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the Canadian post office department- had to carry a large amount of Ameri- can matter for nothing made it an easy task, no doubt, for the postmaster-gen- eral to acquiesce in a policy that would lighten the labors of his department, and at the same time give the Cana- dian Press the very thing they! were apparently asking for. But even yet we fail to see how the Canadian postal department is going to receive a reve- nue from second class matter mailed and paid for in the United States. The publisher in Canada has to pay more on matter going to the other side, but the increasad rate, as we understand it, goes directly to the Canadian government. The publisher has to pay the postage and run the The Canadian Press Association has for years been fighting against the jug handle postal policy in force between Canada and the United States, and it ill becomes the Canadian press at this early stage to condemn the govern- ment for putting into force a. policy that originated with themselves. That This is sorious. if true. and there seems no reason to doubt i1. and it does sen-1n as if nothing would bv guin- ed by an attempt to shut out Anwrican trash only to open the door for some- thing worse from the world's metropo- lis. The new postal arrangements be- tween Canada and the United States are receiving the pros and cons of pub- lic criticism. The Yellow Journals of the United States have received all along considerable condemnation from the better class of Canadians as well as the Canadian Press generally. Up to the present. however. there has been very little about the vile and sensa- tional junrlmlism issuing from the} press of Great Britain. news agents in this country bv Cunn- dizm News (.‘mxxp:mios.“ On these 8111111118 ('npies the Cliflw suvszvâ€"“For inane vulgarity and salzufiuns sugges- tivenoss nothing from New York could exceed these London pnblimtinns." An m-tit-‘w in Saturday’s Glnbe paints some nf thv British productions in no enViubh- (1’101'8. It says:â€"â€"“A book- seller in “Reta-n Ontario sent, to the Globe Ihv nthm- (lav sample (topics of Weekly pvx'iudicuis of the light and breezy typv publish-d in London and sent on: «m sniv tn lumksollers and news age-Wm in this (‘nuntry by Cunn- dizm News (‘mnpnnivsf On these sample ('(‘9pivs thv (Mime s:1y.<:-“F(_)r DURHAM CHRONICLE SANCTUM SIFTINGS. For Spraying Requisites and other- Insecticides, come to us. Dwarf Essex Rage MacFarlane (Q 00. Druggists and Seedsmen. Sugar 339..“ W IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Seeds . Garden Seeds . Field . . DURHAM MAY 16, 1907 The ('5}1'0\\'in.9; Kind. Stmles Prize Mammoth 10113.2, 1911. (11am; Yolloxx Oval. Ex ans Saulog. 5111095 Gate Post. Rennios. Yellow Inter- mediate Giant Half Long. Steeles Rm 211 Giant. Pennies Giant Sugar Mange]. A specialty. A large stmk of Steele Briggs seeds in bao CS, or in bulk includin0 the f0]- 10“ 1110.; xx e11 kncm n and tested \ mieties. At reduced prices two packets for 50, also by the 02. or Tbs. THE He had his gallery in a little frame building that was formerly used for a. store, and it wasn’t provided with‘any artistic skylights nor the necessary equipment of our modern studios. Nobody was overloaded with money and the getting of photos was more of a luxury than a necessity. The fond parents of those days had as kindly a feeling for their children, perhaps, as the parents of today. At all events anything they did for their children had to be done at a sacrifice. Liverpool to Toronto in four days, twentVntwo hours. is what the estab- lishment of a twenty-five knot Atlan- tic service with an improved railway serviee between Halifax and Toronto would mean. The faster route by way of New York is said to be an interfer- ence with the commercial prosperity and national development of Canada. By the Way. is this new fast Atlantic steanwrship business a new idea just now cumin" to light? \Vas it not t: 11kt d of vears 11010 and \V by not press- ed at the time. ‘4 It 1s also figured out that with [noper transcontinental 11.111111“ facilities and 1111 improved Pacific sei vice the distance from Yoho- homa to Liv erpool \v ould take 18 3, and 1 1111111 Hong Kong 222% (111V 5. Round l the world 1n eightV days is not now‘ regarded as an impossible undertaking 3 We saw Norman Kelsey on the street a few days ago. The old gentle- man hasn’t been out very much of late and it was a sort of novelty to see him down town. His appearance recalled the days of