The Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-17, Page 4SANE)ERS DYER, Prop,
THURSDAY, MAY 17th, 1894.
CO1f.U0S-;SC,'HOW, El) CA21U:V.
Both its England and Auteriea the
subjete, of secondary or common -school
telue:.iti iu is engaging a large share of
public. attention. So fee as Canada is
eoueerued, tt is to be feared that we
have beim 1aoa,..�.'az�7 7,:�,�lr r rr,1, that the American farmer could pay
What with frequent changes of system, the small duty which C°anada had itn
Oranges of text -books. undue political
11191:he u. its tit' t>d•r.cational dtpart-
fled the rrectienl velneless of
inneh that is artetnpeel in onr common
e c1 o3ols, the whole subject needs to be
ventilated and treated aside from party
politics, There can be no doubt that
reeler the eel Ryerson management, in
O'rl:ie th,' telt,. eti,ei of our youth was
ranee(' en rosier ties ittoi:t improved
methods and divested of all political
p•: -t tl atrtshipeve hod better results with
less cost to the province. But, what we
desire at present, its speaking of cotn-
inon-school education, is to emphasize
'the importance of adapting the educa-
tion of our youth --and especially of
farmers' sons, who constitute in
Ontario the bulk of the school -
going youth—so as to fit them better
for the practical duties of every day
life, It goes without saying that the
great need of popular education is to
prepare our boys and girls for under
standing the requirements of farm life
so as to utilize these b:. -'s of study
which enter so largel,, e the theory
and practice of agriculture. Much
time, money, and labor are now ex-
pended on the acquisition of certain
branches of knowledge which in after
years are practically useless. It is
not necessary that our youth, general-
ly speaking, should be drilled in all
the theorems of mathematics and the;
niceties of grammatical analysis, and
in dipping into all the ieees and elegies
that occupy so much time and atten-
tion in High Snhouls and Collegiate In-
stitutes. There is a great waste of time
and means in securing what after all
only proves to be very superficial with
the bulk of our rural population. What
is Most needed of course is the three
R's—but this is not all. For a farming
community such as we have in Ontario
there is special need of instructing our
young people (particularly boys) in the
composition of the rocks and soil with
which they have to deal throughout tite
year. This implies a knowledge of plant
andanimal life. It is weilehat our young
peopleshould know something about
the outer world, and for this geography
and history are most useful branches
of study. But to be successful fanners
and dairymen,our young,lads should in
the common schools be drilled in geol-
ogy and scientific agriculture—includ-
ing biology in its forms of botany and
zoology. Both boys and girls in an
agricultural province such as this
should be taught to,kuow the things
under their feet, as well as over their
bead --that, is, the nature of the soil,
the kind of fertilizing medium and
treatment of certain soils,the adaptation
of certaiu grains or roots to different
kinds of soil,—and all that relates to
stock, and poultry, and the manage
ment of everything produced by the
soil on which we live and move and
have aur being. If from early youth,
our young farmers' sons were thus in-
doctrinated with an intelligent loge of
their profession, so far from running
into the cities to seek other kinds of
employment, they could not be induced
to leave the homestead but would re-
gard their occupation as ono not of
drudgery but a profession of honor,and
emolument as well as of independence
and moral purity, Should there be
,several boys on a farm, and one or
more hays a talent or desire for pro-
fessional life, ample means of higher
and classical education are now pro-
vided within easy reach without the
loss of time spent in the rural common
schools of acquiring a knowledge of
branches that are useless to the ordi-
nary farmer. In a word, the present
system of education points our young
people to the store and to the city,
rather than to the requirements of hon-
est and hcnorahle farm life.
•
Canadian trade daring the past year
shows, an inerease of $12,185,1111, half
of which increase was inereaso its the
export of home produets, the total
trade for the year being the largest
trade that Canada has over dobe.
Iu 1S89 90 the Goveruutent found
that 33,11.2.701 pounds of meats came
into Canada from the United States
and was eousumed its Cauadla
1 tr
uiGies.
