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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1889-05-31, Page 4;Om Advertisements Notitio to debtors -C. C. Rance Cbildren'e clothing-Jackeou 131:Lia Millinery -Beesley & Co Sundries -Chris Dickson Boots & Shoes -Taylor & Bon . Pillow shaiu holders -J. C. Stevenson Special prices -Rob. W. Coats Bareniuts in tweeds-Detlor & Hou e • to let -Miss Garvie (,40,kfr itgliitt01141,eni(tra FRIDAY, MAY 31, lest) Church Giving. At the last district meeting of the Methodist elmrehes of the Goderich • l• 1 ti was assed urging District, a es° u on p all members of the denomination to preach a sermon on "giving" daring the year. That such a sermon should be necessary seems to be, on its face, a reflection on the sincerity of those professing allegience to the ' Savior. 'The question of "finances" is one of the most difficult to deal with in church work, and while it exists to a certain extent in el1. denominations, ve• want to direct our remarks more particulsr• ly to that of the Methodist church, simply,because we aro better acquaint• ed with -its inner workings, than with any other. It is true that a good many people give very little towards the Bur - port of 'Christian work, and very often these are the persons beet ableto give the most. Take the average Methodiet congregation in this county, and we venture to say that the bulk of the financial support given cones from a few members, not always from. those who aro Lest able to contribute, Int assuredly from those, who are most willing. These persoes di s all that they can. We ao not say that all who con- tribute lesser aleounts do not also do all they cart, their circumetancts con. sidered, but we say that ninny could and should do more than they do. The apparent disparity in circurristances between a well-paid minister and the majority of his congregation who are compelled to live on much lese, .often causes an inseparable gulf, in foeling, at jeast, but the fact should not Le for- gotten that the present age demands more of a minister, nor are the people satisfiedswith the same class of preach ing that they were in years 'gone by. Whether the change in circumstanees hseve made things better or not spirit• ually is a debatable point. In one way and another a 4ot of mon- is raised fen church puiposes, Whieh properly applied, and judiciously ex-. pended could not -be raise% foe a ,better purpose: It is posible to expend money raised for this purpose improperly, just as much 'its in other departments of life, .and it would be well for the leading epirits in ministerial work to consider this point, bil' at the same time it is just as possible for members to err on the side of their givings. We believe a good many of them do. While not preemning to know the eircumettinces of all individual members of churches,. we venture to say that threeeinarters of E11111112140150X1t912311==t11123111014,110011OCOMOIA What Uncle Sam buss The customs returns of the United States for the first Mae months of the current fiecal yea afford instructive reading for those .vho insist that there is no market in that country for eleneel• Lan products. The value of the goods tinported iu the United States during the nine moutheending with March reached $549,338,168, an increase of nearly ten millions of dollars over the figures for the corresponding period of 1 tat year. During March the volume of imports increased by $18,500,000, or nearly thirtyeight per cent over the to. tal for March 1888. Owing to the exist- ing reciprocity treaty between the Unkt- ed States and Hawaii the trade between the two countries is eipanding quer- nieusly. In the nine months the value of Hawaiian sugar imported into the United States reached $7,194,075, an in- crease of nearly two millions of dollars. Then of articles which were to some ex- tente--and which might be to a much greater extent, if the restrictions upon trade were removed -supplied by Cana- da, the Amerioans purchased of barley 0,888,829 bushels valued at e6,843,856. Upon this quantity of barley customs duty at the rate of ten cents per bushel wet collected, so that the total duty paid upon imported barley reached $988,829, or in round numbers one mil- lion dollars. Nearly the whole of this barley was egown in Canada, and as Sir John Macdonald has proved over, and over againthat the duty collected upon barley going into the ,United Sates is pied by the Cantelian producer it follows that the million dollars paid' into tbe Washington treasury in duties on barley, during the past nine months, came out of the .poekets of Canadian farmers. Then the Americans import - e I fish, fresh and salted, to the value of li.3,000,000; hops, $1,022,982; iron ore, 81,031,3S3; iron and steel, '31,512,220; coal, f,•13,140,350; leather, 54,020,0e 8; boots and shoes, $4,301,323; provisions, 51,414,996; vegetables, $1.00,108; lum- ber, $11,116,563; raw wool, 513,031,880; told eggs, ' e1,057,783. Besides those artielessell of which Canada could easi- ly supply if our resourcee were develop- ed and a large free market thrown open to our producers, the Ame-ricans also imported live animals to the value of 55,800,000; cement, $1,003,152; cotton manufactures, $22,050,475;earthenware, $5,003,718; fancy goods, 45,387,632; furs, 44,003,741; glass and glassware, $6,081- 335 : malt liquors, 131,057,118 ; oils.