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VOL. 30.--NO. 159
Calendar for January, 1893.
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Charlottetown Board of Trade, ANNUAL MEETING.
‘| this Corporation will be he'd atthe Guar- dian Offices. Cameron Block, this city on the evening of WE!N)NESDAY, the lith of January, jastant, at 8 o'clock.
All accounts against the Corporation must be hanced in at once
b. P. FLETCHER,
U a ——DEALER IN—-
PIANOS, ORGANS, —AND THE—
“New Williams” Sowing Michiaa.
Fe nice stock always on hand to select
Office (ior the p esent) at the Store of John MecLiod & Cu law& wy—nov2
ROBERT BALLOGA & CO.
TEA MERCHANTS, Mincing Lane, London.
WIE Cen ral Qvarter'y end Annual Meeting of
B. D. HIGGS, Secretary.
REPRESENTED IN CANADA BY
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S. R. FOSTER & SON, Manufacturers of Wire Nails, STEEL AND IRON CUT NAILS,
And Spikes, Tacks, Brad«, Shoe Nalls, Wungarian Nails, &c,
novi—lyr
Disappoints !
fo the Blectors of Charlottetown and Common.
AVING nominated fr the vacant Commis sionership at the election to be beld on Wetoecaday, the tith of January, I reepectfully solicit your votes and interest on that day. The time being too short to make a personal canvass of the city, please accept this notice in lieu of a persenal visit. As the Water vorks are now a paving institution, it is time that some free
ydrsnts for tne use of the people were put up, and if possible to lower the water rates to co..- sumers. This end seversi other reforms would, if elected by you, receive the supportef your
obedient i en J. H, GATES, jan6—pat guar tl elec
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WING TO PRICES being much lower ubio.d this year than formerly, we aer ) able this season to off-r our customers GROCERIES of nearly all kinds much cheaper than ever before.
Our stock of RAISINS is «xceptionally fine this year, as we have bought nothing but the very best quality.
B-low is a partial list of some of the goods which we are now cffering VERY LOW FOR CASH: —
10 cents will buy 1 tb. Pure Mixed Candy, 1) ee
~5 o oe 3 Ib. a “ 7 Ib. good Cooking Raisins, a « 7 ib ©“ clean Currants, 1 Dollar “ 21 Ib. Granulated Sugar, 1 te “ 2t ib Raw Sugar, I ¥ . 27 Ib. Yellow Sugar, e “ee
i 5 lb. Good Tea, $4.25 1 bri. Good Family Flour.
Our TEA and KEROSENE OIL are too well known to require any puftiaz our part, and we are vow selling them cheaper than ever.
BEER & GOFF.
Charlcttetown, December 2, 1892—eod & wky
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BIG BARGAINS ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY,
ETWEEN Auction Sales and Slaughter Sales and Big Discounts of all kinds the whole country is in a general uproar for Birgains, so we have decided to sell
our entire stock of CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SPEC-
TACLES, &e , &c., lower than has ever been offered to the public in the history
of the United States or since Adam was a baby.
For instance:—SOLID SILVER WALTHAM WATCHES, Stem Wind and
Stem Set, former price $18.00 and $25 00, now $13.00 and $16.00 ; Silveroid, $5 ;
‘LOCKS, once $5 00 and $6 00, now from $2 00 to $4.00 ; RINGS, BROOCHES,
EAR RINGS, SCARF PINS, &, io like manner.
Special attention given tu the Cleaning and Repairing of Watches,
Jewsty, Companion G. G. JURY,
North Side of Queen Square, opposite the Post Office. Charlottetown, Dc. 15, 1892— 3m tu th & wky
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Continued daily until the whole of our immense stock is disposed of. Good work, new styles, bottom prices, at our Warcrooms, Queen Save money and get the Come one, come all.
JOHN NEWSON.
Charlottetown, Feb. 25, 1892
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Ch’town, Nov. 2, 1892.
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To the Electors of Charlottetown.
