J. J. JOHNSTON
Real Estate Agent
eal Estate boughtand sold Commission Estates Managed. Houses Rented. Rents Collected. Stamper Block Coarlottetown, P.E. I. ir SALE—A house on Euston Street, in vicinity of Gallows Hill. This house con- tains § roome and k tchen, in wood order. and eated with hot air. Good stable and large
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y Lin connection, will be sold cheap. Apply to J J Johnston, Rea) Estate Agent FOR SALE—Thr-e acres of landin Char.
, near residence of Arthur Esq. will be sold cheap and on easy JJ Johnston, Stam per Block.
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FOR SALE—about four (4) acres of land in che City of Charlottetown, can be divided in- totwenty building lots, a genuine Bargain, J J Johaston, Star per Block.
FOR SALE.—In the business centre Chariottetown, a iarge three story house with lot 8$4x52 ff: also excellent outbuildings, a suitable place jor a first class boarding Will be sold cheap. Apply to J J Johnston, Real Estate Agent,
A house situated on the cor- Street and St. Peters Road ooms has a good cellar and stable on premises. The house Is built 8 years end is in excellen! condition. Apply toJ J Johnston Real Estate Agent.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE--A tenement house o1| Chestnut Street, now in course of erection. Will be completed in one month. Will be sold cheapor exchanged for property in another part ofthecity. JJ Johnston, Real Estate Agent.
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FOR SALE,- ner of Pleasant House contains 10
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POR SALE—H s9 and lot on uvper Pow- nal Street, near Ev ston Street. Price $350.00 J J Johnston, Stam per Block.
FOR EXCHANGE.—A three tenement house, situate on Euston Street, newiy built, brings in a large rent, will be exchanged for 1 Suitable place in another vart of the city J] J Johnston, Real Estate Agent.
FOR SALE—A tvo story double tenemen:*
yase on Bishop St reet, each tenement con- ainssix rooms an: large yard. Apply toJ J ohnston, Stamper Block,
Houses To Let.
TO LET—Dwelling bouse and shop on lower
Queen Street, house contains eight rooms. j}arge warehouse atteched: everything in irst c’ass conditic a. Rent $'70.0°, rent of
house alone $'00.01 Avply toJ J Johnston, lea! Estate Agent, Ch’town,
TO LET.--Un the corner of Prince and “Vater Streets, a house containing 13 rooms. This place is convenient to railway and boats. lient moderate. bh state Agent,
*R SALE OR TO LET.~—Tbat well known business hotelon Richmond Street nearthe
rket. This hotel contains 20 good rooms snd shop, all in «ood re~sir, good stabling ior 3% horses, with large yard in connection, will be sold at a bargain on easy terms, or leased for a terri of years. Apply to J J Johnston, Real Estate agent.
J.J, JOHNSTON, Real Estate Agent, Stamper Block, Ch’town
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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, NOVEMBER 30, 189%
ECONOMY IN SCHOOLS.
Sin,—There isa strong set of public opinion in favor of economy in provincial expenditures. This general cesire for
to be wished that it may be persistent and keen evough to bring honesty had frugal- ity into the administration of our public affaire; but it is of great consequence that behind the eager desire for economy there stould be a well informed and careful judgment concerning the best means and methods of retrenchment. It is a notices able fact that the public echools are often selected asthe department in which re- trenchment is to be made. Thereis a plain rvle by which every proposed econ’ omy in public schools should be otested. Nothing should be cone for the sake of saving money, which will burt the schools, which will make them in the judgment of competent persons poorer than they are. It is just as true of the state as it isof the family, that the very last place to save money is in the education of the children. In any station of life there isno better test of substautial worth in a family than the estimate which theiractions show them to place upon the education of their children. No one expects much froma poor family which has no ambition about the schooling of therechildren. As t rich people who are careless about their children’s training, their wealth is gener- ally a mischief to themselves, their children, and the community. No retrenchment which injures the echools is true economy; forthe ultimate object of public economy is ‘to increase the public weal aod this common weal bas its roots in the intelligence, vigor, and morality of the pooulation, qualities which are crusb- ed, trained, straightened and disemina‘ed in the common schools. | Withthis introduction I will offer some | reasons why roale teachers are preferable | 1o female, and suggest a possible means of | increasing the teachers salaries without increasing the burdens of the Province. Let it be granted at once that an experi-
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| enced woman who has the requisite gifis | ard training is likely tobe as gooda
teacher ae an experienced man of like gifts and training.
The superiority of mento women, or women to men has nothing to do with the }matter now in hand. That frequent ch mzes of teachers should resul. trom baviog wany of the teachers women is a4 pecessary consequence of two stubborn facts, first, that women have not the phy-~ siciel endurance of men, and secondly that
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the great majority of female teachers stop teaching at marriage, an
event which dves not stopa man’s teach- Thus the employmect of women in the schools inevitably tends, first to make the body of teachers a chaoging fluctuating body, and secondly,to make teaching not a life work as it ougbt to be but atemporary resOrt on the way to | another mode of life. The first point res } quired some elucidation. When we try to make women take the place of men in any service, either publicor private, we iniroduce into that service anew element of Shange, and instability, which is the
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result of injudicious provisions about tenure of office, compensation or duties, which way affect men and women alike but of the
working of irresistable natural laws which operate ovly upon women. In order to maintain good schools a country needs a tolerably permanent bedy of teachers who have been bred to the business, have gro vn up with the schools and have madea life work of teaching. There is no business in which experience is more valuable than in teacbing, and none in which local know- ledgeand local attachments are more de- sirable and more effective. Itisa very silly notion that everybody can teach an elemeotary school.