- $1,- 007,731; woolen goods, $43,311,917; fertilizers, $1,374,300; hides and skins, $19,356,384; and wood pulp and other 'paper stock, $4,499,213. In the prodite• tion of each of the before enumerated clasies of merchandise Canadiails can complete against iny other people in the world. All that they want to. en- able them to excel in every branch of commerce and industry is a largo and profitable market for the products of their labor. This they can only obt,p.in through abolition of all restraints upon trade between this -country' and. the .United States. 'And in the. face' of the American trade statisties, shewirig the. kind of goods filet arenow being' inn - ported into tho United States, the man who seriously contends that there is no demand in that country for Canadian products confesses that he is either an incorrigible ignoramus ora person hav- ing no regard for honesty or trnth. Five senatorial seats aro now vacant, namely those caused by the death of Senators Fergueon, Plumb, Ferriee and Ryan and the res;gnation of Dr.Schulte. It would be a saving of 55,000 a year the membership of the ?Iethodist church not to fill them, and the country would of the coluity do not idve what they be just ss well off. could to general church !emport, con- . eequently the willing horse" heeenies rourici .The County . the'burden bearer. • If a sermon onegivine will ;Irene/. to 5Ir Colbert, of Ogrtondville, is rebuld- their responsibilit OM 4: W116 Itre1 ing hie brewery weich was destroyed IT fire some time a o moment. to °kir "blicat k' wn'11 A row belonging to Ir Thos.. Agnew morul3 let them heve et• • Homy Pe(leis. Wingletin, was killed on the C. 1'. 12'. claim that if there Wetet more j,,race in track in town on Friday last. the heart, begging serMone Woet ld not i tf's incl,lir'thofI luroii will bo lil iii be necessary. erhaps this ie true. If Exeter, on n Monday, June 10th, le P 889. "the earth is elle Lord's and the fulness It. Bennett, 'Lot 31, Con. 6, Grey, thereof" there' are peophi who: while enjoying gospel beriefits and privileges, are actibg as dishonestly toward the giver of these, as they would be if they put their hand in their emeloyerei t ill and helped themselves, because they give nothing for what they get. . The London Free Press to peove that the Ontario ballot, is not a eecret one, and asserts that any returning officer can tell et a glance wlitn counting tlie ballots, how ettch man has voted. This is 140t so. The writer of this has had enoughlexperience in the poll to know that it is absolutely impossible to do as the Free Prose claims. Further than this, the Free Press is evidently not aware that the ballots, kept for a cei- tain time after an election in case of scrutiny, are in'cliarge of Conserve. Live employee, of the Ontario Governs ment, and cannot be inspected, as the Free Press alleges they can. To suppose this and that, and on the strength of ' these suppositions, assert that non -existing circumstances are facts, is the position of the Free Press in this and many other questions it itt. tempts to disciiss, Says the London Free Press7"-- e Mr II. W. Petrie .is, as it were, car- rying the war into Africa. The other day he shipped to a large Detroit iron works, which aro being erected, a car load of iron working machinery.. This is a most unusual thing, to eel! Cana. dian machinery in Detroit." The Americans are adepts in the manufacture of machinery, yet accord- ing to this oppenent. of Commercial Union, a Canadian firm can compote. with Americaas on their own ground, and beat them. They could do it every time,to,if they only had the opportunity. had a colony of bees swarm on Sunday, 12th inst. This is very early in the season. Last Monday Mrs Wm. McCullough, of Brussels, lied the misfortune to fall down cellar, fracturing her arm and 1-eceiving-0010e iujuries. Mr Reboil McGowan, Tuckersmith, lets it cow which gives fifty.seven lbs, of milk per day. When tested it makes sixteen lbs. of butter in the Apace of FUVV11 days. Mr Wm. Cambell, Blyth, sold a suck. me colt, got by Kentucky Star, the eother day, for the sum of $100. The colt was but one day old when the tette tools place. Mrs R. McLatichlin, of con. 1, How. ick, died on Monday weelc, after a long