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` St. , `ceret wiuiq ' new and Dem dew out of F1 "ceivc city; thei degr drop I) . In Published tron `ma `onus. nunnopastxescg. Bun-Iecshtho Cddaty of Simone. tho'iPro- I vines ot0t:'!'!o'. Canada. over! Thin ' ' . day morning. by ` _ \ suytung. wnsunr. rnorninn-on. W 01 Per in $1.` -JOUBNALIBTIO AMENITIES.` Point by point the tone of the Canadian press become higher during recent years. Few newspapers now indulge in Billingsgate to any extent, and the un - sbemly airing of dirty journalistic linen` in public is becomingymore rare day by day. Occasionally, howe ver, in the heat of discussion, the memories of. the old time language are revived. and we are treated to a symposium which is not at all nectarine in its qualities by; any means. The true journalist de_plores_ these occasional eboulitions of temper on the part of his contemporaries, and longs` (or the day to come when the ideal journalism present to his mind's eye shall I..--n-an an an!-nhulunl-ant` nub 5` No new name will be added to the,Suh- acrlptlon List until the money in paid. - Subscribers now in 3- rears for three months and over will be charged 81 50 per nnnum. - "inane or sunscmrxgx. _ .... ...... .. .9, 80 that the lit` of h. room lighted A by ygeebecomee heated . more than twenty ' times as much as one lighted by electri- city. A teet made an English music` hall showed that while the candle lpovver given out by the electric light was about fty per eentin excess of that given by gas light._in seven hours it. only raised the temperature of the room two degrees. During the gel lighting! test, uf"`.the some 1 duration. it we; found thutthei tempera? ture had been reieed forty deizreee, end that the vitietion -of theeir by carbonic acid wee, equal to the breethingf of "more `than double the number of the `audience. .;.a cs; ie.'.{ ;:a;;3.;;;1 `J{.}iv.I.'c..','.','o As to the heslthfulness of the eleotno light, a. scientic table shows that to pro.` duoe s given smount of light (equal to -that of twelve candles) the problem stands: 12 tsllpw candles consume 12 feet of oxygen; produoe8 pounds of poisonous carbonic said gas,` and hkewise vitiste 933 cubic feet of breathing air. These gures are much reduced bythe `use of sperm candles, and Still further by the use of psreine oil or Bensole, and in the `case of common gas to produce the light of 12 tsllow candles the gures stsnd : o au.-Ls_.n; ,- _ ' To give the suns illumination by mean. he : `.P.`.:.:`.:f.:l.'::...`??3'!9T'------~- f i""d'"_` 1.`-11 lvitzhtthore would" nrfncrsuc r.rc`n'rme.; V Electric lighting is proposed for Bar- rie. . The council, at its last meeting, ap- . pointed-a committee to enquire, into the cost andgfeasibility of. the project `for this town. As "we have the fullest condence that A the committee -appomted, viz: Messrs. .0rr, McLean and King, will ap- proach their task-in the right spirit. we shall not express any opinion on the scheme so far as Barrie is concerned until the committee brings down its report ; but content ourselves with furnishing such information as we can procure which will put the public on rapport with the merits and demerits of electric lighting Last week's Monetary Times contained a very well written article" on the subject, and this week we will condense the infor- mation therein given. So far, steam has generally been used as a motive power, but horse, handorwater power to revolve the dynamo do as well. The revolu- tion of the dynamoproduces the intense electric current. The dynamo is a ma- chine consisting of electro magnets of iron surrounded by helices or rings of .wire in- sulated, that is, covered with rubber or silk. Electra magnets are more powerful thanpermanen`. ones, and any motion of these magnets produces a current which can be drawn ctr from the machine by what are called collectors, and can be conducted along `a wire to any distance. For street lighting, the illumination of public buildings, squares, work shops, such places, the electric lighting sys- tem has made great progress. Almost every prominent city in England, France, other European-countries, and the United - States has its system of electric