Mayor Geary, of Toronto,'Hoi1. Jas. In-.11 , E. T. Essery, of London, and sewn-2:1 others made short addresses and the Citizens ~Band and Messrs`; .1. E1. Cameron and Eddie Piggot con-_: `.x-ihuu-I to the program. The.humpr-- ms se-lections of thes two~.enteT1':tain-` ms we.-1'0 well received `by th'e,la1fge_ zxmlit-nae. Help Your Favorite Yountg ster- to Win One` If you haven't achild of y6u'1': you might have Fa'Vorit.t~1LG'9t 9 voting Coupon wth .-y`ou1_,'; `}>Ixr'*hg'_a,es,`t ;5: and back that favorite iboyx or"'gh`, `f91_j" the FTER Zvmnln n',vnun :n``u11:':I1I'h`-"'I1'|':, ........ may uworue `uny_0T[8!F!_;'F . Free Zymole EXP!`39`;.V5h,95`7n `m our window. ` Here's `th 6 Q uestion! `Since the Grand. Lodge of the- ()`r0-",,` ange Association met in Barrie`. in 1899, in Western Ontario {alone 26,000 new _me1nbers,have been added to1the rolls, and 178 1_1ew `lodges einstituted; Such was the 1nfo1-mat1oVn. contained. in Grand Secretary Wm." Fitzgerald's report. This statement seems to be conclusive eviden'ce7 that .the_.assoeia- tion hasnot outlived its usefulness; Grand Lodge Decide To Make :VM%atter Issue--Biggest And BestConvention In ,' [ tor? 0fAssocia0ll. % 0 o . . ' ' `.f_ `a , l- lllgll S wHUnsDAif,%%w%AMV The Public Meeting. Hon. Dr. Pyne, previously had. said that as the rst Orange Minister of Education, he was actuated by `the s.'1me principles as they, andethough conditions might (prevent -him from doing all that might be wished, he would endeavor at all times to do ` . W DC0nCed 0. Aw There was a close contest between! Listowel, London and Windsor for the next place of meeting. After several ballots, London was chosen. Deputy Grand Chaplains. . V An indication of the attitude of the; Protestant cl_er'gy toward the associa-| tion is given by the ,long list of. clergyman who are. officers in the lodg- es. The Deputy Grand Chaplains for theensuing year are:--'-Revs. AH. A;_l i. No change was made. in the.o`1cers.`A `W J Parkhill, of. Midland, Grand Treasurer of British `America, pre- sided, as he has done for many years,` `over the installation ceremonies, while Ethe elections were conducted by Lt. I Col. J. H. Scott, K.C., of Walkerton, `Deputy Grand Master of British America. The oicers elected were: . Nearly All from Toronto. _ Grand Master, Harry Lovelock, To- ronto; Deputy Grand Master, Fred Dane,` Toronto; Junior Deputy Grand Master, Dr. J.J. Williams, Woodstock; Grand..Secretary, Wm. Fitzgerald, `To- ronto; `Grand Treasurer, John Hewitt, Toronto; V Grand*Lecturer, A J. J. D. Banting, Cookstown; Grand Director of Ceremonies,:C. A. B. Jennings, To- ronto; Grand Auditors, A. W. Wright of `Toronto, `and. W. H. Taylor, Auro- ra; Assistant Grand` Secretary, Wm.- I Cook,_ Meaford. Deca'de after decade we have bee: cial butnational lines, to__ the up- building of a.great "Imperial feder- fation, which, when ultimately round- ed out by the closer bond of `union of the motherland. -with the great dominions beyond the seas, will con- stitute a vasttnmpirej, `beside which the glories of ancient Rome will be but as a faint and feeble light. God save the King. ' V I I . Ideveloping, not only along commer- I I I rrmiy. . Before adjournment Friday night . the Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario 1 West -enthusiastically. adopted ap._re- , solution condemning the proposed re- L c_iprocity agreement. .The members` _ felt that lurking in the proposition ~, `were possibilities involving the future of Canada as a state of the `Empire. _i'A_s Orangeinent, fstanding7_ `for Can. adian unity and " British `connection, anything that savored `of closer rela- tions commercially. with the United States they considered inimical to closerrelations with the mother coun- _try. The brethren pledged themselves `to strain every effort towards the .maintenance of the present _ glorious ' [connection between `Canada and the [Empire The resolution, which was moved by Canon Walsh,- of Brampton, and seconded by Col. Belcher, of lsouthampton, concluded: . 