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$1 per annum, in advancal VOL. XVIII. “ Otis fitment ” IS PUBIIISI‘ILFD EVERY .mmmmm . 7.7 ' w . iv- â€" DIE. 'EEEP‘SK. THURSDAY D/{ORNING IVO'T‘ARST’ AT THE LIBERAL PRl‘lTlNG A PUBLISHING HOUSE RICHMOND HILL, ONT. rI". F. McMAHON. Emma is; PBOI‘RIRTOB. BUSINESS CARDS. “.4 r. m L7. .... . a stain.” DR. LANGSTAFFI RICHIJOND HILL. OFFICE HOURS Stolen“); (“08pm COMMISSIONER IN THE HIGH COURT OF jUSTICE, &c. Issuer of Marriage Licenses. RICHMOND HILL POST OFFIt‘E. A G F LAWRENCE 4‘ W 3 Optimum, L L B LAWRENCE & ORMISTON. Bar ‘isters, Solicitors, Etc. Toronto Officeâ€"No.15 Toronto Street. Richmond Hill Office open every Saturday. __.0_- llONEY TO LOAN AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES J. R. MILLER I. J. B. DUNCAN Manage a firmware BAREISTFRS, SOLICITORS AND NOTABIEB. I‘oronto Officeâ€"34 Bank of Commerce Buildings, 19 King Street West. DB. 3. I?“ ThornhillOfficeâ€"PostOf‘fice every Wed- (Succesior to Dr. W. J. Wilson). RICHMOND HILL, Ont. OFFIL‘E nouns ileum. M mime was! agan USED BY 91‘. A . Robinson. SURGEON DENTIST, Auroralstfith,16th,aud 22nd of each month Eichvnanl lIill ..... 11th and 14th do (at the Palmer House) Stoufiville .. ........18th, if Sunday, Blst .2uth of each month 14th do Markham .. Mt. Albert . Woo lbri lge Kleinburg n')leton......... .. Reliable Gum Applications used when required. ESGet you); Cheap Teeth of Robinson. Address ROBINSON L.D.S. Aurma0nt. w. ROGERS, um A little east of Parkdale station, over W. Co ins‘ store. corner of Queen and Horthcote Avenue, ORONTO its. visits, critter, ICHARDSON HOUSE, MAPLE, is! “’edncsdny Each Month Toronto Addressâ€"43225 Spadina Ave, near Har- bord St. DR. S. F. B. REID, Has had permanent dental rooms fitted up, nesday from 10 to 12 a. m. GollectionsinCity and Country promptly attended to. Money tuloan 6.6. S. LINDSEY LYON LINDSEY CHARLES J. R. BETHUNE. LINDSEY, LINDSEY & BETHUNE Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries and ()unveyanoers. Pacific Bui'dings,l13 Scott St., Toronto. Telephone 2954 Money to Loan ROBINSON, LENNoiia MACIEUD Barristers. Solicitors, etc. TORONTO AND AURORA. ‘ Mr. T. H erbert Lennox will be at Kelly‘s Hotel Richmond Hill every Wednesday, for the trans- action of business. GARVIN & GARVIN, Barristers, Solicitors. Conveyancers, Notaries, &c 75 Yonge St.. Toronto, and LawOflices at the Dominion House, Rich-. mend Bill, every Wednesday. Mr,Fred. W. Garvin willbe at llichmbnd Hill every Wednesday, and at each sitting of the Court. £20,000 to Loan On farm security,at 51¢ per cent. COOK, MACDONALD & BRIGGS, No. 1, Adelaide Street East, Toronto And MAPLE every Thursday afternoon, where Mr. Cook will be in attendance. 25-3111 December 19th. l.895._ SALEM Ecmnr, Unionville. J. H. Pnunrrcn. Currville. Eckardt dc Pr entice, Licensed Auctioneers for the Counties of York Ontario and Pool. Goods sold on consignment next door south of the High school, Richmond Generalsales 0 stock. 6150., promptly attended Hill, where he will receive patients every Tliurs- . to at reasonable rates. day and Friday. The Dr. will be in his office on XVedneslay and Thursday evenings. when he willbe pleased to mike engagements for the fol- lowing days. Patients are requested to call as early as possible. The Dr. leaves at 3 p. m. on Friday. Elasticity Tr. steam-,7, VETERINARY SURGEON ~ANDâ€" VETERINARY DENTIST, RICHMOND HILL, Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary Colleee, with diploma. from the (intario Veterinary Dental School, will visit Maple on Monday and Friday of each week, and Concord on Friday tom 1 to 3 p. m. Calls promptly attended to Diseases of horses, cattle and other domestical‘w ed animals treated by the latest and most ap- proved methods. TIESO Life Assurance 00. OF CANADA. Assurcs on all the modern plans. and is one of ' the most prosperous and progressive companies in existence. New life appliv ' us in let); ....Sl0,2€m,20~l.10 Assets,.‘list1)o lent .......... . 4,616,11 03 Life assuranc'n in fore t Jam, '95., $1,628,519.74 Premiu'iis low, llOllL'ltS unconditional and nonfurfeitiible. Take a policy Will; the district agent, T. F. MCMAHON, LIBERAL OFFICE, â€" RICHMOND HILL J C STOKES Stokes a; Blougln. Licensed Auctioneers for the County or York,re- spectfully solicit your patronage and friendly influence. sales attended on the shortest notice and a reasonebe rates. P.O.a(luress King D BLOCGH J. 'l‘. Snigeort, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York Sales attended to on shortest notice and at rea- sonablerates. Patronage solicited. Residence Maple J. D. Readman, Licensed Auctioneer for the (‘ounty of York. General sales of implements, furniture. standing timber, etc.. attended on the shortest notice and at reasonable rates. Patronage solicited. P. U. address Maple. H. Darrow, MXDE nouns, 158 KING STREET nss'r. Tnnon'ro Every accommodation to guests. Board, 31. Der day THE PALMER HOUSE RICHMOND HILL. Thisflne hotel is fitted up with all the modern appliances for health and comfort. Best brands ofliquors and cigars. Sample rooms for com- mercial travellers. 