lighting For house l.ghting, however, it has not made the same degree of progress, but Edison and others `are working away to reduce both the complicated "machinery and the great cost. and the time will come when the light will be economically dis- tributed and will be general in household use. "Edison says, for example, that he i will givehimself live years in which to discover a method of producing electric light direct from coal, without the inter- vention of the steam engine to drive the dynamo. Besides the money cost, there - are the risks from fire, the health ques- tion,`aud the effect on the eve-sight, to be, considered in determining the desir- ability of electric lighting. The health of those who do much sedentary `work at night demands that the conditions under A, which they work shall be made as favorable as possible. They should, if obliged to work at night, have the best sort of light, the purest of air -_.I LL- I.'-_L _.s.I:Lr,,_.-`I no but. i o;...'..}.1.M:;4s' -9 :m:.::.;:":..w..cea.. ....'.e*- -- '- bruthlnuslrvi&l|sted...848.25 -' He produced and-pounds of water _ ` 4 raisod1o'l`....... . , -I-M "'DIIKDI.u...uuu... 9 Bios airvltIaI.od.'.............. ' M-o}........a~...a,,..,,::: `2.?8a:`.`3ao'3o.a".. .'". . : : 2:." 3: thin: air vluned; ............ _ , its aaao`oa'< iiiihli` w lite! on-.7 ..-in!!! V110 '-*lI0t.!'. is ' fcontent-rte; `doing the-heist V0!'k~tllD.t i_s*in hiuias an author,` unknown to ex- cept his personsliand private - friends, is assisting`: to . give journalism .~ credit . and standing; and is accomplishing within the sphere where his work lies, be it great or small, results which will'be_net humanity. A sinkiiig or self for tl_ie1publio good, a -year or ftvl yearseontinuous writing be- bind the editorial we enlarges and broad- ens a man. until at last `he is content to exclaiin with the poet. the ' individual withers and the world is inure and more. The chord of self, which induces a man toput up a sign that he is the editor of a newspaper is a `bad taste, and we trust the number of newspapers with invisible editors will go on increasing in Canada until only the ignorantly preten- tious people, who seek to increase their own merit by ailiating` themselves with - a newspaper. will alone be guilty of the offence of Messrs. Mills and Sunter. In that day of impersonality the press will be cultured, pure and healthy, and the froward and ignorant will have an iuvita-. tion from the people to step out of the ranks. llavl'lJllI|IIIlIl'<|l0Il1 u;aisod10' .;..-.,s.....i.{k,L%.........o..." `of ..;.j| Atenbly it is led into error it corrects the um: nrrrnnnxcn nrrwninx us. On the 23rd Uctober Tux ADVANCE em- phasized the difference between it and the junior and senior Grit organs in one import- ant pa ticular. This paper never wilfully makes a false statement, and when inadver- statement as soon as possible. Not so with the junior and senior organs. In our issue of the 20th November pointed out that these I organs had deliberately week after week .as-; eured the public that the amount to be raised ' by taxation by the Barrie council for 1884 was $20,205. 95, and that they gave the gross revenue of the town for this year as 326;. 567.97. is the? added to the amount to be bv taxation a surplus. of 82,862 02 from 1883 - and 84,000 estimated from licenses. tosrn hall and interest. In. the same issue, ye. demonstrated beyond poser ! hility of eavil that our gross` revenue would i this year be. from the data i_nven..8'z3,996 87. ' The estimated mllll according` to the `organs gures and e estimates vrill_be for .1304,_32,22.02. while the actual fact Is that we_will'this year have a decit` of not less than`-O309 58.2 if not very much more. Since then ktheyergans have each issued twice ; hut nnlike'Tgs_a ADVANOI thryhave not,eorreet- ed the serious errors so long. promulgated b them. `Are they. -afraid that the-"people h_iek~Reove Ross out if. they new . show that instead of having asurplus to hand: over at` the end of the. ear he will have a serious decit! . A nub ie j`0lI!'!lll. published in the -. of the,p.9Qn..;ahQnldnever.endeavor. .:~to.- with) !'I.l!i!9;;9PE'.l'.Qd`.'?Pin;I0. . .*'the,__ ` W Range \ be 1 .