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A FACT Our Watch repairing business larger TWATSON gives more hem week than any papers in North York combined and acknowledged to be the Leading Paper NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER Give as the liberty to know to to argue freely according to above all other liberty No paper sent outside of North York unless paid Id advance to United States Newmarket Ont Friday May 22 1908 YourHardwood Floors be treated right It care for them if yon use JOHN- SONS PREPARED WAX the satisfactory and reliable for finishing and polishing floors furniture and woodwork It polish dust dirt will not adhere It brings the beauty of the wood I marks and scratches fro blister or peel off Because A BINNS A W A STOVES PUTTY PAINTS OILS PLUMBING AND PHONE ONT The Value of la THE BANK OF TORONTO NEVER DEPRECIATES Tki Balance which your aod the latere paid on is kept in absolute until resulted Income from the ia received quarterly by you Bank all Balance four times a year ffajry Investments in these lota to Inveator but every Dollar tA the many to the care tola Bank during the past half century been ac counted for when demanded 1 RESERVE ASSETS NEWMARKET BRANCH ability Oar Toronto Letter was the burglar who a brick and broke Max ins window then gathered up the jewel within reach He got months in the Central Sinclair wanted money with out earning it He forgo the name Sinclair to a T pay sheet for and will now have to tve a years term in the Central Mr Joseph is out as an In dependent Conservative candidate for East Toronto and he will stay the fight tilt the poll closes June fa Toronto will have lots of fun for the nest two weeks Several more cottages at Kew each were badly damaged by the storms of last week One cottage toppled over into the lake At a meeting of the unemployed Italians last week one speaker stated that there were between 1200 and 1500 Italians in this city out of em ployment The question is why dont they to some other place where work is to he had instead of waiting here for something to turnup On Thursday morning of last week a fire broke out in the Yonge St Ar cade causiHg about damage Three firms are sufferers by the blaze Charged with obtaining from Charles A Decks two suits of clothes and three pairs of pants valu ed at about Aaron was arrested In Vancouver at the In stance of Toronto police He will he brought to this city for trial Oftentimes domestic infelicity is un known to the outside world In an affidavit by Mrs Caroline of Hamilton filed at Hal an unusual condition of marital re lation is revealed By the breaking of one of the stakes holding pile of lumber on a T R car a few days ago Richard Cub- bin aged had his head side and chest crushed in by the fall of lumber upon him Death ensued in about three hours after the accident Geo Johnstone a notorious pick pocket was recently sent down for CO days on a charge of filching a dia mond pin Magistrate gave him days his attorney plead ed that he had already been in jail 18 days The Magistrate replied Well if he figures it out he will his whole term be days Farmers want better transportation facilities better express and parcel rates fat are our politicians do ing in this regard No man who is not prepared to fight for these should receive their votes Members of par liament who darent say their souls their own for fear of taring the jtass arc not the men What is Life to You Anonymous To the preacher lifes To the joker its a jest To the miser life is money To the poet lifes a son To the doctor lifes a pa That seeds treatment To the soldier lifes a battle To the teacher lifes a school Lifes a good thing lo the grafter Its a failure to the fool To the man upon the engine Lifes a long and heavy grade Its a gamble to the gambler To the merchant its a trade Lifes a picture to the artist To the rascal lifes a fraud Life perhaps is hut a burden To the man beneath the hod Life is lovely to the lover To the lifes a play Life may be a load of trouble To the man upon the dray Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves his work Lifes a everlasting To shun duty the shirk To the heavens Lifes a story t Life is what we Brother what What Becomes of Our Dead Letters AN INTERESTING RETURN Ottawa May The Post generally admitted by the people at large gives good value for the money that is expended on its lipkeep For many years it worked as a halfdreamy halfsleepy I doing its duty as its heads saw their duty but with hardly enough enthu siasm to change a stage coach mail line to a railway mail line when the opportunity for such a move present ed itself It was a department away behind the age governed by Postmas tersGeneral who took but little lu ll the work and by deputies re so conservative in the of the service that It ost required an act of Parliament compel to change to Hi Do you want double Bank Inter now The price Is reduced this month to PER TON Ho you may be a winters supply and at the same tin make a good Investment your money BUY THE BEST COAL IK AMERICA Corner Chwh by PIMM or JOS WESLEY COME IN AND EXAMINE OUR Showing of Spring Suits in the latest patterns Goods and stylo to suit your and to your WILLIS KERCH AHT TAILOR to atkoumm main Dr at iiiiK the ecu expressed thought ppoxHfon would only have a dozen the next Legislature and tie next ay the papers announced thai a of the Government had g to his constituency difl return till the the of in this city and general boost for the Old Home next August in the Guild Halt last week It was a large gathering Perhaps BOO repre sentatives from fie Royal City were lent to extend the glad hard The musical part of the program was ex- team belonging to V Percy dairyman got frightened at the ping atearn the cement mixer West Toronto wheeled suddenly upset the wagon and spilled ill- of milk last week in Ontario St a woman threw- her babe into a sheet from the second story The babe removed and the woman lumped into a blanket bat wept through it and was severely hurt escaped by climbing down the balcony of the burning building As it was in the middle the night the inmate only escaped In their nightclothes tatted near the front stairs of the Electric Light Thursday of last week was ed between a pulley and belt so badly hurt that he died on the to the Hospital Crawford and Mr are the Conservative candidates for A and divisions in est