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Harness Oil, , Ame {unease and Ham Ointment. go to S. P. SA UNDERS Opened in Miss L. McAuiier’s Millineyy. , Hair-Dressing Parlor 143R; 4 THING OF TEAUTY‘: BIG 4 H. BEAN The Big4 .8 Best! It pays! ULt beacgcalogue of StUi e Caswell '1 be Harnessm ake Ont. E; As a legislatcr and administrator, é- his record was one of no little activ- ‘ity. In 1885 he introduced a bill in the Ontario Legislature providLng for the consolidation of the Public Schools Act, tho Separate Schools Act. and the act respecting Me- 'ut chanics’ Institutes. In 1887 he intro- pg: duced a bill muthorizing the federa- be,tion of the University of Toronto, 11-? and the affiliation of the denomina- gmitionaLcolleges Witt that institution. ist He was also responsible for placi g Lat upon thestatute book an act respect- do, ing truancy and compulsory attend- >m§ ance at schoo}. 3‘” l REPUTATION AS WRITER. ar, _ .01‘ He also enjoyed a renutation as a ' ction with Mr. WW1. iM tion and filled the position of inspec- tor. From 1876 to 1880 he was a. member of the central committee of examiners. He steadily contended for the uniformity of text books and favored the limiting of normal schools to professional work. A Lib- eral in politics, he was elected in that interest to the House of Commons for West Middlesex at the general elec- tion in 1872, and continued the re- presentative of that riding at Ottawa up to November, 1883, when be en- tered the administration of Sir Oliver Mowat in Ontari~ as Minister of Edu- cation. This office be retained under the late Hon. A. S. Hardy. and was talso a member for West Middlesex in )he Legislature. "He devoted some ycbfs to journalistic work, being at out: time editor of The Strathroy Age, an d a another time part proprietor of The 11. on Expositor. He was also the conductor of The Ontario Teach- er. a publication which proved of great service to educationists in all parts of the province. ST RONG 'IEMPERANCE W'ORKER. . '-v ----v Sir George Ross was the son of the late James Ross, who, with, his wife, Ellen McKinnon, both natives of Ross-shire, Scotland, came to Canada in 1832. Sir George was born near Nairn, County Middlesex, Ont., in 1841, and received his early educa- tion in the public schools. After re- ceiving a first-class county board cer- tificate empowering him to teach, he took a course at the Normal School, Toronto, and left it with a, first-class provincial certificate. At a later per- iod he matriculated in law at Albert University, graduated LL.B., 1883, and was called to the Bar in 1887. SCHOOL INSPECTOR. Sir George William Ross was in‘ his busy lifetime leader of the Senate for years, a member of Parliament in the early days of Canadian Confedera- tion. Minister of Education of On- tario, Premier of Ontario, a charter member and fellow of the Royal So- ciety of Canada, and first president of the Authors Society. In 1871 he was appointed inspector of public schools for the County of Lambton and acted subsequently in a similar capacity for the Towns of Petrolea and Strathroy. When the es- tablishment of additional normal schools was agitated in Ontario he took a leading part in the creation of the county model school system. After their organization he prepared Y the death of Sir George W. Ross Canada loses one. of her most brilliant and many- sided statesman, an author, a finished orator, and an educationist of wide note. His ver- satility and skill in everything he essayed was long a subject for ad« miration and emulation in political ranks, and his passing takes from the life of the country one of the ablest Scotsmen in a people whose north Britons have been one of her chief glories. - -~ 1â€".L1_ For many years he was prominent- 13: identified with the temperance cause. He was electei most worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance of North America in 1879; founded the Temperance Colonization Com- pany in 1882; attended the British and Colonial Temperance Congress, held in Londonin 1886; was elected president of the Temperance Gen- eral Life Assurance Co., 1885, and was elected a vice-president of the Ontario Prohibition Alliance in 1896. syllabus of léctures for their direc- SIR GEORGE W. ROSS. Works.” published by the D. Apple- ton Co., New York; “A Re; art or the Schools of England and Germany”- and “Patriotic Recitations for the Use of Schools and Colleges.” In 3893 he was appointed chairman of the committee having for its object the preparation of a history of Can- ada for the use of the schools of this country, and, in 1897, servedas a vice-president of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of. Science. He was also president for some years of the