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VOL. XXII. A! THE LIBERAL PRINTING& PUBLISHING HOUSE RICHMOND HILL, ONT. E13" accommldntion so guestl. Board, 51 061’ B. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING T. F. McMAHON. proved methods DR. LANGSTAFF Gnduato of the Ontario Veterinary College, with diploma. from the Ontario Veterinary Dental School.willvisitMaple on Monday and Friday of each week, and Concord on Friday from 1 to 3 p. m. Calls promptly attended to Diseases of horses, came and other domesticat- ed snipmlegremed by the latest and most up- Bemodelled.nnd newly furnished throughout. One of the musv. convenient and comfortable hotels on Yonge Street. Every modem cou- venienoe. Sample rooms for commercial travellers. Anidenlstoppiug place for riding or driving partisabicyelists, or farmers going to or returning from market. Electric cars pass the door. TERMS $1.00 PER DAY. JOHN PALMER, - Office Hours :â€"3 to 10 a. m.; 12 to 2 p. 111.,- 7 to 9 p. m. Best fitting teeth, also replating, lowest prices. Good work. w. H EW 9 so N, HOUSE PAINTER, Glazier, Grainer and Paper- VETERINARY SURGEON Will be in Richmond Hill every \Veduesdziy. Olfioe:â€"Next dum- south of Public School. Dr.AW. Gecfl Trotter, 39 En, DENTIST,- PALMER HOUSE, RICHMO ND HILL. DR. T. Telephone 3; RESIDENCE, RICHMOND HILL. Cor. Bloor and surnama Ave.. 'H‘m'onlo. Room 12, 124 Victoria. St, Toronto 5‘ Member College Pligaicinua and Surgeons‘ nt. Hanger. Calls from a distance promptly attended to. J. T. BEE: lroy, Me éEJHQJV, Magma mama, RICHMOND RICHMOND HII owner. “(was DR. L. LAWRASON, %W'3S§'W' m 91' VETERINARY DENTIST. RICHMOND HILL. 158 KING s'rnnn'r Instr. TORONTO BUSINESS CARDS. 810l0am: 6IoSpm per annum, in advance..] mm @ihml Emron & P ROPEIE’I‘OB L“. A. CURlI-HE, Dentist, 30 etrrinarg a'étefiiml ‘8 for appointment ‘â€"-AND~ mafia: uum I‘OttE TOE) at A large amount of mivate funds to loan on improved farm property. Five per cent. in- terest. Easy terms for repnvmem. K0 com. mission charged on loans. Apply to A. G. F. LAWRENCE. Freehold Loan Building, Toronto Or at Richmond Hill on Saturdays. Monev to loan on land and chute} mortgages at lowest rates. Barristers, Solicitors, etc. TORONTO OFFICE: No. ], Adelmde St” East. Mr. Cook will be at Maple on Thursday afternoon of each week. Money to Loan LENNOX & MORGAN, T. Hmusnkr anmx. G. STV. Monmx Aurora. New: hues Building, 75 Yonge St. (cor. King), Toronto‘ Eaul Ton-auto Oflice, Mr. Grant‘s residenw Woodbndgp. every evening. Thozjnbill.each “’ednesday from 10 to 12. Suite 7 COOK 8: MACDONALD Money to loan at 5 per cent. Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York. Genera] sales of implements. turniturextanding timber. etc. attended on the shortest notice and at reasonable mth. Patronagesoliciced. P‘ 0. address Maple. The west part of lot containing 100 acres is The vines is clean. th the land is in excellent AWE" (0,, , Licensed Auctionearfor the Counties of York audVOptano. Allsules of farm stock. &c., at tended to on the shortest hétiée inafifr'eagéifaglé rates. Mortgage and bailiff sales attended to. Residence. Stoufiville. Ont. Licen: Goods Licensed Auctioneers for the County of York. Sales attended to on shortest notice and at rea- sonablemtes Patronagesolicited. A large stock of Funeral Furnishings kept at both places. MONEY ! MONEY! for th 113111191109- A (v’rood Farm For Sale or to Rent Issuer of IUD"? A J. T. Suigeon, Richmond hill Undertaken-s dc Embalmors. RICHMOND HILL & THORNHIIL LicensedAuctioneera to: montfully solicit your 1 C STOKES HIGH CC! LIBI LEM EcKARD'r. Winchester St. Toronto Barrister. Solicxtor. Uonvemncer, Notary Public, Etc. A, G F. LAWREN 3m ofligeâ€"Rampyedfqfio 01;! post offiq :uer of Ma: iage Licenses. RICHMOND HILL POST OFFICE. MONEY TO LOAN AT 5% E fiflflfi KING STBEHT WEST. TORONTO maedAuctioneera for the County of York,re- :fully solicit your patronage and friendly ence. sales attvnded on the shortest notice A reasonabe rates. P. 0. address King posh omce‘ Earn-stews and Sollfllors. (331' sen Auctioneexa for the County of York. 1 sold on consignment. General sales of etc.,nromptly attended to at reusouuble R. Gouldmg, Newton Brook, agent 58¢! WRIGHT BROS, above Richmond Hill on Wednesdays‘ SPENCER LOVE, Saigeon a NECEWen, Barristers, Solicitors, c'zc