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FRIDAY, FEBRUARR 10th, 1888.
WN1FO1Ut P1i,u1IQTION EX&MINA,
TIONS.
In view of the fact that a commit-
tee appointed for that purpose has
drafted a scheme for the carrying out
of a system of uniform promotion
oxamivations in this inspectorate we
submit a few arguments in favor of
this progressive movement. The sub-
ject is one of vast educational
importance and well worthy of very
full consideration and discussion.
The principle of teachers examining
and promoting their own scholars is at
least unsatisfactory, and viewed less
favorably year by year. We argue in
favor of Promotion Examinations :
1. They assist in school classifica-
tion. This is an essential element to
succesful teaching, without which
smooth working or real progress is
impossible. Secure this, have definite
limits laid -clown and you have sur-
mounted one great obstacle.
2. They create enthusiasm, and
what is a school without this f The
teacher must be enthusiastic and the
more successfully he can inspire the
same enthusiasm in his scholars, the
better is lie fitted for his calling:. It
devolves on teachers ta.rouse interest,
to clothe eubjects.with freshness and
attractiveness, to be earnest and
enthusiastic,
3. They engender a pleasant and
good-natured rivalry. Some may
object, but we speak only of their
effects under our own observation.
Some may say they lead to cram.
We don't see much force in this con-
tention, however.
4. They tend to secure parental co.
operation. This is a positive.neeeseity,
without which no teachercan succeed:
E4ery teacher can see •the advantage
of this co-operation •in a greater
regularity of attendance, punctuality,
1l,Ltentiveness, respect and preparation
of home work.
5. They afford trustees a means of
judging of a teacher's success. They
plat. teachers on their mettle. They
haveeweeded out inefficient ones. It
is -by showing that they are doing good,
and conscientious work that teachers
can gain confidence and obtain better
salaries.
'6: ^They relieve teachers of :the
unpleasant responsibility of prpmoting
their own scholars. Who lawn not
heard of complaints from scholars and
parents in this connection.
7. They :widen the rangeof.teaching.
Tiley tend to•lift teaehers•out of ruts.
Promotion examinations cause teachers
to, seek new styles of questions,
methods of stating them, etc.
&.:'They are in the interests of
teacher's coming into a new school.
How confounding and annoying to go
into a dieorganized and unclassified
school,. Children at times embrace
this as an opportune tune to change
classes. Teachers have been .known
to promote very unfit scholars from.
personal motives when leaving a
section.
9. They improve the attendance,
stimulate zeal, promote antbi-ion, and
ci gender•a love and fondness for the
pupil's own school.
10. They create sympathy and good
feelings amongst members of the pro-
fession and tench to give greater status
to the teacher's calling. We fre-
qaently hear complaints about the
despised fraternity, about the want of
due .deference ,to 'an l respect for a
calling which is second to none in
point of responsibility, dignity,.iutelli-
gence and influence.
11. They undoubtedly elevate the
general educational. standing.. very
materially, induce .some measure of
uniformity in the schools in an inspec-
torate. The counties which first
adopted them and maintained them
steadily and with growing enthusiasm,
rank highest in the Province from an
educational standpoint.
We might. mention Middlesex,
Liilceln, Peel, : Perth, Wellington
and Oxford.
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EDITORIAL,NOTES
MI' D. Buttervvorth, .who Inst year
br°wught up resolutions in Congress
in; favor of iCommercial Union,
r'eitntroduced them in a 'somewhat
thiterent form., They set forth
the contignons - position of the two
countries, their close onion of4nteyests
anti' the importance of .'adjusting.
yi tila .diWarences. ,.
r..
The Isle of Lewis crofters, charged
with killing deer &c. were honorably
acquitted at their recent trial at Edin-
burgh.
Four chartered banks are being
wound up. The Maritiwe Bank of
New Brunswielt and the Central Bank
of Canada are in liquidation, the Pictou
Bank is winding up business and the
Bank of London has suspended pay -
went and is rerslicing on its assets,
At the Prdvinoial Institution for the
education and instruetiou of the blind,
there were 142 pupils enrolled last
year. Of these 83 wore males and 59
females. The total expenditure was
$32,887. the cost per pupil was $24
7.27. Articles ]manufactured by the
pupils, chiefly in knitted goods and
willow work, were sold to the value of
$500.
The Institution for the Deaf Dumb
at Belleville is doing splendid work,
with Mr. Mathison as superintendent.