'Prosentationa._`, .. _ e . Bro. -W. J. Parkhill of Midland, the father of the -Grand Lodge,_'on';heha1f of the members, presented : R.fW.. Bro, E. T. Essery with a cabiiiet of ilver in recognition of his services as `grand master for three years. Thomas; A. Duif, travelling representative .-of the Orange ' Mutual Benet `fund, was made an honorary member-A of the Grand Orange Lodge of British Ameri- ca. r - - ing gathered td he.r the -best ordtcirs of the Association. One school, the public school; one :l:g,Ethe1. Enilon Jack; one language, a e ng1sA anguage; were declared to be the national ideals for; which the membership should strive. In calling attention _to Ulst'er s ght against Home Rule the Canadian brethren were warned` to take heed I The idea of a provincial 12th` or` July celebration or the holding of few: demonstrations in large centres `on `the Boyne _ anniversary was advised against. Local celebration at which :the speakers should be members of i the. association, except in special` cases, were recommended. l his best. Determination to press the `ght for `the abolition of bi-lingual -schools was again expressed on behalf of Grand Lodge by the Correspondence Com-V mittee, who reported on. the Grand; Master s address. The committeei I declaredithat the progress of the as- sociation Was such that it was epre-f_ dictod that the time would come when} there would be `at public opinion strong] enough in Canada to call for an; amendment to the British ' North America Act,_providing for the aboli-I tion of Roman Catholic schools in On-E tario. E . I Increased grants to assist the Prot-I estant denominations in their work of E French evangelization in Quebec were` voted. The missions of the Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches will receive $175 each. Fifty` dollars was voted the Muir Mem- orial Fund. The Loyal` True Blue Orphanage at Picton _and the Prot- estant Orphans Home, Toronto, were voted $100 each. An appropriation; was made for sending the~Scntinel` throughout theiprovince among the] Protestant clergy. - V I The elimination of .211 sectarian` teaching in the public schools of the` provin';_ce,.~ either` before, during or `schools, except such as is laid down in the curriculum prepared by` the De- partment. of Education. after; any. teaching session of theli . _ _. I Long Gredentiai List. I Joseph E. ihompson, Past County Master of Toronto, as usual was chair- The-total number of voting "members 3 `man of the credential committee; I l reported was over 500. Thecredential list" was the longest ever presentedi in Ontario West.` a The entire abolition of all bi-lin?! Tgu'a1 schoo1s in the prdvirce. j ` Unless Go\ferzim'i1t A action in the] -meaiitiin'e " ' blankets their craft, the Orange: Association.in Ontario will en.-' . deavorhto linefup politieal` candidates. -,at. the '-next Provincial election on the L question; of bi~lin-gual. schools,_ and ysfilhdeniand that the school regula- tions] ofzthe Education Department be revised : so,` that: sectarian teach-in'g oan-.' not 139 carried on in the public schools,` as can be done. now u1 1der"'the"present regulations. On motion `of James Mayor and James Jennings of Toron- to, the Grand` Lodge adopted a re- solution` providing for the adoption of` a Protestant platform. The two main planks are:- ' r ' eonburg; J..oB..` Bell, .Laure_l; `W. D. 3 Sound 'un _ezr Wii'a`h;* cm: ing; Lewis. Modto mnem`1oo;V. Cf Perry, '1`oronto;* E. _ W. `Hughes/4., Till-l I Manon, West 'Ga_refraxa;' ` W. IL} Hunter, Churchill; 0.11. Quaife, Ems- Adal_e;~~A.`R.