The reason was this that prices were
lu.tou t1iFt other M'idt; of the line
ow
SR T
NOTES,
During the month of April the pub•
lie debt of the United States was in-
creased by nearly $9,000,000. And
this, too, at a time when the Govern -
merit is unable to expend one cloltal. on
public works to help the unemployed,
During the past year the Australian
Colonies decreased very much in their
trade, .British commerce was less than
the Year preyious to the extent of $133,-
000,000. French. commerce declined
$07,000,000. United States trade fell:
of?$133,000,000, In the face of this feet
it is a pleasant thing to remember that
posed and still undersell tItt Canadian
farmer in. the Canadian markets.
The GoTern Went its cousegnonce of
this, as will be remembered, raised the
duties, and in .1893 instead of the large
quantity of meats as indicated by the
figures above, only 4,630,000 pound
were brought in, in other words the
Canadian farmer has been given the
market for 29,000,000 pountls of meats
If it had not been for the duty of
from 11 ets, to trects. a pound against
foreigners, Canadians would haye been
entirely driven out of their own mar
kats.
After all there is not so much difrer-
enee in the height of the tariff wall
raised by the Conservative Government
for the purpose of protection and by
the Mackenzie Government for the
purposes of revenue. It will be remem-
bered that the Mackenzie Government
placed their tariff at 171 per cent.
Taking the years since 1S79 the duty
collected 'under the National Policy
upon- all the imports coming into Can-
ada has average only 19 per cent,. The
difference is that the present tariff is
put where it can do most good to the
country.
"Why don't those P P. A. people
label themselves? Here's Hon. J, M.
Gibson going about, tackling P. P. A
fellows, and earnestly asking then to
join with him "to hill the P. P. A."'
Then the unlabelled P. P. A. goes off
and pours mirth quietly up his sleeve -
Hamilton Spectator. -
LETTERS GOING ASTRAY.
One of the most curious features of
the Postmaster General's report is al-
ways the statement of the dead letter
branch. It is marvellous to notice
some of the things that go astray iu
the mails, and finally find their way to
the dead letter office to be duly record-
ed in next veal•'., retort. Many of these
dead letters contain motley awl other
articles of great value. Fur the year
ending 29th June, 1893, there were
three thousand two hundred and three
letters received at the dead latter orrice
containing .$17,344.45 in money, forty-
seven letters contained bills of exchange
amounting to $13,406.54, five hundred
and nineteen contained cheques to the
amount of $62,79404, two hundred and
sixty eight drafts for $19,559,41, seven
hundred and tifty-two contained money
orders amounting to $11,618,53; three
hundred and sixty three have promis-
sory notes of the face value of $74,46132
five hundred and eighty-eight receipts
for $46,718.88 were enclosed, and one
I. 0. U. for $5 was amongst tete articles
of more or less value which failed to
reach their destination. Eight stock
certificates, value $17,130.00, and
twenty-one other certificates amount
ing to $22,554.23 also went astray but
it is satisfactory to know, thanks -to the
dead letter office, very nearly the whole
of these articles of value were either
delivered to the parties for whom they
were attended or returned to the send-
er. In the vast majority of cases where
letters were sent to the dead letter of-
fice the reason for non-delivery was
either that the party addressed could
not be found at the address given, or
that there was some fault on the part
of the sender.
West McGillivray: Mrs Wm Wright's
children have the dipthera, but we are
glad to say they are improying nicely.
Tuckersmith: Mr. J. E. Ball has dis
posed of a pair of fat cattle, which tip-
ped the beam at a trifle over 3,000
lbs.
It is not what its proprietors say, but
what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that
tells the story of its merit. Hood's
Sarsaparilla Cures.
ItA IETIIS.
MONEvix.—In Kipper, on April 22nd
the wife of Mr. McNevin, qf a son.
BltowN, In Exeter, on the 10 th inst,,
the wife of T. A. Brown, Principal
Exeter Pablic School, of a son.
If lEAT1116.
