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JE3 A bath and the clean cloth‘ng made a wonderful change in the little feiâ€" low, and when he was fully dressed, and his hair combed and brushed, Mr. Carrol permitted him to look in the _ _ An _ expression â€" of astonishment lighted his face as he gazed at the reflected figureâ€"a pale, spiritualâ€" jooking boy, with delicate, refined {eatures, and remarkably beautiful eyes. y(‘lusw quest.oning induced the boy to tcli what he knew of his antecedâ€" ents. He had boeen an inmate of the poorâ€"louse, where continued iIlâ€" treatment forced him to run away, and le became the associate of :::-::{ garnns newsboys and bootblacks, who passed their nights in a low disâ€" trict in the re‘ghborhood of Wapp n3z Way. He was called Jim, and having for a time bsen in the habi tof sleep ing in a crockery crate, he bore tne nickname _ of * Jimâ€"o‘â€"theâ€"Crockeryâ€" Crate." MH‘s only warm friend was a yousg man named Tom DH, a fireâ€" man. After a few days, when Jim had recovered h‘s strength, Mr. Care rol put his young charge in a private sechool which was kept by a worthy romarn in the neighborhood ; and, by agreeisg to pay an extra sum for uition, the lady promised to0 take especial pains with her new pupil. Men Mr, Carr_l eadeavored to ( nd a ‘trace of Tom Dill. After a long search he d‘scovered him in an hosâ€" pital for disabled firemen, a sufferer Irom an aceilent tnat had cccurred nearly two years previous, causing a crippled leg. Otherw‘so the man was in fairly good health. Mr. Carrol announced his business, amdl Tom Dll told him ail he knew regarding JSim, the wail. "It‘s a lttle over six years agzo," he said, "when the fire occcurred at the Ardmore Hotel, in Castlemaine street When our engine, No. 45, cashed up, the fire was all over the muse, and ‘twasn‘t no use to try to saivo the house. The most we could Jo was to preveat the {lames spreadâ€" iag into the other houses. Everybody was thought to be out ; but, all of a »ulden there came an orful scream (rom a wincder in the fifth story, and big groan was let loose when ‘twas o und that a woman an‘ a baby was still in that ‘ere burnin‘ shell. Noâ€" »«ly waated to risk goin‘ to ‘*emâ€". tor there was little hope of iver: reachin‘ ‘em,. let alone savin‘ ‘em. I was the only man in the company that hadn‘t a family, an‘ I said ‘d wy â€" tor it Ladders _ were isted, an‘ up I went like a squirrel â€" I was spryer‘n I i now. When I got to the woman 1c was whiter nor any sheet ; but ho was gam>, I tell yer. She reachâ€" 1 the baby down to me afore I got io the top. "‘Yer strongzor ‘n I, an‘ surerâ€"footâ€" c+, she said ; ‘save him an‘ Ill take care o‘ myself. % ‘Yo I wenat fust with the young onc, an‘ she followed as close as she could. But, Lord !"M‘â€"hereo the main‘s lips grew tremulous and he turned "is eyes away from his companionâ€" somehow, the little fellow‘s clothes col afire in passin‘ a winder, where tCc flamos burst out suddeniy on usâ€" hough they put a stream O from wlow afore the woman got into itâ€" ~ the clothes were all ablaze in & ute amt ho yellin‘ like murder. i tried to smothor it out, but the «id‘s poor little legs was burned "<h! this explains how those unâ€" izlhtly scars came on Jim‘s limbs," \(_. Carroll here interrupted. ‘Yos, sitr; amw â€" Pll never forget Low I felt whenm I saw them great Lsters on the poor little chap. T nad beci> ry» I wouldn‘t ha‘ {linchâ€" !,. but to see that ‘eve tender baby â€"mnirmin‘ an‘ suffrin‘ was more‘n I coâ€"ld stand, an‘ I was just ready to tlubber when the _ woman touched :round an‘ reached out to take him. Sut jJast that minute & brick came tumblin‘ down from the wall, hit the ladder, bounded off, and struck ber plamy on the head." "Abh‘" ejaculated Tom pill‘s listenâ€" et, with a shudder. 7 & w inss youlcc. uchuse "She dropped like lead, where she stood, an‘ then she and the baby were both trundled off in the ambuâ€" lance to the ‘ospital." n st. "Oh! did she ai Carro‘l, with almc erness. CiUnUss,. "No, poor thing !" returned Tom with a sorrowfual shake of his head. "I was so cut up over the baby‘s beia‘ burned on my hands, I went to the Hahnomann ‘Osptal ivery blessâ€" ed visitin" day to see how he. was gitâ€" tin‘ along. His feoet an‘ legs were ‘tarnal sore for a while, but they healed fust rate, though the sears used to make my eyes water. After a while he got to know me, an‘ would dance an‘ caper, fit to make my heart glad, ivery tim>o I «howed my ©ld, mug infide the door," and a smile of pleasure lighted the man‘s face at the rememvrance. __ _ _ es "How old was he ?" Mr CATFPON I7" quired. "Nigh on to two year, I should, say, an‘ be wasn‘t no common sort o‘ baby either,* Tom Dill continued, impresâ€" slvely. "I could ‘a‘ sworn he had blue blood in him." aoe APEUTUCCT ETT ETT "What made you think that ?" inâ€" quired his companion. ; "Wall, ho looked it ivery inch of him, an‘ in spite of the hubbub an‘ danger, the night o‘ the fire, I took notée of the clothes he had on, an‘ they was like some o‘ them â€" fancy JY noF LWE Heccdelse sews U thevink fhings yo‘k soG Hif 11t Ioemgeisl SACSEC on Regrent street.