long ago. It must have been about the year 1860 when Mr. Kelsey took the first picture Ye hand- some editor ever had taken. He was staying for a time at Heathcote (then W'illiamstown). ers. Whose sincerity the public may have some reason to doubt. Rev. Dr. Torrey got into trouble re- cently in Montreal. He was interrupt- ed by a question from a man in the audience, and the answer he gave was of such a nature that legal proceedings were instituted for slander. Reports go on to say that Dr. Torrey intimated that his detention in Montreal would cost something and that somebody would have to pay for his lost time, upon which he is said to have put a I value of one hundred and fifty dollars Ea day. Now it is not our purpose to uphold rowdyism at public meetings, whether secular or religious. but it seems that a hundred and fifty dollars a day is a good substantial fee for dis- seminating a free gospel. and we are forced to the conclusion that evangefi lists are not all working in a pure labor of love. It isn’t much of a sacrifice to preach the Gospel at a hundred and fifty dollars a day, and if Dr. Torrey sets the pace at that figure the field will soon be full of evangelistic work THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYN E A correspondent told us last week that the Chronicle would be much im- proved if we had a space devoted to Sunday reading. Some time ago we were told by a reader that we should give an account of the big prize fights. \Ve did not fall in kindly with the sug- gestion of the lover of prize-fight liter- ature, nor do we incline very strongly to favor the idea of a Sunday column. To tell the truth we haven’t any onel around the shop that’s good enough to run a Sunday School paper without the use of a lot of hypocrisy, and we don’t care to encourage that sort of thing. Wouldn’t it look nice to see the editor of this paper run a Sunday department and instruct his readers in the right kind of religious living ? No thanks, we are not competent to un- dertake the job, and however well in- tentioned our adviser may be, we’ll just go on giving the local happenings ,of the place in a good readable form instead of usurping the field of those engaged in the production of religious literature which we are inclined to be- lieve is not too well patronized as it is. \Ve always had a horror for the cranks who took a pride in choking people with their religious views; in fact we never did feel any too safe in their company. l 1 ‘We have now to pay one cent post. age on every four ounces or fraction thereof going to post; omces in the United States. If the Canadian Gov. ernment gets the Whole cent for carry- ing that “four ounces or fraction thereof” to the boundary line and the American Government gets nothing for carrying it and delivering it at its destination, and vice versa on matter coming from there here the arrange- lment seems to be about as one sided l as ever, so long as the amount of sec- 10nd class matter from the United States to Canada continues to be‘ in excess of the amount of second class matter going from Canada to the United States. There will in all prob~ ; ability be a reduction on both sides, ‘ but there will still be a great inequality in the amount interchanged, and Can- ada will still have to give the greater amount of free transportation as we understand the situation at present. risk of getting an increased subscrip. I There were just four boys in our tion from his American reader, or per- ‘family, Ye Editor being the oldest and h aps lose him altogether, as will result ,prettiest of the lot. No doubt you‘ll in many cases. wonder what the others were like. We have now to pay one cent post- Well. we were all dressed in homespun. age on every four ounces or fraction thereof going to post ofices in the United States. If the Canadian Gov- ernment gets the Whole cent for carry- ing that “four ounces or fraction thereof” to the boundary line and the American Government gets nothing for carrying it and delivering it at its destination, and vice versa on matter coming from there here the arrangeâ€" artistic little plaid dresses, not far re- moved from petticoat-. They were our best, and for aught we know now they may have been prepared specially for us to get our pictures “took" in. There were four of us, but in our fam- ily there never was any necessity of long intervals between the christen- ings, and the writer could not have been more than five or six years of The following schedule 0} games were then drafted: Honorary Patrons. Dr. Jamieson, Jno. Kelly, A. A. Catton, R. H. Mc- Williams. President, J. C. Telford Vice Pres, Rev. A. A. Bice. Sec. Trees, F. W. Search. Ex. Com., R. McFarlane, F. Seignerx P. Matheson, C. Lavelle, Dr. Picker- ing, Brad J amieson. Pete Gagnon, Geo. Smith, W. Livingston, E. Wolfe, V. McGifien, Armstrong. The following ofiicers were then elected: It was resolved to organize a. local league to consist of representation clubs from the various professions, business places and industries. ~ About the twenty-first or twenty- : second of September last the jewelry store of Mr. Webster was entered here ' and a quantity of jewelry and dia- _ monds were taken away by the thieves : who effected an entrance by cutting L out a pane of glass from a window at the rear of the store. The event was reported at the time and an unsuccess~ ful effort was made to capture the ' thieves, but no clue was secured and the affair was being to acertain ex- tent forgotten. Amongst the stolen articles was a number of watches that were in for repairs. Some of these were good and others were of very lit- tle commercial value. Some few weeks ago Mr. John Gray, of Bunessan, found a small case in his straw mow but thought very little about it, as he thought it might have been thrown there by some one who had been in- vesting in an article of jewelry. On Thursday evening, however, a young lad he has working for him discovered a grain bag in the corner of the straw mow and was so alarmed that he did not investigate the contents till he went out to the field and informed Mr. Gray. An examination revealed a number of the old watches and a few articles of the less valuable jewelry together with the tags that had been I attached to the repair watches and the cartons that were removed from oth- er articles. The discovery gave some annoyance to Mr. Gray, who felt there might be some suspicion attached to him, but he lost no time, however, in 'bringing out the bag and its contents to Mr. Webster, who identified the property as the stolen goods. It seems that the thieves, whoever they were, Went out as far as the barn in question and remained there till they made a selection of the best of their booty and then concealed the rest in the corner of the straw mow and took their de- parture, in all probability. under cover of the next night’s darkness. , The total value of stolen goods was esti- mated at seven or eight hundred dol- lars by Mr. \Vebster, who now feels confident that he will never be able to trace the remaining articles. The barn is a large frame structure not far from Bunessan Post Office and on this side of the deviation in the Durham Road which leads to the Glen. DURHAM BASE-BALL LEAGUE. A meeting for the organization of a local base-ball league was held in Cal- der’s hall, May 2nd at which J. C. Telford was elected chairman and R. McFarlane Sec. pro tern. Sequel to Burglary Committed Here Last September. STOLEN GOODS FOUND IN BARN Another familiar figure on the street is that of Iohn A. Munro. Many do not know that Mr. Munro taught school at one time, but only for one year, and it must be a great comfort to him to View the writer as one Whose early training he had something to do with. \Ve can not tell the year, nor do we remember whether we regarded Mr. Munro as a good teacher or not. \Ve do remember him. however, as a crack marksman with a. shot gun which .he carried with him to and from the school during the summer months, Wild pigeons were numerous in those early days, and few men could bag more of them than our esteemed old townsman, Mr. Munro. He was a young man then and an artist with the rod and gun. \Ve mean the fishing rod, of course. Those pictures, we may say, have always been carefully kept, and they are just the same to-day as they were when first made. Mr. Kelsey and the rest of us have changed, however. His home was then as now, in Durham. age. We remember how Mr. Kelsey deceived us about. the bird that never appeared. The picture cost five dol- lars and was paid for with a quarter of beef, which Mr. Kelsey turned over to Mrs. Fleming in payment on board. rȤ.. ..â€".~.._.-._..