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pcr annum, in advance] V6=L. XX. mummaâ€"mâ€"m .- mm’o‘m “In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Libs . WWW}??? nmtefmfim RIC I-Il‘viOND 1 II T' A i. fly ; in ali things, Charity.” LL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1898. [Single copies, 3 CES. RIG-H310 N D HILL, ONT. T. s. McMAHON. EDITOR if Psomm'ron- am, I “ @323 y : I3 liUIALIETHEI) EVERY j THURSDAY IVYORNIHGE ‘ _ u ll WE LiBERALPRlNTlll-Gis PUBLISllillGliOUSE; l | l BUSINESS CARDS. tfiv 73 “ ~ L rival. v . ihl Lisosvirk, RICHMQND EIILL. EFFECE ' EEflilZES B to E9 =1 an; 6m 52 p m -, f, “1'” ’.:,'..‘.‘.,,_;.,‘. ,4, 339 (Successor to Dr. W. J. Wilson), RICHMOND HILL, Ont. 52951535 :2 ‘93 to 19:1 1! Hunt: 6 m 8 5» m noun}. ()E‘l’iUS‘} VVM.RUGERsI;ns. oved to 8; Victoria Street, Toronto. DR. W. CECIL “rectum,- {Ecnaftism 0F 21 EDUCR STREET, TORONTO, IV-ill be in Richmond Hill every “'cd- nesdity until March, 1898. Officeâ€"Next door south of public school. 1-) yurs 6.30 a. 141.150 4 p. In. my: 7 __. . risrinnrg w J. T. Eéicfilrcy, VETERINARY SURGE-0N -â€"-ANDâ€"- VETERINARY DENTIST. RICHMOND HILL, Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, with diploma. from the Ontwrio Veterinary Dental School, will visit Maple on Monday jauu Friday of each week, and Concord on ‘Frirmy rum 1 to 3 p. m. (Jails promptly attended to Diseases of horses, cattle and other .loxnesticet~ ed animals treated by the lutest and most epâ€" proved methods. r rALtuuiinIBSE, RICHMOND HILL, Remodelled,end newly furnished throughout One of the most convenient end Comfol'tulili hotels on Yonge Street. Every modern non venicncc. Sample rooms for commorcnr trnvsilers. All iueul stopping place Ior rilm; ur_driving puriies,bicyclists, or runners gum; to or returning from market bus incote m: trains. Electric carspasstnedcor. y .- -. . . 'ruuus $1.00 PER DAY. WALTER “ELSE, Propriclor. _ E.- flotsam ensure nouns," 158 KING STREET EAST. 'i‘onoxu‘o very accommodation to guests. Board, 51. nerdey WEI BR (linden-taker s & Embalnncrs, Funeral Fm’ washings Alwayson “and mwsx. " -ԤR§jfi; s The undersigned begs to thank his customurs f0. former 'qu"1(. and will continue to keep v on hand a f ssonvnczet of fresh and, so“. meals. as well as poultry in season, and wil. not be un(i=,_;sol.‘1. 'Jr‘V‘UT ': Y‘l"““r'g;r H: J‘.‘IJI L l, DUIL‘LILA‘. nicunmngmnn I -);L . ‘l‘. “'3 Emil-l. l ‘ CE? In. RE i I "in A Y')T7 1 n l t l C EMISSIONS}? IN THE men COURT on jUSTlCE, &c. ~~ - F F:- v,‘ -» bu Issuer o: haulage Lita; monuoxn HILL POST orrn-E. E11 I?“ 1‘5 Bâ€" I C k A f} F Imwnnxcn W S ()nmrs'mn L L B LAWRENCE & OHM ISTF‘Ny Esn'izters, Solicitors, 8:5. 'Torcnto Officeâ€" No.15 Toronto Sheet Richmonc Hill Oifice open every Saturday. __.Q_._. \IGHEY TD LG ‘l-J HT Lilli/EST GU‘ilFiEllT RITFS 3 ll ROBIN’SSN,LENNOX& nun Erie‘s-Esters, lioficimw. fin. TOFDNTO AND AURORA . mm 8.- mm. Barristers. Sulicitors, Convoynncers,Notaries. .vc T‘me in. York Chnuillcrs, .0 Toron- to St. Toroufn. {Illll oil‘fiicrdlmi o I-ln.ll_l1iohuwuil Hillfnfd day \Vcrl- 13°sdnv.u.nd Tuesday nnd Saturday afternoons. Law OCICL“; "Mr. Fred. W. Garvin will be at Richmond Hill ‘ office every evening: and will attend euch sitting of the Court. “at, film.le .' Barristers, Solicitors, &c., KING STRE”.T WEST, TORONTO. East Toronto Office. Mr. Grant‘s residence, 5“ \K’ooilbndpe, everv evening. iThnruhiN. each \Vevlneedey from 10 to 1‘2. '25 . Mont-y to Loon Telephone 47 llédCEOllGALL & JUNES, ' f3”, _ xv:.BnrristercpSolicitore, dzc. Room 1, Masonic Piiilriing,18'£‘oronto St. Toronto. ALFRED MACDOVGAIL. FRFDEI‘JCB C. JONES. Solicitor to the Treasury of Ontario. (:ch 8. MICDONALD, Barristers, Solicitors, etc. TORONTO OFFICE: V0. 