-1 Gold, Novair; T. M. Blad- gvettg-f ~Rose_inount; Canon Dixon, T_o-` rbnto, W T. "R. White, Laurel; ` T. B. Clark,` London; J. A. `Robinson, Thorn-i bury; J. :H..Bartels, Callander; F. E. Howettg. Hamilton; W W.` T." Wright, ,_ Brantford; `C. H. Buckland, Listowel;! -J-_.' J. Haylock, Leamington; I. Fl.e m'i:ng, Markham; Wm. Lowe, Luc-5 an; J. E. Mariott,.'1`emiskaming. .` / ` I 1?'rotestant' Platform. Abolish 31-Lingxial School. oelebreting the 12th. NoRTH%ERN% A%bvALNc1~:` Controller Hocken addressing the` Minister of Education, said: I want to s:1_V to Dr. Pyne that whatever his- tn-rical impediments there may bevto the zzbolition of separate schools, there` are none `in tlzetway of abolishing bi-- Ii11;,:11.'x1 schools. The continuation of hi-]in__rual schools rests entirely on the regulations of the department. ' : Robert Wood, of Listowe1,aveteran ` Orangeman, who rst attended Pro- ':vi~ncia1 Grand Lodge fty years ago,` 'was made an honorary member of 5'the` Grand body. W. Bro. Wood join! red the Orange Association 61 years |ago in County` Tyrone, Ireland. L Keep an .eye on the man who tries to atter you. V Life:V--Why doi1 t you go to the dance to-night, Harold? Haven t you_ any ame? van .21.}! 1) , ....:J 1.1.- .77 ____ __,-n tuna. `nanny I I Yes, dod,_ said the `Harvard student, -a ange, but no fuel. _ No Sign of It. ` I Wifey-9-They say the new spring `hats will be moderate. - ' 1 `l"l __Ll_-_ 111'! u . IJU IJAUUUL GU50 "ffui{6-` 1'11 bet a ver the bills : won t show it. Somebody put up a job on the Chief} of Police. A man who has strong` greligious convictions opposed to Or- 'an`gcism,.from a nearby town, was in` for the day, and imbibed too i:'reely_.l [The Chief hastened -to ge.t some Eof his friends from the lodge room ito assist in getting him out of sight, and after enlisting a neighbor and; Mr. N. Grose proceeded to the spot; where the poor unfortunate was holding onto the fence. Here the! :joke was on the Chief. The man: `made knownhis identity and also his] ,opposition to Orangeism_ in strong` ,term_s. ' ' 3 ! Chief- King `says This V was the! `most orderly gathering I have ever] seen fora. convention of 600 peop1e. ,There are usually one or" two who icannot hold themselves on . occa- sions. similar to this, but the police force didn t have one arrest nor any sem-blance of disorderly` conduct on I the streets. . ' g l`last{vGra1'1 Lodge ineeting in Barrie `eleven years ago. V T Sec. Wm.` Fitzgerald made feeling reference in his address to the memory :01 the late Hen. N. Clarke Wallace` ;and Mr. E. F. Clark, who have pass-I `ed to the Great Beyond` since the` 1nn`- IV.....__'] `I , The Opera H0use,was' 'pzicked,` an :z:1.`ic:x1ve munbering 1400 peOp16j.ha.V- A '5_*'.I`heV biggest and best Grand Lodge , meeting we have ever had was! A Grand Master Harry Lovel:k s `com- ment. We have been used like princes` in this beautiful tewn'of _Bar-E irie, and I hope it will not be many years before we meet here again. f ! `Squire Ell;_i_s";'vv1ho pre's_i d_es; over. the Qounfjf Gourt,*.Tofohto;%vi7_e taken in? hand gby . Mayor Beecroft "and, shown ov,er'the-Town.-T'. He invited His Wor- ship to Toronto but casually remarked that he hoped never to meet him` ioicially. " V . A : I I `I I I District - Master Noah Grose was! here, there and everywhere, . lookirig after _the. comfort of his guests, He` was th'e_h;ardestworking man on the` reception qonrmittee.` . ... I This is great., .poy's. i At Midland! I slept on the oor,". - was" Billy. Cos- burn s mead _of_ praise. for the hotel I accommodiztibn. " b I . . n The Citizens? `Band gave= an Irish :sel,ection congluding with the, Prat-l gestant. Boys, which elicited an en- Econ, . . V , , 1'` `License Insptoxi ` Du. sys the .conduct of the delegates wa_s ex- 3mplary ` U ' ' 1 .. .. .. "- A drive ar6; 1d`jT6wn, vfvasf pa `the civic entel-tainmeint oered. !7thfiat7 Hie fR1ile;~5in:":th`is` contfyf did`! not result in;lon'1e..