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VOL. XVIII. AT THE LIBERAL PRINTING & PUBLISHING HOUSE RICHMOND HILL, ONT. THURSDAY MORNING T. F. McMAHON. Autoralst,9th,16th,aud 22nd of each month Richmond Hill ..... 9th and 24th do (at the Palmer House) Steufiville .. ..“..‘.18th.if Sunday. 2151: Markham .. .. ..20th of each month Mt. Albert ..14th 60 \Voodbri‘lge .. ...28th do Kleinburg .. .....29th do 0 )leton” ..30th do DR. LANGSTAFF. RICHMOND HILL. ls! Wednesday Each Month Toronto Addressâ€"623 Spadim Ave.. near Hur- bard St. ER. 3. N. HUTGHISDN Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, with diploma. from the Ontario Veterinary Dental School. will visit Maple on Monday and Friday of each week, and Concord on Friday ram 1 to 3 p. 11:. Calls promptly attended to Diseasea uf laorsns, cattle and other domesticat- ed animals treated by the latest and most ap- yrovell methods. enable Gum Applications used when required USS-at your Cheap Teeth of Robinson. Has had permanent dental rooms fitted 1m, 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 ofl‘ice on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. when he wxllbe pleased to make engagements for the folâ€" lowing (lays. Patients are xequestetl to call as early as possible. The Dr. leaves at 3 p. in. on Friday. Every ace W. ROGERS, DENTIST, THE MRS. WELLS, DENTIST, RICHARDSON HOUSE, MAPLE. J. T. McElroy, VETERINARY SURGEON 1161‘ RICHMOND HILL, Ont. OFFICE HOURS StoIOam; and 6 to 8 p m Address A ROBINSON L.D.S. AuroraOnt‘ Thisf ‘plian 851 per annum, in advance.] ‘( A little east of Parkdale station. over W. Collins” store, corner of Queen and Northcote Avenue. fl. émmw, @flfié’fifi EWQ‘EEW DR. S. F. B. REID, VETERINARY DENTIST, RICHMOND HILL, BUSINESS CARDS. Stolozlm: GloSpm 158 KING STREET EAST. TORONTO 9.1 V’Ifi'flLJZEQ £13? TORONTO (Succesmr to Dr. W. J. Wilson). @5119 3mm ICHMOND IS PUBLISHED EVERY OFFICE HOURS Emma & Pnormmon. mmodation to guests. Board, 15 verday PALMER HOUSE USED BY Dr. A. Robinson. wtterinary mttdiml. SURGEON DENTIST -â€"‘ANDâ€" fitted n; th and c‘ jigsaw. No.18th. it Sunday, 21“ ..20th of each month ..14th do .3815}: do ..29th do . ..80th do KELL Y Proorietor, wit ,11 the modem Toronto Officeâ€"Na.15 Toronto Street. Richmond Hill Office open every Sa‘urday. Issuer of Marriage Licenses. RICHMOND HILL POST OFFICE. A G F LAwmchz MONEY T0 LOAN AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES NOTARY PUBLIC. MIME}? cg Qawwm Collections in City and Country promptly attended to. Money toloan. LAWRENCE & URMISTUN. Toronto Officeâ€"34 Bank of Commerce Buildings, 19 King Street West. rhornhillOfficeâ€"Postoffice every Wed- nesday from to to 12 a. m. Licensed Auctioneers {or the Counties of York Ontario and Feel. Goods sold on consignment. Generalaulee a stock. em, promptly attended to at reasonunle rates. Licensed Auctioneers for the County of York,re- spectfuliy solicit your patronage and friendly influence. sales attended on the shortest, notice and :1 reasonube rates. P. 0.0.dureas King J C STOKES Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York Salsa attended to on shortest notice and ac rea- sonablemtes. Patronage sulioited. Residence Maple And MAPLE every Thursday afternoon, where Mr. Cook will be in attendance. December 19m, 1895. 35~2m SALEM Ecmm‘. Unionville. Law omcea }' £20,000 to Loan Licensed Auctioneer {or the County of York. General sales of implements, lurniture. standing timber. etc., attended on the shortest notice and. at reasonable rates. Patronage solicited. P. 0. address Maple. LINDSEY, LINDSEY & BETHUNE Mr, Fred. W. Garvin will be at Richmond Hill all day every Wednesday. and at each sitting of the Court. No. 1, Adelaide Street East, Toronto Telephone 2984 Mr. '1‘. Herbert Lemmx will be at Kelly's Hotel Rigpmogq Hi}! every Wednesday,for the trans- Barristers. Solicitors. Conveyancers. Notaries, &c ROBINSON, LEN NOX & MACLEOD action of business. Undorlakers & Embalmors, Funoral Furnishings Always on Hand Assume on all the modern plans, and is one of the most nrosgerous u_ud proyressive compames in exxsbence. New life apvlicutions in 1&4 ............ $10.290.204.10 Assets, 3150 Dec., 1894........ . . 4.616.419.63 Life assurance in force. 15!: Jan.. ’95.. 31.628.569.74 Premiums low, policies unconditional and nouforfeitable. LIBERAL OFFICE. Life Assurance Co. OF CANADA COOK, MACDONALD & BRIGGS, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, &c. T. F. MCMAHON, 6.0. 5. LINDSEY BARBISTT‘RS. SOLICITORS AND NOTABIEB. J. B. MILLER Pacific Buildings, 23 Scott St, Toronto Barristers, Solicitors, &c. TORONTO AND AURORA. GARVIN & GARVIN, Take a policy with the Buristers. Solicitors. Notaries and - Conveyancera. Ecknrdt a: Prentice, WRIGHT BROS, 0n mun s uritv.