a! ae a

a le

¥

f

ia

pom

Cee ee

ne en a

School Hxaminations.

detent Semen rm

(From the Halifue Herald.)

This is the season ol School Kxami- nations. It is the time of the year when the School-marm looks much troubled in spirit, and inakes frequent domicilary visits to huntup a good at- tendanee on the fatal day ; when the puy | is heard, at odd hours, practising ihe reading aloud of her ‘ composition, and becomes unusually fastidious on the subicect of white dresses and pink rib- bons; when fond parents pant and perspire whole mornings in stufly ~choolroomsto hear their darlings stam- mer throtigh some (to them) unintelli- vible jargon about A. the angle, B. ©, and the hypoteneuse of a right-angle triangle, or stammer through * Cloytous Grand March’ arrayed as a duet. Sehoo! Commissioners rush about in cabs ; and gentlemen of supposed clas- sical and mathematical attainmerts are politely bored to act as examiners. The juestion naturally arises, Cui bono? We think no one really knowing any- thine of our Schools, and of the pupils attending them, will assert that these public examinations, over the whole ground of School work,are of the small- est value as tests of the work actually done. The persons who do the ex- umining, and the manner of the axami- nation, alike forbid the supposition. The School Commissioners are, no doubt, very weil fitted for the discharge of the ordinary daties of their pggition, but how many of them would amert of themselves, that they feel competent to examine a class ot girls in Quadratic Rquations, and fairly test their power of solving difficult problems in a neat an expeditious fashion? But even the Commissioners themselves do not do the yreater part of the examining. The majority of the questions are put by the teachers. Whether a question is one fairly selected from a host of others that might be asked and answered, or one the desirabitity of a knowledge of which had been previously intimated to the pupils, obviously is a matter resting entirely with the individual teacher. Such questions, of course, afford no particular gratification to any one really desirous of forming an esti- mate of the progress of the scholars. Then any one having the slightest ac- quaintance with the examination work knows that it is almost useless for pur= poses of real information, to put ques- tions promiscnously (as the questions generally are put) to a crowd of girls and boys ina school-room filled with people, pushing and talking, and ap plauding. The effect of the examina- tion upon the schools is, however, aimost wholly for the bad. This, at least. is our opinion, formed after at- tendiag a good many examinations. The regular work of the school is aban- doned wholly, or in great part, for a month, or more, before examination, Far creater attention is paid to mere accuracy of memory, and power of readily answering stereotyped questions than to really understanding and tho- roughly digesting the _ instructions given. Everything is made to tend very much more towards producing a showy and taking exhibition on exami- nation day, than to really developing and strengthening the minds of the pupils. What then is to be done? We certainly cannot altogether dispense with annual exhibitions of some kind. There must be some occasion on which the School Commissioners can display their importance, and when the doting mother may feast her eycs with the sight of her Johnny or Mary seated at a hardwood desk, slate in hand. And in this way the examinations serve a really useful purpose, by bringing teachers and pupils, parents and Com missioners in closer intercourse and harmony, and making each to better feel and appreciate the wants and po- sition of the others. But, we say, let the exhibition be confined to such work as can be done properly on such occa- Let there be the distribution of prizes for the work of the year, let there be plenty of singing and playing, of recitations and of compositions. Let the time spent be short, but let it be short and sweet, not as a present, long and not sweet.

If there must be an examination, strictly so called, let it be of a more private nature, with more time spent over it ; and let it be conducted by per- sons who really know how examination work should be done. But '*t the ex-

SIONS,

hibition, when parents and tod the world generally, are ex dL to putin an appearance, be ma » al-

together of what is agreeable tu all,

and can be understood and appreciated

by all. The present system is unfair

to tho parents, unfair to the pupils, and

unfairest to the teachers, jand the

sooner it is changed the better. -<<—>P- -_

J. W, SreveNson, of New Glasgow, after finishing a four year's course in Bethany Col. lege, West Virginia, returned home on Satur- day last. He prosecuted his studies with' a view to being a preacher in connection with that branch of the Baptist denomination known as the Christian Church. Mr. Steven. son is to be stationed as preacher to the con. gregation at Montague and East Point,—S, J,

‘

|

Foon. Whatever advantages, real o? imagin-; ary, may attend the consumption ot) “aw vegetables, it is abundantly evident that peril must beset the use of this description of food, unless the articles