|;9m.g.; ,-__ v - _._-., --vrvvvvll These sections are quite clear. . In the cases before us, it has never been set up that the teachers have been re examined, and cunsequently they can claim nothing on this ground. Nor, `as according to Sec. 10 of the regulations, is there any scarcity of teachers in Barrie. Indeed, at the `board meeting, at which the second extension is recommended by the board, there are two properly qualied third class applicants. _ Is such recommendation fair to these teachers? The fact that the board wishes to save money is not recog- nized as a valid plea by the Educational Department to -be any other special cause, and how. in the face of these clauses of the Act and regulations the boardacted as it did on Monday night is puzzling to the ordinary mind. However, the only remedy for such conduct by the Board has already been pointed out by us, and the matter is one to which the `ratepayers, it they want good schools, must attend to themselves. _ 1800.. Tliorfroodgifn` f;-om` . $_3Pfl`Isivenoln under ologtrio alight:-an =*'tr7:""*" ,_` . * is = .th'e~:lette_r sortersin {1s`rge 6158'," -have been -able 5 to `-spectaclell` `since the electric light was i" put in. ' So` . satised was theVBritish._Board of Trade that electric lighting ought to `be made general because it was a public benet, ;mnn* Act of Parliament was framed 'fandintr,oduced,, intended on the one hsnd"5i:o protect from extortion the public, and on the other the companies. which should provide the light. .The act was", however, sonufortunately worded that it acted as a discouragement of the light 4 rather than otherwise and the ' people are `calling out to have it abolished. The Times reaches the conclusions that while electricity has done wonders, still where its production depends on steam power, it is not a complete nancial success. ' ' ` ' V By the use of water as a motive power in the generation of elec- tricity the latter cancertainly be economi- cally employed for lighting and trans- mission of power. But so long as steam is used the electric light and electric motor will be employed only where ex- pense is no object or steam power is go- ing to waste. How far these conclusions are correct, we hope to be able to verify in anothei article ; or, possibly, the com- mittee may save us the trouble. `.-_ v_-v_ _-_r.-v.-. run rmscnnrts GEB_'l.'Il'IOA l.'ES. The public school board has decided to again recommend the extension of three third class certicates. These certicates were extensions by the County Inspector for this year, so that it appears that get-_ ting athird class certicate to teach in Barrie, valid "for three years, really means five years of the right to draw salary. Elsewhere will be found a full report of the board meeting on Monday night. The exactposition in which the questioned certicates is in may be gathered there- from. They were endorsed as beimr valid for 1884 by the County Inspector. We confess it is not clear to` as that he has such `power. The amending School Act of 1882, See. 2, Cap. 30, says : '0 -Inn`. Ln LL- J..'A._ -B LL - :1 v AGE 0: 16625, 586. Z, Uap. 30, It shall be the duty of the County Inc specter in every case, and of the Public School Board or Trustees by whom any pub- lic school teacher, holding a third class cer- ticate, has been employed, to prepare and send in annually to the Education Depart- ment, on or before the first day of J uue, a separate and independent report as to the tness, aptuess and success in teaching of each such teacher; and the Minister of Edu cation shall have authority thereupon to de- termine whether at the expiration of the term of such certicate,`any each teacher is entitled to any and what extension of such term and to grant the same for such period as the circumstances of the case may justify. Avnnnusrddnno I-A `L3- Q.._L:_._ ml - 1:` , ,-_`.-, _-v-I-ul Sec. 9. .--Third class certificates may be renewed on re-examination, and the county inspector may award marks (for efciehcy and aptitude in teaching), not to exceed 200, toebe added as a bonus to the aggregate number of marks obtained in non protes- sional subjects. - - A gm`. 1;; ,_|.. .......- -8 -.. -_-A--VA ' - FIUIIQI BIIUJ 7015: See; l0.