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into the hands of the retailer with the 

 least possible handling and expense. 

 This an association on co-operative 

 lines could do by grading and putting 

 up our honey here — putting it up in 

 small tins holding one, two, three, or 

 more pounds as may be deemed best, 

 just as beef and fruits, etc., are put up, 

 so the retailer can handle them without 

 messing up himself or shop, let these 

 tins have attractive labels, setting forth 

 -the source of the honey, and the guar- 

 antee of the association as to its qual- 

 ity and purity, and with instructions as 

 to how to readily liquefy if so desired, 

 etc. 



Then we would want to put a compe- 

 tent traveling man to work in 

 England to dispose of our crop 

 to the retailers direct, on com- 

 mission, so that the more he sold 

 the more he would earn. We could also 

 clarify the wax of the members, and 

 put in uniform cakes with the stamp of 

 the association and thus get better 

 prices than by old methods. 



Honey in small i pound tins retails 

 in England for is. a pound, and the de- 

 mand is — limited. Yes, of course it is, 

 and always will be at such prices'. 



Suppose we sell it at a price, say 

 7 i-2d. per pound, that will net the pro- 

 ducer 3d. per pound, or thereabouts, or 

 say 3s. per gallon. I am sure this would 

 satisfy any of us. This of course for 

 well ripened table honeys, the darker 

 we could not expect to get very high 

 prices for, as it would only be used for 

 manufacturing purposes, but even for 

 this we could make contracts direct 

 with the consumers, and thus save mid- 

 dlemen's profit. This, in short, is the 

 proposed scheme, subject to alteration 

 as may be desired. 



H. G. Burnet, Cor. Secy. 



C. W. McHardy. Asst. Secy. 

 145 Harbour Street, Kingston. 



advisers; how nice political considera- 

 tions influence their choice and reduce 

 to lowest terms the number of avail- 

 able candidates. 



This article will appear in an early is- 

 sue of The Saturday Evening Post. 



"I Will Not Forsake Thee" a sacred 

 solo by H. W. Petrie, published in the 

 January number of the J. W. Pepper 

 Piano Music Magazine, is alone worth 

 the price to all those who appreciate 

 good music wed'cied to appropriate 

 words. Nothing better has ever appear- 

 ed in its pages. The magazine also in- 

 cludes 22 pages of entertaining musical 

 literature and half tones. 21 complete 

 pieces for the piano — 10 songs, 11 in- 

 strumental — 2S cents. For sale by all 

 newsdealers. 



Literary Notes. 



NOTABLE ARTICLES. 

 Modern Culture for January contains 

 a notable paper on "Henry George, the 

 Man and the Reformer,"' by Dean 

 Charles D. Williams. D. D., of Trinity 

 Cathedral, Cleveland; seven timely il- 

 lustrated articles of which those on 

 ■'The Police Dogs of Ghent," by J. E. 

 Whitby, of Brussels; "Winter Naviga- 

 tion on the Lakes," by W. Frank Mc- 

 Clure, of Ohio; "The Sun God in 

 Chains.'" an account of the newly in- 

 vented solar motor, by Arthur Inker- 

 sley, of California, and "The Charleston 

 Exposition," by Dolly K. Yancey, of 

 Charleston, are of especially fresh in- 

 terest; a graceful poem on "Winter.*" 

 by Hortense Tousley; and a longer and 

 more serious poem on "Bysantium,"' 

 author unknown, which is presented to 

 Modern Culture readers as "A Literary 

 Curiosity," by General H. G. Gibson, 

 of Washington. There are besides a 

 number of literary articles, a story ot 

 Mormondom in the "seventies," "The 

 Vengeance of the Lord," by H. B. Ster- 

 ling, and the usual interesting depart- 

 ments. 



CABINETS AND CABINET-MAK- 

 ING. 



The gradual reconstruction of Mr. 

 Roosevelt's Cabinet lends a direct and 

 timely interest to an .article which the 

 Hon. Charles Emory Smith has just 

 written for The Saturday Evening Post, 

 of Philadelphia. 



Cabinets and Cabinet-Making tells 

 how Presidents choose their official 



If the old saying, "All the world 

 loves a lover." is true, then the fiction 

 in The Cosmopolitan for January 

 should be popular, indeed. All the stor- 

 ies vary in treatment, plot and action, 

 from Frances Courtenay Baylor's 

 charming story, "Cupid's Practical 

 Joke." to Maarten Maarten's strong 

 domestic tragedy. "Her Father's Wife," 

 but all have love for a central theme. 