- The undersigned will receive appli- cations for recruits for 00- D. 31513 Regiment; up to Friday, May 3131;, inst. The annual Camp at Niagara begins June 11th. MCDONALD -â€"In Durham, on Frida}7 May 10th, 1907. to Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald, 3 daughter. IN reading advertisements of Var- nish Stain we notice one man claiming that his varnish stain has pigment in it. We should think that, if a varnish stain had pigment in it, it would be a paint, not a Stain. The makers of Campbell’s Varnish Stain come out square and guarantee that their stain does not contain any pigment, does not require any stirring up and will not obscure the grain of the world over which it is applied. Guess we’ll buy Campbell’s. A. Russell sells it. SUBSCRIBERS in the United States whose subscriptions are paid in ad- Vance will get the paper- to the ex piré ation of their term Without further chz‘u'ge. Arrears to date will be ac- cepted a dollar a year but renewals must he made at the rate of at dollar and a half. Examine your label which tells the month and year your sub~ scription expires. After this week we must cut off all who are not paid up. UP to Tuesday last the contributions to the Longboat Education Fund had only reached $125.00. Of this amount the Globe Printing Co. and Christie Brown Co. contributed $25.00 each leaving $75.00 as the quota furnished by the Queen City Shouters. The Globe’s contributions is not yet hinted at as a bid for the Indian Vote of Tor- onto. HORSE SOLD.-â€"John Watt is a lover of a good horse and knows how to im- prove one, for he recently purchased one in low condition, and after feeding it: on International Stock Food found a purchaser last; week. for a. high price, in Mr. George Francis, of Hanover. This horse was sired by “ Johnny D.” (standard) dam Mazeppa.â€"-â€"1c. TORONTO is threatened with a strike that will paralyse the building trade should it go into effect. The plumbers are dissatisfied, and if they go out the other departments of building will be obliged to suspend operations. \VANTEDâ€"A good girl or elderly woman to take full charge of house. Must be good cook, clean and tidy. None other need apply. Highest wages paid to right person. Apply Box 33, Holstein, Ont. AT the Hahn House Tlllll sdav, May 16, MissJ. J. Allan, Refzacting Optic- ian. The latest zippioved methods used in cozxecting impaired vision. No charge for consultation. FOR SALEâ€"Two cows of Holstein breed, heavy milkers and in good con- dition. One due to calf May 10th, the othera little later. ~R. T. Edwards, Ebordale.â€"â€"2. JUST arrived “The Derby” shoe 1 men and the “Smardon Shoe” 1 womenâ€"Snappy stylusâ€"$2.50 to : See north window.~â€"â€"If. H. Mocklor. LADIES cream silk waist, ladies: White lawn waist, ladies’ cream mull waist, ladies’ embroidered waist lengths, extra value, at Grant’s. SPECIAL this week dainty white lawn blouses, shoxt; sleeves, embt oidel- ed panel f1 nnt wox t‘ 1 $1. 50, on sale for $1.00 each.~â€"-â€"H. H. Mockler. THIS is the kind of weather that will make you think of the “Little Won- der” that keeps your house (3001. See it at the Big Store. DAINTY designs in Art Sateens, Muslims, and Crcttonnes. Some very special lines at: 150 poryard.â€"-H. H. Mockler. IF you see what we are showing you will see the correct; thing in summer Vests at Harry Burnett’s. LEARN the truth about your eyes at the Hahn House Thursday, May 16th. J. J. Allan. EXTRA value in white bed spreads. See them for $1.15, $1.50 and $2.00 at: Grant’s. May 30th, Manufacturem vs. Mer- chants. June 6th, 0. P. R. vs. Bankers. June 7th, Cement Co. vs. Profes- sions. June 14th, Merchants vs. Profes- sions. June 206b, Cement vs. Bankers. June 28th, Manufacturers vs. Bank- July 4th. Merchants vs. Cement Co. - July 5th ,Professions vs. C. P. R. July 11th, Manufacturers vs. Pro~ fessions. July 19th, Merchants vs. Bankers. July 25th, Cement; ()0. vs. C. P. R. G Aug. 2nd, Manufacturers vs. Cement, o. June 13th. Manufacturers vs. Aug. 8th, Merchants vs. C. P. R. Aug. 16th. Bankers‘vs. Professions. s . RECRUITS WANTED. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. or MACLAURIN, 1 N. T. E. M. WOLFE, J O. M. SNIDER, Captain. Mm» }Lieut. for for $4. CASH ONLY. before the eyes of the peeple, and there’s not much danger of anything: better cropping up, because there is possitively Nothing better on the Canadian Market. Our Men’s Patents $4 and $5 Our women’s fine Kid Oxfords, are the cream of the (Zanadiatt market. Repairing and orders neatly and promptly attneded to. PEEL, the Shoeman are just. the exact thing looked fur: and are mmnumding good sale, Are s: Our Women’s Patent Strap Slippers, and Oxfords at $2.25 $2.50 and $3.00 Arr \Vlthflut a doubt the most rvlmhlc (.)fi(-*1‘0(1 at any price. Our Boy’s Patents at $4 selling like 101; cakes and wearing LIKE IRON. DURHAM AND OWEN SOUND May 16. 1907