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$1 per annum, in advance] VOL. XVIII. man- m "w n 6 ‘ I 3' i ' ’ oils: paternal, IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IVIORNING AT filE LIBERAL PRINTING it PUBLISHING HOUSE RICHMOND HILL, ONT. '1‘. F. McMAHON. Emron & Pnorumron. BUSINESS CARDS. DB. LANGSTAFF. RICHMOND EILL. OFFECE HOBBS Stoloztm; 6:08pm 33. J. it. EUTGEISDN (Succcs‘or to Dr. w. J. \Vilson), RICHNIOND HILL, Ont. OFFICE EROEJESS 8:010:11 m; and 610 8 p rn « Quits-l1. asses USED BY Br. .5. Robinson. SURGEON DENTIST, Aurora. ist,85h,15th,a.u4l Bind of each month Richmou 1. IIill .... ’th uni 2lth do (at he Palmer House) Stoulfvillo . . . . . . ....mth, if Sun-lay, 21st Ev! ifliliVL’ni . ..Zutl; of each month MIL Albert "Mali do ‘V))l-'3t'il;0 . ...L’8th do Klaiaburg .. .2911: do n ileton......... ..3nth do Helieblo Grva Applications used when required. LS’Get your Cheap Teeth of Robinson. Address A ROBINSON L.D.S. AuroieOnt. W. RIIGERS, DENTIST, A little east of Perkdale stetion, over W. Collins'istore, corucr of Queen and ._ NorthcoteAveuuo, TpRQNTO Mite-3 WELLS, llEliTlST, RICH 'RDSON HOUSE, MAPLE, lst/ Wednesday Each Month try/ate Addressâ€"023 Spadina. Ave, near Har- bord St. DR. 5. Ffléfillim. Has had permanent dental rooms fitted up, next door south of the High school, Richmond Hill, where he will receive patients every Thurs- day and Friday. The Dr. will be in his otfice on \Vedueshiy and Thursday evenings. when he Will be pleused to make cugagemonts for the fol- lowing days. Patients are requested to call as early as possible. The Dr. leaves at 3 p. rn. on Friday. Wm wtterinarg I J. ‘1'“. Illilfllroy,~ VETERINARY SURGEON -â€"--ANDâ€" VETERINARY DENTIST, RICHMOND HILL, ‘rrmluate of the Ontttrio Veterinary College, with diploma. from the Ontario Veterinary Dental th-uol, will visit Maple on Monday and Friday or each week, and Concor-l on Friday rum 1 to :3 p. m. Calls promptly attended to Dist-rises of horses, cattle and other domesticet~ ml animals treated by the latest and most. ap- proved methods. m I E. demon/c. recess. 1:78 KING s'rnnic'r nss'r. TORONTO Every accommodation to guestF. Board, 31. our day Il‘llliwl’ALlilER. HOUSE 7‘ T“£1350.le HILL. Ibâ€"LV s :iun llotnl is rittwl up with all the modern ‘ ltll alul vomit-rt. Best brands sumplo ru rlliS for t‘Oth 'llurfivs nlctt LL11 trains. :3 per day. JOIIV KIYLL Y, I’rOi).'i-.t)r. é m. Wfimm’m, We ward. 13 NOTA RY PUBLI o, C- lMMISSIONER IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, &c. Issuer of Marriage Licenses. RICHMOND HILL POST OFFIIIE. A G F LAWRENCE W S ()nnxs'rnn, L L B LAWRENCE & DRMISTON, Barristers, Solicitors, 84c. Toronto Officeâ€"N3.r5 Toronto Street. Richmond Hill Office open every Saturday. _0_. IlIONEY TO LOAN AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES J. R. MILLER E I. B. DUNCAN films or; Bedroom BARRISTVRS, SOLICITORS AND NOTARIES. Toronto Officeâ€"34 Bml: of Commerce Buildings, 19 King Street West. l‘hornllillOfTiceâ€"Post Office every Wed- nesday from 10 to 12 a. m. Jollectionsin City and Countrv promptly attended to. Money toloan. 6.1}. S. LINDSEY LYON LINDSEY CHARLES J R. DETHUNE. LINDSEYl LINDSEY & BETHUNE Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries and Conveyancei's. Pacific Buildings, 513 Scott St, Toronto. I‘elephone 2984 Money to Loan ROBINSON, LEN mi & inform) Barristers. Solicitors, (kc. TORONTO AND AURORA. Mr. T. Herbert Lennux will he nt Kelly’s Hotel Richmond Hill every Wednesday, for the transâ€" action of business. GA RVIN & GARVIN, Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers,1\'otaries, 61c 75 Ynnce St., Toronto, and at the Dominion House, Rich- Lew Ofiices} mond Hill, every Wednesday. Mr, Fred. \V. Garvin will be at Richmond Hill evci y Wednesday, and at eat-h sitting of the Court. J. E. Elcfi'ally. NOTARY PUBLIC FOR ONTARIO, ISSUER 0F MARRIAGEJJCENSES. Conveyancing and all