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THE DAILY EXAMINER

OCTOBER 8, 1887.

Commercial Union.

Ir now turns out that the Toronto Mail is well paid for its advocacy of Commercial Union with the United States. According to the Toronto World, ‘‘ the price paid by the Wiman propaganda to the Mail for its dvocaey of their pernicious anti-Canadian The was arrived at at Detroit, Mr. C. |

W. Bunting’s name from the list of distin-

doctrine is $15,000 for a year's work. story is that the agreement secret conclave

in that famed

when the Mail religiously erased guished persons present at the commercial The

it 1s

union meeting in the City of Straits

goods to be delivered by the Mail,

stated. are twelve columns per week of

matter pertaining to commercial union.

But aside from all this there is a piece of evidence that bears strongly

uto’s chief American paper

wrainst Por

Ar the first blush $15,000 appears a very considerable of money \ simple cal- eulation. however, shows that fer this the Mail is to furnish an average of two columns per duy, or six hundred columns in the year That is $25 a column, or exactly 10 cents per line, the Mail's ordinary adver- tising rate. Wiman isa printer as well as Bunting, and they figured things down tu a business basis.” It would be interesting to know how many more of

the Grit j urnals are engaged in the same gug

Sui

upp irent ly

money-making business. a tiie AcTIne upon the report of the United

States Consul at Pictou, the American

issued an

Government afew weeks ago order prohibiting the importation into the

United States of Nova Scotia horses, cattle and hides. This prohibition,it is needless to

say, greatly inconvenienced those in the

cattle trade and they called for an investi- gation, insisting that the disease was purely local in its nature and not at all dangerous. This investigation has been held, the statements as to the almost harmless the disease have been borne out, representation of Consul- the prohibition has been

nature ol ind upon the General Phelan, removed.

The Teachers Provincial Associa-

tion.

THe second day's pr ceedings opened with a paper on ‘* Writing,” by Mr. A. D. McDonald, New Glasgow. The paper and the discussion to which it gave rise, evolved the following pomts: the primary importance of legibility, the value of rapidity, and the desirability of beauty,

a recommendation to one and that the

its linpurtance as seeking employment, educational authorities should place a premium on good writings in examinations | 43 an incentive to the better teaching of the subject. The uniform superiority of the pups of the Georgetown schovl, and t improvement of the pupil eachers the direction of Mr. Me- Leod, of Prince of Wales College, show what careful attention to the teaching of this subject can accomplish.

Then followed a thoughtful, well written and sugzestive paper on Educational Hy-

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giene, by Dr. Johnson. As this paper will shortly be published in full, we shall not | do it injustice by a necessarily imperfect summary. A hearty and unanimous vote of thanks was tendered the Doctor for the manner in which he entertained and in- structed the audience.

The discussion of this paper occupied the earlier part of the afternoon sessiun, after which Mr. Joseph Roach read a paper on Some Defects in Our School system.

He thought the work of the schools was not suffisiently practical, and that the sys- tem of inspection might be improved by modelling it on that of Oatariv. Finan- cially the outlook of the teacher was gl uwing tu the evident desire of the government to curtail their allowance and the dispusition of the rate-payer to follow | suit,and his only hopelay in ‘‘diverting the | economic tendencies of both into other channels.” Mr. Green’s paper compared the English schvol system with ourown. He endeavored to show that the former sup- plied the practical element, the absence

vomy,

of which, in the latter, Mr. Roach complained of. A deprecatory men- tion in this paper of the = study of Classics called forth & vigorous protest

from Prof. Auderson. He objected to the prevailing tendency of decrying everything in education whose value caunut be esti- mated in dollars and cents. Our system, in his opinion, is nearer the ideal than the English, in that it is democratic, while that of Eagiand tends to maintain class distinc-

tious

A few remarks from Mr. Montgomery, in which he shuwed the teaching of classics in the common schools involved no loss of | time, nor neglect of other subjects, as this | work was done by teachers after the regu- closed the discussion.

lar school hours,

were elected Teachers’ Con-

The following gentlemen honorary meinbers of the vention ia recognition of their kindly in- terest in the work of education :-—Dr. Mc- Leod, Dr. Johnson, Rev. W. R. Frame! and Messrs. L. H. Davies, T. Handrahan, | W. G. Strong, J. G. Underhay, W. E. Dawson, D. Laird and Henry Lawson. , The number is limited to teu, and the above | were the unanimous choice of the Conven- tion.