CONSITT,—On the Parr Line. Hay, on
May 27th, Wm. Wesley Consitt, only
son of Mr. Thomas Consitt, .aged 5
years, 11 months and 2 days.
i Ault.—ln Itodgorville on the 15th
inst., Mary Lamb, relict of ..the late
Thomas Lamb, aged 86 years. Fun
era' to -day (Thursday)
MAar.IN.—In Blyth, on May Oth, John
Martin, aged 75 years,
HMI AGES.
MOTMAN—Nxltr,—iLt the English church
rectory, Granton, on the 9th inst.,
by the
Rev. Iolm s
, Mr.
Wellington
tOn
Morgan, to Miss Annie Nei t sonly
daughter of Mr. John Neil, of Bid-
dulplt.
TENNESSEE LET"EER.
Dknut A1at GQAT1
'Aeeording to my promise to your
tightiug editor tr•heu here among us
recently 1 grasp my pen to write with
touch the s+true reefing and desire that
a Georgia negro would grasp ai water
meiou. Well, sir, lee are all yet alive
and flourishing like a tree planted in
rich ground. We. have eurvivetl the
111 effects of the very late frost which
unfortunately visited. our usually swi-
ne, plateati.. 'fills spring our wheat
and rye are -all nicely out in head, as
some few stalks of which 'I am sending
you will prove. I was =eh pleased
with your letter on the South in your
issue of April 26th, 1594, but- cannot
say that I agree with you in every- de-
tail of the same. When von come to
call our little' towit a hamlet by the
wayside you will not have any need
to search for an editor to have your
pugilistic powers put to the test, for we
are all iu that game with a full hand.
As for our razor backed swine, he tills
the bit! as welt as any pf your filter
bleeds of the swine family, and is
mach easier and cheaper brought to
maturity. The working Of nature
furnish the acorns to fatten them
and man the power to kill and eat.
Your idea of the much tallied of negro
question was simply my own honest
convictions of how they were trodden
upon by the whites, but after living
here now for some length of time and
paying close attention to this subject
1 have changed my mind about their
being abused. As a rule, nitre -tenths
of the whole race are worthless, when
haft to their own ,judgment. They will
do nothing except raise chickens and
sundry other articles which do tot be-
long to them and which will not be tol-
erated by any respectable community
when there is a way - of preventing
it. Since you were here I have made
a trip on the Cumberland river to the
city of Nashville, end during that time
had a very good chance to study the
qualifications of Sambo as we had some
of them along with us, whom we tried
to use as equals, but found that the
rule would not work, as the better we
used them the more useless they be-
came. Stern conduct is what you
trust use if you are going to get any
labor for your money from a negro. 1 -lis
chief cause for this is, I firmly believe,
want of self-respect. The more you
abuse him the better he seems to like
you, and without abuse he will not re
speet you at all Of course, I do not
say that I would uphold slavery, but
one thing I would be very much in
favor of, and that would- be to transfer
the whole race to • some country by
themselves, where they would be forced
to earn their living honestly by the
sweat of their brow. .As far as they
are conserved in filling the place of
honest white labor they are a huge
mistake, and a curse to those who are
forced to employ them.
Our little town is at fever heat over
the rapid strides which are bcine• made
at present towards developing our oil
territory. Several companies have
experts here examining the produets
of the welts which have been drilled.
They all report very favorably on the
quality our y of o e oil. The chief men of
our own land companies situated here
are also actively engaged in bringing
the oil question to a close at once.
Major J. W. Blanchard has at present.
a full outfit of drilling machinery en
route to be used here at once. Mr.
Gernt is also bringing matters to
a close to have a test made on his
lands and we all expect to be able to
hear the sound of the drill in a short
time.
The farmers here at present are busy
with hoe and cultivator disturbing the
weeds among the corn and potatoe crop.
Politics is engaging the attention Of
all office seekers at present and happy
am I that I have neither wife or baby
to kiss for some of them are so very
affectionate that they would not be sat-
isfied with kissing the sweet baby but
would also have to embrace its dear
mamma. But such is life with all .pol-
iticians even in Ontario or else they
are a badly abused race of animals.