kinds of Insurance. AURORA, - Ont. 21342, 95-3 mos £20,000 to Loan On term a uritv. at nor cent. ICOOK, MACDONALD & BRIGGS, No. 1', Adelaide Street East, Toronto And MAPLE every Thursday afternoon, “here Mr. Cook will be in atttndanco. December 10m. 1895. LES-Sm J. H. PRENTICE, Carrvillo. ' Eckardt & Pit-mice, Licenseu Auctioneers for the Counties of York Uiitarioand Peel. Goons solo on consignment Generalfiales o stuck. etc., promptly attended to atreusonubleretes. SALEM Ecxmm‘, Uniouville. J C STOKES stokes & Blougll. Licensed Auctioneers to." the County of York,re- spectfully solicit your patronage and friendly influence. sales attended on the eLorteet notice and (L reasonebe rates. P. 0. address King I) BLOUGH J. '1‘. Saigeon, LiconsedAuctioneer for the County of York Sales attended to on shortest notice arm at rea- sonable rates. Patronage solicited. Residence Maple J. D. “madman, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York. General sales of implemo- ts, furniture. standing timber. etc., attended on the shortest notice and at i'eusullt‘lble rates. Patronage solicited. P. 0. address Maple. WEIGHT :8“? S, A.» Undertake” ct; Eisrbnlmu's, ' Q‘s-.56:- aneral Furnishings Alma) s oval “and . .nr Vikfi ‘ly speaks of himself humorouiiy, Thomas De Quinceyâ€"His Life and Works. (CONTIN trim lflzmr LAST WEEK ) Such a man friquently forms special nttaclllmnts. In his " Autobiographic Sketches” and "(lpium Confessions.” he have Pi'llll’llco conclusive of his strung and deep affection for both living and (lcpnr'ed friends. In willing of the laltri‘, he pours out, the weullll of love for them without any reserve; but in speak ing of the former, he usually conceals his tenderness and resliauis his nfllctiomitc utterances. Ho (loplores the loss of his friends with impassioned sorrow. Many charges lllHC been made against De Quincey, perhaps, in the majority of cases, without prnpcl‘ foundation. I‘Io has been accused of vanity, arrnemice, jealousy and egulism. As regards the first, it has bevn affirmed that he line rue crciscrl his imagination on, himer too favorably Perhaps, it is not. f-r the writer to utter uty decided pronounce ments on this point, as his age or rxperiâ€" once, or knoulcdge, or judgmentâ€"or Hll Combinedâ€"may not. be of such a. char» actor as Wuuld warrant him in an doing. Nevertheless, it may be llle'ildtlll that. Dc Quiuccy must have been Ci'lleIUllS of his own execllonce, and that he was too little of a humbug tn prttcml that he was not. He who made such a. study of hu- man nature, and speculated so much up on it, must certainly llaie studied llllu- self, and have f mud himself to be 21 good subji ct for nanulire or discussion. Bill. he never writes of himself as a hero, challenging oizr admiration, but often does he lake us into his confidence and appeal to our symputlillcs. Ho frequent but scarcely ever boastfully or ostentatiously. true, he does l'cpt'utetlly refer to his au- ceslry and his aristocratic Connections. \Vrll, was not Mr. De Ouihcey jusllficd in so doing, since it is unircrsally ac knowlrdgcd “that there is pawcr in a name l” The immortal Shakrspmre line written some soul-stirring Words on the value and pumr of a name:â€" “ “'lio steals my plllSt', steals trash; ’Twas Silll‘billlllg; nothing; "l‘nas mine; ’tiu his; and has been slave ‘ to thousands: But he that ljlcll‘cs from me my gwd name, Rubs me of that “lllCll not enriches hi'u, But makes the poor indeed." De Quincey was called arrOgant on ac- count of his dogmatic criticisms of Pluto, Cicero, Dr. Johnson, and other Blllillellt authors. His political and national pre- judices, Etl'ullgly and vehemently ex} pressed, are said to have savored of ar- rogance and domination. But why should such things be construed into faults, when that which men most. admire in other men, whether friends or foes, is the courageous utterance of one’s con- victions, A man so encased