‘" "I wonder if they were preserved?" said Mr. Carroil, inquiringly. "I don‘t think it, sir, they â€" was scorched an‘ burned almost to a cinâ€" der afore we got to the ground, an‘ not worth tupponce." A.@PF eSE ENE se me es bcennike ow WOs EdE CCC "Well, now tell me something about the woman," commanded the young man, with a regrotful sigh. "Waal, sir, sbe was sick a long tims, from that ‘ere hurt on the head, an‘ whoen shoe did begin to mend, it was found that her© brain didn‘t â€" work right, and .sng couldn‘t _ remember anything that ‘ad ‘apponed an‘ she paid no more heed to the baby: than &f she‘d never seen him before." PR "Do you mean that the blow from that brick left her an idiot ?" inâ€" quirod Mc. SCarro 1 in a shocked tone _ P t e s ful afore we got down.." "I1 see it o‘ the fire, I took thes he had on, an‘ ome 0‘ them fancy in th‘ bangâ€"up shops tut," 5 \?" demanded Mr. st breathloss cagâ€" she "Waal, suthin‘ after that sort, I‘m tl}'lg‘kin'_.” replied Tom Diil. *‘She knew enough to eat an‘ drink, wash, iron an‘ scrub, but she couldâ€" n‘t tell her own name, nor where she was from, nor nothin‘ else the people wanted to know about." "Is she living now?" y *"‘Yes, sitr, an‘ she be as well an strong as yersel,." y ‘‘Where is she ?" "At the ‘ospital whore she has been ever since." 4 + A "When did you go to see her last?" Mr. Carroll inquired. "It‘s six months or more, I reckon ; my rheumatiz have made me s> lame an‘ stiff I cquldn‘t git about very woell," Tom Dill explained, on c t ‘"Can any one get permission to visâ€" it her?" inquired the young man, eagerly. "Yes, sir, but little good it‘ll do yer to see her. Ye may ask her forty questions an‘ ‘she‘ll look at yer in & dazed kind o‘ way for a minute an‘ ther go on with her scerubbin‘. I know, for I‘ve tried to make her talk no end 0‘ times." "What nams is she k:own by At| the hospital 2" "The helo about the house call ‘er "The help about the house call ‘er ‘Crazy Moll, but I‘ve beard the nusses speak gentle to her and call ker Mary. She be very good to work, mindin‘ what‘s told her, an‘ makes no talk." & "D> you think she could be ‘the ch li‘s mother ? D d he Icok like her? questioned Carrol. "No, #ir, he didn‘t," the man reâ€" turned ta a positive tons, "She was no mother to him." ; "What makes you think so ? â€" How, then, did they happen to be togeâ€" ther " "Twas plais enough, sic, let alone the nurse‘s cap an‘ apron she had‘ on; an‘ that wor another thng that made me think the little chap was a blueâ€"blood." ce Mr. Carrol at last began to feel that he was gleaning some rays of light in connection with the little wa.t who had s> strang:ly fal ea into his hands. . ol C Everything, thus far, tended to show that Jim had coms from a good family. Carrol had felt sure of this in his own mind before this interview with the f remain, for ho was very far from be n# a commonâ€"loo{ing child. | He nad a wellâ€"shaped head, with del cate, relined features; his glossy brown hair was fine as silk; _ his hands and feet wore small and symâ€" metrically formed. 5 8 . And now, added to these seliâ€"ev‘â€" dent points, to ilearn that he had been richlyâ€"clad and stopping with his nurse in a firstâ€"class hotel on the n‘ght of the fire, were facts that afforded Mr. Carrol no little satisâ€" faption. ; 1 i He wondered if the boy‘s parents badi also been iamates of the illâ€"fated botel and had perished ia the {lames, notwit! stand nz the [ireman‘s asserâ€" tion that it was supposed everybody had escaped. One of two things he folt sure must bo the fact: cither they had fallen viectims in the feariul conflagâ€" ration, or they could not have been in the city. ; a f _ He askel Tcm Dill w‘ at he thought about it. 3 hz "xo, sirâ€"they never was burned," te positively asserted, ‘for no sizgns of any bodes was found when the rubbish was cleared away." "PBut the woman mustâ€" have been