'Busses meet all trains. 1 Rates $1.00 per day. JOHN KELL Y, Pronrictor. \-.‘-,.f‘éi';‘£r}‘s’résé'lz~warwe _ : .' Ii ,, . WRIGHT BROS, Undertakers & Embaflmcrs, Funeral Furnishings Always on Hand “1‘37" ‘:'.'5 .‘J L'.’ 12'» gym; ,. r. .; ,Jgr .; a. (2:112. . "{"-‘,::3-"‘L‘vr’-ZFZ‘-s Our Ottawa Letter. One of the most Bt’rliltifi things with which the Liberal party is threatened is the division of its ranks by the Patron influence. In my last letter I pointed out what it had dune in North Ontario, where, by supporting the Patron candi- date and splitting up the vote, the Lib- eral farmers had insured the electiun of an oxzrcme Conservative protectionist. Now, is that what you want? Have not the Liberals and the Patrons the same object in View? Are we not fighting to the one endl Then why should that object. and end be defeated by ourselves, and our enemy’s victory made secure by our own stubboiness. THE PATRON PLATron M. 1. Maintenance of British connection. 2. The reservation of the public lands for the actual settler. 3. Purin of administration and abso- lute independence of parliament. 4. Rigid economy in every department of the public service. 5. Simplification of the laws and a gen- cral reduction in the machinery of guy- einment. 6. The abolition of the senate. 7 A system of civil service reform that will give each county puwer to appoint or elect all county officials paid by them, exempt county judges. 8. Tariff for revenue only, and so ad- justed as to fall as far as possible upon the luxuries and not upon the necessar- ies of life. 9. Reciprocal trade unfair and equi- table ternis between Canada. nnd the world. 10. Efl'vctunl legislation that will pro- tect labor from those combines and mo- nopolies which unduly enhance the price of the articles produced by such climbin- aliuns or monopolies. ll. Prohibition of the bonusing of rail- ways by government grants as contrary to public interests. 12. Conformity of electoral districts to comin boundaries, as constituted for municipal purposes, as far as the prin- ciple of representation by population Will allow. 13. Preparation of the Dominion and Provincial voters’ lists by the municipal officers. The Liberals in and out of parliament have favored every plank in this plat- form except clauses 6 and 11, that is an issue in federal politics. As regards clause 6 they are in favor of senate re- form. Read what Mr. Arthur t’ringle, one of the best known Patron weikers, had to say regarding the possibility of a clashing of forces. Mr. Pringle said .â€"“ A few blunders at the beginning of our career would be diflicalt to recover from. One ench blunder would be to quarrel with our friends, who. though not exactly of our household, know that in union there is strength, and in the presence of the determined and unscrupulous enemy “e shall'ueed all our strength. That enemy would rejoice at our fully.” The fully that Mr. Priugle anticipated developed itself in the North Ontario election and our enemies are rejoicing over the result. They are rejoicing over our blunders. So far the only good the Patron order has done is to emphasize the necessity for giving effect to a platform laid down by Liberals and Patrons and to bring into prumioencea few indivtduals who are profiting by the movement. But while the Patrons espouse the same principles as the Liberal party, their action has made more remote the possibility of effect being given to those principles. As regards the Patron organization I have sword further to say; a. word of caution to our active working farmers. By active working farmers I mean those farmers who till the soil and who by the sweat of their brow in the field earn their daily bread. Not the farmer who deserts his farm and becomes a Patron for rev- enue purposes; who expects to earn a living and win political notoriety, not be- hind thc plow, but behind the pen and on the hustings. What I wish to caution our f-trmers against is in being misguided by these men who are politicians first and farmers afterwards, whose only chance of gaining political notoriety lies in the support and. encouragement you actual or active form- ers give them. Think this over and see if you do not agree with me. Do you not think you were ill advised in placing a Putrun can- didate in the field in North Ontario to split up the vote and make sure the re- turn of the government candidate. But what is this new move we read of on the part of the Patrons? The day after the election in North Ontario, when the mischief they had done there to the cause of tariff reform and econ- omical government became ap- parent, thc