in his own opinions as to refuse new llglll‘, thereon, might. be justly accused of arrozanco, but the biogiaphere of Do Q:lilwcy~â€"iiot:ibly Mr. Hill Burton, apersonal acquaintance of hisâ€"speak of him as being or a. “gentle and kindly spirit," and that "few men of equal power hare been more uuafl'cctedly open to reasonable conviction.” Anent the accusation that he pioneered a jculous mind, we may say that his llll- appreciative critics have been also mis- taken, at least, such is the conceneus of opinion. In their extravagant admire tion for Woidswmtli and Coleridge, they seem to have no love or relish for the productions of Ulllcl‘ equally eminent and master minds. No one will dispute the fact that VVordsivorlli is one of the great est, if not lilo greatest, interpreter of nature. Forsooth, has he not. been legit imalcly dviiuulinalcd' “the Poet of Nature‘l” But De Quincey’s "Recol- lections” of both \VordsWortll and Cole. ridge are iiicmtroverliblo evidence of his sincere admiration for the extraordinary qualilies of thcae men; at the same time he was not scrupulous in pointing out their imperfections or exposing their faults. And for such Illipartiall'ty. partial rind one sided men have llllllt‘d at him the charges of jcquUsy and arrogance. In passing, we may say that such ilccusu- lions might. be cast into the Very teeth of VVUldS’vVhrlll’S utiuiiiels, for notwilll standing the grrut and towering character- istics of nature‘s greatest poet, it has been universally attested that he possess ed an arrogant and contemptuous manner. It seems to us ill-at instead oful'rocaizco, or doglnallsln, or cgoism, or jealousy be- ing the prcvuillng emotions of the man’s mind and writings, the two l'llllllg clno- tinns may be described as humor and SLIbfflIlIfU. Thouin naturally untitled for rough lllell‘lnlk nt, Dc Quinccy had a keen Sense «If the lltllculous. In fact. some of [his works are suprllluously humorous, -ahd in all of lllL‘ljl are many pleasant strokes of humor. lint there is no trace of umlicc in his laughter. It is. as he th'SCl‘llIOti lt- lillllSi’lf, llll‘it‘ly “humorous extravagance.” One of IEIS Gillies says that “he often speaks of mean occupa- tions with mock dignity, and (but one unique \‘clll of his humor consists in speaking with affection or admiration, or with a. dry business tone, concerning ob- jvcts usually regarded with horror or in- dignation; as, for k'XliDlpltl, ‘Murder con- sidered as one of the Fine Arts.’ " His genius fur the sublime is unques- Ilnl.8(l. As in his humor, so in his susceptibility tn sublimity and grandeur, it may be difficult for us, who live on the plains, to male the vast heights and take up our abode on the mountain tops of the magnificent and the sublime! Is there not a slriking, resemblance between Carlyle iii his eo-called hero-worship and Do Quincey in his genius for the sublime? If the former require no altitude reven- tial prostratmn and adoring contempla- tionâ€"the very ideas embodied in wor- slilp--may not all these same qualities and conditions he demanded even with greater propriety, in the latterâ€" that is, in genius for the sublime? Pcradven- lure. the great incubus of his life may have been directly orindirectly or partial- ly the cause of this! Unquestioliably it was Connected with it in some way, lnys termus or otlicrwisezâ€"we refer to his opilmllmbl't In his “Confessions” he says, ‘ Cloudsinf gloomy grandeur over- hung his dreams at all stages of opium, and, iii the last, grew into the darkest of miseries.” (Tu BE CoNTINt'ED.) .._.