“ Dor cant. THE SUN Barristers, Solicitors, 85c. Stokes & slough . [NDSEY LYON LINDSEY CHARLES J. R. BETEUNE. J. D. Readma n, COMMISSIONER IN THE Room 10, York Chambers, 9 Toronâ€" to St..Toronto, and ac residence. Centre St” Richmond Hill, every evening. and Dominion House on Wedneadnv. J. 'l‘. Saigeon. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 1896. flnnl. In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Liberty,- in all things, Charity.” W S Onms'rou, L L B E. J. B. DUNCAN RICHMOND HILL ii J. H. PnENTIcE. Can-ville. ‘trict agent; Money to Loan D BLOUGE The last act has been enacted in con- cluding one of the most disgraceful par- liaments that has ever been entered upon the annals of the House of Commons at: Ottawa. The seventh parliament opened in April, 1891, and the disclosures of that session will ever remain a stain up- on the good name of the country. It re. snlted in the forced retirement of a mem- ber of the cabinet. and the expulsion from parliament and imprisonment of a Conservative member of the House. The conduct of another member of the government in connection with his re- lations towards one of the female clerks of his department was also the subject of investigation that session. The Printing Bureau scandal was also exposed, in which through Chapleau’s friends the country lost many thousands of dollars. As the seventh parliament started. so it continued, and so it ended. “19 have seen Foster, “the good George,” the highly moral George, have to admit: that he had permitted his political friends in York to default interest. due the govern- ment for six years on a loan of $300,000 made out of the treasury to the Fred- ericton Bridge 00., and upon which you taxpayers are now paying interest. in London. We have also seen John Costiean’a deal with the Tobique Valley Railway ex‘ posed, by which, in connection with cer- taining mining property, he seems to have done well. This session you have heard of the claims of me George Goodwin fur extras amounting to $2l0,000 in connection with his Soulanges canal contracts. You have also heard in connection with this claim an exhibition of the Liberal party blocking the payment of what they con. sidered an illegal payment of your money out of the treasury to favorite contract- ors. For a moment let me read to you what Sir Mackenzie Bowell said about the par- liament just. closed, in a speech delivered by him at the annual St. George’s Society dinner in this city on Thursday last:â€"â€" “ The parliament. of Canada has not add. ed much to its reputation during the past three or four years. There never has been a parliament that has had so many sleepless nights and done so little work as the present one.” He hoped that they would never in Canada. witness a session of parliament that Would in the reniotest degree he a parallel to the one just closed. Don’t you think Sir Muc- kenzle Was about right? There is not a day passes that I do not. meet some one who says something like this:â€"" 1 am a Conservative and I hope to always rer main, but as far as the administration of government goes I think there should be a change. We have been disgraced by the men who now hold office, and as far as 1 am concerned I am going to give the Liberals a. chance to see if they will do any better, for they cannot do worse.” That is the way Vmauy people are now talking all over the cqumry. As regards the session just closed, one day after it opened you had an exhibi- tion of seven Ministers of the Crown re- signing. Sir Mackenzie had refused to permit. the advance of $2,500,000 out of the treasury to the Hudson Bay Railway scheme; he blocked the renewal of the subsidy of $170,000 per aunum for 20 years to Tupper's pet scheme, the Chignecto Ship raiIWay, and later on he has yewed Goodwin’s claim, which they were waiting to pay after Sir Mackenzie got out of the way. But these seven ministers. or six of them, are all back kicking their heels on the treasury benches waiting for you to clothe them again with executive power for another five years. But. look out. Then again as to the Work of the post session. Fosier once said he had acted in a. moment of weakness. That moment of weakness as for as his colleagues are concerned has been a perpetual one all through this session. Weak and help- less. Could it be otherwise with a house divided against itself? They brought down, after nearly a year’s preparation, a measure by which it was proposed to re- dress the grievances of the Catholic minority of Manitoba, 3 remedial bill, as they called it a perfect bill. in the dying hours of the session. Fifteen out of the 112 clauses composing this perfect bill were passed, but not until the govern- ment had admitted the necessity of over amendments alone on these fifteen clauses. Lanrier and others opposed such an abortive measure going on the the statute book, and it did not go. The Liberal party had too vivid 9. recâ€" ollection of the $130,000 Costigan secured in aid of the Tobique Valley railway to