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Weeks Iioeal Secas WHAT 13 OH DC C Fi Meetings will be held Mondays in special meeting Right ist and 3rd next Monday art Luc A fine driver belonging to Mr A delivery was out on Sunday took sic with inflammation Monday and died on Tuesday He valued the animal at That knocks the profit out of the livery business Your Summer Vacation This fine weather brings to mind question Where shall I go for a holiday for perhaps a wedding trip and as it is necessary in order comfortable accommodation engage rooms in advance you are recommended make application to Grand Trunk Agents or address J McDonald To ronto A v v Bound to Misrepresent For some reason not hard to di vine the Conservative organ at every now and again takes a fling at Hon A B Aylesworth Min ister of Justice in the Federal Gov ernment and for North York On Friday last it took occasion to publish an entirely garbled retort of Mr AylesworWs speech on the Mil ler Bill Dr Shearer assuming the report correct has has made a violent attack on the Minister of Justice and charged that his language was as insulting as it was gratuitous Nothing could be farther from the truth Mr worth was simply looking at the question from the lawyers stand point and arguing as to whether the Miller Bill or the present English law should be adopted He told the House that he much preferred the Salesladies- Wanted For Dry Goods also extra help for Saturdays Roche Co Hod- J Davis will address the Bible Class next Sunday after noon All members are requested to be present Strangers are cordially incited The portable sawmill is doing great at Canes lumber yard Big pile of sawdust already Lang the butcher has put in a telephone connection Trout season begins two weeks from Monday Lunge come on the of June The residence of Mr W Collis has been purchased by a Toronto dealer and the furniture was shipped away this week The shippers were paying hogs delivered last Wednesday free Lecture Mr James the Secretary of the Canadian Forestry Association will deliver a lecture illustrated by views in the Town Hall Newmarket on Friday evening April on the subject of Our Vanishing Forests The object of this lecture which is free to the public to which la dies as well as gentlemen are is to show the present state of Cana das forests and what ought to be do- to perpetuate and develop them This subject of Conservation of Resources is now becoming a most important one all over the world and particularly in North Am erica A large proportion of the of Canada is fitted for nothing but the grow- of trees but for that it is admir ably fitted and if properly handled will yield a large and growing reven ue for all time On the other- hand the ruthless destruction of the forests leads to the spoiling of the streams for power and navigation purposes injures agriculture and des troys the haunts of game and the rec reation places of the people All these things are brought out by the pictures which the lecturer will show The public is cordially Invited to this Interesting and informative lecture Have You Seen the Comet The cornel in the morning about hour before sun and is heading Jot the earth at a rapid rate cornet moves around the sun in a retrograde motion and on April will attain a position nearest to it It it is miles row the greatest heavenly bodies Hie comet which is awaken ing worldwide interest has mine a record trip on its last journey thru the heavens which covered a period of seventyfour and onehalf years On it has taken as long as seventynine year 1o travel the game distance The reason that the time is lessened on this occasion is owing to the fact that the attraction Of Jupiter is much greater The corn et ill attain its nearest position to the earth on May when the earth will experience the sensation of pass ing through the tail of the cornet l his beautiful streamer which fol lows In the wake of this fiery is of gases which arc caused by the intense heat contained in the comet These gases foniain element but in small a percentage that they are Pot injurious to voetable life In and the earth pass- through this tail without Some people thought the Cornet on Tuesday but we have authority of Toronto Observatory to say that it was only a form of the aurora bo- which might he mistaken for the cornet by an inexperienced person observations The comet seen by one yet and that with the aid of a powerful telescope We ire creditably informed that it wi to Bee the cornet the naked eye before the May and then it will be In the horizon fust after sundown On the of May it reaches point to the and if you to not zee it by the 24th may sever hope to tee it English law but confessed difficult to explain the difference be cause it is almost entirely lawyers question The theory or scheme in which the Miller Bill is framed is to get at the bookmaker who walks about the racetrack taking bets as being in theory the keeper of a com mon betting house or place The English Bill prohibits the thing by direct enactment if it takes place on the street but provides an exception for race tracks which the Cana dian Parliament if the English Bill were adopted might include or omit as it saw fit