1, Adelaide Sf”, East. Mr. Cook vill be at Maple on Thursday afternoon of each week. MONEY TO LOAN AT 5%. MONEY 'HJ LOAN On First Mortgages. G. B. SMITH, Ex. M. PR, 63 Yonge St., Traders’ Bank Chambers. S-tf Toronto. MONEY! MDNEYI Alamo amount of private funds to loan on improved i’urm property. Five per Cent. 11)- .ervsb. Easy terms for repayment. No coul- nilssiou charged on loans. Apply to Liwnnncn e omusronf’ l5 Toronto St , Toronto Or at Richmond Hill on Saturdays. . W '47 , ALEM ECKARDT, J. H. PnENTICE Unionvulc: Cari-vine. Eckm-dt as PI canice Liceneeu Auctioneers for the Counties of York Infilan uno l’eol. (50005 sold on consignment .icnoi‘ttlsulor‘ 0 stock. etc., promptly attended to at reasonable runes. . . . n c~~sToKEs " D BLUUGH snakes as: Blongh. . IiicciinedAuctioneers for tbeCounty of York,re- qiectiully solicit your patronage and iriondly influence, sales attended on the sl..ortest notice Ln i A reusounbe rates. P. 0. address King J .â€"'i‘ . Sal i gzoâ€"n , Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York sales attended to on shortest notice and at rem :ona.l)lerute.°. Patronqu solicited. Residence Maple J. D. Bonanza“, Licensed Auctioneer for the (‘ounty of York. General soles of impleme ts, turnituremmnlling tiznbe; . stunuttenxled on the shortest notice and at reasonable rates. I’Mronuge solicited. P. 0. address Mr. ple. N. E”. Smith. Licensed Auctioneu for the Counties of York and Ontario. Alisuilcs of farm stock, &c., at- tended to on the shortest notice and reasonable rutes. Residence, Stoufi‘ville, Ont. S. T. Brookcs, Licensed Aucfioneer for the Countv of York. Hummus l].\)Cl\.ld.i.C. Patronage solicited. ALIâ€" dress, “'"ibe ‘tose 18.“. :"fians Tabules. Jane 'i‘nluues: onevives relief. ‘Piplans :21 ,...le:: We liver. .ubles. Pincus T «holes. ,.:cncant laxative. ‘ first brick successor was erected the Mortgage and builifi soles attended to: .- A IMemorable Day. Tun FOPTY-SIXTII ANNIVERSARY OF 3 THE Iiii'lllif'lNI) HILL HIGH SCHOOL Lil‘m'l' l‘i'j"!‘l.‘\'(~1I,Y CEIJ‘JBRATEI). ASHHEN‘E' Kiosk oi E‘rcgress in 5.2:» Vail-age. liR. HAumsox‘s ADDRESS. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Goutlv- mornâ€"I do not. know that, I am able ' to address an uudicncv- like-i this. I am too for advanccd in ymrs [p at tempt. to play the orator yet, to all of us this is 2m important om“. 'ion and :15 I have the honor of being :1. number of our Board of Education I would like losay a few words in rcl’creucc to the. pro- gress of education in this locality. In the event of my not getting further I would like to say that I. am glad that I have lived long cuough to see, the erection of a now High School build- ing in our village. \Vhen Mr. (ihaiv- I compare this huudsmue blllllllllg with all iis conveniences 'zmd tho 1m- pi'ovcmcnts by which in :â€"L short time it will be surrounded, wiih what we have had to put, up with for nearly halfaccutury, I wish that I had a I have noticed, Mr. Chairman, that there has 1101‘. only been :Lgrcettim- provemcut in school aCcommodnfions, but zilson grout advancement in our methods of sustaining education. l’lou' many there. are in this audience {but know nothing of the obstructions that lay in the way of education in days gone by. How few of all that are gathered here know anything of the old into bill system of thirty years ago, when cvvry pupil had to take twontyâ€"l‘ivc cents at the beginning of each month to SPCUI'G for himself a soot in any l‘lll'.