UnwaAsHEeD VEGETABLE

throughly cleansed. grow in

eaten are most For example, water-cresses shallow streams or ditches, and are apt to be fouled by dogs, which are known to be commonly infested with intes: tinal vermin. Ii the Cressex so pro- duced are not scrupulously washed—

and nothing jess than the most. pains;

taking brushing under water can cleanse them—they are more than

likely to convey into the stomach, en- tangled in their leaves or attached to the stems, the ova of tapeworms and other parasites. This isa distasteful and disgustiog reflection, but it is “one that needs to be made, because there cannot be any reasonable doubt that eresses, salads, and fruit growing low on the ground are exposed to every form of contamination, and some, at least of the impurities with which they may be defiled will probably act as vehicles for the transmission of parasitic diseases not merely disgusting but dangerous.— The Lancet.

QUEAN SPBAMSHIP COMPANY

ys

Ee We Sie Ape 5 Pe oe SOR te

SRR pes

OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Autumn Trip, 1879.

THE FIRST-CLASS IRON SCREW STEAMSHIP

PRINGE EDWARD

1,364 tons register, classed 100 Al, which is the highest class at Lloyd’s,

ROBERT FRASER, COMMANDER,

will be on the Berth at

Liverpool, to Receive Cargo,

—ABOUT THE—

ScOTH AUGUST,

AND WILL SAIL FROM

Liverpool for Charlottetown

not later than the lOth September next,

Carrying rr at through rates from Lon- don and Glasgow, deliverable at Char- lottetown, Georgetown, Summerside, Alberton, Souris, Pictou, and Shediac.

For Freight, apply, in London, to JoHN PircatRn & Sons, 16 Great Winchester street ; in Glasgow, to James Ketso, 134 St. Vincent street ; in Liverpool, to PrreairN Brorusrs, 51 South John street; in Pictou, N. %., to Noonan & Davies, or here to

PEAKE Bros. & Co.,,

MANAGERS. Ch’town, June 26, 1879--2aw

MORTGAGE SALE.

To be sold, by Public Auction, at the Court House in Summerside, Prince County, in Prince Edward Island, on TUESDAY, the twenty-second day of July next, at the hour of THREE o clock, in the after- noon, by virtue of a Power of Sale in an indenture of Mortgage, dated the eight- eenth day of September, 1876, and made between Ronald Cameron, of the one part, and Daniel Hodgson, of the other part, —

LL that tract, piece or parcel of land-

situate, lying and being on Lot or Town- ship Number Sixteen, in the Parish of Rich, mond, in the County of Prince County, in the said Island, and bounded as follows, that is to say: By a line commencing at a stake fixed in the North bank or shore of the Quagmire River on the South-east angle of 51 acres of land, now or lately in the occupation of Alex- ander H, Allen, and running thence’ by the magnetic meredian of 1764 North five-and- half degrees East ninety chains; thence East eleven chains and fifty links; thence South five-and-half degrees West to the North Bank or shore of the Quagmire River and thence along the same Westwardly; to the place of commencement, containing, by esti- mation, One Hundred Acres be the same, a little more or less, as is more particularly de- lineated and described in aplan on the margin of a certain Indenture of Lease, made between Charlotte Antonia Sullivan, and the said Ronald Cameron, together with all buildings and improvements thereon and appurtenences thereto belonging.

For further particulars, apply to the office of Messrs. Hodgson & MeLeod, Charlotte- town, |

Vated léth day of June, 1879.

{Signed) DANIEL HODGSON, Mortgagee. June 16, 1879—lawts _—

TO LET. A VERY desirable NEW COTTAGE, situate on the South Side of the Hills- borough River, Mount Stewart, lately occu- pied by Edwin Coffin, Esq. Apply to PEAKE BROS. & CO. Ch’town, June 20, 1879.—2aw tf.

UBSCRIBE for the DAILY EX

> Where a stimulant is required, it is to be pre-

AMINER the Cheapest and most Paper publishedin the Province. newsy |

NOTICE.

. lis ‘The subscriber wishes to inform the puuie | that he is prepared to make

Photographs in all the Latest Styles. PHOTO-ENAMELS. FERROTYES, &C.,

of a superior quality, and at reasonable rates.

Special attention paid to Children’s Pic- tures.

All kinds of old Pictures copied and en- larged and finished in India Ink, Oil, and Water Colors.

Work finished as above guaranteed as equal ; to any done in the Dominion.

ge Remember the place: earies’ Hall, Queen Square.

over

Apothe-

G. H. COOk. Ch'town, June 28, 1879—6i eod

DR. P. W.§, GANNING, —

Royal Colleges Physicians wud , » Bre 7 Nurgeons of Hdinburgh.

LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY. RESIDENCE :

Upper Hillsborough St., corner Hillsborough and Euston Streets, Charlottetown.

OFFICE HOURS : 8:30 toll a.m.; 7 to 9p.m. Charlottetown, June 24, 1879.—eod

aati ———————

Lie: nti ite

————— — _

SOLE PROPRIETORS

TOW I|GREENLEES = of WHISKY:A@: “BROTHERS

THE. PERFECTION

” 73,690 MORE

SINGER SRWING MACHINES

S@LI IN i878

aN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

7 Of ‘ srr f a ohine \In 1870 we sold 127,833 Sewing Machines. | «1878 °

‘¢ 356,432

yur sales have increased enormously every sie aretal “the whole period of * hard times.”

We now Sell Three-Quarters of all the Sewing Machines Sold in the World.

$ Waste no Money on ‘cheap Counterfeits.

wa Send for handsome Instrated Price List. ROBERT YOUNG, South Side Queen Square, Sole Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, March 18, 1875—2aw tf

Ame? Sammer Arraugement, 1879. TILL leave Charlottetown tor Orwell W every MONDA Y and WEDNESDAY evenings. : Leave Orwell for Charloitetown — every

UNRIVALLED For ~Lt}osTODDY:

L. GRESHAM BUILDINGS, E-C. DISTILLERIES, ARGYLESHIRE,

‘‘LorNE HIGHLAND WuiIskKy.—‘Sole pro- prietors, Greenlees Brothers, London and Argyleshire. This Whisky is a pure unadul- terated spirit, very mellow, in quality excel- lent, and in our opinion perfectly wholesome.

ferred to brandy.”—London Medical Review. Agents: - MESSRS. OWEN CONNOLLY & CO., Charlottetown, P.E.I. June 24, 1879.—6m

PHOTOGRAPHS |

MUGEHORD, Sole Licensee for Lambert's Patents Yor Permanent Photographs, for City and Queen’s County.

THEY NEVER FADE, as the old Photographs do,

ALL THE OLD SORTS HALF PRICE!

RICHMOND STREET, Opposite, London House — David Wilson's Old Stand. et

P. S.—To THe TRADE. —Photographers wish- ing to supply their Customers with Permanent Pictures, can get their Printing and Enlarging done at reasonable Prices from their own Negatives. —Sample, 25 cts, 35 cts, 60 cts.

Ch’town, May 16, 1879—3m law dy & wkly

‘THAR E’S

Directory & Hand Book

CF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FOR {880 AND i881.

—--————

Neatly Bound—Price Two Dollars,

JILL be published in a few months, pro- vided a reasonable number of subseri- bers be obtained. It will contain a complete Directory of Charlottetown and Summerside, with Business notices of the principal estab- lishments. Business Directories of Georgetown, Souris, Mount Stewart, Alberton, Montague Bridge, and more than 100 other Towns, Vil- lages and Settlements. Historical Sketch of the Early Settlement, Rise, and Progress of the Province. Its Salubrious climate, fertility and productiveness of the soil, and special ad- aptability for the growth of root and other crops, including beet. Its numerous indus- tries. Accurate records of Banks, Barristers, Judges, Justices of the Peace, Courts of Jus- tice and Law Officers, Churches and Ministers, Schools and Teachers, Corporations and For- eign Consuls, Customs, Excise and Inland Rev- enue, Postal and Fire Departments, Dominion and Provincial Governments, Board of Health, Masonic, Odd Fellows and Temperance Orders, together with other useful information.

_ The Book is designed not only for circula- tion or the Island, but in England and else- where, and will thus extensively publish the wealth, resources and natural advantages of the Province. A limited number of advertise- nients inserted at moderate rates.

Compiled by ROBERT TEARE, (formerly on staff of Business Directory, London, G. B’) P. O. Box 84, Ch’town, P. E. I.

July 2, 1879.

TO THE sick DR. D. MacRAR,

ORMERLY SURGEON and PHYSICIAN in the United States Army, late of St. Louis, Mo., respectfully announces to the cit- wens of Charlottetown and Prince Edward

TUESDAY and THURSDAY moraings, ats

1 1, Oo ClhOCch

Leave Charlottetown for. Orwell same even- ing at 3 o’elock. Returning from Orwell to Charlottetown

saine evening, arriving at Charlottetown abou 8.300 clock. Leave Charlottetown for Mount Stewart

every WEDNESCAY and FRIDAY mornings at 4 o’clock. : Leave Mount Stewart for Charlottetown at

17 o'clock.