Dominion Educational Asso- ciation. HONORED BY UNIVERSITIES. For his services in behalf of educa- tion, he received the honorary degree of LL..D from St. Andrew’s Univer- sity, Scotland, in 1888. The same honor was conferred upon him by Victoria University, Toronto, in 1892, and by the University of Toronto in 1894. In 1896 he was elected a fel- low of the Royal Society of Canada, and in the same acar was appointed one of the commissioners for the re- vision of the Ontario Statutes. . He was a member of the council of the Tortnto Astronomical and Physical Society, and was likewise interested in the Dominion Sanitarium Associa- tion, of which he was one of the founders. In 1886 he served .s a commissioner to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, :held in London. Sir George Ross was a member of the Government of Si" Oliver Mowat as Minister of Education from 1883 to 1896, and also served his province in the same capacity in the Hardy administration from July 25, 1896, to Oct. 18, 1899. On the resignation of Mr. Hardy, Sir George Ross took up the reigns of Government on Oct. 21, 1899, and continued a". Premier with a working majority unti the dissolu- tion of the House on April 19, 1902. On going to the country on May 29, 190-2, Sir Ge rc'e was sustained by a small majority. On June 26, 1903, the Government, on a motion censur- ing R. R. Gamey, M.P.P., was sus- tained by a majOrity of 4. When the House dissolved on Dec. 13. 1904, the standing 'of the parties was as fol- lows: Liberals 45, Conservatives 45, vacant 7. The result of the general election on Jan. 25, 1905. was as fol- lows: Conservatives 69, Liberals 29. OPPOSITION LEA D ER Sir George was for nearly two years as leader of his party in the Opposition benches. He was made a Senator of Canada on Jan. 15, 1907, but throughout most of his term as Senator he took a passive interest in state affairs. Later he was elected leader of the Senate. As a public speaker Sir Gemge Ross took high rank. Among the best known of his lectures were the following: “Literary Factory in Our Canadian Life.” “Formative Forces of Canadian Hi:tory,” “Our National Outfit,” “Citizenship and Higher Cul- ture” and “Preferential '-rade.” He was a Presbyterian in religion and held the q{lice of elder in Si. Andrew’s Church, Toronto. In 1896 he was elected a delegate from the general assembly of Canada to the Pan-Presbyterian Conference, held that year in Glasgow. In the Dominion election campaign of 1911 Sir George Ross was one of the prominent Lib: :ls who opposed the entering into a reciprocity pact with the Unite" States of America. Sir George delivered an address be- fore the Toronto Board of Trade and wrote two letters to The Toronto Globe dealing with Canadian com- mercial systems. He then advanced strong grounds against the comple- tion of reciprocity negotiations and in favor of closer Imperial and re- ciprocal trade relations. The address was printed and circulated through- out Canada by the Canadian Manu- facturers’ Association as a document against reciprocity. and it was quoted by many Conservative speakers in the debate on reciprocity in the House of Commons. He said ‘hat the British preference and reciprocity were mu- tually hostile. So much 'use was made of these arguments in the Commons that it was asserted by some of the Liberals who supported the then Government, that Sir George Ross could not see beyond the bounds of Ontario. Some curiosity was felt as to the course Sir George would take after Sir .Wilfrid Laurier brought down the reciprocity meas- ure. Sir George did not have to de- clare himself in the Senate, for the bill never reached that chamber, and he took no part in the discussion of the subject on the hustings. LEADER OF THE SENATE. on Nov. 26, 1912, in the Dominion Senate, Sir George Ross, as the new- ly-appointed leader, delivered his first address, dealing in it with the question of Canadian support to Great Britain in the naval crisis. Sir George, on a motion in reply to the address from the throne, spoke for. a Canadian navy, created by Canadians and manned by Canadians. Sir George Ross was knighted in 1907. Temperance people will re- member him as the first recognized leader of the temperance party in Parliament. Ieader of the temperance pa1'ty in “How can you expect'me to put Parliament. , - money into this business? I don’t In June, 1913,11is “Reminiscences know anything about it ” of the Political History of the Dom- ! -.“Well that was one of the reasons “ion” was published. In these pages _ why I expected you to put money inâ€" "ma .M'msn" a nlnna to it-" THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. A)? D SENATOR. Edward Blake, Sir Alexander Mac- kenzie. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Richard Cartwright are among the many prominent politicians who come un- der review. Sir George was thrice marriedâ€" flrst to Christina, daughter of Dun- can Campbell, who died in 1872; secondly in 1875 to Catharine, daugh- ter of William Boston, and thirdly in 1907 to Mildred, daughter of John Peel, London, Ont., and sister of the late Paul Peel, painter. Sir George leaves a widow, two sons and six daughters. Duncan 0. Ross, mem- ber of Parliament for West Middle- sex, is a son. LADY ROSS AN ARTIST. Lady Ross, who was a daughter of John R. Peel, of London, Ont., and a sister of Paul Peel, the .great Cana- dian sculptor, is one of the most ami- able and bert-liked of the ladies of. the sessional set. She is an artist of note, but since her marriage in 1901, she has abandoned the easel and giv- en her wholc attention to the care of her husband. As Minister, Sir George will long be remembered by many for the “Ross Bible,” which was a compila- tion from Scriptures intended for general use in Public and High schools. But there were few new things in education which Mr. Ross did not exploit. He was a tireless experimenter with a great and a growing pride in the “school sys- tem” of Ontaric. There were educa- tors who maligned him for his ex- periments; and many who bless '. him for his progressiveness. He was never asleep. A tireless student of history and of constitutions, hi made a name for himself as an- oratorical teacher. His public speaking was of the -very first rank. No man in Can- ada and few men anywhere cOuld so deeply interest a crowd in an abstruse subject by the power of ideas wedded to oratory. He was famous at home and abroad; in the United States and in England. As a compiler of useâ€" ful information he had few equaL; in this respect being a real contribu- tor to‘historical knowledge; as much at home before a convention of ed21- cator‘ as on the stump before the electors; and dearly loving a fight. A27 INDEPENDENT THINKER. Although a life-long Liberal, Sir George Ross has always been a man of independent thought, as is evi- denced by the fact that in the (.10 days when his party was wedded, first, to free trade. then to commere cial union, and Tater, to unrestricted reciprocity, he remained a firm aid outspoken supporter of protection for Canadian industries. We have it on no less an authority than Colonel George T. Denison, that at a critical time, when many of the leaders of his party were casting their eyes in the direction of Washington, t' men, principally Conserva .ves, who set themselves resolutely to stem the tide and turn it in the direction of active Imperialism, found an active supporter in the Hon. George W. Ross. Since being appointed to the Senate, Sir George has insisted on pursuing an independent course, vot- ing against the Government majority upon several occasions. The Hotel’s Curse. A curious story is being told of a big London hotel which is now beat- ing records for prosperity. When it was building all manner of mis- chances piled up the bill of costs, and things continued to go wrong. One of the directors, with some be- lief in the occult, inquired into the history of the land on which the building stood, and found that it had once belonged to a monastic com- munity whose abbot, on berg expell- ed, had solemnly cursed the ground and declared that no enterprise con- nected with it should prosper. Ascertaining that a monastery of the same order existe< in Devonshire, the director went thither and pre- vailed on the abbot to go through the form of removing the curse. His fellow-dimctors laughed when he told them the story, but the hotel has prospered ever since. The latest craze amongst women is tc have their pet animals tattooed on their arms, ankles, shoulders or chests. Mr. South, a t' ‘tooist, told an interviewer the other day how he first makes a drawing of the little favor- ite, which he then transfers to the body of the owner, and afterwards tattoos, with the aid of eectricity, i to the skin. b “There is quite a craze for women to have their p-ts tattooed on their arm,” he said. “I have ione th’s in the case of horses, dogs, cats, birds, and even wild animals, such as lions and tigers. I'recently tattooed on a woman’s shoulder a phot graph of her little pet- rabbit. It is no 11n- common idea to have a "ucky’ pig tattooed on the arm. Both men and women come to . e to have lucky pigs designed for them.” A Monosyllabic Sermon. .Rev. Dr. A. Smytho Palmer preached a sermon at Holy Trinity Church, Wanstead, England, in words of one syllable. The text was “The Word was made Flesh,” and the preacher used nearly 800 mono- syllabic words. 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