regi‘sterodâ€"did no one think to examâ€" ine the bsoks to ascoertain who she was ?" Mr. Carrcl inquired. "Yes, sir: I went mysellf to the clork, but the books was burned, and o toli me there‘d been no inquiries for the woman or the baby. If‘s puzzle, sirâ€"a puzrcle that Ifear me, will never be cleared up," the man concluded, wit‘h a grave shake of his bead ESOId Mr. Carrol also feared that such Cwould be the caso, but he had no iaâ€" tenttion of relnquisiing his efforis ust I l e should exhaust every pos:sible moans to solve the mystery regardâ€" ing his protoge‘s identity. Ho thanked Tom Dill for his inforâ€" mation and promised to bring James to see him very soon ; then, slippin:‘g a gonerous guerdon into the man‘s rand, he bade him â€" goodâ€"day and went away. He procecded directly to the Halâ€" nemann Hoep tal where, sceking the superintendent, he continued to push his inqutries still further. To man, however, did not appear to know. much about the case, as he had but recently succeeded the preâ€" vious manag>r, wi o had diel some six months before. But he said the head nurse in the woman‘s department, who had been in the isstitution for ten years Or more, might be able to give him inâ€" formation regarding the matter in questio:n. ® .+ "Yes," the superinterdent replicd to his eager query, "there was &A chore woman on the premiges who was known as Crazy Moll, or Mary, wnt she was little better than . AD but she w idiot." 1GIO E. Then, excusing himself, ho went to s1ummon the bead nurse of whom he had spoken. C dpcamvnbes : m & 49+ lon l identify the boy, when he could be ‘along with me if you don‘t want returned to his parents. to make a scene." ' ‘""‘But when Mary at last began| "I dgo not know what you mean, to rally," the nurse observed; "woe sir," said Florence, backing away were shocked beyond measure to find | from him. with an air of hauteur that that her mind was goneâ€"or, ru.thel.‘ became her well, her blue eyes flashâ€" that she could remember nothing | ing indignant fire upon her asssailâ€" about her previous life, and did not ‘ ant. "I never saw you before, and show the faintest recognitiot of the | you will let me pass, if you please." child; although he knew her inâ€">~~ "Well, but I don‘t please, Miss Imâ€" stantly the moment we took him| pertinence; and you never saw. me to her, and clung to her until she | before, so you think!" sneered the frightered him by pushing him | man, coarsely. "It‘s pretiy â€" well roughly from her. | done, my girl, but it‘s a game that "As she grew stronger, she began won‘t work, so you just come along to make herself useful about the | as you are told, orâ€"there‘ll be a devil wards, was quiet and handy, and | of a rowâ€"d‘ye hear?" is "As she grew stronger, she bogan to make hersel{ useful about the wards, was quiet and handy, and the nurses petitioned that she be allowed to remain in the instituâ€" tion as a servant, instead of being sent to the workhouse. ‘It was a sad day for all ‘tho nurses when it was at length deâ€" cided that the boy must go. Several had made strenuous efforts to find a good home for him; but without avail, and he was finally sent to one of the homes for the poor. I have only seen him a couple of times since then, for my Aduties have been so heary I could not go to visit him," the nurse concluded,with a regretful sigh, Mra Carrol then related something of what Jamie‘s life had been, and how he had at length fallen into his hands, when, becoming deeply interested in him, he had resolved to see if he could not trace his friends and restore him to them. "But," ho concluded, with a doubtful shake of his head, "it looks now asif that would be an imposâ€" sibility." "What would you do with him, then ?" the woman inquired, earâ€" ‘he was such a beautiful child ! I was sure that he belonged to a fine family, and it nearly â€" broke my heart to hbhave him sent to that dreadful almshouse." nestly. "Oh!" she added, feelingly, ‘he was such a beautiful child! I "I have not yet decided what to do with him if I do not sacceed in gaining some new clue to his parâ€" entage," Mr. Carrol gravely replied ; "I have no home of my own â€" no friends with whom I could place him ; but of one thing I am sureâ€" shall never allow him to drift back into the slums, whence he came 10 me. You feel sure that the woman was his nurse ?" "Certainlyâ€"she could have _ been nothing else; there was nothing in common between them; and, beâ€" sldes, she wore the nurse‘s cap and apron, while the baby looked