‘ll school. It meant, sir, that tho oldost boy wont to school until he was big enough to do some- thing else, when the next in age took his place on the school form. It mount that but few families could send all their children at once, and it. meant I that many others could not send any. In connection with the old rate bill system there was a free school clause. It was that. a. widow’s children could get their cducation free by obtaining the consent of the trustees. A law placed on the statute books I have no doubt with 1hr- most charitable inten- tions, but looked upon tth by the purple its an inunvutioud’t was made to not with gelling effect. upon those it was designed to benefit. The child of unfortunate circumstances, however l‘ospvot-Lblc his family, was subjected to the insult of the ignorant and the sueerof the malicious until it, burnt like hot iron into the brain. Buta. . welcome change came when all classes, whatever should be their positions in society, could seek for education on the some level. In 18156 tho agitation that swept like a wave all over Ontario as to whether our Schools should be sustained under the old rote bill system, or whether we should adopt free schools, reached our village. It was the subject of con- vcrsafion in every group that gather- ed on the street ; it was the chief top- ic in the hotel and in every home. Those who were opposed to free schools said that it ‘vrzts a most unjust thing, that it was movtguging all our properties for all time to come, and High school education with all the ability phat such an education implies so that I could. full you oli‘iqucn‘cly how glad I fool. I loon' upon-this building as a. very fine addition to the school; accmnodutions of our village. 1 come to this neighborhood, Mr. Uhairumn, when I was but a. Ind. I have not been in it but as u b3 stander. I have stood and seem education lisc from very primitive conditions to the splendid privileges that our children now enjoy. I recollect the last chapter in the history < f the first schoolhouse erected in our village built; in the early twenties more than three quarters of a century ago when our people were few and far between. It. was a hewed log structure about 20 by 40 ft., elevation about 10 ft. and chinked with mud. It had two or three small square windows, a low ceiling and a very low door. It stood a couple of rods south of where the present Public school buildings stand. I have talked with aged people who whom they wore children vent, to that school when it was new and they have told me that the schoolmaster of that day, Mr. Benjamin Barnard, father to Mrs. Jenkins of our village, would touch all day, look after the boys who played hookcy, after four o'clock, and act as the village moral guardian dur- ing the evening hours all for the mun- l ificent remuneration of $121n-rnuuum. Quite a. contrast sir to the salaries of the prescut day. In 1849 when its old log building had to retire. It was purchased by a Mr. Deilby, laud- loI-d of the tavern, then known as the “ Lass of Richmond Hill,” now known as the Dominion Hotel, who convert- ed it into one of the most useful insti- tutions of the day, an institution whose merits and demerits are at. pres- 9111; discussed on every political plat- form in Ontario, an institution, sir, that may yet be the downfall of the present governmentâ€"A Piggci‘y. ‘Vhen our first brick school was el'ectrd in 18-19 there was a. great cry at tho extravagance ol’ the Trustces : mauythought that, a seven by nine building suflicicutly large, but by tho laws of generation and the laws of rimmigration it soon bccnmc too small ‘ and another of cqunl dimensions built at the west cud. Again the rising that for thc education of other people’s children. One old gentleman. who was worth $75,000, dcclarcd that it vas monstrous ! it,wus ruinous ! Feel- ing was intense and excitement I‘ElIl hiin in tin 9 days. “by, sir. the re \ntagitz‘. onouthe selection of a, High School site was nothing to it. For six weeks we kept up a discussion in the local newspaper to mould pubâ€" lic opinion in the right direction, and, at the next annual school mccting, our people, always in the van of every righteous movvmcut, were aiming the first in