__ Our Ottawa Letter. This is election day in Jacques Cartier, uliule,il11891, the government candidate had a mujurlty of 276 votes. It is llll- possible to predict the result, as, driven to desperation over the lllSS of Montreal Centre, where II) 1891 the government candidate had :1 majority of 1214, and Carilwell, whvre III 1891 their majority was lie-rly 300, the goveln-ncnt have {hi-(,er thousands of dollars into Jacques Cartier to “in at all hazards, as the loss of this cnnslitucncy meaus their death- blow. In face of the great odds against the liberal oondidate its seems impossible he should win. However, there is a chance that the better j..dgmeut of the people should prevail over the govern mcnt’e "gold pieces,” and that the liberal C‘llJlldrtIG will be endorsed. victory it would be I Since my last letter we have witnessed two elections, one in Cardwell and the other in Montreal Centre. Our friends were taught a severe lesson in tile North Ontario election, where, by splitting up the vote between the Liberals and Part- rons, the return of the government can- didute was insured. The result of the election in Cardwell, and the return of a. McCartliyite, furnish- es abundant proof that the Manitoba school case is not to be regarded as para mount to all other issues for the Liberals, Protestants and Catholics alike turned in largely and supported McCarthy’s man when they saw that to divide forces could but result, as it did in North Ontario, in the election of the government candidate. As regards their fiscal policy and their general condemnation of corrupt govern- ment the Liberal leaders and Dalton Mc- Carthy are in accord. In this respect their policies are almost identical, the de~ sire of both being to rid the country of one of the most extravagant and corrupt combinations of men that ever disgraced the treasury benches. The question was freely diseusscd among the Liberals of Cdrdwell as to the certain result of a diversion of the two forces that. were op posing the government’s candidate. The Conclusion reached was that unless Card- well was to show to the world its elidors ution of the government by the election of its candidate, the Liberals rind Mc Cartliyites must unite their vote on the broader principles in voicing their gen< eral and united condemnation of Tory government, boodling, extravagance and corruption and ull that has been associat- ed with Tory government for the past sixteen vents. It was hard for many of the electors of Clirclwcll to desert Mr. Henry, the liberal candidate. yet when they say that to stand by him could not possibly result in alythlng otlior than the election of (1 government supporter they decided to join hands with McCarthy that the gov- ernment candidate might be defeated. It was only the lesson the liberals learned from the result of splitting forces In North Ontario that cruised them to take the stand they did in Cardwell. Had the election been held in Cardwell first the governmont candidate would ili all probability have been returned. \Ve now come to the recent election in Montreal Centre. That is the worst blow the government has resolved since 1878. Of all constituencies in the Dominion, the very heart of umnul'mzturlug industry, Montreal Centre is the one we would have expected t» have returned a slip porter of the govcrnment. Yet, no:â€" uilhstnuding the fact that the liberals were opposed by one of the strongest men the government could put in the fit'ltl, and notwilhstnndlng tho fact that for weeks the government has been flooding the cmxstilucncy with the “corrupting fund,” promises and pledges and all the But what. a? eloquence it was possible to squeeze out of tho Cabinet in addressing the electors, the government‘s majority was reduced from 1214 to a minmity as 336. It had been expected that McShene, the liberal candidate, would have drawn his strength from the working or poorer section of the city, the tougher part of the city, for he “as popular with the masses, but when we look over the re~ turns we find that. it was the business and manufacturing centres that lie devel- opcda strength that was surprising to everyone. The fact is that the result of the election in Montreal Centre can only be read as a desire on the part of the business and commercial