the little aristocrat in every line and feature." "And does now," said her companâ€" lon, "in spite of his rude life. I was amazed, after he had been subâ€" jected to a vigorous bath and was decently dressed, to find what an interesting child he is. Will it be possible for one to see this woman, Crazy Moll, as sho is called ?" he inâ€" quired, in conclusion. * ‘Yes, if you wish; althoughi 1 amt sure you will reap no satisfaction from the interview. But I will arâ€" range for her to come to yofuw," thre nurse returned, with ready comâ€" pliance, as she arose to leave the room. Sho was abseant some time, but finally returned, and was followâ€" ed by a woman of perhaps thirtyâ€" five years. She was a quiet, demure looking person, having a good, honest face, in spite of its vacant expression, black hair and eyes. She was very neatly clad, had a plump, wellâ€" formed figure, although she was somewhat awkward in her moveâ€" ments. . "This is the genatleman who wishâ€" ed to see you, Mary," said the nurse, by way of introduction, and Mary made an awkward courtesy, but without betraying the slightest inâ€" terest in her visitor. * "I suppose it will be of nol use to question her?" Mr. Carrol reâ€" marked. "Not the slightest â€" that was tried, times without number, years ago," tho woman returned. An expression of saduess _ swept over the young man‘s countenance; but after studying the _ unfortuâ€" nate creature‘s lace intently, for a few, moments he put a couple of shillings into her hard req bhand, and kindy told ber that she might go. She now looked eagorly up at him and laughed out like a clulga that bad received a coveted toy, thus showing that sho know something of the value f money if she was daft on all other subjects. She thanked him, made another courtesy, and then, at a gentle signal from the nurse, left the room. f Durin gthe afternoon Mr. Carâ€" prol called at the apartment to which Mr. Reaver had dirscted him, but, to ‘his disappointmen‘, he was told that the family had not yet arâ€" rived. On his return to his own lodgâ€" ings he found a letter {rom that gentieman, â€" telling him that they would be one day late in getting to London ; but that they shou.d look tor a cail from him very soon. ‘The letter closed as follows: "Mrs. feaâ€" yer and Miss Richardson join me in kind regards and the hope that you are fuuly rocovered from the acâ€" cident, which so neariy proved a Tfaâ€" tal disaster. We should â€" have lost our dear girl, but for you." o o oo soie l nc "Ah! they can have no susp.cion of how *dear‘ she has become to me," e murmurod. Cl 1 4) A very tender, tremuious smile quiâ€" verod about the young man‘s eXâ€" pressive mouth as he read this. a d . i Wex cb zce The second day after reteiving Mr. Seavor‘s note he made a carefui toiâ€" let and started forth to make his call. First, bowever, he bent his steps As he drow near to it, he obseryâ€" ed a lady just emerging from a bookâ€" store. She was clegantly and tastefully claa, and there was something faâ€" miliar about ber air and Iigur[e. alâ€" though he could not see he {ace, that sent the swilt coor into his check and an electric thrill into evâ€" ery pulse. Almost at the instant a tall, coarse looking man approached her, and adâ€" dressed hber with a menacing air. She turned and glanced at him with a look of astonishment, and now Mr. Carrol saw that the lady was Florence Richardson, as he bhad already suspocted. As ho approached nearer he heard the man observe in & harsh tone of drritation : toward a w« Oxford street ie :"fafi-ah‘t play that game on me, wou obstinate hussy ; yYou just come wellâ€"known florist‘s ;«I.q ‘vfi%% bat it c B in PB ILT ow\ Frct o h) i) He laid his powerful hand upon her shoulder as he concluded, and would have forced her away with him, sigâ€" naling at the same moment a passâ€" ing cab, if Mr. Carrol had not sudâ€" denly: appeared upon the scene and confronted him. P .. 