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Datty EXAMINER MAY 29, 1883.

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Hducational Progress.

Tur Examiner has this year quoted more fully than iv former years the offi- cial statistics of our public schools. This wes done in order that the public may know definitely what progress has been made in them, and thus be prepared for a few suggestions with a view to further improvement.

The facts and figures which Mr. M gomery has been at the pains to prepare and present in his report of last year are very gratifying Qurschools haveincreased in number from 121 to 486. The num- ber of pupils has risen from 4,356 to 21,601. The daily attendance is one io five of our population instead of one io twelve. Our teachers now rank with those of any of the sister Provinces. A rude agglomeration of schools has been harmonized into a scientific system through which the children ot the people pass from the lowest to the higher branches of instruction. The cost has increased from about $28,000 in 1852 to $130. 446 96 in 1882.

Jn every direction there has been pro gress. Progress is, indeed, the law with respect to all that pertains to education. And, having advanced so far, in what direetion shall we now proceed?

‘How to live?’ —says a great writer— one of the highest living authorities ou education—*‘that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which com- prehends every special problem is the right ruling of conduet in all directions, under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body ; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to act as a citizen ; in what way to utilize all those sources ot happiness which nature supplies—how to use all our faculties to the greatest ad- vantage of ourselves and others—how to live completely? And this being the great thing needful te learn, is, by con- sequence, the great thing which education has toteach. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge; and the only rational mode ot judging any educational system isto j in what degree it discharges

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this test, how are our public schools fulfilling their mission ? It will, we think, be readily admitted that, un- doubted as the improvement has been, the course of instruction pursued ix them is still defective. This is an agricultural country—our people live by the farm. The activities by which the neces: of life are secured in this Province a exerted in the cultivation of the land and the managemeat of stock. Is it not strange—is it not wrong, that while Latin, Greek, French, Algebra, Geometry, Music, etc..—the direct ten- dency of which is to wean our young men and women away from the farm— are taught in the common schools of the Province, no attention whatever has so far been given in them to the study of Agriculture, the means by which a very large majority of the people of the Prov- Aince live, and—notwithstauding the dis- cé¥ery of the gold m‘nes and the pros- perity of the lobster factories — must ever live ? 2

It is this defect which, should now, be remedied. We do not for a moment disparage what is known as * higher education.” Fortunate is the man fitted by education to make a good living in the state of life into which it has pleased God to call him, who is also profoundly versed in classic lore and scientific truth. Bur, it is quite evident that only the “favored few” can afford the time— even theugh the Staite should continue to provide the means—to study deeply these higher branches of learuing. The bulk of our young people must, of necessity, graduate in the common schools of the country. As soon as they are strong enough, they must set about earving a living for themselves; and it is of prime importance to them that our schools should—as far as possible—fit them to make their living under the most ad- vantageous circumstances; and it is of prime importance to the Province that the schools of the Province should—ag far as possible—fit them to make their living im the Province. We Wave no hesitation in asserting the opigion that the study of Agriculture will fend more towards the atiainment of this two-fdld object. of prime importance tham, the etudy of the “ higher’’—-or at least more fashionable — branches of learning.

We must, of course, expect that, as in Scotland, England and Ireland and all other countries of limited capabilities and large procreative tendencies, some of our people will leave us every year; aud it is well that when they go abroad. they should be enabled, by means of our public schools, to make their living well and reflect credit upon the land of their birth. But it is not yet necessary to foster this emigration. A positive distaste for the first industry of the Province need not yet be infused into our youth at the public expense ; and the tendency of the study of the “higher branches’ to do this should, at least as far as possible, be counterbalanced by the study of agricul. ture and coguate subjects.

Let us, moreover, consider but for a moment the relations of the Province with our competitors in the markets of the world, and we shall not fail to be deeply impressed with a sense of the necessity of imparting ipstructions in agriculture aod inspiring our youth with

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ly love of the trn!y noble work of the \farm. In this competition we have to meet the productio: s of the vast prairies ‘of the Great West and Greater North- west, supplied with facilities for trans- | port by rail; and we have also to meet the | productions of the highly intelligeut | farmers ot Ontario and the Eastern | Provinces of Quebec, many of whom ‘having large farms and large capital, | while cheap labor and all the labor sav- jing machinery they require is withia their reach. To meet this competition | successfully, the small freeholders of this Province, possessed of comparatively small capital, have need to acquire all the knowledge and all the skill in agriculture that can be obtained. They ought 't6 adopt the best modes of tillage; they should be intimately ac~ quainted with the nature of soils aud the constituents which enter into the com- position of the crops they raise; they eught to know how to manure so that the best returns may be obtained for their labor; they should breed, rear, aud manage stock to the greatest ad- vantage ; they should be able to measure land accurately aud keep account books suited to the farmer ;—they should, in short, farm scieuitifically as well as practically.