run to his mine, and they wunLed time to investigate the new list of subsidies They also brofight down a. measure by which it was proposed to advance another four million dollars out of the treasury to the Canadian Bacific Railway, but they were faiced to withdraw it, as they were it the case of several million dollars they were asking for in' the way of railway subsidies. Our Ottawa Letter. before they permitted them to pass. In the same way they wanted to put through between thirty and forty million dollars of estimates for next year in the dying hours of the session, but the opposition said stop; we will pass them in July after the country has said who they Wish to handle the money. Chaplean has arrived here to-day to help Tupper in the formation of a. gov. ernment, if they can agree upon terms and upon a. division of the spoils. Of ChaDlean, on the 6th of May, 1884, Sir John Macdonald wrote as follows to Hon. Thos, McGreevy;â€"“ My colleagues think that Chapleau is less dangerous when he is a. hostage for his good be- haviour by being in the council than as a man free to act. Langevin is going to Quebec by the end of the week and will see his friends. I wish you particularly to see him and impress on him the neces- sity of putting up with Chapleau until the latter does something so wrong as to justify his forced resignation. Just now I cannot ask him to do so, unless Lange- vin and Caron, or one of them, in writ- ing either make and prove a snfiicient charge, or say that I must choose which of them to keep. Tapper, with whom I have gone over the whole thing, agrees with me.” So far so good. Here we now find Tupper and his friend Chapleau trying to form a combination for the purpose of, what. Honestly governing the country? Well, the Toronto Mail, the goyern- ment’s chief organ, does not appear to have any higher opinion of Sir Charles Tnpper than Sir John Macdonald had of Chapleau. The Toronto Mail of the 7th of June. 1891, said:â€"â€"“ There can be no doubt of the wires being actively pulled for Sir Charles Topper at Ottawa by his son, with his other special adherents in the cabnmt as well as the members from the eastern provinces to whom, as a re- ward for their loyalty to him in the late contest he has promised even more than justice in the division of the spoil. He Is the prince of political cracksmen, no doubt, but we cannot afi‘nrd ability even of so rare a kind at such a price as that of continued and increased demoraliza- tion.” The rest of the Mail‘s deuouncia- tion of Topper runs in the same strain. That is the record of the two men who are to lead the Tory party to victory, They all have a record, asplendid record, morality and honesty combined. One of the greatest evils which teach- ers have to meet is irregularity of at- tendance of their pupils. It is an evil which exists everywhere to a greater or less extent, and which teachers every- where are trying successfully to combat. The law, too, has stepped in to force regular attendance at school, but, as yet, the prevalence of the evil is only exceed- ed by the magnitude of its results. And in spite of the fact that argument is fre- quently used to the contrary, the major- ity of parents seem to think that a few days lost make little difference. The most trivial cause is suflicient for an ex- cuse to keep a pupil out of school,and then it is thought that that pupil should pro- gress as rapidly as one who is in his place every day. But suppose you were read- ing a storyâ€"say Uncle Tom‘s Cabinâ€"and you thought if you read every second chapter you Would know the story, how much would that story interest you, and how long would you retain itl These are two questions which are equally ap- plicable to the pupil who loses one or two days a week from school. At school you are learning a story, or at least some- thing which has a thread running through it like the thread ofa story. Now, if you break that thread in about forty or fifty places during the year. how do you expect to have a connected one at the end of the year? What you Will have will be pieces, and many of these will be scattered and lost becauset‘nere was noth- ing to keep them together. Your year’s work at school will be like a coat with large holes in it, which neither serves to cover the wearer nor reflects credit on the maker, but is a constant reproach to the man who so shabbin clothes himself in a tattered garb, although the material is excellent. But then if the loss sustained by irreg- ular attendance could be estimated by valuing the Work taken up while the pn- pil is absent, it would not be so bad. But not unfrequently do we hear the answer given, “I was not here yester- day,” when u. pupil does not know his lesson. We confess that this answer does not go for much, for we feel justified in replying, “well you should have been here, and you are just as responslole for to-day’s