anclipainful illness. She was in her 33rd year and leaves two small children in a father's care. Revival meetings are being held in the Presbyterian end eiethodist church. es of Exeter, which are being conducted by the Revs. Messrs Crossley and Hunter, who aro making rapid progress in their undertaking. • Rev. A. Y. elartley, of Bluevale, was called to Toronto suddenly on Saturday, to see his son Williaree who is very ill. He had his thumb jammed while coup- ling cars and it was amputated. Blood poisoning set in and he is very danger. ously ill. Robt. Scott, of Gray; came' very near- ly losing one of his best cows one day last week. She got into the large open ditch by the roadside on the 14th con., and got mired. The ground is very soft there and the ditch is a regular cattle - trap. Mr Scott's cow.'in trying to get out got under the new culvert somehow and was there a day and a night before found. She was very weak and had to be hauled out by a team of horses. An old and esteemed resident, of Goderich, departed this libe on Sundey last, in Mr John Craig, who died at the residence of his son William. For something like forty-three years he had been a resident of Goderich, and was. ono of the old settlers. For a consicl. erable Period lie had boon indisposed, and of late his malady had eseurned finch serious complication that he was unable to take needed nourishment. , EASr HURON TEACHERS 1 INSTITUTE. - The annual meeting was held in the assembly room of the Clinton , Coll. Inst. on Thursday and Friday of last week. NEST DAY. Mr. Grant opened the meeting with prayer. In the absence of the president, Mr. Dorrance, Head Master Turnbull was appointed thereto': Ile thanked the members for the honor conferred upon him, and cordially welcomed them to the Co11.4nst. of the town. The following Committees were appointed: Reporting : Messrs, Blackwell, Dickson, Stliart and Burohill. Retro:talus : Messrs. Robb, John- ston, Dickson and Miesee McKay and Cowan. General Business : Messrs. Groves, Plummer, Scott, McGregor, Turnbull. .Vontinations : Messrs. Burchill, Doig, Malloch and 51isses. Peke and Simpson. Com.to examine Treasurer's hooks, Messrs. Robb and Lough. Mr. J. Dearness, I. P. S., East Middlesex, introduced the subject: "'Thu Elementary Rules in Arith- metic." He spoke of the great value placed on the subject in former years and -dwelt on the changes that have recently taken place in the teaching of it, ''The logic of the schoolroom," it has been called by Dr. McLellan. In teaching numbers he placed great stress on associating ideas with them. To this end he showed some inter. esting ways 9f using ehalk, buttons, pebbles etc ; teaching with a variety of such objects. is better than the constant use of the numeral frame. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and diyision by .merely using such sintple ohjecte as sticks. The most intricate processes in these opera- tion were explained and tests Dar correct multiplication by all the dijits were illustrated. The old- fashioned addition tables were exam- ined and another method ensuring rapidity as well as accuracy was pre. sented. . In rapid addition, teachers should concentrate their teaching on the endings, then, the tens, then the hundreds &a. In the second hook the class should be able to combine two numbers in the time occupied by the swinging (of the pendulum. After this address Mr. Malloch called the Roll, and it was learned that a large proportion of the teachers of the Inspectorate, were present. Mr. Robb, Math. Master, Clinton Coll Inst.; gave an interesting ad- dress on Botany. As an old public school teacher he counselled teachers to take up some subject as geology or botany which was not taught in the public school. The teacher who chose the latter would find himself amply repaid when he comes to illustrate the lesson's in the Readers. Besides, there are times when the class becomes listless, often owing to the condition Of the atmosphere or for other reasons, and a short talk on some topic in botany will prove both' interesting and instruc- tive. The teacher who by means of pocket -lens, needles, knife and A suitable text book uses his spare moments in the prosecutien of the study of botany will train his observe ing faculties; Will gain a great amount of nseful information -and thus be in a position to admire the beauties of nature and add more enjoyment to the school life of tho chirclren. Mr. Robb's address was characteristic of him. The quaint humor with which he satirized some' personal habits of the students brought out much laughter. Mr. Lough, Prin. •Clinton Model School, read a paper on History. He discussed the subject generally, its value as an educative force, and gave valuable suggestions on the use of text books. We shall not sum- marize it'as it