| Inthe evening was held, and

passed off very pleasantly. The Charlotte- | town teachers, with a few of their friends, were the promoters of this, and a large number of the teachers from the cvuntry remained to enjoy it. Before the Presi- | dent crlled the meeting to order there was | a good deal of the social spirit developed, | followed by a few impron.ptu choruses. A | programme was then announced, which in- |

a Social

cludel a French song, two Gailic songs, | several English so gs chiefly comic, humor- '

ous recitations, ond one reading. There was also a Violia solu, which soon evoked an exhibition iu dancing from two irrepressi- ble youths. Then came an abundant sup- ply of cakes and coffee, and after this had

been atteuded to with due respect the pro- | never

gramme was resumed and completed. ‘This was the first venture of the kiad, and was eminaily suco.s.ful.

A Ride Over the Prairie

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HOW THE COUNTRY APPEARS. The Whitewood Exhibition.

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A DECIDED SUCCESS.

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The following morning (Thursday, Sept. 29) our party drove over the prairie from Moosomin to Wapella. The distance was accounted eighteen miles; the day fine, | warm and breezy. It was, to me, a de lightful drive. Mr. Wild, Mr. Warburton and myself had the good fortune to get be- hind a pair of bronchos—horses bred from the native ponies on the prairies—and te have for a driver a man who had roved over most of the world, and could converse well. We were not the first to start; but we were the first to ‘‘ get there.” It didn’t take long te overtake the teams which left tirst; and after we had trotted along behind for a short time—frequently putting the brakes down to keep the ponies back, the driver said: ‘*Tut, this will never do,” drew off the trail, and easily took the lead.

We found the prairie to be the same in character as that over which we had trav- elled yesterday. Undulating, approximat- ing to hilly; dotted with bushes and scrub; the soi], on hill and dale alike, dark and greyish ; with a subsoil, which we saw at the cuttings made during the construction of the railway—of yellowish, gravelly clay; and, here and there, a few grey stoues on the surface.

We passed one of the *‘* crofters’ settle- ments.” These people came out from Scot- land in poverty three years ago. We could see their homesteads in the distance. | counted the stacks of grain around two ot them. Around one there was nine large stacks; and the other thirteen.

Arrived at Wapella, the first man we met was Mr. J. J. Arsenault, formerly of Tig- nish. Mr. Arsenault enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer of the pioneers of Wa- pella. After the railway station, he laid the tirst foundation and built the first house erected in the town. Till appointed Home- stead Inspector, he carried on business here; and is now, evidently, a leading and influential man among the settlers.

The settlers are, for the most part, Eng- lish. Many of them are English ladies and ventlemen, bearing the unmistakable marks of culture and retinement. I was told that several ladies at this place sing beautifully in French and Italian, as well as in Eng- lish; and that some of the gentlemen can read Greek and Latin, and chop logic. Side by side with these, I saw, for the first time, (looking after the cattl>, ete., on exhibition) the genuine English yokel, as we sometimes see him in pictures.

Many of the settlers knew nothing what- ever (practically) of farming when they came here; and expected to make their for- tunes in a few years by raising wheat. Some good stories are told at their expense. For instance, an agent for agricultural machines informed me that he sold one of them a plow. ‘Two shares were sent with the plow, the last tu be used after the first was worn out. A day or two after the sale, the Englishman came to his offive, (having driven fifteen miles to du so), complaining that he could not find on the plow a place for the second share, and wanting to know what he was ‘‘ going to do about it.”

Of course the expectations of these peo- ple have been disappointed, and some have become discouraged and failed. But many are succeeding in spite of their ignorance of the farm and farm implements. The land- lord of the inn at which we put up said that he had lived fifty years in the City of London, (G. B.,) and was well pleased that he had removed to Canada. His wife and daughters were also well pleased. They had a large farm and worked hard; but they liked the new country. Another gentleman (who, however, enjoyed the advantages of being the son of an English farmer) tuld me that after living here for two years, he had gone to England to see the old folk at home and had returned more than ever convinced that his move to Canada was a wise one.

The exhibition was the first ever held at Wapella. It was small, but it was good. Several pure g bred registered Durhams were shown. They were really splendid animals fat as need be, fat enough to be slaughtered at Easier. The owner assured me that they had not tasted grain feed of any kind, or eaten anything but the grasses which grow upon the prairie.

All the animals I have so far seen since I came to the Northwest are fat and in ex- cellent health and condition. The only exception (to prove the rule) wasan old white broncho horse, lame from a bullet in his hip. He had been used to carry des- patches during the war of the Riel Re- bellion, and had been run almost to death.