lessons as if you were here yes- terday.” But the fact still remains that an absence of one day from school means a loss of at least two days’ lessons, for pupils seldom have their lessons prepared after a holiday. But it also means Contributions from the Schools. REGULARITY AND PUNCTUALITY. RECONSTRUCTION. something more. It means that interest wanes. It means that a. pupil loses the spirit of study. It means that when he drops behind the class he is not very likely to catch up. It means, in fact, that an enormous mistake has been made by staying out a day, and that what is lost, in all probability, mll newer be re- covered. And then parents seem to expect that a child who has attended very irregularly should advance as rapidly as one which has not missed a day. This is an absurd idea. If promotirns were made accordâ€" ing to the length of time a name has been on the register, there are many who have not been present half the time who would be in the highest form in the school. Or again, if promotions were made after a. pupil had been over the Work once, there are many who would be farther on than they now are. But the fact is that promotions are based on ex- amination results, and a pupil must know the work satisfactorily before he can go on. The sooner, therefore, that parents and guardians learn to send their children every day. the sooner will they see the good results. And then look at the results of coming late. This, too, is a. nuisance which should not exist, and for which many par- ents are to some extent responsible. In justice to the rest of the school no pupil should be allowed to enter except at the end of a lesson period. The class should not be disturbed by the entisnce of a tardy boy or girl. But if this rule were enforced (as it has been in some places), there would be a great outcry. Men and women would talk of the injustice of keeping a. child waiting outside, in the cold perhaps. for fifteen or twenty min- utes. But these same people never talk of the injustice which they do to the others by allowing their children to stroll in ten or fifteen mindtes after nine. Making every allowance for exceptional cases where accidents prevent a pupil from arrivmg on time, there are still very many cases where the only cause is care- lessness. And all Wlll agree that that should be checked. If a pupil is to be allowed to become careless, heis learning a lesson which Will eventually do him in- finitely more harm than all the lessons he could get in mathematiCs and English if he came to school for forty years. But how shall we check it. That is easy to answer. You, parents, have it in your power to start your children to school in good time and every day. If you do that. you are teaching them two valuable lessonsâ€"regularity and punctu- ality. If you neglect it, consider that by “regularity your child is suffering a tre- mendous loss, for which there is no com- pensation. and also consider that by 81- lowing him to Come late you are allowing him to become careless and do an injust- ice to those who are disturbed by his eu- trance. Our citizens are very busily engaged in seeding, just now, but in a. few days will be through with the toilsome work of tramping 20 to 30 miles a day. Mr. Herb Gibbs, of Thornhill, is add- ing beauty to the Lutheran parsonage by kalsomming and repapering the interior. This work is under the direction of the Ladies’ Aid Society, and it shows not only the interest they take in the beauti- fying of the parsonage but also the com- fort of the pastor. The remodelling and painting of the church is also a memento of the ladies' noble work, and they should be given great praise and high conmdera- tion for their valuable aid am} assistance. Miss Lulu Shank, of Toronte, spent Sunday aghome. Mr.'A. Begg, a student of Wells Busi~ ness College, spent Saturday and Sunday wigh hiswcollrege crhum, Jr. Dunlap. _ Miss E. Hafienbtad of Buttonvilie, has been visiting her mother, Mrs. ELHafen- hrzgg, during the_p§§t weal}. Méasrs. J; and‘Herb. Leek, of Head- ford, spent Sunday in this town: 7 Mr. and Mrs. \Vm. Clark and family, of Stoufl'ville. spent Sunday at Mr. Henry Kefl‘er’s and Mr. Fred Kefler’s, of this place. The first of the series of croquet games was played on Mr. J. G. Dnnlap’s beauti- ful lawn on Saturday evening last. It seemed to be a pleasing game throughout- Seeding, gardening. and housecleaning is the order of the day. The topic of cunversation is about the concert to be held in the Carrvilie school room on Friday evening, May lat. thich promises to be the best that has held here for some years, judging the excellent talent that has- secured. There is quite an improvement in village; there is a new fence around corner, and we expect soon to have new sidewalk. We were glad to see Mr. Pearson in Carrville on Sunday [Single copies, 3 cts. Keiferburg Carrviile No.44 1d N been from.