3 n _ With one ‘{x:f);ard blow of his hand he released Florence from his grasp. "What is th emeaning of this outâ€" rage?" he steroly demanded, 48 he the same instant shot a reassuring look into the frightened eyes of the fair girl. ‘The man gave vyent to an angry! oath and cringed with pain, for the biow had becen no light one. "I€‘s none 0‘ your infernal business, ‘you meddling young poppinjay! _ You just quit your interference and atâ€" tend to your own affairs. The girl belongs ‘to me and with me she‘s going, in . spite of her stubborness an(fl"rmy officious dudes like yourâ€" self. And stalking to Florence‘s side, he again seized her rudely by the arm. One agile spring forward, one quick, _ and poweriul stroke straight from the shouider, and Florence‘s great, rawâ€" boned, â€" ungainly persecutor â€" lay sprawling upon the pavement at our hero‘s feet. y You will always find that the moâ€" thers who are successful in bring up families of hearty, healthy children are those who are careful to note the slightâ€" est evidence of illness and to check it at once. The wise mother gives her children Baby‘s Own Tablets at the first sympâ€" ton of any childish ailment, and almost at once the little one is all right. Mrs. Thos. Stevenson, 13 Bishop street, Halâ€" ifax, N. S., says: "It gives me pleasure to be able to speak of the great value of Baby‘s Own Tablets. I always give them to my children when they are ailâ€" ing in any way, and they speedily make them well. I would advise every mother to keep the Tablets in the house." The Tablets allay teething irritation, cure colic and stomach troubles, prevent conâ€" stipation, destroy worms, allay fevers and break up colds. They can be given safely to a new born child, Sold by all medicine dualers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Belfast Expert Tells Why They Vibrate â€"Cunard‘s New 25â€"Knot Boat. Thomas Andrews, naval architect and consulting engineor for Harland & Wolff, Belfast, builders of the Baltic, who came over here to watch the performance of the big ship, said before sailing back that ith was not too much to expect the 850â€" foot, the 950â€"foot or even the 1,000â€"foot ship within a few years. The question, he said, is not one of s]nipbuilhing. but of harbor and channel face*®es. The Mersey was almost put to the limit of her resources with the 800â€"foot ship, because there was comâ€" paratively little space to turn. _ The manoeuvrer is a ticklish one, as a false move or too much steam at the wrong second might ruin the ship. The only drawhack to the ship of 1,000 feet was the limited wharf facilities in New York and the danger of turning at Liverpool. He said the White Star line would sooner think of stopping the enlargement of its boats than giving up Liverpool as a terâ€" minal. Mr. Andrews is only 33 years old, but has had control of the countless details involving the construction of the _Ocennic, 1313 4 00040000 2t d d GnhadrtatPileadiia n ienaPodt ar caininie 1 Ciciscivt se tomal, / d uht oi ® Celtic, Cedric and Baltic. He told the| For spiritualism, as it has been imâ€" American Syren and Shipping that the| posed upon the public, I make no plea. Oceanic was his favorite, and really ) The planchette is merely an amusing toy. the most luxurious vessel on the Atlanâ€"| But that telepathy is possible and natâ€" tic, representing everything needed in the | ural, although the governing conditions way of comfort and safety, although not | are as yet vaguely understood, seems a as showy as some other vessels. STe ; plain fact. had, he said, all the speed that Atlantic| The successful operation of â€" wireless travellers required, being less than a | telegraphy should do much to prove the sevenâ€"day boat. He also said the Adriâ€" possibility of telepathy. The brain is an atic, the mate of the Baltic, would have | instrument. With the possible exception rectified the mistakes made in the buildâ€" | of the eye, it is the most delicate instruâ€" ing of the latter. l ment in be world, infinitely more sensiâ€" "The Baltic,‘ continued Mr. Andrews,| tive than a Marconi receiver. We do not "burns about 235 tors of coal a day. Il know the power which operates it, wheâ€" know one greyhound that consumes nearâ€" | ther it be electricity or some more subâ€" ly 750 tons a day. The limit for speed | tle force as yet unknown. But a force is reached, unless the lines are willing ; or impulse there must be. Is it not perâ€" to run ships on a losing basis. fectly possible that an impulse could be ©The Baltic has 14.000 horseâ€"power,| conducted by waves of ether to another but the Adriatic will have 15,000 horseâ€" | brain, which, being at the time inactive, power, or a speed of seventeen and oneâ€" | is in condition to receive it To illusâ€" half lâ€"nats half a knot more than the i trate: "The Baltic has 14,000 horseâ€"power, but the Adriatic will have 15,000 horseâ€" power, or a speed of seventeen and oneâ€" half knots, half a knot more than the Baltic, which will bring the Adriatic into New York on a Wednesday. The extra power will be imparted from five addiâ€" tional