The vegetables exhibited would have been classed first-class, even in our own Province ; and Mr. Wild (who ought to bea good judge) declared that he never saw better wheat.

Whatever their faults, the settlers of the Northwest seem to have begun work on a

right principle. They breed from thorough-

bred stock ; they sow the very best seed that can be obtained.

One reason of the adoption of this wise course lies in the long distance they have to bring their breeding animals and their seeds, and in the fact that it costs them no more tor freight to bring in the best than it doves to bring in second or third class things. If situated as our farmers are, they might, perhaps, act foolishly, in this respect, as a majority of our farmers do.

After seeing the show, I looked in at the shop of an industrious blacksmith, whose anvil was kept ringing, while others enjoyed the holiday. He told me that he

came from Peterboro, (Ont.) and that he liked the Northwest well. I remarked that he seemed very healthy. ‘‘Yes,” he said, ‘* but I was never healthy till I came here.” 1 was troubled with sciatic rheumatism for many years before | moved to the Northwest, but I have been troubled with it or a day sick* since. I came here. If yon have anyone sick send himup.” I asked abvut the winter. “Ub,” he safd

“the winter is nothing. I have heard people about here say that they preferred it to summer. Ido myself.

This testimony was borne out by a farmer who, while complaining that he could not always be sure of obtaining large crops, and that the eost of placing his ‘pro- ducts on the markets was a serious draw- back, admitted that the winter was enjoy- able, and that no one grumbled about it who was not too lazy to work.

A Mr. McDonald, whom I met at Moosomin, told me thatshertly after he came to the Northwest he received a tely- gram informing him that a sickly boy of his was dying. He hurried home to Montreal to find the boy a little better but still very unwell. As soon as possible, he took his family, including the boy, to the Northwest, and had never since been obliged to employ a physician except on one oceasion when the same boy had fallen and broken his arm.

The visiting pressmen were honored at another public dinner; and late in the evening left by rail for Whitewood—sixteen miles further west.

THE SHOW AT WHITEWOOD,

The show at Whitewood (Friday, Sept. 30,) was, in variety and quality, the best we have seen in the Northwest. There were no absolutely pure bred cattle as_ at Wapella ; there was a large exhibit of first- class grades between Canadian cattle and pure bred Durhams. All were fat.

The size of the working oxen of the Northwest is remarkable. We saw measured to-day a pair of cattle weighing (the owner declared) 3,940 lbs. They are both about the same height, viz., five feet two inches ; they each girt, behind the forelegs, eight feet and half av inch. They are fat enough for beef, though they have worked con- tinually on the farm and been fed no grain

-notluing but prairie grass.

The roots were good. The largest white turnip mieasured three feet five inches in circumference, and weighed twenty-two pounds. Fifty-five Early Rose potatoes weighed a bushel —sixty pounds. A mon- ster sunflower measured forty three and a half inches—fourteen and a half inches across. There were onions (white and red) which would have been a credit to any exhibition.

Several collections of wild fruit preserves were shown, and two exhibits of home- made wild fruit wines. In the former there were preserves from eight different varieties of the wild fruits of the prairies, and in the latter there were very pleasant wines from the wild red cherry and from the berry of the ‘‘ saskatoon,” or wild pear of the prairie. A pot of maple syrup was an unexpected sight in this region. 1 am told that the maple grows aud flourishes not far from here.

On the whole, this exhibition was, all things considered, what is popularly known as “*a great success”; and if prohibition prohibited, would be entirely satisfactory. A crowd of men are at this moment, as I sit writing in my room at the hotel, drinking and fighting and roaring ia the barroom below and on the street outside. Yet no intoxicants are permitted (by law) in the Northwest Territories.

It is a hundred years since the American Constitution was signed, and the centennial has been kept at Philadelphia with a pomp which, if anything, threw the Queen's Jubilee into the shade. The proceedings were opened by the Bishop of New York, and closed by Cardinal Gibbons, both representatives of different phases of faith which a hundred years ago, in this same America, were persecuted and oppressed, and the ministers of which were prohibited by law from exercising their sacred functions.