ickzu'dl dz 1?: ounce ‘rister, Solicitor. \Iotary. £4. and 78 Freehold Loan Build- cor. Adelaide and Victoria. Streets, Toronto. AL Office, Ric Stokes & .l. l). Readman, RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900. T'H'a‘. NEWTON TANNING co. Richmond Hill P. 0 , GRANT é? SKEERS Bank. mooâ€"Three doors south of the URT OF jUSTICE, &c HHSSSIONEH IN THE [est of the ofitrchVerto tb‘é 33mm. I43 I Q l: , Richmond Hill on Ill-days. 1 In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Libeyty; in all things, Charity.” Smith. PUBLIC Blo‘ugln. find em). Markham. me or to rent. m a clay loam. and llitiou. J. H. PBENfI‘ICE Unionvnle Telerhcne 2984 Telephone 2661 J. B. McEweu, Weston. N ewinmket D BLOUGE l The fifth session of the eighth parliaâ€" l mth has opened with a genuine sen- ' sation, for the debate upon the Ad- dress. which last year occupied over four weeks and was participated in by a third of the total membership of the I House, was disposed of in two sittings only two on each side in addition to l . the mover and scconder taking part I therein. All that was necessary to be said however was easily compressed into those six speeches. Sir Charles Topper and Mr. Foster exercised their rights to the full of criticizing every aspect of the Government‘s policy, do- ing so much more, effectively than if the usual procedure had been followed of reiterating those criticisms through the medium of a score or two of their supporters, until such points as they were able to make were entirely lost sight of in wearisome and unending verbiage. The brief discussion was equally advantageous to the Goveru~ ment. for it enabled the Premier and Sir Richard Cartwright to present a ‘ concise, cleaiucut and complete answer to their opponents. and the country is now in possession of the real situation from which they will have. no diffi- culty in drawing accurate deductions. A TWO-FOLD COMPLAINT. Ther osition leader confined his " ' a. criticism of the Govern- ' ' r policy in the matter of the, South African contingent, and that criticism consisted of a two-fold com- plaint, first that the Government had refused to act until compelled to do so by the unmistakable expression of pub- lic opinion, and second that when act- ' ion was taken it stopped far short of what it should have been, in as much l as no provision was made for paying our volunteers out of the Canadian treasury after they arrived at the seat of war. ' Government had no power whatever to spend the public money in military operations Without direct authority from the people ecu-'fissed through Inelr representatives .4 l-‘arliament, or otherwise; that Parliament, al- though it had been in session but a short time previously, had not antici- pated the emergency that arose, and that it was therefore absolutely necess~ ary that the mandate. of the country should be expressed beyond all perad- venture before the Government could act. The desired expression of the popular will was giVen, and instantly action was taken in compliance there~ with, and so thoroughly well prepared was the Militia Department for all contingencies, that within three weeks of the call being made, the battalion was mobilized and on its way to the. scene of conflict. CANADA’S TOMMY LOSES NOTHING. As to the second charge that the Government had fallen short of their whole duty in not undertaking to pay the men after their arriVal in Cape Town, Sir Wilfrid laid before the House the correspondence with the Imperial \Var Ofiice, which showed conclusively that the offer had been made. and specifically declined. upon the ground that “Her Majesty’s Gov. ernment were of opinion that the ar- rangement by which pay at imperial rates should be provided from the i111- perial exchequer from the date of dis- embarkation in South Africa. should be applied to all the, colonial forces." "Therefore" added the. Premier, “you have the principle laid down and de- termined by the imperial authorities and absolutely put. outside the. pale of discussion.” But while it was thus shown to be impossible to meet the entire cost of the contingent as the Government and people would have preferred. the Premier demonstrated how completely his Cabinet were. in accord with public opinion, by inti- lnating that it was the intention to