Grand Board of the Patrons of Industry met in Toronto and passed the following resolutionzâ€"v“ That the Patron constitution be so amended as to admit all classes and professions who be- lieve in the necessity for the existence of an independent party in the country to quotations and allusions that in all things, Charity.” save the Dominion from the fate which hangs over it, of having its life crushed out between the upper and nether mill- stoncs of machine pzirlyism, and to abol- ish all pas3words, signs and pledges be- yond the acceptance of our platform and principles as being more fully in the in- terest of the people than the principles and platform of any other existing party." Now what does that' mean I Does it mean that the farmers have lost con- fidence iii the movement, or rather in the men who are dirvcting it, and that to hold office they must look in other quart- ers for recruits. Dues it mean that the farmers are beginning to see that a. few politicians have been seeking to gain no- toriety and a. living at their expense. There are no doubt a few worthy farm- ers at the head of the order, but there are many in the order who have trans- ferred their ambition from the direction of the farm towards the legislature. One thing is apparent. and that is that the executive or grand board have be- come alarmed at. their declining influence and at the certainty of losing their grip upon our agricultural classes, and thus they seek to retrieve lost ground and re- tain office by admitting all classes and professions to the order. 4. Thomas De Quinceyâ€"His Life and Works. (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.) In reading tlze works of De Quincey, one of the first things that impresses us is the “ ('xh'cme multifuriousness of his knowledge." He had a. “prodigious meni- cry," an inexhaustible fertility of topics, and wonderful powers of conversation. All these served him most advantageousâ€" ly in his “rltings, but here shines out above all oniispicuously and amazingly the rcfmfive capacity of his memory. In some of his papers he took must. of his materials second hand from the German. His digressions, quotations, notes and allusions would sufficiently convince the must skeptical of the immense and eccen~ tric range of his reading, and at the same time of the stick-tu-a~tiver.ess of the man’s mind. Besides these qualities he was a close observer of human character, and he noted and remembered character- istic peculiarities and expressions of feel- ing with “Boswellian minuteness.” In the course of his travels he met persons of all ranks and conditions, and all shades of beliefs and opinions, and he scarcely mentioned a name without giv- ing some characteristic particulars of the person. In addition to his marvellous memory, De Ouincey possessed another great in- tellectual forceâ€"the power of keen unal- ogy or the detection of hidden resemblan ces. This was with him a most remark- able endowment, indeed, as was evidenc ed in his writings in several waysâ€"in the reveal his wide knowledge of books and of men. His multitudinonsillustrations and the metaphorical cast of his language are ob- vious signs of the activity of his analogi- csl faculty in a no less striking degree. Nothing can be more exquisite than his subtlety in discriminating wherein things agree and where they differ. Nothing can be more charming to the lover of in- tellectual subtlety than the deliberate and cool arrays of argument which he can advance in support of a favorite theory. This is most cleverly evidenced in his at- tempt to whitewash the character of Judas Iscariot. His dexterity in addue mg and urging circumstances favorable to his opinions, and in undermining every thing that seems to militate agullist them, gives to the reader an idea of “elaborate ingenuity” nut to be obtained, perhaps, from either Macaulay, or Carlyle, or any of our more mi derii writers. In De Quincl-y’s writings we not only find profound erudition, intellectual subtlety and marvellous powers of ex- pression, but we also find poetical genius and passionate imagination ! He may be called an arid philosopherâ€"a modern Duns Scotus or Thomas Aquinasâ€"fur he read “Gcrman metaphysics, the Latin selioolmen, tliaumaturgic Platonists and religious Mystics” with avidity But he tells us in his confessions that at one time he read and studied our own liteia lure so volumniously and so ravenoust that a “tremendous grip” was taken on his entire sensibilities. He read and re- read With the utmost delight the snblimer and more passionate poetsâ€"“the grand , lamentations of Samson Agonistes, or the great harmonies of his Satanic Majesty's speeches in Milton’s ‘Paradise Regain- ed') I) In fact De Quincey was what he called himself a. Eudamonist or Hedonistâ€"a. pleasure-seeker. But we may limit our definition, and any that he was not a. seeker