THE DAILY EXAMINER.

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Education and Agriculture.

No unprejudiced reader, disposed to be fair towards Tae Examiner, could possibly take any such meaning from the Examr- NER’s article on Education and Agriculture as that which the Patriot has taken, THE Examiner did not—as every man who reads it knows—depreciate the value of the

higher education. On the contrary THE EXAMINER declared that it was a great thing to be a classical scholar, a thing

worth working for and worth paying for. Nor did Tue Examiner contend that the higher education is, initself, no good to the farmer. Nor did Tue EXAMINER say, as the Patriot charges, that the learned pro- fessicns are one whit more honorable than that of the farmer. It is against ‘the false and foolish notion that doctors and lawyers etc. are more honorable men than _ intelli- gent educated farmers that THe EXAMINER protests. It isagainst the wrong tendency of farmer's sons and daughters to leave the farm and enter the professions, and live in towns, fondly imagining that they thereby improve their THE is

raise themselves and condition, that we propose to throw EXAMINER’s influence. This tendency detrimental to the interests of this agricul- tural Province. It should not, therefore, as we contend, be aided and encouraged by The teaching

classics in the

the Provincial Government.

of mathematics and the public schools at the Government expense, the benefit

of it, has encouraged and now encourages,

without cost to those who get

and will—if persisted in—continue to en- courage this wrong tendency. Because this is so, and because this Province is not tinancially to afford free education in the higher branches, we pro- pose that the Government shall be recoup- ed for their education by those who obtain the great advap‘ages which it affords. On the other hand the Patriot says, in effect, that the education of our youth to leave the farm is no loss to the Province, and that the Gov- ernment should encourage the tendency of young men and wofnen te enter the pro-

strong enough

outlay on account of higher

fessions’ and resort to the towns by con- tinuing to afford the higher education at the public expense without cost to the in-

dividual. We think that it will be ad- mitted that the duty of the State, in

respect to education, consists in the provi- of schools’—schools to which the childrev of the people in com-

mon may go and be taught branches of ed-

sion * common

ucation which are of common advantage to all. But the mathematics and the classics are not of common advantage; for the simple reason that only a few young per- sons, & very sma)] percentage of the youth of the Province can, by any possibility, spare time to study them. The Patriot makes a great flourish about the large num- ber in attendance at Prince of Wales Col- lege and Normal School. But large as the in attendance at the public schools, who must,

number is it forms not a tithe of those necessarily, leave schovol before they can even enter upon the higher study of Latin, Greek and Mathematics. branches

Therefore, these belong to the common school course, an] it is not the duty of the Government vide instruction in them.

do not properly

to pro- Moreover, it has been sufficiently proved that scholars in these higher branches are such only because they desire to fit themselves to become doctors and lawyers and professors, etc. Why should the State help to make profes- sional men any more than tu make carpen- ters and shoemakers and blacksmiths! Let the Patriot anawer.

We freely admit that the State may afford aid to persons who are being educated for particular callings, if those callings are such as tend to strengthen, enrich and build up the country. For farming is the mainstay, the great and last resource, of Prince Edward Island; and, therefore, the Government of Prince Edward Island may, properly, afford to young farmers instruction in the principles of agriculture. Bur the Govern- ment is not, surely, ‘justitied, when its finances are low, in continuing to afford instruction to persons who are preparing themselves to leave their farms and to enter professions by which the Province is not improved nor enriched,—nine-tenths of them leaving the Province to live in foreign lands.

The Patriot's hasty conclusion that Tue EXAMINER’s remarks indicate that negotia- tions between the Provincial and Dominion Governments have broken down is, of course, erroneous. We need hardly add that the Ratriot would show greater con- fidence in the soundness and reasonable- ness of the position it has taken coneerning education by confining its efforts to the question at issue.

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—A Boston despatch states that Mr. James Jeffrey Roche will, undoubtedly, be selected as editor of the Pilot, as successor to the late John Boyle O'Reilly. Mr.

he is now one of the editors of the paper, and he and Mr. O’Reilly were the staunchest of friends and co-workers. We congratulate Mr. Roche on the high posi- tion he has attained to in journalism. Archbishop Williams will, it is purchase Mr, O’Reilly’s interest in the Pilot, thus giving him absolute control.

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To British Columbia.

NOTES BY THE WAY.