Canada that declared by a large majority in favor of free schools. In 1571 all the schools in Ontario were doc-lured free. And now, sir, in all our Public Schools in- vidious distinctions are done away withâ€"there the rich and the poor mec’t together, and the school master is a father to them all. Mr. Chairman, I believe in educa- tion. Imisscdit myself, but I want my boy to have an education. I want every other man’s boy to have an edu- cation, and I believe it is the duty of the State to see that he gets it. In accountiu for the difference of color in the iumzm race and the variety of their occupations, Mr. (lhuirmun, the Seminole Indians have a tradition. They say that Adqu was made it black man, that. his immediate descendants were black. One day three black men were stmidlng on the banks of it clear sheet of water. The Great Spirit come along and said "plunge and be washed.” One man plunged immediately and came out white, the next lusitnied till the waters got dirty, plunged and came out copper-colored the third waited until the Waters were muddy when he plunged and came out as black as he Went in. The Great Spirit then threw down three packages and told them to take their choice. The black man thought he would not be too slow this time jumpcd and grabbed the heaviest thinking that it was full of gold. \Yhenbeopenedit ho found that it coutuincd n pickuxc,n shovel and a. hoe -â€"Impleuuzuts of labor. 'l‘hc copper- cd fellow grubbel the next heaviest when he opened it he found a. toma- hziwk, 'rL bow and arrows, at and trapâ€"â€" weapons of warfare against man and beast. The white man had to take generation 'bcgun to show signs of swarming and had to be hived in what I is now known as the “ Old Grammar School.” U Our first Grammar school \ 'as estabâ€" lished Dec. 2nd 1551. In 1853 by the liberality of our people assisted by the government its first building was ‘ erected at at cost of 356-10. The new in- stitution soon got Lob large for its juvenile boots so in 1873 a larger buildâ€" ing called El. Iiiin school was built, at. a cost of about $4,000 to which 1110 people of our village contrilnitcd $1.170 in single year. This we know went ‘, up in smokc, llcc. 25.31111 1896. Peace be to its ashes! \Ve will forget its homely looks and remmnbcr it for the good it has done, and today we have the iplcasure of Celtâ€"birding the advent of l its successor. ‘ what was left, when he opened his he found pcns, ink and writing-paperâ€" . the foundation. sir, of the white man’s superioriy over all the human race. And so the Indians say : “ Vv'hite man he teach all peoples." Now Mr. (limb-mun I think that there is somc- thiug in that tradition. it is the duty of every wlfite man to give to his son the very best education he can afford and to enable him to do so, I think that it is the duty ‘of the State to elect suit ible buildings with proper equipment and provide them with the very best teaching ability that can be secured. And l mu hind to think that the state is trying to do so. I. am glad to know that the faciliâ€" tics i 11‘ getting education are so great and hat the SChOul house door. stands wide open tov‘evcw boy :md girl wl» f I think that. desires to outer. In my young days Mr. Chairman thcreuscd to be a saying that there was no royal road to learning. It scems to me that that proverb must be obsolete for to-day I think there is :L royal road to educationâ€"a. highway cast up by'the Department of Educa- tion which every boy and girl in Ontario can travel with safety and sliCcessâ€"a. highway macudamized with nuggets of knowledge more valuable than those of Klondike that every student can gather as be runsâ€"2i. highâ€" way whose milestones in the shape of graded examinations are easily reached and quickly passed, and judgâ€" ing from the success of