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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, zgog
W, H. KER R, Proprietor
New Advertisements
Sg111nR out—Tae, Shaw.
Sollhig out—Wm, Pickard,
Auatien sale—Jas, Duncan.
Hess' Stuck Food—Jas. Fox.
New dress g600ds—A. Straohan.
Boom wnutod—Miss Violet $nines.
Joint deposit a000cuits—Motropolitarr Bank.
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MoncrlefF
W. G, McKay has returned after
enjoying a couple of inonths in the
North West.
Iris. Robert Robertson, an old resi-
dent of the community, now of Monk -
ton, spent a few days at the old home-
stead this week.
Clinton
J. Fair and the employees in the
hill, along with IL McTaggart N.
Ball and J. Steep presented Richard
A. Govior with a fine leather suitcase
ontheoccasion of his marriage. Mi'.
Goviel• was taken by enrprise but re-
turned his thanks to the givers ofthe
prift. Mr. Govier has been an em-
loyee at the mill'buthas resigned to
take over the store at Summerhill.
After an illness extending over a
year, and only being confined to his
bed for the past four weeks, George
Doherty, an old citizen., passed away
on Sunday of last week to the Great
Beyond. Deceased had been troubled
with a cancer onhis lip, but medical
aid was unable to stop the disease.
Mr. Doherty was born nn St. Vincent
township, Grey Co., in 1844, and with
the -family moved to Claude township,
Peel Co., to live, There he married
his partner for life, Miss Martha
Shannon, about 35 years ago. With
this union two children were born,
Miss Doherty, of Stratford Collegiate
staff, and Lew, of Godericln. Besides
his family he leaves two brothers (W.
D. Doherty, of town, and T. 0.
Doherty, of London,) and two -sisters
in the States, to mourn the loss of il.
brother, 20 years ago the deceased
moved to Clinton where he has con-
tinued to reside ever since. He was a
Conservative in politics. The futuiral
was held Tuesday afternoon ofat
week from the family residence, and
the service at the house was conduoted
by Rev, Mr. Jolliffo, The pallbearers
Were A,13. Chant, W, G. Smyth, Jno.
Gibbiegs, S. Kemp, Time, Beacom
and A, D. Beaton.
We are sorry to state that Jno.
Shiple , of Moosomin, and son of
Thos. shtp(ey, on the Huron Roach, le
dangerously ill in the hospital in that
town from typhoid fever, His father
left Monday afternoon of last week
for the above place. John,as he was
well known to everyone in town, went
West with Mr. Jacobs when the latter
gentleman moved his gent's furnish-
Ings, ate., to that place. His many.
friends here will wish for a speedy re-
covery. Later—Mr, Shipley died and
his body will be brought here for
burial.
Wroxeter
NOTES.—A. Elliott, of Unionville, a
former resident of the village, renew-
ed acquaintances here on Friday.—
Dr. McKenzie visited in Toronto over
the holiday. -J. Young, of Hillsburg,
is the guest of his neice, Mrs. H.
Harding.—Miss Pearl Ireland, of Der-
ham, spent several days recently with
her annt, Mrs. F. V. Dickson.—Cres-
by Leckie, of Winghain, spent Sun-
day with hie brothers here.—R.e
Wendt and J. Little, of Teeswater,
spent Monday with the former's
brother, 3. R. Wendt.—Miss Gregg,
Exeter, xeter, is the guest of Mfrs. W. of
Brawn,—W. H. and Mrs. Carr,
Toronto, who formerly resided in the
Village, are spending a few days here.
—Mrs. T. G. Hemphill is holidaying
with friends in London and Rensall.
—Owing to the Teachers' Conventionlast
which was held in. Wiugham
Thursday and Friday there were two
days' holidays in the school here.—
Mrs.'W.3ox and children aro visiting
the formers parents in laistowel.-n
Jghn chid Mrs, Barnard, of Loudon,
were the guests of relatives here over
the holiday.—Norman Kalbfleisoh
spent Thanksgiving Dayin Mildmay,
Miss
r hand daughter,
--Mr's FIy. S nitl ,
Bella, have returned from a month's
visit with friends in phesley.—S. M,
Robinson, of Respeler, visited his
Mparents over Thanksgiving.—Mr. and
rs. Davey,, of Grand Valley, are
visiting their son, Fred. Davey,
Sommerville Hamilton, of Toronto, is
the guest of his parents, Jim. and
Mrs. Hamilton.—Miss F. Bittle, of
Hespeler, visited her aunt, Mrs. W.