singleâ€"ended boilers. The Adriatic will make her first appearance in New York waters next spring. "I doubt if the twentyâ€"five knot boats contracted for by the Cunard line will receive the expected patronage. _ It is an awful hardship to travel on a fast steamer. _ The vibration is not due to machinery, but to the policy of driving the ship through mountainous . waves regardless of structural consequences. "The Atlantic comber has a strength of 250 tons. A craft repeatedly struck on the statboard bow by 250 tons before she has had time to recover from the foree of the preceding wave has too much to withstand. The machinery gets the blame for the vibration, when it is really the pounding into a new . wave while the ship is shaking like a leaf and trying to recover from the wave gone by. The minimum vibration in the Baltic is due to the movements of the serews and can never be obviated. ol e "The great breadth of the Baltic at the bows and her enormous displacement serve as a sort of automatic check upon the machinery when a big wave hits her fomward."> .. _ & s s . "Captain Lindsay, of the Celt.c, has never bad to slow in a heavy s«a,. The Celtic does it of hersown accord. That is where the value of moderate speed machinery comes in. _ The vibration of the Baltic is caused by her screws reâ€" volving at an increased rate ‘o¢ speed when her hesd falls into the hollow of a wave a;dthe“ propcl!ers catch water of SUCCESSFUL MOTHERS BIG OCEAN SHIPS. (To be continued.) of the Celtic, has It is a self evident proposition that a‘gricultunl fairs which receive grants of public money should give the public something of value therefor. It is not the province of governments in _ these days to assist in providing amusement for the people. A good many agriculâ€", tural societies are now making an earnâ€" est effort to improve their fairs by the introduction of educational features, and their example is being followed by the large exhibitions which do not ordinâ€" arily receive legislative grants. There are still some fairs, controlled largely by the business men of the towns, which seem to be held for the purpose of atâ€" tracting visitors who will prove good customers, but the number is fortunâ€" ately becoming few. It is now generally recognized that shows exist primarily for the purpose of improving agriculâ€" tural conditions. Teaching Market Requirements.â€"The upâ€"toâ€"date fair secures the services of expert judges, who explain the reasons for their decisions in the ring and give addresses on the best types of horses, cattle, sheep and swine. In this way the judging »may be made an educational feature instead of merely an allotment of premiums by men who are often inâ€" competent or biassed in their judgment. The awarding of prizes at a fair is a comparatively unimportant matter _ as compared with other _ considerations. What is really desirable is that fairs should be the means of disseminating inâ€". formation and of fixing correct ideals in the minds of those who are producing foodâ€"stuffs and on whom the prosperâ€" ity of Canada depends. Desirable and unâ€" desirable types of fowls may be shown, with lectures on the fattening of chickâ€" ens for the British and domestic markâ€" ets and exhibitions of killing, pluckâ€" ing and packing for export. A model poultry house, with incubators, brooders, fattening crates and other appliances, inâ€" terested thousands of visitors at the Toâ€" ronto fair this year. Practical demonâ€" strations of the proper packing of fruit for export should be given in fruit disâ€" tricte by expert packers, and the most approved styles of fruit packages exhibâ€" wholly clear, because the ship scidom rolls or pitches sufficiently to lift them ‘ out of water. "The days of the fast ships are numâ€" bered. The Wamburgâ€" American line is | going in for ships of the Baltic type. The _ marine turbine is greatly overâ€" estimated. It is not nearly so great a i saver in weight and space as supposed. \ It is not the coal saver that is claimed |for it. With a high rate of speed the ‘turbine will save tuel over the reciproâ€" cating engine, but at moderate pace ; there is a great waste of steam."â€"N. Y. | World. o ited. To Improve Farm Crops.