ask Parliament to provide a fund sufl‘i. cient to pay the men the difference between imperial rate and the rate they would receive under Canadian regulations, such moneys to be held in trust for them until they returned,or to be placed at the disposal of their families during their absence. THEY THREW UP THE SPONGE. This announcement tool; the fight out of the OppOSition, for it went fur- ther than they had at any time sug- gested and substituted :1 just and feas- ible reposition for their proposal Whic had been shown to be imprac- ticable. It had been the intention of the Opposition to propose a grandilo- quentamenduient, which could have been utilized, they foundly hoped, to some purpose during the next cam- paign, but the ground was knocked from undertbeir feet, and there was nothing left to make a. pretense of fighting for. The result was that when Sir Richard Cartwright sat down, there was nota man to be found on the Opposition side to continue the debate. They retired from the battle- field without even the honors of war, and the motion for the Address was carried without a dissenting voice. The Premier replied to each of these charges catvgm'ically ,1! ud conclusive- ly. He reminded theiflouse than he had clearly stated at the first that the Our Ottawa. Letter. Thursday afternoon’s sitting of Farâ€" liament was enlivened by a somewhat remarkable speech by the leader of the Opposition in which he made a most strenuous effort to repudiate the charge which has been frequently made. that the Conservative party, has made a practice of appealing to racial and religious prejudices to se- cure party advantages. In the course of this endeavor he treated the House to a somewhat extended autobiograph- ical sketch altogether too rovingto fol- low in detail but one instance may be given as a fair sample of the whole. Sir Charles complained that Sir VVil- frid had in 1896 falsely charged him with appealing to the electors of Mani- toba to vote for him, an Englishman and a. Protestant. rather than, for Laurier, a Frenchman-Canadian and a Catholic. That. said the Opposition leader was a gross misstatement of what occurred. The fact was that he was addressing the Conservatives of Manitoba who were deserting him. and he said to them, “ Why desert me an Englishman and a, Protestant, he- caune of my course on the school ques- tion to vole into power a Freneh-Can~ adian and a Catholic who is pledged to do even more for the minority than I am ? ” This distinction without a difference was greeted with loud laughter from the Government bench~ es. and it is more that probable that it will he received in a, similiar manner throughout the country. On meditating on the subject “ How to keep the larger boys in the Sunday School,” which was ably handled at \Voodbridge Convention by Rev. S. L. W. Hztt‘tun, I find it is one of the vital and important questions of the day. The topic asserts the assumption that the larger boys are not attending the S. S. as they did, and that is 50, Boys have a tendency to leave the S. 8.111191“ a. certain time, And why ? There may be several reasons and in order to remedy the matter we must get to the root of the subject. First, it may he the fault, 0f the primary teachers. They may have neglected to instil in- to the minds of the little ones the de- sire to come to Sunday school. Tell- ing them they uught to come to school is not enough : make them feel they ought to come, welcome them there, ought tocume, welcome them there, see that they enjoy coming and if they feel they are wanted there they will willingly come; interest them and you will have attention. W’ould you change teachers? No! Not if they loved the work, but would see if they could be instructed to do better work. There are many teachers who are cap- able and would make excellent in- structors if they had a better knowâ€" ledge of the. \Vol-d of Truth, and the Methods of Teaching; also a know- ledge of adapting themselves to the peculiarities of the individual sclinlar‘. It is not enough to tell the simple story of the lesson, but tell in in such a manner that. they mm see it applies to themmnd they can become interest- ed and beliefitted by it. HAIR SPLITTING AS A FINE ART. Sunday School Work. if they 1) and [(1 you requires the best we can procure to teach the