Last year there were 231 pupils in at-
tendance, 134 boys,and 97 girls. The
total expenditure was $39,695. The
cost per pupil was $171.10. The
boys have been taught the use of tools
and how to make fancy articles. The
girls have been instructed in: tailoring,
dressmaking, plain sewing ;and Miley
work.
In general the proposecV reduction
by the new American tariff bill now
before Congress, will be $25,000,000
from internal taxes, and $50,000,000,
from customs, as follows••: • on wollen
goods, $10,0001000 ; free wool $5,000,
000 ; cottons and other articles of gen-
eral use, $15,000.000 ; sugar, 20 per
cent., making about $10,000,000 ;
steel rails, reduced to $2 a ton ; pig
iron, '4.50. a ton ; chemicals, a large
reduction by articles enumerated. To
the free fiat, besides wool, will be add-
ed" coal, iron ore, salt and lumber.
T1ze,redu.ctiou of the tax on menu
factored toba5co exclusive of cigars
end -cigarettes, and other minor items,
is expected to make up $25,000,000
from that source.
The places of amusement in London
number nearly 650, anlof these more
than 450 are Music halls. The capital
invested -in London in places of amuse-
ment is said to be little short of £4,-
000,000, .without reckoning places like
the Crystal Palace, the Albert Hall,
etc. Direct employment is given to
about 150,000" people. The capital
invested in similar places of amuse-
ment .in Great Britain (excluding Ire-
land,'"the Isle of Man, and the Chan-
nel Islands), and comprising about
550 towns and cities, is over 6,000,•
000. This gives direct employment
to about 350,000 people, besides indi•
rest employmeut to tnany more, and
provides accomedation for nearly 1,-
000,000 spectators.
This remark from the Empire has
b great deal of force : If there is one
thing that more than another is fitted
to promote the spread of anarchist
ideas it is the difference that exists in
the punishments of poor and rich crim-
inals. The man who steals a leg of
mutton is pretty certain to go to prison;
the men who have robbed the Central
Bank and brought about its ruin are
going to escape the slightest punish-
ment at the hands of Canadain courts.
In the one caseethe forms of+law afford
every facility far the capture: and trial
and condemnation of the of%dndor ; in''
the other, the fdrrns of law have beeu
utilized to facilitate the removal of a
band of wreckers to the Unitech States
and beyond the jurisdiction of the
courts of Canada. Wherever the de-
fect may be, the result is that we have,
practically one law for the poor and
another for the rich, that is, for the
man who conducts his plundering op-
perations on a sufficiently bold and
camprellensive scale to give him con-
trol of large sums of money.
Monthly School Report.
Attendance for the month of January:
BOYS. OIRLs. AVERAGE.
16 32- 36
17 23
3/ 22 34
33 21
30 23
37 35
49 38
I. Dep.
II '•
111
IV "
V
VI "
VII "
53
44
43
58
63
219 184 331
The following pupils are entitled to
honor standing in their respective
fortns for the month. The honor mark
is 80 per cent of the aggregate num-
ber 'of marks obtainab:o.
Ekst department, class A, a form
$,,,obtainable 898 ; honor mark 818.4
.Toe McDonogh, 372, Nellie Grey, 865;
John Harper, 355 ; Etta Gordon, 340 ;
Carrie Macdonald, 837; Nellie Paulin,
320. Clare B,.`.a form of 7 -obtain.
able 404; honorulark 3281:7 -Marion
Inglis, 887 ; Mary Cornyn, 885 ;
Emma Campbell and Willie Mallagh,
870. Class 0, a form of 22 -obtain.
able 642 ; honor mark 432: -.-Arlie
Homuth, 497 ; Eva Dawson, 484 ;
Addie McDowell, 476 ; Alice Johns,
470 ; Lizzie Bullard, 467 ; F, Agnew,
456 ; Chas. Smith, 454 ; Lillian Hal-
stead, 449 ; Ada Holmes, 446; E.
Gordon 441; Minnie Itisdon 439.
= Second department -marks obtain:
able 1089 ; honor ;nark $31. -Clara
Chapman, 958; Mary Wells, 948;
George Sills, 944; Martha Sadler,
985 ; Maurice Park, 912 ; Lottie Mo
Kenzie, 884 ; Sarah Farquharson, 870;
Thomas Gray, 864 ; Charley Cargill,
845 ; Harry Merck, 882: Annie
Stewart, 865.
Third'department, total 404; honor
80 percent„ 323:-- Gusty McLaugh-
lin, 384 Walter Bisdon, 380 ; Annie
Loutit 374 ; Eddie Rankin, 372; W.