the thousands who reach the object of their am- bition in the annual cxmniuations, the Department have not only made it an easy, but a pleasant road to travel. And, sir, I arm glad it; is so. I would much rather see the names of our young people as successful candidate-s recorded in the reports of the _Dopa.1't- ment of Education than see those names registered in the dark catalogue of criminality in the Blue Books of the Government. Sir, I take no stack in the hint sometimes thrown out that in educating our boys we are educating them to become clever rascals. I know that there are those who prosti- tute their knowledge to evil purposes, and sometimes give the detective in long chase, but you may rest assurâ€" ed that. had such never received an ed- ucation they would have been criminal all the same, because. they were built that way. No, sir, educate a boy, en- large his brain, double his capacity for thinking, and he will think twice be- fore he will violate the laws of h’s country. He will hesitate a. long time as thousands do before he will drag his honor and his character into the dust. , And, sir, I believe in higher educa- tio 1. If your boy, Mr. Chairman, has brains, give him a chance. Let him study history. Every boy ought to have a knowledge of history. H0 ought to know something of dates and damâ€"the genealogy of kings and queens, their virtues, their vices,‘their ambitions and their crimes. 7 If the proper study of mankind is man, in history every student will find many a. lesson that he ought to learn, many an example he might imitate, and many a character that it will be his duty to avoid. Let him study mathematics to enlarge his mental calibre, to strength- en his memory and to develop his judgment. And let him acquaint himâ€" self with classics. I know, Mr. Chair- In m, that it has been said that/the dead languages have been so long dead th Ll) it is a pity to give them a. resur- rection. but, sir, classics broadens the mental prospect of every student, an I brightens tho intelligence of every ho no. I think that it is a. nice thing f0 - a young man to have the ability to tr inslzite for himself or be able to com- pare :1. translation with the original. I think that it must. be a. great privi- lege to converse in their own language in Latin, Greek or Hebrew, as the case may be, with men who were engaged in the activities of centuries long gone by, with orntors, legislators and states- men who moulded the destinies of nations, and with scholars and philos- oph us who laid the foundations of liter Ltui-e.Ladies and gentlemen,if yot 1: sons show an inclination for the ac- quisition of knowledge help them ulong,give them 21 “fl-cc pass” over the whole road to education. If they show diligence, and you have the money, give them the “right of way” through the whole Curriculum of study from the Public School right up to the Univcisity, and. the time will come when those boys will reflect " credit upon themselves and honor up- on their families. And, sir, when that yoqu man becomes Bacon‘s “ full man,” and his brain filled up to the brim, if he is a. wise young 1mm, he will compare what he knowswith the vast ocean of knowledge that lies spread out before him, to him the “ Great Unknown,” and he will come to the very sensible conclusion that he knows nothing. (Contiu ucd next week.) â€"'â€"â€"QOO- ‘ . ' GOOD SET OF TEETH FOR $1. 1’ BEST SET OF TEETH FOR $6. Crown and Bridge 'work, 354 per tooth. Silver, phosphate and aluminum fill.- ings, 50 cents. Painless extraction for plates free of charge at the largest dental offices in Toronto. ‘ n. A. GALLOWAY, L. D. s., N. E. Cor. Queen and Yonge 8135., 1 Toronto, ( Entrance 2.12 Qui-en East. to give Lessons in Music pm)... r! w _ at her si:' :9, Jelfcrson, 01' at -._ ' ' 41C“ “flier pupil: " Ii; 3‘..-