EN TLEMEN,—As I have been earnestly re- G quested by a large number of electors to ofter myself as a candidate for the Water Com- missionership, made vacant by the lamented death of the late respected John Kelly, Esq.. I have consented to allow myself to be put in nomination. As it is impossible for me to make ersonal canvass of al! the citizens, I therefore
e this opportunity of soliciting your support. Having resided in this as for the last forty-five years, and being personally scquainted with its requirements f feel myself in a_position—if elected—to faithfully and economically discharge
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MISS RUSSELL, jan3—lw eod pat Principal.
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HE GRAND LODGE, Independent Order of Good Templars, will meet in Semi-Annual Session in Wright’s Hall, Charlottetown. on FRIDAY, Japuary 13th, 0) ng at 1).30a m. Tickets at one single : fare will b: issued to representatives coming by rail on Thursday and Friday, 12th and 13th, gved to return on Ssturday and Monday, 14th and 16th. All Lodges are respectfally requested to send their full complement of delegates.
A. D, FRASER, Grand Secretary.
Bedequo, December 27, 1892,
heminisccnces of My School Days
and Schoolmates.
(By J. H. Frercuer ) ** How dear to this heart are the scenes of my
childhood
When fond recollection presents them to view;
The o:chard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,
And every loved epot which my infancy knew :
The wi dsp eading pond, and the mill which stced by it,
The bridge end the rock where the cataract fell;
The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh
lb, And e’en the rude bucket which hung in
the well.” What a wonderful school it was ! the old U gg School located at Orwell Head. First when I went toit, kept in an abandoned dwelling house,thenin a square frame build- ing on my mother's farm, and lastly, in a larger one of the same style of architec- ture on the same spot. And what a race of beys and girls grew up and attended it ! Brave little fellows, not only skiiful in the breeze, but able to cope with the storm. The old school was a large one—always having from sixty to ninety names on its roll. The boys were bright and ambitious, full of fun and frolic, dash and daring. Their after history proved it. But where are they to-day? Some in tle United States, some in Australia, some in Canada, some on the dear little Island that gave them birth, and some gone to that ‘‘bourne whence no traveller re- turns.” Wherever they are to be found alive they are giving a good account of themselves. They were aspiring, and burned to be somebody. Whatan army of pedagogues came trom the old school! Teaching was generally used as the stepping-stone to some- thing higher. How came it that they so thirsted for knowledge?”
The parents of these boys were not learn- ed, nor much given to learning. But they were moral, industrious, sober, affable, con- tin ed and moderately comfortabie in life. Not a crime, so far as I can recollect, ever stained the annals of that neighborhood. The old folks belonged to different sects, so they disputed a little on religious ethics when they met, They sometimes grew angry, said some unkind things to one an- vther, but soon made it up again, They were largely Baptists and Presbyterians, but there were also a few Methodists and ove Roman Catholic family. 1 don’t be- lieve there was one family in the whole neighborhood that was on unfriendly terms with one another. If so, I never heard of it, The only Catholic lived next farm to the Baptist minister, and the Catholic said he had the best neighbor ie the world, and the old minister declared that he had. They were both right. If the Catholic got into any difficulty and needed assistance or counsel, he mvariably went to the minister, and the minister never sent him away with- out the best of both. The old minister was one of the most humble, unassuming and devotedly Christian men the world ever saw. He preached without compen- sation, and freely labored for the good of everybody; and everybody—young and old, rich and poor, religious and irreligious— loved the old man. They could not do otherwise, for his life was spotless and pure, full of tenderness and good deeds, free from selfishness and dogmatism. Oh, the respect we wild boys had for that grey old patriarch! He knew us all and loved us all, and would always shake hands with the smallest child that he met. And he knew us by name. While the boys of the old school live, the name of the Rev. Samuel McLeod will be green in their memories. He is dead now, but he still lives, and will live while welive. The righteous never die.