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The Comte de Paris’ manifesto has fallen rather flat. The French Govern- ment, with a calmness as admirable as it was unexpected, have treated the whole affair with silent contempt. They are, it is true, being urged by the more violent part of the Republican press tov banish all the remaining members of dynastic families from French soil; but if they are wise they will let them alone. The Comte has scored a miss instead of a hit by throwing over the legitimatism which was the steady- ing principle of his claims, and adopt- ing the plebiscite which is the weapon of Bonapartism and Republicamism. He has, however, made it almost impussible for the moderate Government of M. Rouvier to continue in power, and has made his recall more than ever unlikely, except that it is always the improbsble which happens in Erance.

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A curious evidence uf the antiquity and permanence cf a Chinese fashion is the pre- sence ona newly discovered Hittite seal, found hear Tarsus, of figures with that quasi- Mongolian appendage, the pigtail, one of these being apparently an eagle-headed deity. The same appendage is to be seen on some of the monuments which the Brit- ish Musuem obtained from the reputed site of Carchemish; and the Khita warriors are depicted as similarly adorned on the Egyp- tian painting of Abu-Simbel. It appears that the pigtail was imposed on China by the Manchus, a mixed ‘Tarter and Mongol race,, who succeeded the native Ming “dy- nasty in 1618.

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The custom of compressing the feet of the Chinese women is also very old, and is regarded not as a consequence uf the infer- iority of the sex, but as a mark of gentility. Various accounts are given of the origin of this custom. One is that an emperor was jealous of his wife, and in order to keep her from gadding abroad, put her feet in iron stocks. Another is, that a certain em- press, Tan-Ke, (8. C. 1100), was born with club feet, and that she caused the emperor to issue an edict, adupting her foot as the model of beauty, aud requiring the com-

ressing of female infants’ feet so as tu con- orm to the imperial standard; while a third account is that the emperor Le-Yuh (A. D. 961), was amusing himself one day in his palace, when the thought occurred to him that he might improve the appearance of the feet of a favorite wife. He caused her

feet to be so bent as te raise the instep into ‘an arch, to resemble the new moon.

The figure was much admired by courtiers, who

‘soon began to introduce it into their fam-

ilies. The operation of bandagin, and com- | | essing the feet is very painful; mortifica- tion has been known to result from it. Cus-, tom, however, imposes it as a mecessary attraction. It is said that if the young girls in Chisfe buve barge feet they: canrot only

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good marriages. Probably this latter reason may account in some measure for the con- tinuance of the custom. * | see that a controversy is going on in some American newspapers as to what are “the Six Follies of Science.” I had not supposed there was aay doubt as to what was generally unders ood by ‘his expres- sion. I belive they are the Quadrature of the Circle, the Multiplication of the Cube, Perpetual Motion, the Philosopher's Stone, Mayic, Judicial Astrology. It has long since been demonstrated that perpetual motion is impossible, in the sense in which it is genera‘ly understood; but the quadra- ture of the circle is still a favorite game with some; but even if it can be resolved it would be practically useless, since we have arrived by approximation to such a point of accuracy that in a large circle, such as the orbit which the earth describes round the sun, the geometrician will not mistake by the thickness of a hair. a One has often heard of the Vicar of Bray, who, living a Roman Catholic in Henry the Eighth’s reign, changed his reli- gion under Edward the Sixth, again under Mary, arid yet again under Elizabeth, and who, when reproached for being a turnevat, replied, ‘Not so, for if I changed iy reli- gion I am sure I kept true to my principle, which is, to live and die Vicar of Bray.” This vivacious and reverend hero has given birth to a proverb—‘*The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still.” But how has it happened that this vicar should be 30 notorious, and one in much higher rank, acting the same part, should have escaped notice? Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of Llandaff, from an idie Abbott under Henry VIII. was made a busy Bishop ; Protestant under Edward, he returned to his old master under Mary ; and at last touk the oath of

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EXWIBLTTON WEHREK

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LONDON HOUSE,

Our Exhibition of Fall and Winter Goods

this year is large and attractive.

HARRIS & STEWART

CEO, DAVIES & CoO.

Ch'town, Oct, 3, 1887.—wky

LARGEST EXHIBITION

THE

supremacy under Elizabeth, and finished as a parliamentarian, A pun spread the) odium of his name; for they said that he always loved the Kitchen better than the Church !