Farquharson, 367 ; Mary Hab'airk,
364 ; George Lloyd, 858 ; E. Green,
81.8 ; Geo. McMaunus, 340: Lornie
Gordon, 346 ; Lizzie Chalmers, 343 ;
Wesley Watson, 340 ; Ida Kerr, 339 ;
Lizzie Clark, 330 ; Maggie Galbraith,
327 ; Emily Tipling, 825 ; Aggie
Deans, 324.
Fourth department, marks obtain-
able 1,082 ; honors 865: - Harvey
Strathdee, 1020 ; E. Miller, 1019 ;
G. McDonogh, 989 ; R. McTavish,
982; W, Allen, 969 ; L. Wells, 917 ;
S. Rankin, 915; D. McLaren, 881:
Fifth department -obtainable 1062;
honor mark 849:-S. Rogers, 1048 ;
Kirtie Ross, 1045; David Langley,
1038 ; Annie Dawson, 1035 ; Hugh:
Hamilton, 1031x;. E.obt. Dallas, 1027•;
E nuns' Henderson, 1017 ; Wish.
Cargill, 1014; Hughie Hamilton,
971 , W. Moore, 966 ; Linda Mo-
Clymont, 955 Edna Strathdee, 937 ;
Eddie Brennan and Edith McCly-
mont, each 867 ; C. Jerome 859; S.
Roderus; 855.
Wingham Town Council.
All the members were present on
Monday evening except Mr. Cline.
The following accounts were• ordered
to be paid: Jell Ferguson,.; deputy
returning officer, $3 ; F. Holloway,
$6.50 ; J. Fleuty, do., $650 ; do.
for printing, :$22>%5 ; ;Villiam Rob-
ertson, re. officer, $6.50;.1. Hurtibese,
repairing alarm wire, $2 ; J, 'Bullard,
wood for indigents, $3.05 ;: 0. Ne
Griffin, goods do., $2.50 ; Robt, Orr,.
goods, $2.14 ; J. H. Stephenson, hooks
and staples for water works, -50 cts. ;:
Bell Telephone. Co., $2.60 ; Duffield'
& Son, pails, etc., $8.18 ; T. Moore,
digging grave, $1.50 ; A. Galbraith,
relief to indigent, 50 pents ; R. Irwin;
wood, $13 50: ` On motion of Messrs'
Towler and Homuth the taxes of .
Gray, Sperling & Co. were remitted.
On motion of Messrs.'Towler and Neel•*
ands the taxes of Miss Wilkinson,'
'Mrs. D•Kennedy, Mrs. i)onovan and
Mrs. Saint were remitted. A tnotien
by Messrs. Holmes and Little that the
rent of the hall be '$3 to residents and
$5 to outsiders, and that it be given
to none except,the Millers' Association
granted at this:meeting, wasiaost. On
motion of Messrs. Neelands and the
deputy reeve Mr. S. Youhill was ap-
neinted assessor at a salary of $70. Mr.
John Dickson was re-elected treasurer
on -motion of Messrs. Williams and
Black, the salary to be $7-5 as treas-
urer and $30 as tax collector. On
motion of the reeve and -deputy Mr.
J. B. Ferguson was appointed. clerk
at a salary of $250. Oon motion of
Messrs... McKenzie and Holmee-'IVli.
George :Pettypiece was re-elected con-
stable. at $425 salary, duties to he the
same as •last year except ringing the
town; bell. Messrs. IIolmes and Wil-
liam moved that the band be paid
the .last quarterly appropriation. Mes•
-
srs. Williams, D. Pringle and Greg-
ory were chosen a Board of Health on
motion of Messrs. 'McKenzie and Tow-
ler.. On motion of Messrs. Neelands.
and Towler it was agreed to receive
applications for ringing the bell every
day in the week at the usual hour.
Moved by Neelands and the deputy
reeve that the executive committee
get legal advice on the matter of the
council's responsibility idr the pay-
ment of taxes on certain mill
privelege property connected with
the water works agreement between
Mr. pocky and the corporation, after
said property hacl been sold. On
motion of Messrs, Homtith and Wil-
Hams, Messrs. Morton, McKenzie, Rob•
inson, Neelands and Gregory were
chosen a court of revision for the year.
hvtr, Stiles' request to be relieved from
percentage charged on overdue taxes
was refused. Messrs Holmes and Mc-
Kenzie moved that the charges against
the property of George Green by the
Board of Health be withdrawn. On
motion of Messrs. Holmes and
i:loinuth it was agreed that no morn•
ber of the council let any contract of
cvend anytlioneynnless sanctioned by
the eouneil, except hi a pressing emer-
gency. On motion of Messrs, Neel -
ands and the deputy reeve Messrs. P.