1VI.' Robinson last week.—Mrs. Hy.
Armstrong was a visitor in Listowel
over the holiday.—Editor Chisholm is
this week moving his printing plant
to the vacant store in the Sanders'
block, formerly occupied by J. Cowan.
—Miss Edith Barris has returned to
Toronto after a few daysvisit at her
home here.—The M, Di. M. Society
intends giving the,play entitled, "The
Spinster's Return, about the first of
December.
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Grey
Miss Jennie Rands, of Summerhill
was here for a short holiday with her
parents and friends.
A car of engem beets was shipped to
Berlin factory by Louis Hollinger,.
10111 con„ this week.
Miss May Hogg, of Blyth, and bro-
ther Harold. of Londesboco, spent
Thanksgiving at home.
Albert and Mrs. Tuck, of Clifford,
spent Thanksgiving with the latter's
mother, Mrs. F. Miller,
Geo. and Mrs. Baker and 3fiss Jewel
attended the Donahue and Nicholson
wedding in Logan last week.
11 McKay, who has been living in
Logan for the past year intends mov-
ing back to his farmon the 14th con.
Grey, shortly.
L. Frain represented Roe's League
and Sabbath School at the Provin-
cial Sunday School Convention in Tor-
onto this week.
We are sorry to hear that Mrs.
Edward Garvin is lea .up with an,
attack of pneumonia but we hope she
will soon be clear of it.
Mrs. Wm. Smitb,of Toronto, &form
er resident of the .16th con., was re-
newing old friendships in Grey, Her
many friends were pleased to see her
looking so well.
Last week Hartwell Speiran, 15th
con., got a back from a pleasure trip
to the West. He saw considerable of
the oonntry, met many people he
knew and had a good time generally.
G. B. Sayers and wife, of Erin lo-
cality,were welcome visitors at Chas.
Rozell's. The gentlemen are cousins.
This was the first visit here for Mr.
and Mrs. Sayers but we hope it will
not be the last.
In addition to the regular service
held at Roe's church, the Sabbath
School presented their Rally Day
program which was very much ap-
preciated. The pastor gave an excel-
lent address on Thanksgiving and the
music rendered by the choir was quite
appreciated.
Gonna A Goon GAIT.—One day
recently the question of apple picking
was raised and to :prove that Grey
folk are not behind in this business
Louis Hollinger picked a barrel from
a tree in 10 minutes. The test was
made on Lot 11, Con. 10 and the time
McNair. Now,
was Wm. ilc you
keeper fellows
hustlers, trot otltyour speedy
and give Grey a chase,
SUDDEN DEATE.—Monday bust,
Archie McNeil, eldest son of Lachlan
McNeil, 1411 con., was called away
from Hine very suddenlyn1y
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d to the
sad surprise of the community. De-
ceased had an abscess in what is called
the middle ear and it is supposed to
have broken inwardly causing almost
instant death. Noticing a change for
the worse a messenger was despatch-
ed for a doctor but before the tele-
phone office at Cranbrook was reach-
ed the vital spark had fled. Mr. Mc-
Neil was born in Grey and lived for a
number of years on the farm on which
he died. For a tune he farmed in
Howick and East Wawanosh town-
ships, marrying Miss Lambkin,: of the
former municipality whom with four
daughters and.a son survive. Mx..
McNeil and family came to the home-
stead here last year to relieve his par-
ents of the heavy work that increas
• ing years was making somewhat bur-
• donsomo and his unlooked for demise
• brings to a sudden stop the plans for
mthe future. Deceased was a Liberal
a in politics ; a Presbyterian in religion
9 and an industrious man who enjoyed
the esteem of the community. hure-
9 day afternoon the funeral took place,
• interment at Oranbrook cemetery.
Rev. D. B. McRae conducted appro-
• priate servides. The bereaved will be
• accorded 'widespread sympathy in
• their sadness. Mr. McNeil was a
member of the Chosen Friends.
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Misses Dunbar, who were visiting
at StMdridge for some time, arrived
back this week after an enjoyable and
a 11e0t11 provoking visit.