-ln case of an emergency, such as scarcity of teachers. or for any other special cause, Third Class Certicates may be extended by the Education Department `on the joint request ot any Board or Trus- tees and the County Inspector. VIII.--` -,._ -- ,.__ v_ v- --v would`! IIIIIJ JKIIUIIJ Aecordihg to this Section the Ministe; alone has the power. Again, the regula- tions of Sept , 1884.eeay . Q..- n -'l\|.:...1 .1... .,,n:- . .39 tuuuu us uvuus, UIJUIIKII Ell`. UUTFII KW in his own department another pleassnt study of Christmas; Mr. Warner's paper in on Christmas Past, and deals with the customs of the olden time, especially in I merrie En lend, with his usual by-play ` of humor. k.ng of the supposed virtue of eating mince-pie st. Christmas-tide, Mr Warner says : Then we have at certain test of the piety of the Pilgrims to New Englsnd, for theynnd 'heir descendants did not h-sitate to eat mince-pie any day in the year they could get it, and had so much grace that their could take it with impunity for breakfast. on a summer imornin In concluding his paper, he says with ervor : "I believe ihat`. every year at Ohrismas-time the windows oi-`heaven open wider than ever before, aud more men and women hear the song. . I hejpaper, written by an American, obtains an international character bv illus- tration as well assubject, the artists bein Messrs. ' Boughton, wlio is` `BUSH American` ,and'En lish, Paget,`.Weguelin, Green, and , Burner , the letter three , ~h_jI'V_ll__Ig. `important '_f_nll-page ~piotures. V w _ ` _ 1 We take pleasure in. calling attention to the advertisement of the aural New-Yorker in another column. It is a wide-awake farmer- s paper, owned and edited by live, practical working farmers, who own and farm 880 acres experimentally. On this all new things are carefully tested, and the re- sults faithfully reported in the Rural. Really new and valuable seeds are selected from those tested, and annualiy from six to eight kinds are given free to its subscribers. -In this way it has dune much to benet the farmers and advance their . interests. ; Uur only wonder is that e_.ver_ybody does not 1 take the Rural, and share in these good \ things. - e < I T I The Christmas issue of Bar 1- : M ' I had for its opening article lnatpsear . c :13? mg gape! o_n Ohmtpae by Gwrgg wmgm Uurus : this year. Instead of the editor of the Easy Ohatr, it is the armor of the Drawer, Oharlea` Dudley Warner. who 1; ._the Bree of honor, though Mr. Onrtia give. an own dalnrtmant natal... ..I----... Sm JOHN Macnoxaw arrived in New York on Monday. In an interview he said. he thoughtCanada was ready and willing,aud even desirous for closer connection with the Mother Country, but no one had as yet set- tled upon any denate plan. Regarding the subject of a recipruci ty treaty between the United States and Canada, Sir John stated that the-United States must take the initia- tive. The Canadian Pacic Railway, he said, would be open for traic in the spring of 1886. He understands the company would have a line of steamships running to China from Port Moody as soon as the rail-' way is open. A delegation -representing the woman s su'ra ge party called upon Sir John Macdonald in the morning andthanked him for incorporating a woman s suffrage in the pending Canandian Franchise bill, and tendered him a reception. Sir John _re. plied that he would be unable to accept the off-.r, but hoped to be able to do so at a future date. He said the woman's sulfrage clansein his bill had been received with growing favor, and he had no -doubt of its ultimate passage He _found the woman sulfrage movement greatly advanced in England. `The Conservrtive party was practically a unit in its favor. Sir John reached Ottawa on Tuesday, where he was enthusiastically received. i H0rf-1i,l,t:-BI-nchot."Pro!inni!|.:% of Qnabeo "is inning-thy T029930 .G.10b.