of pleasure in a general way-â€"for his enjoyment did not depend upon a. flow of animal spiritsâ€"his pleasures were not boistereuswbut rather, a seeker of infr'IIr-ctuulpleasure. He was, therefore, rather an epicurcun than an Hedonist, for during a very considerable part of his time be was “rapt in his favorite studies, In. Works of analytic understanding, of history and of imagination." His pleasures, as before stated, were not boisterousâ€"lie had not the constitu= tion for hearty enjoyment of life. In his boyhood he was very shyâ€"he styles him’ self “the shiest of cliildren”-~and he was naturally pensive and despoudent. He was passionately fond of peace, and dur- ing his father’s illness and his dying hours, his son, Thomas, was in constant attendanceâ€"because of his "repose of manners.” He had a “perfect craze” for being ignored, and always endeavored to hide his acclimplishments from the curi« osity of strangers rather than exhibit them. This shyness and timidity were his companions throughout. his life. He was often sought after and “lionised,” but be rather avoided than courted society. He humorously tells us how he was horrified at a party in London when he saw a large company of guests filing in one after the other, and conceived from their deportmeut that they had come to do honor to tho opium-eater. Mr. De Quincey would almost seem to have been unnatural in this respect, for the gener-. ality of men court popularity and notor- iety. When the great literary character, Hall Caine, comes to Canada, Montreal, Toronto and other cities vie with each other in the excellence and sumptuous- ness of their “banquets.” When the great Liberal leaderâ€" Mr. Laurierâ€"goes to Woodstock he must be “banquetted.” When Mr. N. Clarke Wallace goes to Toronto Junction he must be given a “reception.” When the honorable the Canadian Premier goes to Winnipeg the citizens form prncessions, make speeches, read addresses of welcome, and do him honor ! Perhaps, all things are good and true and necessary; and we may venture to say that, perhaps, they are the out- come, both of the feelings of gratitude and veneratinn and admiration, which seem to be fundamental principles in Out: humanity. It may be apropos for us to postulate the fact also that all those ban- quets, ovations, processions, addresses of welcome, the freedom of cities. and con- gratulatory speeches, find in those whom they are intended to honor and make popular, similar fundamental principles ofappreciation nnd receptivity, But in the case of De Quincey, in this respect, at least, he was strikingly individual and strikingly unnatural. (To BE CONTINUED.) PERSONALS. Mr. C. McLean gees today to Bradford to take a position in a tailoring establishment. Mr A Mason, of Toronto, is visiting his oousm, .‘iss Jennie Palmer. Aurora Bitumenâ€"Bliss Elliott, of Rich- mond Hill. spent Sunday in town, the guest of Miss Cora Snowden. Mr. W. E. Brown, High School Assistant, is spending his Xmas. vacation at his home in St. John’s West. Mr. M.Palm6r, barrister, of Grand Rapids, Mich, spent a couple of days last week with his sister, Mrs, (Dix) Langstaff. Weston Timesâ€"Mr. Ellston, of Richmond Hill, was in the village over night, on Fri- day, and called in to see us. He looked a jolly as ever. Mr. D. Lynett a few days ago received a. telegram stating that his brother-in~law, Mr. Julin Thornton, proprietor of the Queen’s Hotel, Orillia, had suddenly died. ‘ We are pleased to observe by last Satur- day's dailies that Mr. Albert S. Savage has successfully passed the Qualifiing Examin- ation in connection with the Civil Service. Mr. F.H. Kirkpatrick, who has just re- turned from a session of the Normal School, Ottawa, was in the village a couple of days last week. He will resume duties here as Principal of the Public School on the Cth of January. Mr. Goo. Coombs, of Bradford, who filled the position of PliDClDaI of the Public School here during the absence of Mr. Kirkpatrick to the Normal School, with so much satis- faction to the Board of Education and the section generally, has been engaged to teach the Dowusview Public School for 1896. He will commence duties on the 3rd prox. MARE IAGES DnnrosmVauonNâ€"Ou the 18th of Dec., 1895, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Dr, Mills, Miss Minnie Bernella Denton, of Webb's Mills, New York, and Mr, Chas. Vaughn, or Elmira, New York. McNAmâ€"AOABâ€"At the Parsonage. on Tuesday, 24th that .by Rev. J. Vickery, Mr. Simon Me. Nair, of the township of Whitchurch. to Miss Alice Agar, of the township of Markham. DEATHS McCovaenvâ€"On December 22nd, at Richmond Hill. Isabella Jane, beloved daughter of F McCunagny, aged 20 years 4 months 23 days‘ A. l... SKEEE‘E, \Vatch-“akcr & lewcller. Also dealer in Groceries and other Staple Articles. Prices right. Patronatze Solicited. unEInBEEAL $1.00 ner Year. a” .- ‘a'vmfi