Toronto for the Legislature During evening The An Prior and Dr D P M tins i Post- Deputy who would to advice or take a suggestion i an outsider No the beaten that had served long ago was good lor They enough for til with the old corduroy road would sooner Jog along that kind causeway than spud along asphalt Until the try Sir William lock Into the office of along wit his Deputy were always a feat windup the cession of Si May Mr and Ed ward the old milts from about oclock Stony tog by the of who said they were choking They found their was on fire and hastily escaped from the The end shed were burned and nearly all their goods Jarratt thrown only slightly injured She fire destroyed one of large brick buildings at the Victoria Industrial School at Mlmlco occasioning about low on the and fi000 on the contents None of the tried to escape although had plenty of William grasped the was the distinguish bg characteristic ol the department like ore the Icmieux and his work been of the same excellent character as that of his The deficit on the a William to office It was into a surplus of over last year In the lace of a very great decrease in the rates of postage twocint rati In the rate on letters between Canada and England was reduced per half ounce from office ol publication ad dressed to subscribers in Great Britain hat been reduced from cent per ounces to onehalf cent per pound THE YUKON SERVICE In addition to the reduction In post age the Department had to cope Concert Program May Piano Solo Violin Solo Scotch Heel Buck and Wing I Irish Jig Selected The Four The Jolly Sailor introducing Lib Walking and Danciiij John A Kelly Miss Middlehrook Andrew J Young John A Kelly Master Harry W J Happi Family Containing many SAVE THE KING a deficit of nearly Dead Letter System Improved he Letter system which tralived at Ottawa was d and ollite Hi leading cities every portion A Dominion whereby dead letter untie be on the ground few hours which formerly too days and weeks to dispose POSTAL NOTES INTKGDUCED The Postal te iin gviiB a til biting small amounts tbrouiu country a great benefit and en to the farming and was also one lic 11 Hi- I I the convenience the public MONEY ORDER SYSTEM The Money Order business has completely overhauled remedied an brought up lo the demands noder and although til orders by a penurious policy as the same en terprise has the policy of the Department in all directions service has been generally extended every reasonable demand tic public for increased facilities has been CARRIER SERVICE EXTENDED disposed of last year number of letters found to Confined been to all tow population of and i the near future the which PO of from last ye 1381365 Then another part of the return the immense number of letters returned bo Great the British Colonies and foreign countries a registered DEAD LETTER OFFICE HANDLES I OVER A MILLION ARTICLES I item is followed by the minv ei the ilo tie re Hi delKii its the have in rtceptlon the present lime Formerly all money orders country to another had to be trans mitted through International money order exchange offices This often led to grevious inconvenience and de lay The Department by negotiating with some twelve foreign countries lias abolished the international ex change olfites as far as these coun tries are concerned and made by which moneyorder issued in Canada is transmitted direct lo the of payment and vice versa- This Is specially convenient for people doing business between the- United States and Canada INCREASE IN POST OFFICES The number ol Post Offices has been increased from in at the end of 1007 and a larg Increase has taken place sir Money Order Postal Notes Savings Dank offices n direct or otic cent thin isl me through In- length and breadth of the lanl universal drop letter rate of one WHAT BUSINESS HAVE DONE When ft Is considered thercor that satisfactory anial of the Department has been I rougl about in the face of substan tial reduced postal rates added bur dens and general extensions of the service it goes without saying that the policy ol the Department which haK brought about this happy result and changed a deficit of nearly into a surplus of nearly one million and a for the last year Immense amount of mail matter has to he handled anil re- handled from the time it leaves the senders hand till for some good and its way Into the Dead Idler to Its writer or dislro I by male to deliver to the Here is the fist Dead letters returned to Great colonies and foreign countries including registered Hooks post carls etc of Brit ish and foreign origin re turned Registered letters including foreign returned to writers Registered letters failed of ful management and good business livery of writ methods to redeem Ordinary statements fat arc con- address etc no value de tained between the covers of depart- mental blue books are as a general Registered letters in dead letter branches awaiting If uninteresting hut not with the figures which show In a way the active life of the Post Office De value lousty I Wlllian accession to incurred by any administration the Department had the granting of a mall service to the Yukon which was a distinct addition to the expenditure of the De partment and which has always yield- been opened Work ol Dpad Letter Branch The Dead Letter Office Is an Import- ant part of the service and returns showing the large number of articles received the Dead Letter Office and offices abroad and Canada from tic nine ending March 1308 will RAILWAY SERVICE DEVELOPED Thp Mall Service has been ticks developed and extended without stint her of ordinary from Great the British Pol and foreign- In inted to most of rural tries he number of miles of an- el has been Increased by number of ordinary received In some per cent I offices In Canada which So that this happy condition the postmaRterB were been brought about as regard the able to deliver 1 financial status of the Department it The number of registered not In any case been brought about ides which ttirned t writers Letters no value failed of de livery destroyed Letters- value ail ed of delivery awaiting in Dead Letter Office in dent letters returned to writer Ordinary dead letters with printed addresses returned to or returned senders Dead post cards parcels books I etc disposed of Dead postcards parcels book etc remaining in dead letter branches I J Toronto Telegram KReHWES1f5FNTAR