|=f0" libel. laid at.890.000.. > ` Momma Meudelbauhna notoriousreceiver of stolen goods, `who was before the Newg "York courts for several olfences, and who broke her bail, has, like other American thieves and scoundrele of the class protect- ed by our foolish lack of complete extradi- tion laws, come to Canada. She has taken `up her abode in Tomato, and will, no doubt, like thebank embezzler who ed recently to Quebec, buy a fine residence and live on a V "magnicent scale of grandeur, for she is very wealthy '1_`heliving example of such people in a community must be very de- moralizing. Tis a pity that Canada and the United States. have not an extiadition treaty which, `for criminal taking pu rposea, would make the two countries one. ' Foo: `now poohmilons have oiuned. forxingthe dates for the. holding _of bloo- tiona under tho Scott tmpermco act as fol- lows: 'Gne`ph (city). Jan; 22; Lanark, Kent, Latino: and Addington, Jan. 15. A cm, chm with great interest by journalists, has just been" decided at Boston_. J. P. Frost and D. H. Sanders, of the Boston Globe, were arrested and charged with contempt cf court because they refused to tell the name of the person who furnished information about an old murder case in that city. The Globe pub- lished the information received, and as the police authorities had been unable to detect the murderer and the facts given by the Globe the journalists were arrested. Judge Blogett decided that the gentlemen were.` not guilty of contempt A similar case has never transpired in Canada, but we think in case it does that the decision was the only one which can rightfnllv be given anywhere. , BECAUSE the Uollingwood Enterprise said : 5 . "The Salvation Army business has reached j outage at whichit becomes a. public nuis- uuce," that admirer of Capt. Bella Smith, the Hamilton Spectator, feel: called upon to remark, The Northern Devil Wincea. As ive ventured to anticipate (ti week ago, there is an increasing prospect of a fight" for the spoils of oice under the'Pres_ident-elect Cleveland. The Independent Republicans are demanding that only one of the old time Democrats be taken into Cleveland's Cabi- net; bnt Cleveland says nothing. and the d: - velopments expected are likely to be inter- esting. 1 ' ALunAmr_ 9. number of people have been ; drowned this season by venturing on thin ice ` for the purpose of skating. Herein seems to ` be the advloe that the roller rinks, natheleu I the tumbles, should be patronized instead of lake and river ice. J us? now Wady Haifa pg-eeenten strange spectacle, soldiers, sailors, samonxls, Egypt- l inns, Indiana`, French. Croomen, Canadians, ? and Bedouin: `all mingle together in 3 motley crowd. Surely it is one of the strangest ex- peditions the world has yet seen. -`-Gla.sg0w (Scot. ) Herald. `rat *i:T*4____1'1' ABLE. .L- _IA-___._r 3 - SubscriptionsreceivedIor all Daily or Weekly Pape'= and Magazines. FGRGENUINEWALTHAM WATGHES For Blgin Watches, NOTE PAPER, ENVELOPES DAY BOOKS, JOURNALS, LEDGERS, ETG.,E 1`<" GLAYTON S FAMOUS SHOE HOUSE. |AT sco"r1"s BOOKSTORE Single md Doublje Heat- `ers with Duplex Grate. ] ECONOMICAL, POWERFUL, HANDSOME, DURABLE, % oppoite Queen's Hotel- i; nmmmnoun GOAL STOVES IOTTON 13303., ALBUMS ALL SIZES & PRICJ+1S AWAY AHEAD OF All TOTIIERS. IREAD! PONl]ER& READ AGA!Ni mid. Easily Maiiaged. gash we %buy for. ow prices we sell at. [on will nd everything as represented 0 T no sale. V t `he greatest inducementsto close cm}; ' buyers. s ur Stock of Boots and Shoes the Chtjllf I est in Barrie. t o matter what others offer, see us bc_.-for I you buy. BEFORE YOU BUY. dvantnges offered over other dealers, T..L A. L O U G LA 5. sin: THEM AT 3:31.53, PRAYER 8: I-IYMN BOOKS. The most complete stock North of Toronto. ran swlss WATCHES, `Next Door to Farquhareon s Grocery. Can be foulnda completestock of jj-IE JEWELLER. ? Jauudice. A17'ection.s qfthe Lam Md Kuzney-s M` 5'. Loss of Appetite, Indigestzon, B'l'ousrt685: B0178. Humors. Salt Rheum, Scrofula. . 4$'12l85 andall diseases arising from Impure Bzood, hotiiegular action of the Bowels- Also full stoclr of nape old, and ter 11 `1";i;,-V rage and ` and ]i.k 0 uupv brie ii? mint: fly nortq -min 'thr'( anc! `not: ' _h&_;a_ i anu- thl , rchsrsoteristioally asks AmiI7ncta`_daij `it- a' "" become an established verity. But, longings are vain ; it requires more prac- tical methods to secure the boon so anx- iously craved, not alone by journalists but by the public. It is worthy of note, too, that those newspaper men who love `.._-...._. tiomuuvn-v -v ..... .