â€"Another feaâ€" ture worthy of adoption by all agriculâ€" tural societies, but which only a few have yet taken up, is the growing of ilâ€" lustration plots on the fair grounds. At a small expense a very interesting and instructive exhibit of the best varieties of grasses, clovers, millets, â€" sorghums, corn, fodder and pasture plants, turnips, mangels and sugar beets can be providâ€" ed. _ By studying these plots farmers ' A year ago there was a drowning acciâ€" , dent near mf' camp in the Adirondacks. | A young girl fell overboard, and to try ‘ to save her one of her companions, a man who could not swim, plunged into | the water, as he must have foreseen, to his own death. While this was happenâ€" ing a young woman, alone in a boat, was slowly rowing toward the camp from an opposite direction, quite out of s:ight of vlda b ies t PeC P ies 2 Answe:r to Mr. Goldwin Smith by an Inâ€" telligent Woman. While all must approve of the last sentence of the letter from Mr. Goldwin Smith in the Sun of Aug. 28: "But there is no place for the supernatural. Let us put this away forever," is there not reaâ€" son to believe that telepathy is not supernatural, and is it not Surprising that Mr. Goldwin Smith should place in one class "such fancies as spiritualism, telepathy, planchette?" !C y PAANCACUUEE _ _ _ 0 0 d l otws., Uest y uis t "a 8 I the accident.. Suddenly a terrible imâ€" ne vO pulse to spring into the water filled her} A young cle mind. So forceful was it that she found weekly visits a it difficult to resist, and rowed as rapâ€" ! ish in a nearbh; idly as possible to overcome it. . She | cendy, learned reached the camp, breathless and eviâ€" | recently came dently nervously excited, but knmvingg\\'if«- and one â€" nothing of the double drowning. I beâ€" called at the lieve that the impulse to cast herself : most hearty 1 into the waterâ€"an impulse which has | the bedside of been strong enough to send a man, knowâ€" prised at find ing, to his death, had been transmitted . The day being over the quiet water to the brain of this gested that he woman, and had produced the sensation an hour under I have described. The people who were : den, drowned were servants from a nearby | "It may do hotel, uttterly unknown to her; there ‘ The wife, w was therefore no reason why retroactive husband had b suggestion should have made it desirable until the folle to receive a message from them. a little recreat The instance cited by Mr. Goldwin returned a we« Smith of the man who fainted on the band still in b moor while his servant was sending a "Haven‘t yo telegram inquiring if he wére dead seems I was here * to me to qrove, rather than disprove, cloak. uleput:dv. t is not conceivable that the _ "No, sir, he rrified belief of the servant in his masâ€" "I don‘t like _izr’s sudden death had travelled through doctor gave m the ether to his master‘s brain and proâ€" and we soid t duced that strange faintness. son he didn‘t . Viewed in this way. **~ experience of delwhia Press. ereat solidity. The serews never turn i2 P maslll ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO TELEPATHY. the ship seldom may learn just what erops and what varieties are best adapted to their farms, thus bringing home to particular condiâ€" tion of soil and climate the general conâ€" clusions arrived at by the experimental farms. _ In all kinds of farm crops the yield per acre may be materially inâ€" creased and the quality substantially improved by the use of seed which hl: improved :3' vhe use of seeq wmon nas been graded up by careful growing and systematic, intelligent selection, conâ€" tinued without interruption from year to year, This fact cannot be too soon brought home to the farmers of Canâ€" ada, and one of the best ways of doing so would be to have on view at the faire representative exhibits of the great work being done by members of the Canadian Seed Growers‘ association. Interesting the Women and Children.â€" Demonstrations of agricultural Erocessec are interesting to everyone, but the operation of a model kitchen and dinâ€" ing room, with exhibitions of cooking sample dishes and addresses on domestic science, will appeal especially to the farmers‘ wives and daughters. _ That the children may be lead to take an inâ€" telligent interest in the fair, prizes might well be offered for exhibits by school children of cut flowers, grains, clovers and grasses, roots and vegetaâ€" bles, fruits, pressed and mounted wild flowers, weeds and weed seeds, beneficial and injurious insects and native woods, These exhibits could be supplemented by _ essays for which prizes might be offerâ€" ed. _ Wherever tried this ‘)lnn has provâ€" _ ed effective in inducing children to beâ€" gin the fascinating study of nature. Every precaution should be taken to have a good clean fair, where all the boys and girls may go to spend a pleasâ€" ant and instructive day without coming in contact with any injurious influence. Keeping Good Sires.