Mr it appears entertains the conviction that it is simply juggling with words to call the place on the racetrack within which a bookmaker moves aroJnd a bettinghouse or bet ting- pi ace This very point and because the Miller Bill made no exception in favor of the individual bet between two friends constituted the main reasons why the member for North York preferred the English bill to the one before the House With these ob servations we give a quotation from Hansard of Mr Aylesworths speech There is just one other thing I to say in that regard My friend from South Grey Mr Miller read yesterday a letter I had written to him some two months ago on this subject I certainly have no objection to his putting the letter on the pages of Hansard although I ought to say 1 never expected to see it there and thought I was merely writing to him as one member of the House might write to another what ideas were with reference to this question The language of the letter expresses in perhaps as- concise form as I could use my views about the matter do not think it is an ex traordinary way of getting at the de sired object to resort to the criminal law and to make something a crime which the ordinary sense of the aver age man does not consider a crime We are piling up day by day crimes and under our Constitution we are leaving it to somebody else as we have to do to enforce these laws which make new crimes and make people liable to criminal prosecutions for doing things in connection with which many us think there is no harm in the world J do not know where it is going to end We have had during the short time have been in this House a very stringent law which makes it a crime to fish or in dulge in what most people regard as I comparatively innocent amusement on Sunday We have passed a law mak ing it a crime for a boy all but grown up to smoke a We are now proposing to pass a lav which will make it a crime for a man to make a bet it may he with a young friend of either sex Very possibly before the end of this par liament we shall have a proposition to make it a crime to play carjls or to dance or to indulge in any of the other amusements which there are some in the community thinks very nearly if not quite a tin I deprecate that manner of leg islation J am sorry it should be and with regard to the par ticular thing In hand the regulating of a racemeeting 1 pointed out in the letter I have been referring to that the right way as it seemed to me to do that was by the conditions upon which a license might be Issued i he liquor- traffic is regulated under license of our provincial leg islatures and is well regulated in practice nobody complains we know that the working out practically of tie regulating system which is control oi the provincial legislatures by virtue of their power to issue li censes is satisfactory in regard to the carrying on of even so delicate a kind of business as the traffic in intoxicat ing liquor Is it not manifest that it would be equally easy perhaps more easy to regulate the way in which racing associations should car ry on their meetings what kind of betting they should allow or what kind they should prevent how many days they should hold their meetings and what intervals should require to elapse between each of two meetings and every other condition connected with tlie racing which is sought to be struck at by this legislation by resorting to the various provincial legislatures and obtaining the neces sary legislation from those bodies I am very sorry that course has not been thought to be the wise one by those rightminded people who want to do what they consider to be the welfare of the community and who instead of taking that course have been advised to seek to make a new crime or to add to the list of crimes already the statutebook by the now before this House legislation But the Bills arc here and the ques tion is what disposition ought to be made of them For my part notwith standing the presence in the draft of the proposed amendment of the clause referred to providing that if a continues for not more than twelve days and after an interval of at least twenty days between each of two meetings the saving clause of the last section of the Bill shall ap ply to it notwithstanding the pre sence of thatprovision which I think is to be regretted I for my part so much prefer that way of reaching at the evil which is sought to be pre vented that I intend to support the amendment proposed by my friend from West Northumberland Mr The difference in prin ciple between the two schemes of get ting at the trouble is that the Eng lish Bill strikes at the person who does the thing which it is sought to prohibit It provides that every per son who does these particular things frequents or loiters in streets or other public places for the purpose of bookmaking or betting is liable to punishment The Canadian Bill or the Yankee Bill the Bill reported by the committee proceeds on the con trary idea of striking at the place where the thing is done It prohibits the keeping of a common betting place and defines the words common betting place by language wide enough to include everything even the perambulating of a bookmaker about