--..u \w VJ`; - their calling, to whom its honor and suc- cess and standing are dear, are seldom guilty of violating the as . yet unwritten rules which should guide the _ conductors of the press. 4 Generally speaking. it is some person who, for his own ambitious purposes, "has adopted journalism as a calling to aid him _in his designs on the public ; or he who has egotism, which has been called the literary. vanity," that is the oender against journalistic decency. A couple of recent cases . in point occur to us. The offenders in these arethe London Advertiser and the Mea- ford Monitor. The Hon. David Mills is the editor of one ; Mr. Alexander Sun- ter is the editor of the other. 1 Arising out of these gentleman's offences against the impersonality of the press,have come the , discussions" which have moved us to consider the question of journalistic amenities. Mr. Mills advertises himself an Editor in Chief ;" Mr. Sunter adver tises himself as Editor and Proprietor. Both. in the newspapers they control. They have themselves made their names public property. The arguments they use are theirs alone: Not those of the 1,000 or 20,000 readers of a newspaper which respects the impersonality of the press and in return may use the editorial "we, which Murat Halstead, one of the great journalists of th United States, says is not one man power. N orgshould it be. The people are much more likely to re- eeive benet from impersonal journalism. in which the arguments used are noticed, than from that which Messrs. Sunter and Mills are trying to introduce into Cau- ada. Mr. Mills, in one of the old dia- tribes of a by-gone age, scariiied the Hamilton Spectator for an alleged breach of journalistic etiquette. The Hamilton Spectator, than which there is no more able and courteous journal in the Domin- ion, replies in temperate language. After pointing out thatit never attempted to raise the veil of the impersonality of the press, and making a strong plea for the continu- ance of impersonal journalism, the Spec- tator says : When a man s name is printed on the title page of his work there is neither injustice nor discourtesy in using that name. The man himself has made it public property. We hold Froude or Car- * lyle, or any other author, responsible for 0 his sayings because the author `puts up 1 his name and authorizes its public `I180. 11:. Mills has done the same. violated the impersonality of. the press ; he must not blame others for using what nd in print. Mr. Mills reply was characteristic ; he descended toabuse ` the true journalist and therein he scored a failure. He, ` -however, recognised the potency of the Spectator s articles, and - admits by his apologetic reply that im- personal journalism is much the best for newspapcrdom. As, however, he has not taken down the sign, at the time of writ- ing, possibly he may be creditedwith :believing that for Hon. David Mills im-' personal journalism is not thebest. Ad-, vertising makes sales ; and that brings us ' to the case of Mr. Sunter. Unlike his` more notable brother in arms, Mr Sunter goes even further and the Mea- ford _Mirror for having` an invisable editor." lie h-s`-not hid his light `under sbushel; he wishes to reap due credit" lor whatever he does. 'More this, he has found the `attery which always accompanies good desdswsllydoue so - stable that he, unselsh man `_ that he =l's,'? ~ wishes the invisible" of his` eontempob Vary to eat of the luscious fruit of. country` authorship and proeure7aundying ' fame. The Mirror, however,` with. its usual good sense, will not bite. and, it` 1 has always donesince its establishment, H absolutely preserves the itnpersunality whieh__has team the pressgsuoh sipgnli service_in'the `past. Its invisible, suite: as points with pride to, ;the7T;haviiliw_ork makes -the "Mirror one `of tlie buln *' it 1'. *9 0` f*.'.. .990!` llsnalooma of our .:}!t9se-- . Thl?ll!`l9.tlie';'tf.5'l5i1'lf`a']f mper-ml i:i9nriiv&Ifist;n%;, ` using '1 . ,1 I` 1` "1 '71 :4 1 A`:-o4 ~ lccmi fathe! ..`?' 3 nick and maid _"uI. or uo. Both _6loqi. best! an d t Fred` regnu loyec _ she * V m_d m i plum n-ow-an I)en1 AFked Tti NoR*mERN~Ai:vAyNc:E;;{