage backward and Torward in front of one of the emall houses in the vicinity of Falre mount Park. He appeared hot, but bappy. s ho asked. _ "Have the water pipes burst ?" "No, George, dear, but you havé boen wheeling Anna‘s doll all the af«e tarnoon ; is it not time for baby te have a turn ?"â€"Philadelphia Ledger "My dear," came a voice from on@ of thoe upper windows of the houst "Lot me alone, can‘t you ?" he calle o4 back, and went on wheeling an# mopping his face. An hour later the same volce came from the window in earnyt and ploacing tones, "George, dear !" "Well, what 07 earth do you want® *# Chewing the Rag." who Aieg I i f‘< i#