Mrs. Spence had the inisfortuno to
get a nasty fall the other night while
attempting to arrange some window
curtains and has been laid up for
several days but we are pleased to say
shei improving and hope she', will.
sn be all rightgagain.
Jonathan Wright boug ht the stoclt
bull of. Harrison Bros„ Kincardine.
His dam "Biile Dec:kul Queen, 2nd,"
gave in a 7 day test 332 lbs. of milk
and 12,81lbs, of bettor. His eire's
dam "Tidy Abbeherbs" gave;4n bs
day test 551 lbs, of milk ane 5,
of butter and 81 lbs, of milk in ono
day. =A full sister to his sire i gave.
97 lbs of milk in one day an& and 26
lbs. of better in 7 days. His dam
made this test as a 2 year old.
The League of the Ethel Methodist
church intend holding one of their
social evenings on Nov. 1st at the resi-
dence of S. S. Cole. The idea is to
snake this a genuine Halloween party.
There will be notices in all the places
of business in the village. Come aricl
have your fortune told by a witch of
the art and all are to try to make the
social evening a real success. A
silver offering will be taken up in alcl
of the League, but do not.. bother
getting the dimes changed to niekles
before you come.
OisAwc+n SffPFE IL—The Orange fowl
supper given on Thanksgiving night
was a very decided success. The night
was rather damp and no doubt kept
many at home, but notwithstanding
the ram, the Township Hall was filled
to the doors. The supper was served
in Gibson's Hall and certainly there
was an abundance of fine fowl and
other good things and any one who
came with an appetite certainly lost it
before leaving the tables. The chair
was well filled by Rev. Mr. Lang -Ford,
of Listowel, who with a few, well
chosen remarks opened the program.
Music by the Ethel Orchestra .and
encore ; a fine reading by Miss Cole,
elocutionist ; .a beautiful song and en-
core by Miss Spence. Speech by Dr.
Chisholm,' which was first amusing,
then instructive bringingout some of
the Scripture teaching ,and lessons
which every. Orangeman must receive
and memorize before he can receive
his degrees. This was followed by a
fine reaching by Reginald Neil. Rev.
J. Henderson gave a short address
after which 3. Livisolin, of Bradford,
Eng., rendered a fine solo and encore ;
Rev. J. Pearson gave a historical
address showing what. the Battle of
the Boyne meant to Europe 'and the
whole world. Miss Freeman gave a
good solo and encore; nextthe orches-
tra gave a selection and encore. Rev.
Mr. Henderson sang by special re-
quest the "Ninety and nine" which was
enjoyed by all. Singing of National
Anthem closed ie very successful and
enjoyable evening. The Society num-
bered 13, 2 years ago and now has a
membership of 71 and hopes to have
100 by next Thanksgiving.
EAST HURON PEDAGOGUES iN SESSION
SUCCESSFUL GATHERING HELD IN WINGHAM.
The 36th annual convention of the
East Huron Teachers' Association was
held in the'Wingharn High School on
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 21st and
220d. Although the weather was
vory unfavorable, the attendance was
good and ;the convention interesting
and instructive throughout, After'
Principal Stalker had,conducted open-
ing exercises, tliefollowing committees
were appointed :—
Progr'azn—Misses Reynolds, Road-
house and Stevens. •
Resolution—Messrs, Cameron, Our-
tis and Miss Thompson.
Reporters -Miss Brock and 3..1-Tart-
1ey.
The first paper was read by Miss
Harding, of rvie, on "The Teacher,
the Pupil and the Rome." The teach
sr should be . a student of character,
He should be able to control himself,
be kind, sympathetic and liberal -
minded. A teacher should be humble
and ready to serve like the Great
Teacher. Children are imitators.
Aim to secure the good will of your
pupils and take part in their sports.
Keep the school neat and tidy. Study
thehome life of the pupils. Visit the
homes and show the parents that you
are interested in their children.
Mr. Taylor, Principal of Wingham
High School, gave a very excellent ad-
dress on "Bacteria." He defined it as
a vegetable, not animal, organism ;
found everywhere, in running streams
and stagnant water. It is very sel-
dom found in soil beyond a depth of
four feet, and in water to all 'depths,
There are two classes of bacteria, the
innocuous and the patlhogenic; the
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Will Young, of Toronto, was a visit-
or at Joe Bennett's.