Frequent changes in a corpsof teachers are injurious to a country’s schools in every possible point of view. It is too true that tue term of service of many of the men who teach school is deplorably short aad some of the remediable causes of this bad state of things will be coasidered later. But this fact does not Jessen the force of the arguments that women are inevitably drawn away from teaching by marriage and fathily life,—good things which only make men steadier and more earnest in their professional work,—and that being wesker than men they are apt to be worn out by the fatigning work ofteaching. It ie quite unnecessary to this argument to undervalue the work of women in schools, This protest is directed against those poli ticians who would lessen the efficiency of our schools by placing women on an equality with men.
Now to the consideration of some of the remediable causes. There are severa) considerations which lead men and women into certain employmente, besides the mo ey they expect to earn in them. The chief of these are security, quiet, a pros- pect of promotion, independense and pub- lic coneideration. The security or per manence of a livelihood is a very great attraction to many persons who constitu- tiona'ly prefer a moderate living with security to any chance of great gains with-~- out security. <A quiet life, safe from the risks of business and the sirains and worries of professional contests is tne dearest desire of many excellent persons who are capable of rendering the best of service in congenial stations.
The prospect of promotion for merit, though it be slow is a very attractive thing to many men Of an admirable type. A position in life which is reasonably inde- pencent within well-defined bounds, in which one is not subject to the caprice of an individual or a community, has great charms for mavy people of the best sori. Finally, cousideration in the eyes of the public may replace money to a large ex- t-nt as an inducement to enter an honorable s rvice.. Now, by our ill-judgei method of electing the teachers in the comaon eckools every year, we throw avay in the
able inducements. to
the life, other than selary,
The tenure
ecopomy 18 a healthy desire, and it is much \
of the teacher’s office in the public echools is precarious. There is no assured prospect of promotion for the mode of the elocjion and the frequen, recurrence of the election both militate against a reasonable independence, and fin- sily the function has Jort, in the eyes of the public, too much of that consideration which used to make it attractive. People do not look with such respect upon official siations from which tbe incumbents may be suddenly dismissed withont cause al-
leged. Permanence of tenure and eecurily cf sufficient income are essential to give
dignity and independence to the teacher’s position. New legislation is urgently needed to make the teacher’s office, after suitable periods of probation, tenable dur- ing good behavior and efficiency.
Oo acureful consideration of what has already been read no reasonable person will argue that the salaries of our teachers are such asto ensure that independence witbout which the teaching profession mut deteriorate. Thus it will be seen, thatan increase of salary to teachers is in order. Now as to the means.
The whole cost of acertain modicum of education, which the Province compels all children to have, may rightly be borne by the community. Suppose, for example, thatthe state requires of all childrena certaia knowledge of reading, writing, arithmetic, ans geography, suchas childs ren usually acquire by the time they are twelve years of age. It ia not unreasonable, though by no means necessary, that the state should bear the whole cost of giving all children that amount of elementary education, on the ground that 80 much is necessary forthe eafety ofthe state; but when the education of achild is carried above that compulsory limit, it is by the voluntary aci of the child’s parents, and the benefit accrues partly to the state, through the increase of trained intelligence among tLe populetion, but parily also to the iadividusl, through the improvement of his powers and prospects, It is then just that the two parties shculd divide in some equitable proportion, which would not be the same in all places the cost of procur~ ing that bevefit. When asidewalk is bu lt along a private estate the owner makes a a direct contribution to its cost besid:s paying his proportion of general tax:s levied to cons'ruct the sidewalk, and he is required to do this for the reason tbat the sidewaik benefits him more than it does the rest of the community. So when a man has a child atthe high school or in the upper Classes of a grammar or wn ungraded school he should pay a portion of the cost of maintaining the school, besides paying his proportion of the general taxes Jevied to support the school, and he should te required to do this for the reason that be receives a grester benefit from the school than the rest of the community aed he is perfectly free to take it or not. Parents ought to be called upon to wake sacrifices for the suke of educating their children. ‘To be frugal and laborious for the sake of benefiting their children is a blessed thing for the parents. The motive is 4 strong one and it impels men and women t» good lives. When public legislation and custom take away this mo'ive from a large class of the community, it is not) a
good put an injary which is done them: just as harm and not good woulé be done to the poorer clasees if legislation
could relieve them from the necessity of working for their daily bread. One objection may be considered. What would become, under this system,of the bright children of very poor people, children who ought tobe well educated and lifted from their low estate in tha interest uf the whole commnnity? The objecttion is read ly answered. When, through mis- forinue or crime, a family become utterly unabie to provide fur the education of the r childres, the children should of course be trained up to theeompulsory limit at the pullic charge, and the bright and promis~ ing among them sbhuvld then be carried further at the public charge asa reward of werit, and by a gradual prometion from One grade to another, esch step being e.roed by geod scholarship.
Ler the great majority of parents who can afford it, pay a part of the cost of ther chldreo’s education, and let the meritorious echolars, whose friends are ‘00 poor to pay for them, have help from the public purse proportioned to their needs. Experience teacnes that endow- ments wovld be provided for this purpose. Tbe dul crildren whose parents are unable to pay for them will, of course get no farther than the compulsory limit, but the community will lose little or nothing thereby.
CLetus.
Millcove, Nov. 24th, 1898.
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