the grounds of a track and the result of so widening that definition that it exposes to the danger a prosecution any person on the grandstand of a racemeeting who makes a bet with his neighbor of either sex That is I think an Ob jection to this Bill Let me point out how that result is reached In the first place the protection of the existing law is struck out so that you have the prohibition not it may be of individual betting but At all events the recording noting down even fn ft pocket diary or upon ones shirt of the fact that a bet has been made the amount of it or the odds Any one who docs that if this Bill as reported by the committee is passed is liable to a years impris onment That is the distinct provi sion of section 235 as reported with out the saving clause which is struck out Every one is guilty an in dictable offence and liable to one years imprisonment and to a fine not exceeding who records any bet or wager upon the result of any race Then the language of this clause with the saving protection which the existing law contains struck out is quite wide enough to cover and I fancy will day or other be sought to he made to cover things that are not meant to be covered at all Any bet upon any contest or trial of skill of man or beast the draftsman thought of the ordinary game of bridge between four men I think that is a contest or trial of skill largely so and it is not unusual I am told by those who play that there should be money staked upon the result Then with regard to the individual bet using that phrase as intending to describe a bet made between two people who are sitting side by sidein the grand stand looking at an ordinary horse race the definition of a common bet ting place is completely metamor phosed Under the existing law common betting house was the ex pression used and it was defined to be a house office room or other place The word place is used but is used in such a collocation of vords that it derives significance from the preceding phraseology means oth er place of the same character a house office room or other place kept or used That is the pre sent law The use of the threg verbs opened kept or used indicates at once a continuous and permanent us ingopening it starting it keeping it continuing it using it in that sense not for half an hour once in a year but from day to day continu ously is the idea conveyed All that has been carefully swept away delib erately swept away by this Bill be cause the proposed amendment as re ported by this committee is a com mon betting place not house as at present place not opened kept and used but simply used for the purpose of betting between persons resorting thereto and second any person using the same Then we sweeping definition of the word place have at the end of that section this sweeping definition of the word place which was intended as said on the second reading to get rid of any idea of any fixity in the word place and to make that word in clude the upanddown course which any one might take in walking or strolling about a racetrack The Word place as used in this section and in the preceding sec tion includes any place whether enclosed or not and whether it is used permanently or temporarily and whether there is or is not clirsive right of user Now what have we to say about all this 1 take the case of two young people sitting side by side in adjoin ing seats in the grandstand Clear ly they are occupying a place within that definition Place is meant to include any place whether inclosed or not whether it is used permanently or temporarily Although persons may be sitting there only half an hour they are occupying a place within the meaning this law Whe ther they have or not the exclusive right of user the very fact that they are there on that occasion makes this description clearly applicable to them Is a person sitting there looking at the races a person who is using that seat for the purpose of betting with his neighbor I do not think it would he a far cry for a magistrate to hold and apprehend in all seriousness that if this measure should pass in the form in which it is reported by the special committee any one who to institute a prosecution against a visitor at the races for bavin- bet of a pair of gloves with his fair companion will have a perfectly fair case to pre sent It may he said that such a thing will not happen I only point out the distance to which this legis lation is going when what many of us at least think harmless is being constituted into a crime i USES BAKING POWDER AND NEVER FAIL m FASHION- With Patterns A Patterns I l We are offering Special Inducements in HouseFurnishings this Season Our stock is Greater and Better and in spite of the advance in prices OUR Price is even a little lower than usual Wool worth for Union Carpets 35c for 25c fa 2 3 LACE Brussels Tapestry 90c for at and 50c yard Tapestry Carpet 60 65c a and Tapestry Stair Carpets 50c Repp Stair Carjets 22c Carpet Squares Union Squares from to Tapestry to Oil Cloths- in all widths yard 25c Curtain Poles in white cherry and oak complete from to Window Shades largest and best as sortment in the trade Oil Plain and Lace trimmed from 35c to -v- Immense range to choose