Leave Charlottetown for Mount Stewart same evenings at from 2 to 3 o'clock, accord- ing to tide, returning to Charlottetown same evenings.

Leave Charlottetown for Crapaud every SATURDAY, weather and tide permitting, and every alternate Saturday will make a re-

turn trip. : All goods should be prepaid at Charlotte-

town, otherwise they will be stored at their destination at the risk and expense of the

owners. JOHN HUGHES, Agent, Ch'town, April 30, 1879—3m law

Iron. Iron. Iron.

ery TONS Refined, Assorted Zes. BEER & SONS. CATARRERHE.

Constitutional Catarrh © Remedy CURES CATARRH.

ee

Hear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the Constitutional Remedy.

T. J..B. Harpine, Esq., Brockville, Ont.:—

DeaR Srr—It is now two years since your *‘Censtitutional Catarrh Remedy’ was intro- duced to me. Ihave waited this ong to see if the eure would remain permanent before do- ing this, my duty, to you, as at first the effects seemed to me to be *‘too good to trne.”

I was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in yeur Circular I saw my case described in many par. ticulars. The inward ‘‘drop” from the head had become very disagreeable, and a choking sensation often preventing me from lying lon I would feel like smothering and be omnpaiee to sit up in thé bed. My health and spirits were seriously affected. When your agent came to Walkertown in August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle I found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a third, I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not usec any since until of late I have taken some for a cold in my head,

A sense of duty to sufferers from that loath- some disease, Catarrh, pronipts me to send you this Certificate, unsolicit:2d, with leave to make what use of it yon inay see proper Yours truly,

W. TINDALL, Methodist Minister. Port Elgin, Ont., Aug. 24, 1878.

Ask for Littlefield’s Cons’titutional Catarrh Remedy and take no other.

T. J. B. Harvie, Domiision Agent, Brock- ville, Ont.

For sale by all Drnggists at only one Dollar per bottle.

PW IRs «) a ie (s' PRAT.

GRAY’S SPECIFIC MEDICINE

Trape Mack, Fhe Great TRADE MARK,

(2& Englishicm- ~@zQ an Ledy, an unfail. GR ing cure for Sem- j inal Weakness, Spermatorrahe a, Impotency, and @ all diseases that =

fut

|

Island that he will be at the ‘Rocklin | quence of self-abuse; as loss of ~Memory, Uni

House,” in Charlottetown, every TUESDAY

call and receive medical advice and treatment;

deformities of the eyes, deafness and ulcera tions of the ears, catarrh, asthma, consump-

tion, diseases of the heart, liver, stomac , | ages for $5, or will be

kidneys, rheumatism, paralysis, scrofula, malignant ulcerations, tumors, piles, fistula; cancer cured without the use of the knife. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar

to iemales, All forms of fey i ; ott meals of levers, diptheria and

_ and many ty or Con-

sumption. ve. Full particulars in’ our

__} especially persons suffering from diseases and}phiét, which we desire to send free by mail to

every one. wa The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggfsts at $1 per package, or six pack- sent free, by mail, on receipt of the money, by aaldressing The Gray Medicine Co., toronto, Ont,, Canada.

N. B.—The demands of our business have necessitated our removing to Toronto, to which

t diseas ccess ! otie maligtant diseases, successfully beste iph please address, all future: communi-

Prominent Office, Huyrer River Startox,| ~s@r Sold in Charlottetown

Prince Edward Island. DUNCAN MacRAE, M. D.

tions.

Drugs

and by all wholesale and the

April 18, 1879.—p&w ly

nited States and Canada. January 24, 1879,

Prince Edward Island

+= eed

RAILWAY. TIME TABLE NO. 12. Summer Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

TUBSDAY, MAY 27th, 1879. TRAINS GOING WEST. oe

: iNos. 1 &3,| No. 5. No. 7, ST ATIONe. Express. | Mixed. Mixed, Georget'n..!Dp. 7. 10am! Dp. 3.40pm Cardigan. .|Ar. 7.30 ** | Av. 4.14 **

: : j sé 8.30 sé ** 5.40 ci Mt StwtJe Dees sé Up re ss: 9, 8 ae se 2 ss Royalty Je} Ay 9.55 = aude Y Ch’town ..|Dp.6,20am)Dp10.05am| Dp. 5.25pm << |Arl0.25 *“*