I wish if it were possible for your
Mr. Sanders to see this country at pres-
ent and I know he would be much bet-
ter pleased than he was, although I am
sure he was very favorably impressed
with some of the population from the
interest which he toolt in the welfare of
some of our young ladies. His prom
Ise to return in the autumn to hunt
deer has a very good effect on the
countenance of..one Dear one here. My
opinion is that it is a biped instead of
a quadruped he is in search of. How-
ever cone again and you will be wel-
come. As the hour is getting late 'and
I have a strong desire to sleep and
draw my epistle to a close with a hope
that this will escape the waste basket
and with your•. permission I will prom
ise you something better in the future.
I remain, Yours Truly,
T. 1.1, Adams.
Allardt, May 12th, 1894,
[Mr. Adams was a former resident of
McGillivray tp J Ed. •
n
Tuekersmith: Thu particulars of
the sad drowning accident which hap.
pened on Suntle,y ,week to the little
five•years old daughter of Mr. John
1McLean, Tuckersmith, 1s es
fIlow
s:-
It seems that the littleone had sem)
its
grandmother coming and went down
to the edge of the stream, which flows
petit by- their place, to meet her. - The
old lady saw the little one on the edge
of the strenn) gird after a few min Wee
looked again and could not see the lit -
tie one, Search wns made but the life
less body of the bright little girl was
not found until next morning. 11
Seems that the little ono had attempted
to cross the creek on a log to meet her
„ randmothet, but felt off acid was
swept down by the stream. The - lov-
ing patentsare distracted withgrief
on account of the foss of thole deeding
child.- They have the sympathy of the
entire community irr this, their sad be
reayetnent.
It
Is Not
what No Say, But 'What
,hoot's Sarsaparilla Does,
Tltat Tells the Story,
*ods Cures
rx ct-r:aw
T : •. vita, Outat'iu.
Narrow .Escape
'Took Po?h o, i by t,w` s.1 kale'
Rad E:f ects Ertl. aiy id;iritinaateci by
Hood's arsss' arll!a,
"C. I. Ilood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
"Gentlemen—In April hast, through tilt
effects of a dose of sag, eimine taken la mistake
for another drug, 1. was laid up in St. John,.
N. B., for ten days. After this 1 never seemed
to regain my former health, and continually Su:
fired from indigestion and heart palpitation,
for widest 1 could gut no relief. I thought
I would try Eto;:d's Sarsaparilla. After
taking one bottle, I felt a little better, so con-
tinued using the remedy until I had consumed
six bottles. I found myself gaining strength
and flesh every day, and am now as healthy
as I was before taking tate poison." F. V.
S'rArnIOLL, representing. tho Seely Perfumes,
30 Melbourne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Screstria Threatened Life
Hood's S•trsopari:4a Saved Just in
Time.
"C. I. Ilood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
"For the last three years I have been a suf-
ferer from scrofula in its horst form. I had
tried all the best doctors in the city, and all
medicines advertised, but derived no benefit
from thein and had almost given up in despair,
Sarea a!mll
pFm
t!t
Henry Jones..
wishes to inform the farming community that he will
have for sale the best line of farina implements in gut..
A Carload of :rills jut in, also -
The Giant Culttvaters at;d Seeder, manufa'.tured by J. W. 'Mane, Cc
A full assortment of Plows. Sulky Plows, Roc i Scufllers, manufaetured
by the C'ockshut0 Manufacturing Company of Brantford
If you want a Buggy, a Cart, or a Waggon, give us a call: If you
want repairing, painting or horse shoeing done in a competent manner.
give us a et 11. No matter {tow small your order it will beprmptly done
'If you want the best Steel Wind meter that is made
gine us a call.
Shop, opp. Mansion House
HENRY JONES, Prop,
THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD, , ,
. .THE OXFORD.
That will barn
ROUGH WOOD AN COAL
—Equally Well—
Oxfora Rialltiato
. Will Abe At : •
Has'the Largest Oven.