‘there was nothing in the environment of these boys, which I can see, that should incite them to attempt to win fame in the realm of letters, or achieve distinction in
the learned professions. But it was so.
The first teacher that the boys of my age
went to was a monster in human shape.
He was an importation from the ‘told coun-
try,” and knew of only one way to impart
knowledge, and that was by beating it into
his pupils’ backs and hands instead of put-
ting it into their heaags. With Solumon, he
held that ‘‘sparing the rod spoiled the
child.” He evidently thought that when a
child started in a course of indifference, it
was like a locomotive on the wrong track —
that it took the ‘‘switch” to get it off. The
old people thought his methods were all right. Still, to do them justice, they did not know how bad they were. The chil.
dren were afraid to tel]. They trembled in his presence. He always threatened that if they told anything out of school he would *‘skin them alive.” And he meant it, too, and often came pretty nearly doing it, and for a much less offence. So when parents saw scars on their children’s bodies, and asked them how they came, they attributed it to some other cause. The big boys he treated half-way decent, because he was a coward, Tyraniry and cowardice are gener- ally associated. But the “‘little innocents” appeared to be the special objects of his wrath. They were not so well muscled as the others.
lt was claimed by the people of that day that our teacher was ‘‘a great scholar.” Perhaps he was; but the only proof I ever heard given of it was that he was able to write the Lord’s Prayer on the size of a shilling piece! Bat he did succeed in im- pressing the ‘‘old fc.lks” with the idea that he was one of the greatest men living —an intellectual Juminary of unusual brilliancy —and like the village schoolmaster of Gold- simith “The wonder was the wonder grew,
How one small head could carry all he knew.”
But it was in the schoolroom that he sought to impress his greatners on the human mind. He was a firm believer in the policy of old Dr. Busby, who when 4
Majesty for keeping his hat on, by saying
fellow’s arm fell paralyzed by his side
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king visited his school, apologized to His!
_emeteuntemee
“that it would never do to let the boys see that @ greater man than he could enter the school.” The difference between the two men was this: Dr, Busby had the decency to apologize—our teacher had not.
His methods of punishment—not for bad behaviour #!one, but for inability to com mit to memery the lengthy tasks he gave them—was worthy the genius of a Herod or a Nero: stripping a boy of his panta. loons, raising him on the back of another to be flogged, making him stand in the centre of the room, frequently for a whole day, with the skeleton of a horse’s head tied on his back with the words “I am a dunce” pinned thereon. This was his highest conception of punishment, torture and degradation. He had also the ‘‘cat-o’
t t
*tause.”
he little fellow would walk up with the atal instrument to the throne of his peda
In extreme cases, after this opera- ion were gone through, it was his custom o place the offender in a dark closet, and Oh, those large white eyes of his! J] fancy I can see them yet. No caged tiger ever looked so ferocious. How many times did we swear, small as were that if we ever became men, we would repay and doubly repay him for his inhuman ferocity. ** Secret wrath like smother'd fuel Burnt in each boy's blood.”
But he died, thank God, long before we became men. And it was well that he did. I carry a mark on my wrist and another on my head, and will while I live, infl.cted by this incarnated tyrant. How thankful the little boys and girls of to-day ought to be that they live in a kinder age and are subj -ctto the benign sway of loving and tender-hearted teachers—that a better way of reaching the brain has been discovered than through the backs of the
about 2 o'clook we begen work in earnest, while the other two culprite stood by cry- ing, fearing that they would be kept in the cellar a'l night. Long before the regular hour of dismissal, we made good our escape, and when we got home, dirty and hatless, our parents Gemanded an ex- planation. We had to confess it all. And this led to an investigation of the teacher's
savage methods—some siding with the domine and some against him. The end of it was not satisfactory, but his couduct afterward was a little less cruel and in- human than it had been.