’ i Royslty Je, ** 6.37 Dp10.30 6) 66 R47 NWiltsh’re| ** 7.13 ‘| **1L25° "| “°° G40 ** Hunter JR’r| ** 7.25 “| “11.40am) * 6.57 * Breadalb’n; *‘ 7.53 *“* | ** 12. 23pm | ” 735 ” Cty line. :| *‘ 8.00 *'| “1230 ” 7.45 ** Kensingt’n se 8.28 ‘e se“ 116 «| se §.2°5 se

tea eakl Ar. 8.55 ‘* |Ar. 1.50 * |Ar. 9.00 ” Simm rside Dp.9.10 ‘6 2 25 ‘«

Tigeh ...; 12. * TRAINS GOING EAST. aie ‘Nos. 2 & 4| No. &, No. 8, STATIONS. | Express. | Mixed. | Mixed.

Tignish.. ..;Dp.5.15 am Dp.6. 20am! ———=—— —» Ar.7.15 ‘‘ j

Alberton. .| ‘* 5.55 * Dp.7.45 “14 O’Leary...{ ** G4bi$* 7: ** 8B4c** | Port Hill..; ‘* 7.38 ** | £*10.20 * | Wellington) ‘‘ 8.09 “| ‘11.08 **'

Hunter R’r; ** 6.57 **; ** 2.44 “1 **2207 *

NWiltsh’re| “712 ) * 3.0L | «DE OF « oe

Royalty Je} “ 7.49 « teed. 65 «| #12.18 pm

i “ss - £6 Ch’ town __ Ar. 8.05 Ar. 4.15 -{Arl?.40 **

‘Dp.4.30 pm| Dp.6.50 am Royalty Je

‘Dp.6.00 “* |Dp.8.50 ** Geo’ town ..

“7.08 | 10.16 “| Ar. 7.25 * |Arl0.45 **!

SOURIS BRANCH.

Trains Going West.

STATIONS, No. 9 Express! No. 1] Mixed.

OE er |Dp. 6.15 a. m.'Dp. 2.50 p. m. Harmony...... | ee. Lt ae a meees....51 ** Gam * % $s Se. f* St cos. ste ae ait) Sent as

Mt. S’tw’t Jnc,./Ar. 8.25 “ [Ar. 5.40 p.m. Trains Geing East.

No, 10 Express|No. 12, Mixed

STATIONS,

Mt. S’tw’t Junc.|Dp, 5.55 p. m.| Dp. 8.45 a: m.

Sup’t and Engineer.

Railway Office, Chtown, May 22, 1879, —pat pres h ane sp sj kca 6i

MAIL NOTICE.

AILS for Great Britain will be closed.at

10 o clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in each week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, and also on MONBAY, the 9th and 23rd June, at 4 o'clock, a. m., to be forwarded ria Halifax.

Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and Shediac and also far all places on the route to Summerside and in Prince County, will be closed daily at 5.30 o'clock, a. m., also for Summerside direct, at 5 p. m.

Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR.. . DAY, at 5 o'clock, a. m.

Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and all places on those routes, will be closed daily at 6 o'clock, a. m.

Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m.

A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

Post Office Charlottetown, May 27th, 1879.

Steam Navigation Co. Steamers MAY, 1879.

“FT NTIL FURTHER NOTICE the Steam- ers “St, Lawrence” and * Prin. cess of Wales” will leave as under :-—

NOVA SCOTIA.

SSN ENG a Before Takingfollow as a se-After Taki | DAY,

: versal Lassitude, Pain in the * tu | and Fray throughout the year, where those| of Vision, Premature Old Abe, “ud eee who are suffering with any form of disease can| other Diseases that lead to :

MON. |

From Charlottetown to Pictou, every WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and

‘SATURDAY mornings, at five o’clock.

Returning from Pictou TUESDAY WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY and SAPURDAY. on arrival of morniug train from Halifax.

FOR CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

Leave Summerside for Point Du Chene.- EVERY DAY about 9a. m., on arrival of morning train from Charlottetown.

Returning to Summerside EVERY NOON, on arrival of morning train from St. Jobn,

By order, F. Ww. Hi i Charlottetown, May 6, 1879. ——

Picture Frames & Moulding, LL the Modern Patternst— eed ort Best Workmanship—Promptly delivered,

| April 1, 1879—3m

JOHN’ NEWSON.

ed

ae

ty