Miss LenaBennett and Roy German
Sundayed with friends in McKillop.
Roy's a great boy with the lassies.
Last Sunday the service in St.
George's church was conducted by
Mr. Garside, of Brussels. sels. 1h
erector
was at Millbank conducting Thanks-
giving services.
KNITTING.—Miss Mary Jackson has
opened up a shop over Messrs. Fer-
guson .5 Harris' store, where she will
public iu
g after the wants
of the ub c
look P
knitting soaks, stockings, &c.c.
Ethel
Miss E. Hansuld was home from
Clinton for the holiday.
Miss Agues Welker spent Thanks-
giving with:frieuds in Ohesley.
Miss Luella Beery was visiting
friends in Donegal over Sunday.
Mrs, Schaefer and children visited
friends in Berlin over Thanksgiving.
Postofice Inspector Fisher visited
the postoffice hero ono day Inst week
and reports everything in splendid
order.
14Ir. and Mrs. Ackhart, of Holy -
rood, were visiting Mrs. Ackhart's
parents, 0. and Mrs. Raynarcl, this
week.
Dr. Blair hes changed his residence
and is now in the house formerly
owned by Mr. Gibson sr.,, next door to
the home of the late Township Olerk
McIntosh.
Miss D. Walsh, bili junior teacher,
attended the Teachers' Convention
held in Wingham last Thursday and
Friday. She remained aucl visited
her parents over Thanksgiving,
ing may be, taught are when a pupil
reaads'soine selection that he thinks
worth while to an attentive, sympa-
thetic audience, Iii order to read well
the pupil roust know the function and
sound of each word. Mr. Dear-
ness recommended" the use of the
word, or look and say method, with
beginners. After a few word have
been learned, the pupil ;should be in-
troduced to sentences expressing
simple thoughts, and then the study
of phonics should be ppz'oeeecled with.
Mr. UurGis g
"The Teaohet's'a ve Alalianshcer e atnda aactress branconh
was formed for East Huron, with the
following officers —President, David
Robb, B. A., I. P. S. ; Vice -President,
A. P. Gundry, B. A, ; Secretary, John
Hartley.
Mr. Holman gave an address on our.
new Text Books. In the old reader
there were a great many heavy les-
sons which were useful for Liter'atur'e,
In the new readers, the lessons are
selected to be used for reading only,
and in this respect they are superior.
The mechanical construction of the
new readers, with regard to print,
spacing, etc„ is such as to leave noth-
ing desired, and they will be a great
boon to pupile with bad sight and in
poorly lighted rooms. The speaker
thought the books should be furnished
with accounts of the authors and ex-
planatory notes on the lessons. Of all
the new text books, the speller is
the best. The copy books are an fm-
provenhent on the old, but should
cost a cent or two more and be made
of better paper and have more guide
lines, The Primer is an exceileet
last is in the origin of disease in man. book for pupils after they have been
It is carried by means of milk, water, at school for five or six months, and
of
oysters, celery, unwashed these should consist of a mixture
apples. Milk is the greatest distribu- the "look andsay" method and the
ter of bacteria. It has everything in phonic method. .
it essential as food, and is incorporat Miss Padfield gave an inspiring talk
ed into the system by the gastric on the "Advantages of Difficulties."
digestion ; hence if charged with She said :—The teacher does more or
bacteria it quickly originates disease as much in rendering helpful service
in the system, Water acts as a good to mankind, as any toiler in the
solvent, particularly running water. Master's vineyard, and the work of
The oyster is the scavenger of the the teacher is also beset with so many
ocean and spreads bacteria, because difficulties, but these difficulties should
the heatused. in the preparation of file be a heulagelp notent a hindrteacanher ce. Ona die-
ovster for' food is not sufficient to de- comthe meets, fs
strop. the germs. Oelery is often the lack of appreciation of her work
grown in soil charged with bacteria. another, the censure of those she so
Bacteria are like botanical cells, a faithfully tries bo serve, and still
nucleus in the centre and protoplasm another, the uncongenial environ -
around it. These divide in two and went iu which she finds herself. The
spread very rapidly, especially if the lack of appreciation and the censure,
temperature is suitable. The spread she must endure bravely without
of one in three days is to the incom- apparent notice of it. She must
create her own environment. A.