from Prices from to pair Madras Muslin Lace Nets Spot line Cretonnes and Art Muslins in variety I A t a a i The Ladies Aid meeting held at the home of Mrs J p Davis on Wednesday afternoon was well at tended A pleasant and profitable time was spent Miss Cynthia Cook is visiting friends in the city for a couple of weeks Mr George Green has accepted a position in Toronto and this morning to discharge duties George will be very much missed es pecially in- the League where he took a very active part We wish him success Mr Atkinson of was in town on Sunday Miss Aggie has returned home after visiting in for a couple of weeks Mr and Mrs Baker and Mr and Mrs J Brown attended fu neral of Miss Eva J Davison of Uni- who met such a terrible death by burning on Thursday of- last week The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon Miss Cook has accepted a po sition as milliner at Mount Albert O0 Os Newmarket Markets April 11 1910 Fall Wheat per bush Oats per bush 35 37 Barley per bush 0 0 50 Bran per ton Shorts per ton 00 Flay per ton CO 18 i Dress Goods House mm We have all the favored weaves and preferred shades Our show ing of Black Dress Goods is comprehensive and includes all the lat est and freshest selections Butter p IT lb 20 0 per 19 Potatoes per bag 0 35- ft Chickens per lb Ducks Geese per lb 0 Turkeys per lb f 0 18 Our assortments are exceptionally large and it goes without say ing that these embrace the leading novelties that Fashion favors for the coming summer English Prints Scotch Zephyrs Colored Linens Colored Cotton Suitings Colored Mulls and Muslins Cotton Delaine Cotton Pop lars in plain and fancy stripes etc For your Summer Hosiery buy here The largest and best as sorted Stock in town Visit our Millinery Dept and see the new creations tliat are added to our snappy display phone W C Establiahed 1817 Have You Good Eyesight Do your eyes ever trouble you Do they blur when reading If so you should r consult Ve can give you that correct defects of vision at moderate prices CO and Railway Steamship Tickets Can Co Phone 14 Baggage to and from handled with despatch The school has arranged to hold a concert in the Hall on Friday even ing April The orches tra has been Secured for the evening also violin ducts and other musical selections from outside- talent A small admission fee will he charged the proceeds to used for renovat ing the school grounds commences at eight oclock Mrs dower of who is we are to say quite poorly was brought to her fathers Mr Joel for a time Mrs 10 and daughter and Mrs P Jones are visiting at Mr Paisleys Mr DHall and family have moved into Mrs Burnetts house lately vacated by Mr Barnes Mr I Lav and Bister of were in town on Sunday Miss A- Conner of Toronto visited her sister Mrs Barnes KIOTTLEDY Mr T Watson is agent for the Ideal Wire Fence Those interested would do well to sec him Ho has a carload of wire on hand On Saturday last Mr John Terry was thrown from his wagon and the vehicle I passed over him breaking his jaw bone and several ribs Dr Richardson dressed the wounds and reports progress favorable Mr and Mrs Norman Curtis and baby of Toronto spent Sunday at his fathers Mr J Curtis The Tennis Club held their annual business meeting at Mr Watson 8 on Monday evening when the following officers were elected for the season PresidentMiss M V CaptainMr Willie Send to friends Toronto Markets April 11 Fall Wheat per bush Goose Wheat per bush CI 1 Barley per Oats per bush Rye per bush Peas per bush Hay per ton per do Butter per lb Potatoes per bag Chickens per Ducks per lb Geese per lb Turkeys per lb CAPITAL ALL PAID REST UNDIVIDED PROFITS TOTAL ASSETS k I I 159832 Oft mm 55- 43 0 CO 30 CO 70 0 Branches at all important in Canada and in London Eiig New York Chicago Spokane Mexico and Newfoundland Every description of a Banking business transited INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS Former customers Ontario Bank Branch will be accommodate as heretofore NEWMARKET BRANCH ROSS o Stock Market The market in Toronto on Tuesday comprised 864 head of cattle sheep hogs and SCO calves Select heavy cattle sold at per cwt beef cattle to 1650 me dium from 550 to and common as low as 55 Milk cows from to 570 each and springers fr each Slockers and feeders from to 55C5 a Sheep firm at last weeks quota tions and iambs higher Hogs are coming down rapidly From to paid off cars in Toronto Saint diamond France April JO The opening of the electoral cam paign here today by Premier was marked by Anarchist and revolu tionary groups who Interrupted the Premiers speech to his constituents by smashing windows and shooting ofT revolvers- in our Crockery Department Dinner Sets best English Handsome patterns Peacock ware pieces Regular price sot To Clear at HOWARD HAVE PURCHASED THE GENERAL STOCK OF UNDERHILL BROS OF AURORA Amounting to a rate on the dollar and are removing the same to our customers hero will bo given the benefit of a good bargain In order to room for this stock wo are removing all Mens Wear to 2nd floorwhere wo will soil M ens Clothing Furnishings Shoes tt Hate at ill WE ALSO MAKE A BIG CUT IN THE PRICE OF DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS ROCHE CO block i I