To this end the common schools of the Proviuce, should, as far as possib'e, be utilized, It is not, in our opinien, necessary to go to the expense of estab- lishing an Agricultural College, or to change very materially the course of studies in the Prince of “Vales College and Normal School, All the pupil- teachers would, of course, have to be instructed in the principles of agricul- ture, and it might be advisable to pro- cure an additioval teacher for that pur- pose ; though Professor Anderson’s success in teaching Agricultural Chemistry indicates that with some effort on their part, the present staff could accomplish all that may, for some years at least, be desired. A primer discussing the first principles of agriculture could almost at once be introduced into the public schools of the Provinec, and if necessary, instruction in it made com- pulsory. Even if it were not very well taught, our farmers sons would get ideas from the mere reading of such a book which would profit them—wouldrenderthe occupations of the farm more interesting, aod show them that the farm is well worthy the exertion of the higher powers of their minds; set them thinking, and thus lead on to further improvement, and materially benefit the Province at large.

In the commen schools, also, greater prominence might, without much diffi. culty, be given to such subjects as farm mensuration,farm book-keeping, etc.,—in brief, to the general economy of the farta the relation of t\« various arts and nees to agriculture. The letters of” “Agricola” might be compiled and studied in our schools as well for the vigor and beauty of the language in which they are set, as for the true and noble thoughts on farming which they contain. For the sublime scenes in Heaven and Hell, presented to our youth in the stately language of Milton, there might be exchanged the more highly polished and far more delightful pastorals ot Pope about the loves and pleasures of the fields aud the sylvan scenes of this earth of ours; and, instead of the /Enead, why not read the Georgics? Why not adopt as the literature of the school, such productions of prose and poetry as are calculated to inspire the youth of this agricultural country with a love of tue farm and of rural things?

Let it be remembered that the agricul- tural interests of this country are, by all odds, its most importaut interests; that success in agriculture meaus_ prosperity

for the whole Province, and failure in =agriculiere, failure ip every- thing else; aud, that success or tniinre depends to a Jarge extent

on education in agriculture,—let this be borne in mind, and we are sure that the suggestions contained in this article will without delay, be adopted?

PO I RE OE

Death of Captain Hancock, R. N.

The death of Captain Hancock, R. N., is announced in THe ExaMINER to day. Many persons in this City and Province have kindly reminiscences of this worthy seaman and Christian gentleman. During about twenty consecutive winters he was a resi- dent of Charlottetown, while he sailed in the “‘Gulnare,” during summer, under the now venerable Admiral Bayfield. He married, in this Island, the eldest danghter of the late Lemuel Cambridge, Esq. Fora long time he was Superintendent of the Sunday School in connection with St. Paul’s Church; and took a prominent part in the furtherance among us of moral, religious, and charitable objects. He was a good man,

RT A EAD EB TS Summerside Exports.

SumMERsIDE, May 26, 1883. Shipped by steamer ‘‘st. Lawrence,” Evans, master :—

Ge As os GD4K ac 0.Bb v's 2 46% 6 $ 80.00 I cu iseecdeoceevecia co. tee ck seekeee C4es lS. 30.00 BD Cea Wetaheee es 5 cians sc ccinscssccs 131.00 1F:-* ee Aes bab vhs. antes 12.00 a i E 100.00 eS Ms be bus Kiwis Bhi bo 40.00 i ass wars w ote cl 30.00 ee I, Ts 6.0 boo oo eke bea ode 290.00 $1,786.00

SuMMERSIDE, 24th, 1883.

Shipped by steamer ‘‘Princess of Wales,” Cameron, master:—

ee rer eee $240.00 errr re Pres 61 00 eS MN ak vadecneses on tee. 60.00 ED SA, ds os cons kh nwne nee) <8 101.00 ae, WU es sb actscssseaviee a. ae

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SHIP NEWS.

