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iss B. Stone, as iting Miss Harman last week, r. and Mrs. Charles Pilkey, of ut Albert, were visiting at Geo. son Sunday. ; ; d oy r. Chas. White is visiting friends » i Miss B Sipge, wi the Misses Hazelwood (guest of her pasents Brome, RL Mx: and Mrs, Howard 'Mctherell, of Little Britain, 'Spent Sunday. at eI Mr. W.L. King's. Mr. R. Thompson spent Sunday Toronto, A Miss. Morrison. her friends; as been the wand Mrs, our teacher, is visiting friends in. Winnipeg and |h her parts of the Wess, Miss Mark,' of Little Britain, spent Sanday at Mr, W. L. King's. "Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Prize, 'of Toronto, are the guests of Mr. W Frise. «Miss Amy Wood, of Greenbank £0 His visiting at Mrs. D. Town's. ¢ A hasgonel ster Harold Thomas, of Toronto, on an extended trip through the new is spending his holidays with his provinces. He also intends 10 visit grand-mother, Mrs, S. Sleep. h before he returns, - Mr. Wm_ Moon has been' repair- ing the damage done to the roof of his new property," The hail storm broke sixteen panes of glass in the 8 gallery, 2 € are sorry to report the illness [of Miss Ethel Frise and Mr. Cephas r, Herbert Baira has secnred a position in the bank at -Blenhiem, | We wish Herb, success. Mr; Peter Christie, M. P.; bo have lately 'moved. into cur ; : i] midst, we extend a hearty welcome, 'the dee ; : 0.® AParents and «Quite a number from bere took tends holding | iB the excursion to Onllia and re : E Intends Dolding he very enjoyable time, The best of talent] = The boys of the village visited nd 8 good time is|Saintfleld on Monday afternoon' to joy yourselves. | have friendly - game of baseball. = "1 The score was, Seagrave 23, Saint. Held 16." 'Dot again boys, "We offer. cougratulations to Miss Alico: Stone who has successfully passed her Entrance Examinations, Our ney sidewalk, although. well commenced seems to:be progressing i but slow hat's wrong 2 The Sons of Temperance, met - at the'home of Mr. Jno. Watson 'on | Our pastor, Mr; Robbing, is 'meet | ing with Success on every: side,' Tet ally aronnd him. and Cn e , d; the great and ted "gentleman whom we are Jud to salute as the leader of e Liberal party in. Canada, to fedeem my pledge in. ma ing answer to the call to service made upon me by the nominating Con: vention at Whitby on June ath last, and, in doing" so, wish most respectfully ' to 'assure you and through you. the Convention, and those represented by 'that event, that Lheld it 'a very high honor indéed thus to have been made the recipient of public confidence as the representative in Govern- ment before the good people of the South: Riding of Ontario, of those "principles and policies of progressiand reform' so fully ex- emplified in the legislation and ad- ministration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and which are -so- well calculated to work for the greatness of Can- ada, and for the glory of Canadian Citizenship 'In my opinion, the test honor which oni'; fellow citizens can bestow is that gift of confidence and support which en- titles him to a seat in the Councils of the Nation, and that honor you propose for me, A chief difficulty in reaching a decision is occasioned by my con- ception of the duties and responsi: bilities appertaining to the place and position of a representative of the people in national affairs, and my conscious inabiljty to measure up fully to my own self imposed standard of 'excellence in this regard. Such thoughts give me pauséas I pen these lines to you Properly enough, I think the Parliament of the Dominion: ji held before. the world as the reflector. and euunciator of the hopes, the aspirations, the striving after those things which are best calculated to minister to the moral and material advancement of the Canadian people in their effort at nation. building over the greater half of North America and as an integral part ofthe British Empire. A call to participate in the deliber- ations and work of such an as sembly ' is not to be lightly esteemed and ought to be 'calcu: lated to impose a sense of dut and responsibility which can only meet their answer by the render: inffof an undivided "and "unselfish and useful service to the state and I feel to exclaim, "Who is suffi- cient for these things? Already the country Has clearly demonstrated-its ability to carry to "successful completion Public Works of a 'magnitude calculated to stagger the imagination of any 5,000,000 Ot 6,000,000 people any+ syhere, and still "the work. of developing our resources and: that ol adding to' our transportation facilities goes'on apace; 'and "that to. the : manifest . advantage of Canada. The wisdom and cour age ofsthe Fathers and of the present day Legislators find their Justification in_the proud position to which the Dominion has attain- a great civilizing force afford- homes, happiness and pros: perity to all who may as 'industri- ous and law abiding citizens 'tread soil and content them. eath the unfurled flag of But: great as are' the vemerts of forty years of the ople in in any wise sought the nom directly or through others, I distrust the judgment of the vention and feel mysel greater difficulty in decid issue by which 1 am. confr but, fortunately, from such ow dition of affairs we know ourselves to be entirely free and impressed by the fact that the honor. of the nomination came to me altogether unsought and as. the 'free, spon- taneous, unanimous expression' of the wish of my fellow Liberals, I am constrained to think it my duty to acquiesce in the judgment of the Convention and 'accept the nomination in the same spirit of cordiality as that in which 'it. was tendered me, and Fo8 ly you: may consider me a 4 Candidate for the mons at 'the nex however, it should } the date for the electid f the future, and, if for. any. reason whatsoever, it should be thou desirable to re consider the action of the Convention, a ready 'com- pliance with such expressed wish on the part of the executive. would be met with a ready com- pliance at my hands. I do not now propose to ex- press myself in a_ particular sense in relation to public. questions of the day, but shall gladly ayail my- self of all suitable opportunities for doing so later, when I shall hope to meet my 'fellow electors face to face for that very purpose. Meantime, I may, perhaps, be permitted to offer a word or two in reference to the conduct Jf the election. In entering the lists I do so, hoping for and expecting success at the polls, yet it be- hooves us to-be anxious to deserve success rather than to determine to win it at all hazard, Unfortun- ately for the fair name of the con- stituency, the conduct of elections has not always been of a character to command the unqualified .ap- proval of the trial judges in elec- tion court cases, and it may not be out of place to say that only such methods should be employed in the election as shall be calculated to challenge the approval of am exacting public conscience in such affairs. Permit me by way of emphasis in this connection to say that I desire an absolutely clean election and T shall not be in any sense of the term a consenting party to electioneering practices which will not bear the closest scrutiny in the broad light of day. In conclusion, I wish to empha- size my respects for ' Sir. Wilfrid Laurier, whose name I regard as ithe synonym . for all that is ;noblest in Canadian Citizenship: and in the Government of Can: da, .and to say, that while I am' in "general accord with his adminis 2 jtration, I yet reserve to: mys {chosen by the people to: be 'the representative, the right to. con- sider questions of public policy on their merits and to act in relation thereto in that spirit of independ- ence, which in my opinion, should 'always characterize the representa- = tive of a free people. i. Sk Together let. us Tabor to the best of our ability to. desefve success in the contest whenever it may come, and we shall cheerfully ;abide the verdict of the free. and independent electors : that verdict may chance to 'Should the final issue spell success I ¢hall endeavor to serve. the wl