intermediate classcs. Yes, but some say the parents ought to do this. They ought to, but they do not as a rule. It is left to the S. S. teach- er and to social influences. How to overcome these difficulties 1’ is the important question. By having one system of teaching (as they have in the Public Schools), where. they teach the. elements principally to the smaller ones and applying them as they grow older. By arranging it so that primary teachers may have the best helps in teaching the lesson. By a thorough systematic study of the lesson in general, in detail, in con- nection. By having an organization so that the teachers some in touch with each other, not only in their own school, but also with those who are in the other schools, under the jurisdic- tion of the S. S. Aswciution. How would you aceomplish this? By having the S. S. Association ap~ point a superintendent or committee, How would you aceomplish this? By having the S. S. Association ap~ point a superintendent or committee, and let him or them get a list or teach- ers and workers throughout the town- ship and organize a teachers‘ society at the, most convenient places, having the teachers, no matter of what (le- nomination, meeting in one place, thus doing away with the obligation of the teacher to attend their own church at a great distance, when there is one in their own neighborhood. Let them be fully organized, and the most competent worker, layman pre- fel'l't‘d, as leader. Let them devote a portion of the time to earnest prayer. A portion to the study of the lesson in all its detail. Aportion of the time to a primary teacher to show the best methods of teaching the lesson ; also an intermediate teacher to the meth- od of teaching the larger classes. This would do away with the unpre- paredness and inadaptability of teach- ers We hear so much about. It would centralize the teaching of the lesson and give a. uniform method in the different classes. It would do away with the difference in teaching as the scholar finds in going from one class to another. It will help our boys in the school, fill the classes, especially the Bible class, with earnest, Bible- erlucated Christians, make our homes. .a the future as they should be, Christ- ian homes, and lay the formation of a. national character such as God de- lights to see. But we must not forget that we must have God’s blessing and Holy Spirit on the glorious work, in order to be successful, but it can be accomplished. \Vitha good, enthus- iastic earnest person as superintend- net and the best methods that experi- ence has taught us will succeed, we willfind that the first decade of the twentieth century will find a. grand improvement in our Sunday Schools and will bring the convention and the teachers closer in union, and the en- thusiasm regenerated there will nerve and stir the. workers as a current of electricity does all its connections, and the cry amongst teachers of beng un- able, incapable and unsuccessful will cease, and the tired, despairing work- er for Christ will find comfort and en- couragement in these meetings if they meet together in the name of the teacher’s model, Jesus Christ. J. H Sherwood, Feb’y 8, 1900. Mr. J. Parry of Toronto, spent last Thursday with friends in the village. Missionary sermons were preached in the Methodist Church last Sunday, in the morning by Rev. Mr. Ferguson of Newton Brook, and in the evening by Rev. J. Wilson of Bond Head. I have written this not to find fault or discourage teachers, but to stir up an interest in normal workand pre- pure the way whereby teachers can prepare themselves and the lesson thoroughly. May God help us to prepare ourselves to teach the chil- dren. About, twenty-five of our Villagers, nuirried and single, drove out to Mr. J. T. Suigeon’s at Richmond Hill, last. Friday evening. and spent a. very en- joyable time. The time passed all too quickly in games and music. and when the time came for going home all re- turned well pleased with the way they had been received and entertained by host and hostess. Miss Edith Kefier took part in the programme at the Red Cross Tea. at \Voodhi-idge last, Friday evening. A large load from here attended the eu- fertainment. Ripans Tabules. Ripans Tabules: gentle cathartic. 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