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To the question, ‘‘ What is Lloyds ?” the answer must be, ‘*The great marine in- | aurer of the world.” And yet itis not a; jointsteck company, nota “limited asso-! ciation,” nor are its members bound toge- ther by any mutual interests. It is a per- | fectly anomalots institution, and yet the greatest of the kind the world ever saw. Che rooms of Lloyds are the rendezvous of the most eminent merchants, ship owners, | underwriters, insurance brokers, and | bankers. ‘The Merchants’ Room is super- | intended by a ship-master, who speaks a} dozen languages or more, and welcomes’ business men from every nation. The Captains’ Rvom is a cotlee room, where | ship owners and sea captains meet together, transact business and discuss news. [But it! is the Subseribérs’ Room that makes Lloyds | the attraction it is. The 2,100 under- writers and subscribers who pay their an- nual four guineas here and their twenty-five | pounds initiation fee, represent nearly the | whule commercial wealth of England. | Lloyds itself dves not insure ; it is only the | members of Lloyds. You wish to insure! £10,000 on a venture to the Bermudas. Your broker goes to Lloyds and proposes, | naming ship and cargo. An underwriter | turns to the register, ascertains how the | vessel is rated, speaks to twoor three | others, and then says to the broker: ‘‘Yes, | we will do it at one-eighth of one.” ‘* Who signs ?”’ asks t e broker. ** Magnay, Rich- ardson, Coleman, Thompson and myself.” ‘**That will do,” replies the broker, who, while tne clerk makes out the policy, pro-| poses again and again for other ventures. ** Is this considered perfectly safe ?’ does. the reader ask. Periectly. The broker | knows his men. Besides, to fail to meet a loss forfeits for ever all right to do business at Lloyds. There isno other marine ia] surance regarded as safe.

Death of an Esteemed Lady. |

The messenger of death has again en- tered our midst and beckoned one of our esteemed Christian ladies, Mrs. Dr. J. B. McDonald, to her reward in_ heaven. | Abvut six weeks ago Mrs. McDonald was | taken suddenly and dangerously ill with a’ stroke of apoplexy, and for time it seemed that she could not recover, but after a few hours she rallied and continued to improve until last Thursday, when a recurrence of | the attack touk place, and she rapidly grew worse until Friday morning, when death relieved her of ali suffering Mrs. Mc- Donald’s maiden name was Mary Adelaide Mosher, the daughter of a wealthy ship- owner of Nova Scotia, and was born at Windsor, that province, October 18th, 1838, which would .make her forty-nine years of age the coming October. She was united in marriage to Dr. J. B. McDonald, June Lith, 1862, and since that time four children kave been born to them, Mrs. C. F. Merry, Mrs. H. F. Becket, Welton and Kugene. In July, 1882, on account of Mrs. McDonald’s health, they left their former home, Simcoe, Ontario, and came to Dickinson. Upon leaving the latter place the Baptist church, of which Dr. McDonald was pastor, passed resolu- tions commending Mrs. McDonald to the citizens of her new home as an estimable, Christian lady, noted for her kindly dispo- sition and earnest work in the Christian field, . In Dickinson she had many friends, and the sympathy of the cummunity is ex- tended to the bereaved family. The friends of the deceased are requested to meet at the residence at 10.30 o’clu k, Sunday morning. ‘The funeral services will take place at the Baptist church at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Vandalsam.— Dickinson Press.

We regret to hear of the death of the wife of Dr. John B. McDonald above men- tioned. Dr. McDonald is a native of Bel- fast. Owing to the failure of Mrs. McDonald’s health, he meved out west. In his new home he was very successful.

GLEN STEWART

MARKET GARDcK

- James Burke, Proprietor.

G OOD CELERY, 25 cents per dozen, delivered at customers doors in Charottetown. If pecked or put ints ceilar, 10 sents per dozen extra will be charged. All other vegetables at market prices. Adress all orders to Southport P. Office, P. E, Island, -

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Cannot be defeated in turuing out the nobbiest fitting Suits, Ov-reoat«, Reefers, Ulsters, &e., and at prices away down below competitors. Remember th’s is not a mere blow, but stern facts that cannot be got over by our competitors. Try us and you will be convinced,

Our Fall Stock is now complete. By erlling and examining it you w'll see, that we keep as fine a range of yoods as any house in the trade.

We also keep a good and select stock of GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, which will be sold at prices that fur cheapness cannot be beaten.

VisiTOaS TO THE EXHIBITION,

And all who are in nee’ of Suits, Overcoats, Reefers, Ulsters, &c., you will Save Money by leaving your order *t our Establisliment. Work done when promised. ' a@ ‘Ve are n-w prepared to make dpyin the Latest Style, Ladies’ Newmarkets, Rag-

lans, Dolmons, Wraps, Sacks, Tailor-made Suits, Riding Habits and all Tailor made gar ments worn by the Gentle Sex.

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