Deans, Wm. More and D. MeKinlay
were chosen fano viewers. On motion
of Messrs. Towler and 1VIcKenzie it was
agreed'to rent the room in resr of i'4r.
Morton's office and the vault in con-
nection for an office for the mayor and
clerk, rent not to exceed 83 per Month.
Mr, Black gave notice of a notion to
rescind the motion passed at last meet-
ing of last year's council respecting the
renting of the town hall.
Greatly Prospering.
Notwithstanding the general ex
perience and admission of depression
in all lines of trade, the pushing turn.
of Gilchrist,' Green &'' Co. have a
veritable''rush'of business at the pres-
ent time. On a trip to Toronto,
Nitagara, •Port Hope, &c. last week Mr.
Green returned with orders amounting
to 81,647. Besides this $1,041 of
mailed orders were received. Ship-
ments of goods were made every day
last week, over $1,000 worth having
been sent in that time. This weak
Mr. Green is taping in places in line of
Stratford, Sarnia, London, St. Thomas,
Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, &c. It
is evident that the superior articles
turned out by this live firm are in
splendid demand in the market.
Dr. Laidlaw's Sermons.
MY DEAR TIMES, -"The heather,
beats us all," exclaitned Liord,Canning,
after listening entranced to a perfier-
vid -ora^tion deliverej'by•Thomas Chal-
mers in 'London. Robert Ball, of
Leicester probed the matter a little more
deeply, when he compared the mind
or method of the great Scotsman to
the kaleidoscope, a philosophical toy
invented by Sir David Brewster. In
this toy, by an arrangement of a few
pieces of colored glass, in accordan-
ce with the laws of optics, at every
turn some new form of beauty
delights the spectator. Similarly, but
with a difference, Dr. Laidlaw, of
Hamilton, on Sunday morning dealt
with the Christian neophyte, in the
school of the world's great Teach-
er on to the filial examination
which he touched upon so gracefully in
the peroration of his evening dis-
course. The massive, masculine mind
of the Scottish theologian was apt to
be led away by the very gorgeousness
of the images conjured up-' before the
mind's eye of his hearers, but this
could never be alleged of the Hamilton
divine. As you may possibly give an
outline of his discourses, 1 have no
fear that the above remarks, however
rudely presented, will.be found incon-
sistent -with your outline. I may
mention in conclusion that from 1839
onwards to the disruption and three
years afterwards, I sat under the minis-
try of Guthrie, Cunningham, Candlish,
Buchanan and John Bruce, of Free
St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and I can
affirm without hesitation that Dr.
Laidlaw, as a pulpit orator, compares
favorably with each and all of the
above. W. LITHGow.
ge Mind.= Eill1t5
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Dated JariC:30, 1888.-834.2t. County Huron.
1VI USIC LESSONS.
MISS M. MORIES wishes afeM;pupils in Music.
Six year's; experience in teaching. Terms
Moderate. Use of piano' for pupils practising, if
necessary. RESIDENOE: North and Francis street,
Wingham.
Wingham, Jam+.20,15" 0.".832.41.
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Trains an•tve.'lit Wingham on this lino as follows;
1.35 u. m., 2.3J 10, 01., 10.10 p. 10,
Trains leave Wingham on this line as follows:
5.16 a. in., 2 p.m., 0.80 p. in.
GRAND TRUNK R'Y.
Trains arrive and depart from Wingham as follows:
AStilvli, DRPAh1'.
Palmerston 10 10 a nr 0 80 p
Toronto.,,.
n u
126 p in 11 10 a ,n
i010pm 725pzit
London and South 11 20 p sr 7 00 it 10
740 pin 310 pre
Kini`
ardinobranch 0 30 a in 11 26 p m
„ e 1110 a10 325 pill
,r II 735pin 1010ple
Tho trains le3vjng hero at 0.30 n. m,, reaches 1' l-
moieton at 8.05,; Toronto at 12,30 and 1100111100 at
Neat in style, Moderate in 12.26; tiro one leaving at 11.10, reaches Palmoraton
nt i.li) p, m. ; Toronto at 7 "5 p:.nl. ; a id. U*titlton
Priti , and Prompt in Time. , ar,0,00 p. in,