prehensible number of forty-seven
trillions. Bacteria is destroyed by teacher should not be afraid of her
the coagulating of the albumen or own company, brit spend time in read-
ture of 800 o Centigrade is required to tile, resourceful mind, she will supply
protoplasm but a very high tempera- ing and reflection. If she has a fer-
do this. There are three ways the herself with a good environment.
bacteria may enter the system— ,Each one controls the pleasure of his
through the nose, the mouth and anown soul, and can only lose them by
abrasion of the mucous membrane. This own fault. Inside himself he is
Naturae makes the human system af- master, and nothing can detract from
ford protection against the entrance of
his happiness, except hisown foolish -
bacteria, or the destruction of it nese, vanities or lack of self reliance.
when it has entered the body. The Only the savage is slave to his sur -
nose is so constructed that the bacilli roundings, but the educated person,
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a certain lacehe wants a field
is arrested at c pIf
then discharged. The canals othe find it anywhere." The difficulties of
body are lined with mucous -nem- our tasks should be an incentive to
brane ; if this remains intact, there is higher work. They are conditions of
very little danger of the bacteria tak- our success. A life without them is
ing effect. Some of the bacteria is deprived of its
possibilities ilities of
power.
destroyed by the salivary digestion Let us endeavor to surmount them,
before deglutition ; those that escape that we may render good service to
may be destroyed in the aesophagus, others, know ing that—
in this stomach and the 1ve duodenum, by "Though others now claim our chief
the action of the digestive juices. If g
regard,
ken into the
escape
t10 are to
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yat reward."
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takes puree between the bacteria and The "At home" in the evening was
white corpuscles of the blood. If the a most enjoyable function. With
latter have the necessary power of re- John Hartley in the chair, the follow-
sistance, the individual throws off the ing program was rendered :—In -
disease. The bacteria are of three strumental, Mr. McDonald ; song,
different shapes—globular, rod and Miss Griffin ; song, Mr. Hill ; instru-
spiral ; each has its own nature. mental, Mrs. (Rev.) Sbeeves ; song,
They may be small or large, long or Mr. Cline ; duet, Mr. Oline and Mr..
short,. The knowledge of bacteria has Hill. These were interspersed with
been obtained by this invention of a number of short addresses. At the
different kinds of microscopes and by close of the program, Mr. Kennedy
means of these they have been made served refreshments.
visible to the human eye. In diph- On Friday morning,, after devotion-
theria the mucous membrane of the al exercises by the presiding officer,
throat becomes inflamed, the batter- the following officers were elected :—
la act upon this inflamed portion, a Pres., Chas. Holland ; lst Vice -Pres.,
chemical action takes place and toxic ,I. A. Taylor, B. A. ; 2nd Vice -Pres.,
poison is created. The desire of man Miss'Saralh Padfield ; Executive Com -
was to find an anti -toxin to counteract mittee—Misses Harding and Simpson,
its effect. It was found that the blood G, Hohnan, A. Scott and A. B. East -
of the horse is analogous to the blood oott ; Sec.-Treas., John Hartley ;
of man ; because of this the bacilli of Auditors—W. E. Fair and 0. E. Dow -
diphtheria is injected into the blood of ding. The treasurer's report, show -
the horse. As soon as this begins to ing a balance of $81.33, was then read
act. au anti -toxin is generated, which and adopted.
is taken and separated into itsarts Miss Simpson gave a paper on "The
by apr'ocess ofhlteraticn as a Teacher's Responsibility." The teach-
couutev acting agent on the disease. er's responsibility is of the highest
This led to the discovery of an sift}- kind. The teacher should bo teaching
toxin for hydrophobia. Many ani- not because circumstances point that
mals, such as the horse, cow, rabbit, way, but because be loves his work.