interests of that city to repudiate the present government. Another fuel: was also developed as a. result of this election for it was clearly demonstrated that in the Quebec con~ stituencies the Manitoba. school casein nut to become as important. a. factor in the election as has been anticipated. Seventy five per cent. of the electors of Montreal Centre are Roman Catholics, yet the fact that the government had. pledged themselves to piss a. remedial bill restoring Roman Catholic schools in Manitoba does not appear to have im- pressed itself very forcibly on the electors of that constituency. The success of the liberal candidate in Montreal Centre is of only secondary im~ portance when we 0 insider the volume it speaks. The Manitoba. school case has not proved the important factor that was expected of it and the government have not succeeding in diverting public atten- tion from their own misdeeds by it. It would certainly be a most disastrous thing for the country if the government’s reclird for the past sixteen years was to be wiped out by some turn of the cards in the Dominion school case. But the lesson in Vercheres, in Autigouish, and now in Montreal Centre says as far as those stroneg Roman Catholic constit~ uencics go the Manitoba. school case is only secondary, and that the main issue is “shall rory government be kept in power at Ottawa, with its record of ex- travagance, corruption, and criminal ad- ministration of our affairs for another five years." The Liberals in Cardwell said no, and as much as it went against the grain nf Some of them to vote for Me- Carthy‘s candidate they did so in firm belief that the end justifies the means. find they not done so their very act, in splitting the vote when knew what the inevitable result must be, would have been to condone the crime and incapacity with which they have been charging the government, by asserting to secure the return of the government candidate in Cnrdwell. Ottawa, Dec. 30th, 1895. Carrville Christmas passed ofl' quietly. and now that its festivuies are a thing of the past, our citizens have time to give their atten- tion to the elections. As far as our vil- lage is Concerned. we think there will be no change In its municipal officers; but we are in favor of a new inspector of roads and bridges. “'6 think that officer has not done his duty in allowing our: sidewalks to remain so long in bad repair. Since the muddy season has come it is almost impossible to travel by foot. We would bu glad to see either fr ‘st or side- walk. Wesley, son of George Bone, arrived home from Manitoba on Christmas morn- ing. His iisit greatly increased the joy of his parents and brothers, as he had been away for nearly three years. When he left Manitoba the thermometer mark- ed 30 below zero. I I Miss Evans, our respected teacher, is spending her holidays with her parents at Tyzign. Mr. Ernest Coombs, principal of the High school at Richmond Hill, is spend- ing his Christmas and New Years with his pirents here. Mr. Geo. Wood visited Mr. Kirke, of Unioiivillc, on Sunday lust. Mr. John Tyndall severely injured his knee Wllllt) fixing a. horsepower. He has been laid up for some days, but is now improving. » I Mrs. Stamp, of Gravenhulst, is visit- ing at her father’s, lllr. Jus. Coomhs. The stumbling of a horse and the breaking of a shaft delayed two ladies for Some time on the school house hill on Monday. Messrs. Melliin and Thus. Cook noted the part of the good .‘Eiinari- tan, buuud up the shaft and sent the ladies on their way rejoicing. Mr. and Mrs. Gaoch, of Torontuxlrove to " The Emis" on Sunday, and made a. short visit. ,I Mr. M. Hoover, of Altolia, visited Mr. 'l‘lios. Cool; on Sunday and AI .uiday. Miss Vylylie, of Oruligevilie High school, land Miss Ai'cliel‘, of ISrudlord, wide a short visit at Mr. Jim. Commos'. on Monday. Lfi , 3'53 ‘53! i - ' 4â€"in-3 71.7.3 f“ .2. HE LI 'LLiLa-gi‘tg $1.00 tier Year.