â€"Many agricultuâ€" ral societies, particularly in Quebec and the Maritime provinces, do not hold fairs, but in lieu thereof buy and maintain pure bred sires for the use of their memâ€" bers. _ This is a practice which might well be imitated more largely in Ontario, where the number of fairs seems excesâ€" sive. â€" By adhering to one breed of catâ€" tle, horses, sheep or swine, as the case may be, the stock belonging to the memâ€" bers of a society may be graded up wonâ€" derfully at h small cost, but the habit of changing continually from one breed to another must prove fatal to all plans for building up a good, uniform herd or flock of grades, which is just what the average farmer needs. Yours very truly, Mr. Rider Haggard is decply interesting as suggesting the possibility of telepathy between man and animals. That the force which causes the brain of a dog to act is the same as that which actuates the brain of man there can be no question. That the dog‘s extremity of need, finding the master‘s brain at rest, should have been able to act upon it, though not perâ€" fectly, yet impressively, appears quite believable. It is, I think, generally adâ€" mitted that a horse may feel the fright or nervousness of his driver. For one person to speak of that which is already in another‘s thoughts is a common occurrence between all intimate friends. My son and I were far along on an intricate Adirondack wandering when I suddenly said: "We have forgotâ€" ten the map." "I had but just thnughg of it when you spoke," he replied, and this was but one of several such occurâ€" rences during the same trip. A practical and sensible college boy as he is, my son declares that these coincidences have so frequently occurred to him that he can |have no doubt of telepathy. _ A Only, of course, by the testimony of thousands of instances can any scientific fact be established. But much testimony seems to be in favor of telepathy as such a fact.â€"Utica cor, New York Sun, BULLETIN OF WEED SEEDS. The seed division of tht Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, has just issued an illustrated bulletin on the Weed Seeds Commonly Found in Timothy, Alsike and Red Clover Seeds. It is well known that large quantitiecs of seeds of many noxâ€" ious weeds are each year unwittingly sown with grass and cloyor seed. ‘The reâ€" semblance of many weed seeds to ihe commercia) seeds with which they are f~~» makes their detection difficult to at sâ€" ‘s~~~ 1 eye, even if they be present to mt of several hundred per pes therefore of great importâ€" q «Je to identify at least the aned weeds which are seriously in ju~. ‘ricluture. The text and illus 1 this bulletin (No. 16, New Series) Ashed with a view to assist !~ identify the more danâ€" gerow nmon to grass and clover seed. ions of seeds are from dras Fauli, lecturer in botâ€" any Toronto, and the deâ€" sor i. H. Clark, chief of the ‘ttawa, to whom ?- pli~ ies â€"of the â€" bulNetin gino â€" ad, As the edition is 1 se sent only to those dsn ane« in jus~. illus 1 Series) gerou seed. dra> any gor the He Couldn‘t "Recover." .»= »« A young clergyman in making â€" his weekly visits among the poor of his par» ish in a nearby country village quite reâ€" cendy, learned of a poor sick man who recently came from Ireland with â€" his wife and one child, When the minister called at the house hbe was given & most hearty welcome, and on reaching the bedside of the sick man was surâ€" ?rised at finding him apparently well. The day being warm, the clergyman eugâ€" gested that he get out of bed and spend an hour under a shade tree in the gar» den. "It may do you good," he The wife, who was presc husband had better remain until the following day an "It may do you good," he added. The wife, who was present, said her husband had better remain in the house until the following day and then take a little recreation. When the clergyman returned a week Jater he found the husâ€" band still in bed. "Haven‘t !ou been out of bed sinee I was here?" asked the man of the cloak. 5s i is M "Xo, gir, he has not," replied the wife. "I don‘t like to tell yon,. sir, but the doctor gave my husband np a week ago and we sold the clothes. That‘s the reaâ€" son he didn‘t go to the garden."â€" Philaâ€" beyaeedity W,. A. CLEMOXNS, 1¢ I had but just though spoke," he replied, ang of several such occurâ€" Publication Clerk,.