S.e., were experimented upon. The The teacher should be a wide reader.
most successful was on the rabbit. Opportunities to influence children
Some of the toxic poison which is ar a given to beacleiaa more than
formed from the bila of the animal others, except mothers. The teacher
with the rabies, is injected into the should be careful of school property,
macerated spice of the rabbit., an and teach the pupils to be neat and
anti -toxin is thus created which is careful with it also. The business of
used to counteract the virus of the the teacher is not to teach only, but
disease, The incubation period of to lead his pupils to higher living,
hydrophobia iii two weeks ; cluring to
should make his to
felt nh
this period or at the beginning of it, the neighborhood for good, and
small doses of the anti -toxin are given should stand in friendly relationship
these are Anally increased to larger with his Inspector and trustees. Miss
ones -which generally effect a cure, Simpson's paper was an excellent one,
The prevention of the spread of bac- Miss McOamus gave a most excel -
the body,
be effected by cleanliness of icor taut on 'Art" for which the
the body, the {anger nails, keeping the teachers of East Huron are very grate-
111000us membrane intact, the alimen- fail,
Lary canals clean and the ejection of . A discussion was opened and Miss
the house fly. McOatnus asked the assembled teach -
in the afternoon the first address era to give their views or present
was given by 311. Dearness, B. A. on their difficulties in the work. She
"Thought expression versus word pro- then proceeded to the order of work ;
nouneiuginoilmen tary.reading." The lst, pencil color, different mediums,
teacher's aim should be to enable his decorative art, and constructive work.
The pencils used in the t,encil work
are the Vents 31, B. and 533., the lat-
ter is used in shading and gives a very
fine effect. Theobjeots nsed as models 1 Forest and Brussels.
are the sphere, hemisphere, ellipsoid,
ovoid, cylinders, prism and tone. For
the color work, a board must be used
to which the paper is fastened, The
work must boineented when complet-
ed in order to keep it in , good order.
The first work b colour is the study
of ,the speotrtun—the primary, the
secondary and the tertiary colours.
After the different colours have been
learned, proceed to simple landscapes
requiring the use of two shades, then
the use of three ; then follows
sketching from sprays, the rose leaf
a spray of ivy. After this decorative
art is studied this principles of design
are rytltm, harmony and balance.
Mr. Smith B. A., then gave an ad-
dress on `History" which he defined
as the summary of human knowledge,
It is the record of all that man has ac-
complished.
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co n lislied. The law of history 18
good for the good, and bad for the
bad. The value of history is the
verifying of historical facts. It gives
a person the proper training for real
life. It enlarges the mental horizon.
It is for time what travel is for space.
The study of history makes a good
citizeu.+p It arouses patriotism. Mr.
Smith's paper was rousing and patri-
otic, and received` a hearty vote of
thanks from the convention.
Mr. Dearness opened his excellent
lecture on "Synthetic Composition"
with the question "What is the high-
est single test of an education." In
former times the answer would have
been "To read Greek at first sight or
read Latin verse." The more modern
answer is "'Po express one's ideas in
orderly procedure. The ancient mot-
to in education used to be "To know"
and the modern is "To do." Composi-
tion for many years was very. poorly
taught but more attention is given to.
it hi recent years. He read a com-
position written by a pupil in the.
Entrance class of the P. S. He show-
ed that the pupil had no plan, his
ideas were not arranged in orderly
procedure. The best composition is
the one written by a pupil who has
something which he rs delighted to
write, and knows he will have a sym-
pathetic heating Composition is of
two stages : 1—rhe mental mechani-
cal ; 2 -The Rhetorical. These are
used in the different forms. The aim
of composition in the first stage is the
improvement of the child's usage iu
arrangement and vocabulary, and the
approved form of writing short origi-
nal sentences and paragraphs. The
means to bring about the develop-
ment of the aim is -1, Conversation
with the teacher ; 2, continuous, oral
statement ; 3, verbal analysis of sen-
tence ; 4, examination of mechanical
form of the sentence and paragraph ;
5, transcription ; 8, writing short eom-
positioes of two or three paragraphs
to be corrected. The aim in tneRhe-
torical stage is -1, To acquire skill in
the orderly arrangement of ideas ; 2,
to acquire refinement and effective-
ness of expression. The means to de-
velop this stage are -1, Abundant
practice in continuous oral statement ;
2, study of examples for imitation and
criticism ; 3, how to criticize ; 4, habits
of self criticism. There aro four dif-
ferent styles of Composition -1, De-
scriptive ; 2, narrative ; 3, expository ;
4, argumentative. A few guides for
developing a good. composition are -1,
Lot them gather knowledge ; 2, sup-
plement that acquired knowledge ; ',
arrangement of headings for orderly
procedure in paragraphs. The four
points for a
good
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Us
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n a
re—
CollecLiou. selection, connection and
perfection
A vote of tuanks was tendered Mr.