-.Bule. _` I `Z k The 61 Years `an Orangeman. Wednesday night's public meeting! brought forth some of the most'_o11t- spoken utterances ever heard on 'a platform in Barrie. Controller Hock- en, of Toronto, Editor of The Sen`-y tine], and Dr.'T. S. Sproule, M.P.,|. Grand Master of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of British America, were the two speakers who threw caution to] the winds and gave vent to somei .~.!i'r011g expressions of opinion` in re-' gnrd to educational matters in 011- tnrio. Bi-lingual schools `were es- in -use the Ontario Government re- fuse to abolish them, the Orange As- sociation will make the matter an is? ]')C(,'ia]i:y' singled out for abolition, and sue at the next provincial eiections. What Was Lacking. man I his 3 _ 1n strong t {if I Squire Ellis gave the address of we]come--he being more accustomed; to extending the glad hand to strang-I: ers than any other member of the` crew. Mayor Beecroft, Reeve Ben- nett and Ex-Mayor_ Boys sang a; .beautiful. trio entitled For We are! `Members of the Midnight `Crew and. were presented with honorary life-I . . . . ' I I The festivities dld not commence; lunti] after the conclusion of the open] Emeeting on Wednesday night, When `club members and invited guests to .the number 125 assembled` in the] [dining room of the Queen s and "pro-f ceeded to make. merry. Admiral Jos.. Thompson commanded, and from his exalted position on the quarter-deck. `dispensed hospitality and jovialtyi with. a.-lib'eral hand. Long speeches! were tabooed, the speaker who trans-! lgressed thisirule being given the} [hook or handed a large-sized lemon. ` I Little was known of the Club in |Town until Wednesday when the first- class battleship Billy Crawford, in command of Admiral Jasp. E. Thompson and Secretary of the Navy, Chas`. Soady, steamed up Dunlop St., amid cheers and loud banzai from lthe crowd. The vessel was manned{ ;by a full crew of able-bodied seamen, stokers. and marines, all members of the Dreadnought Club, a company of the most congenial spirits who ever `heaved the capstan or lightered a schooner. The `d__rea,dnought cast an- `char in front of` The Advance oice, land" the` crew, headed by Don t-pay- as-you-enter Geary and Squire Ellis l(who in the intervals between the !sessions of this famous social or- lganization, hands out free board and lodging in the County Court, Toronto) disembarl-zed, and singing that pop- ular revival song It looks to me Like a Big Night, To-night, march- `ed to the Queen s, where quarters had? 3been secured by the eicient Sec- lretary, Mr. Chas.'Soady. I i - ` _If_ life inthe Canadian navy is half I has jolly as membership in the Dread-A? nought Club, a social organization in` 5 connection with the Grand Orange? Lodge, _one would imagine - that the | . : |Rainhow and Niobe would be deluged 1 with recruits anxious to man the: "capstan while the ddler played a_! {hornpipe and the anchor was weighed {_with many a yeo heave ho. This} Club was organized at the Grand: Lodge meeting at St. Catharines last! A,year, Mr. Chas. Soady, the secretary `being th_e chief mover in the organiza-: tion. He still makes all the ar-!` 'ra_ngements and: prepares the pro-1 `grams, and the success attendant on] this year s gathering is an evidence} of his ability along this line. The! Ire-unions were held at the Queen s on] `Wednesday and Thursday evenings; and mirth and merriment reigned' supreme, tip, /ose members of the party who endeavored to retire to their rooms being ignominiously lassood "with a ship s cable and brought cap- tive back-to the scene of festivities. An Economizer of Time and Labor [Crews Dreadnought--n-Able Seamen, Stokers And Mar- ; n n nines--Hold Annual Re-Union-'--Select Coterie I 7 . 