After a time, this unfeeling monster was
taken down with rheumatic fever, or some disease of that nature, and for weeks was grad: : stretched upon a bed of sntfering and pain. 1ine-tails,” exch tail hardened by exposure | This forced him to give up the school. 0 fire, and when a poor child raised his] was succeeded by a gentleman belonging to eyes from his book, back would come that|the neighborhood, now known as Dr. Hugh “tau 4nd noarmy with banners ever} Martin. inspired more fear and terror than the/ Virginia, and is a man of standing and arrival of that instrument of torture. Then| influence.
t f gogic majesty, hold out his little hand, until either the brute gave out, or the little] Cyepry is the safest, surest and best known . remedy for the cure of coughs, colds, bron- When this happened, I have known him to} chitis and ail throat and lung troubles. The all up a bigger boy and order him to hold} children’s favorite. up the enfeebled arm for further punish-| dealers, ment. T ce t t keep him shut up for hours.
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pupils. I remember, oh, yes, as well as if it had! been yesterday, an episode that ocourred in} the old dwelling house in which I was the
chief actor. W- weve seated with our backs} to the wall re-dug our leasons over and) over. The fluor Lid settled down, making
an opening next to the wall. The rats held) high caraival in that old building, and fre-
quently made incursions along this crack in, search of food. Ido not know that they, could be blamed for that, as they were as “hungry as church mice.” While intently reading our books we were in the habit of
slipping our hands into our pockets, pulling
out a few crumbs of bread, and dropping, them by the side of this opening, A huge} rat came stealthily along and began te pick
up the crumbs, [n turning round he slipped
his tail through. The temptation to catch
that appendage and draw the rodent’ through was too great to be resisted. With- ! out fully considering the consequences I
made a dart, caught it, and began pulling’ away for dear life, but all the while intent- | ly studying my leason. Either the crack
was too small or the rat too large, for he
refused to be drawn out, but instead set up
the most dismal squeal ever heard. The’ master sprang from the platfurm and began | to inquire where the noise came from, or what it was. He soon found out and heroic- | ally came to the rescue of the rodent. He | began beating me onthe head with the burnt ‘‘tause.” Seeing there was no time | to lose I began to tug vigorously for my | prize, when suddenly something gave way. The rat escaped, but as Robert Burns would! say, ‘the de’il « tail he had to shake.” By this time my head was pretty sore, and a) cut made ly the “‘tause” still remains to at-| test to my temerity and the master’s cruelty.
Of covies 1 deserved a whipping. The) offense wasaterrible one, but I scarcely) think I deserved all I got. Boye will be’ boys aud cliey cannot be expected to behave like men. There is nothing men forget so easily as that they were once boys them selves. Well, to make a long story short, | was taker. up to the chair and received, be- sides what 1| already got, fifteen lashes on) each hand—thirty in all. And they were, lashes! The master had considerable muscle,
Another affair has distinctly fixed itself on my memory. It began on a Friday afternoon, when four of us were given six lines of the multiplication table to have by Monday morning. It wasa big task, but when we met on Monday we were all able to repeat it to each other. To be able to do this was one thing; to stand up before a despotic teacher and do it was another. When the trial came, our memories seemed to desert us. We trembled with fear. We failed, One of my companions now lives in Nebraska, well-to-do and greatly respect- ed. He was a hale, hearty boy, and our friendship through life was never dimmed for an instant. Another was a plucky, wiry little fellow, as tough as a knot and as nimbie as acat. He worked in Nevada for many years, where | once met him, but I hear that he now lives in Leadville, Col- orado. The fourth boy was an older brother of his, not nearly so smart nor courageous. He was afterwards lost at sea.
As a punishment for our failure, we were placed in a dark closet, there to complete our task. But we could see nothing, and, therefore, had to do something. It hap pened that a young girl sat against our closet door, and, while she was industrious ly reading over her lesson, we drew through a seam in the door a tress of her hair and tied a knot on it. To our surprise, her class was called up. She was unable to rise, and before we could get the knot un- tied our trick was discovered! For this crime we were transferred to the cellar—» dungecn inhabited by toads, enskes and lizards. My Leadville companin and |
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