CHARLOTTETON N,

ENTERED,

May 23—John Tilton, Bonnell, Pictou, al; L H Davies, Taylor, herring in bulk, 25 Lavinia Jane, Anderson, Pictou, coal; P LG, Anderson, Pictou, coal; Three Brothers, LeBlanc, Shediae, bal,

May 29—Sch A M Payne, Boston, 4,525 by sh potatoes, by J M Auld; Sylvanus Mc- Donald, Pictou, bal; Gazelle, Pictou, bal. 28—Sch Isabella, Gloucester, 1,374 bush potatoes, GO do turnips,

CLEARED,

May 24—-Josephine, Cheverie, Pictou, bal; 25 —(Clarymore, Marguis, Pictou, bal; Lavinia Jane, Anderson, Pictou, bal. 25— J WW, Currie, Richibucto, bal; PLU, Anderson, ‘Pictou, bal; Three Brothe:s, LeBlanc, Shedise, pro 26 —Minnie Seott, Harpell, Wallace, pro; M XSts r, Suitis, Halifax, pro aod indbey LPH Davies; Taylor, Pictou, bal.

May 29 —Sch Sylvanus McDonald,Cape Wolfe, lobster traps, te Jchn Hughes

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ence, Bernard, Shediac, bal; cld sch Annis Florence, Bernard, Buctouche, oats. - Vanemburgh. Bay Verte, oats and potatoes, Ent schs St Flavie, Vanemburgh, Bay V«rte, bal; Capitla, Silliker, Magdalen Islands, bal; Mary Mac, Ferguson, Pictou, coal; Meaway Belle, McPhee, Halifax, mdse.

MEMORANDA,

Cld at Halifax, May 22, barque M J F ley, Townsend, New York Ar at At John’s, Nfld, May 3, Mary Jane,

MeCarthy, Souris. 9-—Alice May, Waléhy Charlottetown; John Louis, Davis, Sours; Orion, Andrews, Charlottetown; Liltian Bourke, Mclonis, New York, 15-Spyax,

Gilles, Charlottetown.

Cld at St John’s, Nfld, 17, Minsie E, Neel, Charlottetown; Mary Jane, McCarthy, Sydaey.

Ar at Harbor Grace, Nfld, 8, Rustic, Nichol- son,Charlottetown. 11—Bonnie Lass, Hogan, Crapaud.

Passed New London, Conn, 17, Lucy Pope, McDonald, from New York, for Cette.

EXAMINER, MAY 2g,

4A QUEEN

Summerside, May 26, ent sch Annie Flor],

Summersiae, May 28, cld sch St Flavia, |

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IN STREET.

7K have about completed our SPRING AND SUMMER IMPORTATLONS of

Note and Letter Papers, Foolscap aud fit! Papers, Blank Book Papers, Kuvel. pes, Pens, inks, etc., ete,

jeeds we have yet imported,

makiny the best assortment ef the abeve tines of ¢ tyrom the leading Flouses 7

All qualities at lower prices than ever, being bough jo Great Britain, United States and Canada.

| Special | Inducements to Country Traders.

> “BbipS hall} €quipped with all kinds of papers for BLANK BOOKS AND PRINT a eee -apd having the LATEST STYLES and BEST! NOVELVABS an» RRANTING TYPES, we are better than ever prepared to undertake Orders forevery destviption of ) and Bookbinding,

rs - , With despatch, and in a superior style.

“BREMNER BROS.

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0. just opilt. complete line of

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ARTISTS’ MATERIALS,

imported direct from the celebrated establishment of GEO, ROWNEY & CO., Lovdon, consisting of the usual articles necessary for Painting, Drawing and Wax Flower Msking, euch as Oil and Water “Colors, Sheet Wax, Vurnishes, Oils, Gold Shells ani Paint. Childreo’s Color Boxes, Palettes, Sable, Hog Hair and “Camel Hair Brushes, Bristol aod Academy Boards, Diawing Paper,

DIED. At Cornwall, oa the 29th inst, after a Jong | illuess, Richard Leonard, aged sixty-stven | years. May he rest in peace. [Funeral will leave his late residenés on | Thursday morning, at ten o’clock. }j : May 11, at his residence, Prospect Hill | Park, Berkshire, John Liebenrood, Captam | Royal Navy, eldest son of the late Admiral Hyet Hancock, C. B., aged 70. SSE

—— = —_——S FOR SALE s

HAT handsome residence known as

“BEACONSFIELD,” Apply to

H. J. CUNDALL. Ch'town, May 29.—law tu

CHARLOTTETOWN.) Emerson Grand Couvert to,

Mirth, Music, Mimicry. Two great attrac. tions ia one, for two nights only.

Friday and Saturday, June Ist and 2uad,

GRAND MATINEE, Saturday, p- m.

Evening Prices, 35 and 50 cents; Matinee Prices, 15 and 25 cents.

Tickets for sale at Dodd’s Drug Store.

Doors open at 7.30; Concert at 8,

EK. H. STARR, Manager,

EF, H. BARNSTEAD, Business A gent.