0f Invited Guests. n to)` Harry Lovelock said: With much pleasure I welcome you to-day to Beautiful Barrie, the county town of the historic County of Simcoe; known throughout the jurisdictioniasi the banner Orange County of ,i the ( in his opening address, Grand Mam! Province, and which has contributed two Grand Masters to this Provincial Grand Lodge in the persons of the late Bros. D AIton `McCarthy, Sn, and D Arcy Boulton and also the late Bro. Senator James R. Gowan, men whose work and worth will long, live in the hearts and memory` of our '7 Association. The noble records of, the 1 County of Simcoe, the attachment and _` sympathy of the great majority of its!` people with the principles and aims I of our Association, are so welliiknownii to us all that we felt in coming here we were coming among true friends!` and syiiipathizers, and I have no doubt?` whatever that our asseinbling here ` on this occasion will have. a markedpt a e effect upon the progress ofjthe As- .`l()(`.l(1tl0ll. " ' - _ 3 He maxbe miles_-from the railroad and the nearest 'sh1ppmg 'pomt. He 1s ex ctmg a freight .shipment-, .What does he do? With s_ Bell Telephone he calls up ethelfreightyagent. _ If the shnpment has not arrived-no }1s_.e:.1n'gomg,to: town. . ' l ROM seed time to harvest the far- .meriis a busy man. A I ,Th1t s Why the shrewd farmer appreciates the jva1_u_e "qt the Bell Telephone $ervice. ,;i`here s a1way_s p1enty at hand to do. The `Bell Service glves him opportunity. Consult %%ur1a1 manaw TELEPHHNE cumnv urcmna !_e3I1 t `It?! :7 000.` \J I Eddie Piggot and J. H. Cameron contributed humorous selections, Which `added conserably to the evening s en- ljoyment, and after singing Auld Lang Sfne, Harry Lovelock pro- inounced the benediction in time for lbreakfast. f Revival services were held during ithe morning-at the sample room. I f Who will secure the lat est nxxmberi of votes for the -Zymo 6 _EXP`."39'7-`* Some lucky boy o1'_gir1 is gomg .10 893. , this splendid wagon. ' -` Then Andy Clark, of the Toronto World, who had been scanning the horizon and predicting some Weather, prayerfully said, Lord help poor sailors on a night like this. He was ieertain something was brewing, but Charlie Jennings assured him that ! twas only the fiorter moving out [the trunks for the morning train. A cablegram was received from headquarters bearing the message, Belcher still speaking. 1.25 a.m., created no little amusement. What s the matter with Father was then sung in honor of the worthy Colonel who was enjoying the festivities im- mensely. Admiral Joe Thompson commanded i from the Quarter-Deck. I members badges in recognition of itheir valor in thus braving the in- Iitiation ceremonies into the mysteries I ' of the navy. _ Mayor Geary, of Toronto, in a few {hand-picked words, presented Admiral ?Thompson with a new hat. The hat sis of `Turkish manufacture, with a yellow band bearing the ominous :word Admiral on the front of it. Elt was designed by an Eastern costum- [er and the style will doubtless be- zycome very popular since the introduc- :tion ofithe harem skirt. Put on lyour old red bonnet naturally fol- llowed, sung by the entire company, `the ballet being led by the dainty Edanseuse, Middy Parkhill, Pork-You- :Pyne Dane and Fashion-Plate Brown. I tags: urna 8 [(1 [.1 quickly stops coughs. cures colds, heals the throat and lungs. . . , $5 cents. ,`.And is it absolutely necessary? `You can t live Without it. `Say, doc, the high cost of living 1 all be blamed on the tariff, can }! Expensive Living. `An operation will cost you $1,~ "7, Coup6tVx`'i'ven with evefy`9.f Zymole Trokeys orbeveryi dalhr` purchase of othgr gojo,da_.` The "Grand Lodge -Meetings. which closed on Thursday night were >tl1e most successful ever heldixi Western Ontario, the list of delegates, `number- ing "about 580 being the `largest i the history `of the order. '