Sin, —In my last I believe 1 dropped off at Chicago. From there to St. Paul’s and Minneapolis, we pass through a good farm- ing country, much the same in soil and general appearance as that through Michi- gan, already described in my last, except that the soil is of a darker appearance and no stone to beseen. The farming is also somewhat changed, there being less oats

and more wheat cultivated, and much larger quantities of corn, There are large

quantities of flax grown in this section. I noticed many large pieces containing from five to ten acres of flax This section of the State is also a great fruit growing country,

nearly every farmstead having an exten- sive orchard, cousisting of from one to five acres, The hirvest along this portion of the road is finished, except the corn, which

will take some weeks to be ready. From Minneapolis until nearing the line dividing Minnesota from Dakota, the farm- ing and appearance of the country 18 much the same as the last just described. Here we emerge from the wooded and rolling uneaven farming lands of Minnesota into the broad level prairie lands. Throughout the two hundred miles over which we pass- it has the

ed of Northern Dakot:

best farming lands | have yet seen, vast and apparently illimit- able,—plains covered with a ‘hick and

heavy coating of grass, when unbroken by cultivation, no trees or bushes t be seen | except near the bank of some smail ereems |

or pond, The soil isof a dark or even | black color and resembles very much in| color and consistency the mud taken by}

our farmers from the alder swamps. There | are no fences to be seen, no divisions of lands noticeable, except the endings and beginnings of expanses of wheat, oats or grass and the several tracks in all directions called roads. I have been on the sharp! look-out for a fence for over a hundred and fifty miles, and have not seen one chain. The roads are not made or rounded up as ours are, but simply a well beaten track, cultivated right up to the wheel tracks on each side, also right up to the railway track, The dwelling houses are small and very much scattered. There are no barns and but very small cattle sheds. The wheat is a heavy growth and well filled. Your cor- respondent took advantage of a stop of the train in front of a piece of wheat to step down and pick a handful of heads from a stook by the road. They were of an excel- lent quality in growth, plump, hard and well-filled ears. The oats looked short, but well-filled. The grass is the natural prairie grass. There appears to be no attempt to cultivate hay—every farmer being satisfied with going out on the prairie and cutting, gathering and stacking the quantity he may want for his stock through winter. The wheat and oats are nearly all cut and in stook, but little gathered. There are towns and villages at from eight to ten miles all along the route of railway and no regular streets, no enclosures around any of the

The Manitoba Schools. ARCHBISHOP TACHE WRITES A LETTER ON THE RECENT LEGISLATION.

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A pastoral letter from Archbishop ache regarding the recent school legislation was read in all the Catholic churches on Sunday last. His Grace says it my be a surprise to some that the church hasso long kept silent on this matter since the new law has now been in force nearly four months His object was to permit Catholics to ex- press their own opinions, and this they have done most completely through their representatives in the legislature, their petitions to the Governor General, their public meetings and resolutions adopted at the national conference, held in June at

St. Boniface.

ing at length the system now in He denies that the church. has ever been averse to the enlightenment of its adher- ents, but has been a friend of education. The mandament closes with a feeling re- ference to the great loss sustained by the church on the death jnst week of Cardinal Newman. +-++-Orp-—- — -—-—-——- Remarking upon the fact that the re- tail grocers of Halifax have organized them- selves into an association the main object of which seems to be the obtaining and record- ing ot information in regard to the standing of customers, which information is to be at the disposal of members of the association. The St. John Gazette says: ‘it will now be in order for the customers to form an association for the purpose of collecting in- formation as to the honesty and standing of the grocers with special reference to the published official reports on adulteration. Possibly the end will be the establishment of a big co-operative store in Halifax for the sale of groceries.”

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—Carrying out his paternal idea of gov-

‘ernment, Emperor William has ordered

that the weak and ailing children of all gov- ernment employes shall have a holiday at the seashore at the government expense. A far better way would be to cut down some of the German government’s enormous mil- itary expenses and pay the civil service employes enough to enable them to send their children to the seashore themselves. —The Esquimaux are disappearing from Greenland, the genuine pure blood, tallow- candle-eating Esquimax Is it because the aboriginal blood has been so _ diluted by marriage and mixture with Scandinay- ians—mostly Danes and Norwegians—that the Mongolian type threatens to be lost. Ethnologists say the stronger race is over- shadowing the weaker and wiping it out.

UNDERWRITERS’ SALE.

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houses, nor any trees to adorn the place. The churches and schvol-houses are all in these towns or villages.

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Police Court. ~ | In the casefof H.[T. LePage, charged with cruelty to animals, His Honor this morning gave written judgment as follows :

I dismiss this summons, if I may say so— | reluctantly. There isa doubt on my mind} whether the severe beating the horse got was | not justified under the circumstances. | A stubborn horse who, after kindly treat- ment, refuses to move and lays down three times successively, may require the whip fair- ly well laid on to conquer and cure him. No witness except the detendant and his servants saw the whipping administered. The evi- dence before me,on the part of the prosecu- tion is solely that of humane citizens who, seeing the horse with one of his sides covered with “welts from what appeared | to them a severe whipping, naturally supposed | cruelty and ill-treatment,—the work, as one of them said, of a knave or a fool. On the part of the defence, there is evidence outside the defendant and his servant that the horse isa stubborn animal, with a thin skin, showing whip marks readily, and the defendant and | his man servant swear that the whip was used | on the horse only when absolutely necessary, | and with no excessive violence, but coolly and