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May 29.—tu th fi

Dominion of Canada,

Province of Prince Edward Island, CITY OF CHARLOTTETOWN.

the City Court, before Rowan Robert Fitzzerald, E-q , the Stipendury Mayis- trate for the City of Charlottetown.

In gore NOTICE tnat His Honor tie Sti-

pendiary Mavistrate for the said City of Charlottetown has, by virtne «f the power and authority in him, vested by the Statete of the Geueral Assemb'y of the said Island, intituled *‘An Actin tarther amendment of an Act to incorporate the Citv eof Chariotte- town, and of the Statu‘e 43rd Victoria, (hap- ter Thirteen, in amendment thereof,” ordered and appointed that ‘\ eduesday, 27th June, A D. 15883, be the day set down for hearing all appeals made to him from the last preced ing valuations, assessments cr rates imposed or authorized by the City Council of the said City, and that on such day and daily there- after, until all such appeals have been heard, at the hour of eleven o'clock, forenoon, in the said City Court, in Charlottetown, aforesaid, all such appeals will be heard and finally determined by bim.

Dated this 28th day of May, 1883. By order,

FRANCIS 8. CHANDLER, Collector for said City. May 29 -pat tu sa till june 27

Vanted

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Carpenters Wante

\ J ANTED, by the undersigned, Carpen- ters, to whom will be given good

wages, and employment forthe summer, on

the new Church at the Head of St. Peter's Bay

THOMAS RAYMOND, Architect. Head of St. Peter’s Bay, May 23—3i pd

Merchants Bank af P. E, Island

HE adjourned meeting of the Stockhold-

ers of the Merchants Bank of P. E. Island, will be held at their Banking House, in Charlottetown, on Thursday, the 3lst day of May, instant, at 12 o’clock, noon, in ac- | cordance with a resolution passed at the An- nual Meeting of Stockholders, held 1st day of March last.

order.

WILLIAM McLEAN, Cashier.

By

Charlottetown, May 19, 1883.—eod

MARKET HALL,.

Sketehing Blocks, Tracing Linen, ete. —ALSO—

A few Beautiful Chreme-Lithographs, in Scenery and Flower Studies, by seme of the artists of the Royal Academy.

A splendid opportunity is now offered to summer tourists wishing to supply themselves with materials for sketching; ele,

SION OF THE “PLOWMAN,” 2 QU |

. FF BEN STREET. PPE undersigned beg to inform the Farmers of P. F. Island that they have leased that

=20:-———— commodious store, and intend devoting their attcution to the Agency for the celebrated firm of Patterson & Bro, (of Patterson & Whitby), Ontario, Manufacturers of all kinds of Agricultural Implements, which are so well known on the Island, and have given such satie- tign, that they require uo puthag... We would, respectfully ask intending purchasers to pct our stock of

Ch’town, May 29, 1883.—5i

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Mowers, Reapers, Rakes, Plows, Spring Tooth Cultivators and Harrows, Hay and Straw Cutters, and the Raymond Grain Grinder, !

which is just the article for Stock Feeders, Give us a call, as we are anxious to meet you requirements and bound to give you satisfaction, or no gale.

DOVER & ROBERTSON.

Ch’town. May 26.—3m eod

LOBSTER PAGKERS’ SUPPLIES

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SPRING, 1883. SPRING.

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10,000 cases (1 lb.) TALL CANS, 2300“ ‘¢ FLAT CANS, 500 boxes TIN PLATES, 200 ingots REFINED TLN, 50 plus SOFT LEAD, 5 bars COPPER (14 and 14), 600 coils ROPE (6. 9, 12 and 15 thread), 10 bales MARLINE, 20 puns. MOLASSES, 30 bris. SUGAR, 25 bris. HARD BREAD, 200 chests and ha f-chests TEA, 100 suits OTL CLOTHING, 750 bris. FLOUR (Choice Superior), 125 bils KILN DRIED CORNMEAL, 100 bris. MESS PORK, 200 tris. PRIME MESS PORK, 300 HAMS (Smoked and Green), 50 brls. MESS BEEF, 100 tins LARD, 25 tubs BUTTER,

Now in Store and to Arrive, at Lowest Wholesale Prices.

HORACE HASZARD.

Ch’town, April 28, 1883.