IS A FARMER'S STOVE
OI BS C006 8TOiE WITHOUT WICK
Makes and Burns Its Own Gas
From Common Coal 011.
NO DIRT NO HEAT IN THE KITCHEN.
Cooks a Family Dinner for Two Cents.
Is Everybody's
ook Stove.
Try it! -
�h rin
The GURNEY FOUNDRY CO., Ltdg9 TORONTO
For Sale by C
B LE`j CK & FQLL,AND
errs.
Atkinson's Furniture War&.
rooms is the cheapest and best
place in the County to buy Fur-
niture. . . . . . •
•
when persuaded by a friend to try hood's Sar-
saparilla, which I have now taken for about five
months, and am now nearly wolf. I consider it
has saved my life, and cannot speak too highly
of it and will recommend it to all my friends,
and es pecially anyone suffering from scrofulous
diseases." Wil.Frin C. Rican, Toronto.
H god's Pllis cure all liver ills,constipation,
biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion.
USE
•
PERRY.'••FOR'.
w • ALL �•%,
CAVI' BOWEL
.•TROUBLES/�
PA11N' '44:1,
MURRAY & C0.
�t?Ianuf,tefnrers and iDealerix 7n
Walking and Riding
Plows, Cultivators, Iron
Plows, Spade and Disk
Harrows, Land Rollers.
Castings of every descrip-
tion in Brass and Iron to
order. Also dealers in
e
Piping, Fillings, Brass
(Roods, Shaftings, Pulleys
and Hangers. Special
prices to dealers in large
quantities. Repairing
promptly done. . . . .
JAS. tatiRR Y Ei CO.
Furniture!
Furniture!
Furniture ! ! !
We have moved back to
our old store again and
have the finest stock of
Parlor, Bedroom and Din-
ingroom Furniture in the
town, at prices that can-
not be beaten. Elegant
new bamboo goods just
coming in. .
See our beautiful new
warerooms, We are
bound to sell if good
goods nicely di.splayed alt
very low prices will clo it.
ADLEY SON7
ODD FELLOW'S Bloat
A first-class Bed -room Suite for only $9 and every
thing else in comparison. All goods guaranteed to -
be my own make, of first-class dry material, nothing
but best hard lumber used.
Lumber and Wood
Taken in exchange for Furniture.
Wire Mattersses.
The only place in town where you can buy the
Patent Dominion Nickle-Plated Wire Mattress,—war -
ranted not to rust.
J.D. Atkinson, Prop.
BRANTFORD
STEAM
LAUNDRY!
A. HASTINGS, Agent
If you want your linen to
look whiter than snow, take
it to . . . . . .
RL. w�sriHaG, �
EXETER'S Popular Tonsorial Artist
Ladies' and Children'
Haircutting,
A. specialty.
CLOTH"'
A. J. SNELL
IvSain. et.
EXETER ONTARIO
Has now in stock
Spring ��d
IN THE FOLLOWING LINES:
West of England Suitings and Trou
tat nge,
Scotch Tweed Suitings and Trouser
ngs.
French and English . Worsted Cloth
A11 rade up tri. the Latest
Style, at best Hates.
A. 31 SNELL
Loadman's,wer
COMMERCIAL LIVERY.
First-class Rigs and Horses
Orders left at Hawkshaw's
Hotel, or at the Livery
Stable,(Christe's old Stand)
will receive prompt at-
tention .. .
Term s
Reasonable
Telephone
Connection
Exotei' Luiuier
Yal'd
The undersigned wishes
to inform thegeneral public
that he keeps constantly in
stock all kinds of building
material, dressed and un-
dressed lumber . .
B. C. Red, O ntaric
High Land and
Pine Shingles. .
Special notice is drawn
to B. C. Red Cedar which
is acknowledged to be the
most - durable timber that
grows; especially for shing•
les.
36 to 40 years. -.
It is said by those who
know, that they will last
from 86 to 40 years in any
climatA .
James Willis, . illi
,