Dearness, of London Normal School,
for his two excellent addresses.
ins then
resolutions '
The committee 1
tea on
brought in the following report which
was adopted
1—Resolved that the thanks of this
Association be tendered the Wingham
High School Board for the use of their
most commodious building.
2—Resolved that the thanks of this
Association be tendered the Public
School staff of Wingham for the ex-
cellent program of the "At Home."
3—Resolved that the thanks of the
Association be tendered all those who
assisted with the program of our con-
vention.
4—Resolved that the Education de-
partment be requested to prepare for
use in the Public) Schools an introduc-
tion book or set of tablets to the
present Primer, as it is considered too
advanced for beginners.
5—Resolved that the sympathy of
this Association be tendered to the
family relatives of the late Miss Dad -
son and to the Wingham High School
staff in their bereavemeut.
The Oouventfbn adjourned to meet
in Olinton next year.
Morris
Morris township Council will meet
next Monday.
W. R. Mooney was home for
Thanksgiving. Ile is living at West
Torun to.
Airs. Elerb. Cunningham and baby.
of Palmerston, were here for Thanks-
giving visiting relatives and friends.
Miss SIaud Bryans, who is doctor-
ing in Stratford, 'was home for
Thanksgiving. Miss Bryans is in real
poor health at present suffering from
spinal trouble but her many friends
hope for speedy i nptovement.
This week Harry Dnncan arrived
home from a holiday trip to the West
where he spent several months. He
had au enjoyable time but doesn't
believe he will say Good-bye to his 100
acres on the 4th line yet a while.
Svconsspun OPERATION.—One day
last' week, Willie, the 16 year old son
of Fred. and Mrs. Brewer, 3rd line,
underwent a• successful medical
operation for appendicitis and the'
patient is making satisfactory pro-
gress. W e hope he will soon be con-
valescent.
JorIN DOUGLAS PASSES Awnv.—
Last Sunday night, after a vigorous
battle for life extending over n week,
John Don las jr., paid Natures debt,
despite all that could be done to pre-
serve life. He was 28 years of age and
had enjoyed a large ineasure of good
health. Deceased wag unmanned.
The funeral took plaza from the home
of his parents, 01th line, on 'Wednes-
day afternou to Wessels cemetery,
Rev. A. C. Wishart, of Wessels, (=-
ducting the service. The relatives ars
deeply sympathized with in their sad
bereavement.
POSTPONED TO Nov. Ora.—The
Auction Sale of farm stock. (triple.
meets, &Cc., announced by Jas. Dun-
can,
uncan, 4th line, for Tuesday afternoon
of this week was postponed until
Tuesday, Nov. 011h, Owing to the
bad weather of the past week oe two
the fine day on Tuesday was taken
advantage of by many to work at
their root crops. This fact and an-
other sale a few miles away, reduced
the attendance and as the sale is a big pupils toget control of the values o
one it was deckled to postpone it. life. The value of oral reading is that
Mr. Duman has sold his farm so the it is a means of conveying thought,.
sale will be without reserve. ' The best conditions under Which read
Jamestown
A. P. and Mrs. Youmans, of Tor-
onto, spent Thanksgiving at the home
of James Strachan, Mrs. Youmans'
father.
Mrs. Ed. Mulligan and grand -daugh-
ter, Miss Myrtleaket, are holidaying
with the former's daughter, Mrs. John
Waddell, near Whitechurch.
DIED ox FRxney.--After 0 long and
trying illness, Christina Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Jas, and Mrs.
Wallace, of this locality, passed away
Friday. aged 27 years. Deceased was
a smart young lady and a great lover
of music. Funeral took place on
Monday afternoon to Wiugham cezne•
tery, Rev. Mr. Pterin, of Wroxeter,
conducting the service. Pallbearers
were Wm. Grimmer, B. Whittard, L.
Willis, A. Jacklin, T. Burks and C.
Simpson. Among the floral tributes
was a sheaf from Mrs. (Dr.), Holmes,
Brussels, and tt spray from Miss
Maggie Snell. In addition .tb her
father and mother two sisters and a
brother survive. Deceased Was con•
sric11s to the last and expressed her
readiness to go. Friends were pres-
entfrotn Wiugham, Wiartnn, Monist