BRITISH EMPIRE

Mutual Life Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

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ESTABLISHED 1847. o— a Wo wren ensg nn oc sanstadcicslcce ets 34,5 Pe bre (haf aan eee

Deposit with Dominion Government, tor th

WONGOET SE TIAROND igs... Be ices... nvested in Canadian Securities, nearly Betas een eee Paid in Bonuses, over. ey eresenteetrnenenesntenesecsenees Paid in Claims, ove:

e sole benefit of Policy-

100,000.00 400,000.00 tnetseunessonnsnlige honeestos mepeninids Gulgiiphetasosbedes 2,.200,000.00 $P990<n ccconhs. cas cshes ghibadiltandlecaddodbanscdsettitts 6,000,000,00

This Company has now on hand

33} per cent of all ; receiv 35 2 remium ve are very liberal, aud are declared ev . rere

Its cash bonuses ery three years,

ee 4 Se Anthracite Cog F RIGT. “JOSEP ri. “JOSE H.” in wow om hep

this port, with 460 tons Way of Pail ia to 0, ‘

Red and White Ash Coal, 4}, oo their way with Sydne Shay

— Nut and Roend’@

’arties wishing the aboy

can he eupplied by lesa wy SRY other Cag: with W. W. Clark, at Lorde Ordery or with the Subseriher, Terms — Cash.

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FEW HUNDRED } : White Seed Oats, Vora choice

A RORACE HASzapp,

Ch’town, May 26. —Jy» eod

House Feiv tere Bagi tg

Paiuts, Oils, Putty, Wh and Cchres,

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Noble's and Aloare’s V

Kent's best Paint and Varnish tai CALL AR®

LL PERSON bted to the Sube will] save time money same to Mr. RH. Crawford, at, aing PAUL LRA

May 21, 1883.—6i

C7 TENDERS ILL be received the

; Fa ao —— eS and or a Dwellin ouse at Glenaladale, r die, viz. :— : 1. Digging a Cellar about 540 cubic yards, 2. Sound Stone for foundations, 3. etteon 4. Stone Werk aad Brick-laying, 5. a Lime. 6. Taking dawn a Brick Tracadie Cross Roade, and

“MATER — «DMIRABILI?

A Hand-Book of Instruction on the Power Prerogatives cf our Blessed Lady.

By Rey. C. 6'#trien, Bb. D.. new bishop of Malifax. \, ».

For sale at T. OCONNELL’S VARIETY May 21,

bi Nya is hereby given that the pirtue ship heretofore cx'stiag between undersigned, Johu W. Pickard and EB. Brow, under the name of E, R, Brow, solved, by mutual consent. All debts the said fium must be paid toE & Brow, all the liabilities of the said firm will be charged by him.

Dated at Charlottetown this fourth day January, A. D. 1883. JOHN W, PICKARD. £. RIGG BROW.

May 22—3w law tu

—$—$—<—$—<$<$—<a 7 } , ‘ Wr . WANTS, LOST, FOUND, de es ry>O LET —A Dwelling House. on the ¢ ner of Prince and Dorchester & containing ten rooms and shop, alaoe ent out-buildings. Immediate given. The , remises are une ing Hous» or Store. For further LU yply a ses t MRS. COSTE apply on the promises to vay 29 0 pro, LET oneal of that three sly srick House, on Upper Capit containing pine rocms, Pcssessiou f Apply to ALExaNDER HORSE. may’ XT ANTED- work on the

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ANTED—A T namith, to Champion Creamer, 4 Wanpman, £5 Pownal St. OARKD AND LODGING WANT the summer, for a gen ’ and nurse. Private family G. W. C., Rankin House. ANTED IMMEDIATELY ae and Two Vest (may 3 Brecer’s. yO LED FOR THE SEASON Rowe House, beautifully situated om 4, Side of the Hillsborough, directly hare city. Apply at the office © tmay26 8

Hovsse. ‘ and House

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\ y ANT ED, forthwith, a Cook r maid, Apply to MRS. Tyas,

Charlottetown, aed 7 O LET—Furnished Kooms i vituble

Kitchen and Kitchen Ute : for a smal! family. App lig! this a

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F EXO LET (with ivamediate powers i handsome and commodious TN. petit?

the northern suburbs of the o's. arehiball, Road, lately occupied by & Esq. Enquire of LonGgwoRTH tom

PXIRE-PROOF SAFE.—For i Pugin at i O88 n contaiD

(q\0 LET—A HOUSE.

CANVASSERS WANTED, for Queen’s, Prince and King’s Countiés,

Liberal contracts made. Apply to

CAMPBELL & RAYDEN,

General Agents for P. E. Island.

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Charlottstown, April 30, 1883.—eod wkly

racecar

rooms. Apply to Jamas Park Road,

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rooms, With garret am session Ist May. Apply

—— eth OUSE TO LET—On Bileboraey near King Square, tapi

d cellar Bs to JoHN