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deliberately and as humanely as possible. | cannot say, it may be so. But the appearance the horse presented, after his punishment, to thi eyes of some of the most independent and in- telligent of our citizens who were examined by the Prosecutor as witnesses, might justly make them feel that the heavy hand of the | law should be iaid onthe man who scourged his horse{ so. I, however, must be careful not to criminally fine a man whose defence, uncontra- dicted, shows at least a want of criminal in-

tention, and,’ indeed, it might fairly be contended, a justifiable act. I can only say had I the slightest evidence

showing me punishment excessive, my leci- sion would have been very different and not in apparent opposition to the humane disposi- tion of so many witnesses,

Three Scott Act offenders were fined $50 each, and one case was dismissed. One drunk was fined $2 or 8 days. be e+ fii

Rese and Charles.

THE TWO COGHLANS IN P. E. I.—CHARLES TO STAR WITH LANGTRY. A special despatch$from{Souris (Aug. 18) to the Empire, reports :

**Rose Coghlan, the famous actress, and her brother Charles, are summering here. Rose is looking splendid, sunburned, ruddy and healthy, spending her days in the open air, on the water and along the country roads. She is an expert sailor, and one can see at a glance where she derived her conception of Our Joan and how she was enabled to fill the part with such wonderful naturalness. Our Joans are thick along the coastofthe Island. Rose tells me that Charles has nearly completed a new comedy for her, which she will put on next seasep. Both expect it to make a hit.

*“‘By the way, Charles Coghlan goes to Eng- land thisseason. Cable messages have been

assing and repassing between London and

ouris for the past two weeks, and to-day Charles cabled his acceptance of a contract to star with Lily Langtry this season. They a at the Princess Theatre, London, on

ovember 1, when brother] Charles plays An- thony to the Lily’s Cleopatra.

**Both of the Coghlans are very popular with the country and fisher folk hereabout. They are exceedingly liberal, and take a great interest in the lives and doings of the simple people in this remote section of the

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undersigned will sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, at Gaspe, on FRIDAY. the 29th day of

‘August, 1890 :—

About 1,760 boxes Cheese, 900 pieces 3 inch Pine Deals, 2,000 pieces 14 inch Pine Plank,” 200 pieces 1 inch Pine Boards,

landed at Gaspe-by schooners, ex wrecked S. S. ‘* Idaho.”

For further information apply to Messrs. David Torrance & Co., Montreal, or to the undersigned at Gaspe.

H. SCOTT LOUNDES,

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The archbishop then goes | on to recite the disabilities imposed upon | Catholics by the recent legislation, — “WOOL SHAWLS. ores. |

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Fire Insurance Company.

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a on Dwellings, Furniture, Stocks, etc., at very low rates. Citizens can get insurance at

premiums to foreign corporations. The under- signed has been appointed Secretary, and can be seen at his residence, Lower Great George Street. i. BALDERSTON. aug22—3m 2aw

For St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Newfoundland, will be due at Charlottetown on MONDAY MORNING, the 25th inst., and will carry Cattle and Sheep on deck,

For Freight or Passage apply to

PEAKE BROS, & CO., Agents,

P. E. ISLAND RAILWAY. Excursion to Georgetown. A SPECIAL PASSENGER TRAIN will leave Charlottetown for Georgetown at

8 a. m (standard time) on SATURDAY, 23rd inst.; returning, will leave Georgetown at 3.15 (standard time) same evening. Should the weather prove unfavorable, the Excursion

will be held on MONDAY, 25th. Fare for the round trip, 50 cents.

J. UNSWORTH, Superintendent,

Railway Office, Ch’town, Aug. 18, 1890.

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FINEST GOODS can be obtained at prices that cannot be touched, even at

50 per cent. reduction. Let other people BARK—we want the largest BITE of the trade, and we are getting it, too.

PRICES TELL EVERY TIME!

WE HAVE COME TO STAY! Don’t worry over us leaving before our cus- tomers are all supplied with everything they want in the BOOK, STATIONERY and FANCY GOODS line.

In about a month we will move further up town, into a New Store we are having handsomely fitted up for uss LOUK OUT THEN, and now, two, (for we are receiving every day new goods), for the grandest show of goods ever exhibited in any city in the Maritime Provinces.

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Come around and prepare to be surprised how such beautiful and useful articles can be supplied for the money we sell them for.

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OLD, Silver and Filled Watches and Chains, Rings, Brooches, Earrings. Some of above just bought at a price that cannot be duplicated, and will be sold at Bargains.

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