will likely he publish- ed in full in the county press. In the evening a public ineeting was held in the town hall at which Mr. Manning, chairman of the Clin- ton Collegiate Institute Board, 'presi- ded: In accordance with the tules of the .1.ssociation the teachers had pr, pared a suitable pm:grain:11s for the evening entertain:neut. tIn this occasion their labors were crowned with abundan t success. The proaratn. nee was of an enlivening character and the universal testimony was that the evening was pleasantly spent by • the large audience that filled the town'hall. The order was excellent, and the children behaved remarkably well. A class of boys and girls- under Miss Struthers' direction sang sweetly and patheti- cally "The ffld Kentucky Home." Miss Helyar's class of girls drerised in white, decorated with garlands of flowers and carefully graded as • to height, gave the kindergarten song ." Away A ruing the Blossoms" with good eflett. Misses Maggie McMur- ray and [Annie Irwin rendered " Silver Bella of Memory" sweetly. Mr. Dearness gave an interesting address. The tableau of the May Queens in which Miss McMurray was the regal figura, displeyed much taste in arrangement on the part of Miss O'Neil, and was well executed by the class. The solos by Mr. J . .Tackson and the duets by Miss firegg and Mr. T. ,Iackson, and by Miss Sibley and Mr. B. P. Sibley, re- spectively, were rendered in the way for which these vocalists are noted, and were heartily applauded. The Clinton brass quartette played the I' Chimes" in perfect harmony. The Fan Drill by the Misses M. Paisley, Dottie Fair, E. Chidley, Dollie Fair, M. Biggart, M. Kerr, A. Howson, N. Cotnbe, ir, Irwin, M. Couch, A. Catitelon, and W. Shep- herd, under the management of Miss Heylar, was one of the best features of the evening, and to Many was a novelty. The proceeds at 10 dm. admission was $30. seem. env On Thursday /naming Mr Dearness discussed the subject, "Reading with junior classes," He know a teacher in his own inspectorate, who kept a small collection of flowers in his register, to illustrate the lessons in botany, in the readers. The speaker, by means of a clams of young pupils in attendance, showed many valuable principles and methods underlying the teaching of the first lessons. There are many ways of teaching reading, but an eclectic method, in which the phonic system predominates, is the bep. The order of teaching should be --words, phases, sentences. Too much stress is often placed on the correct pronunciation of the article preceding the word, tee learnt r in this svn, lows silt (1 the PR ha SLIG0411$10.11112tailliVal=111301111MMIKA914406211=1=1.141.9311141E9611111X411101.1110111111311=1111/ thought contained in the word, and from the first there should be thought - getting. As often aa possible the objeot should be used, to connect the thought with the written or, printed word. The early lessons should be taught from the blackboard, not from tablets. He then taught the class the first lessees in the Reading Primer. A hat was drawn or: the blackboald, and the class was told that the chalk could tell the name. which was written on ths boalel under the object. The question was asked, "What does the chalk say?" The learners answered, "The ohalk says, a hat." Each scholar pointed to "what the chalk said." Then a cap was drawn on the board, the word was written, and the meaning it conveys was thus made clear. Thi e drill should be taken for a.day or two. The name "cat" was then placed under a drawing of the animal, which the class readily reoognized. A drill followed on the words thus far used, viz.: - A cap. A hat. A cap. A hat. A hat. A cat. A cap. The relational words should be taught iu phrases. The phrase,"I see," should be repeated several thnos, and learned as a phrase. Four lessons should be given each day. The difference between words and letters should be made plain by such questions as, "How many let. ters in this word? In this line? How many words in this line?" Words un. like one another are most readily re- counized and remembered. The primer is °faulty in this respect. The teacher should give a larger vocabulary than that contained in the book, and should keep a note book of words for the next class of beginners. He advised teachers to purchase seccncl•hand books for the dull pupils of junior ciciSses, who should be, asked to read some story in them, when they are net proficient in reading the more advanced book. In continu- ing the drill .in Phonics, the teacher should give practice to the class, in hearing the words separated before the b;a.ckboard is used. This lesson was illustrated by the use of the words in-on-th ch•aer b -a-11 b•en.ch At first the o lass did not catch the idea, and after asking each ono to show his right hand, the Inspector told them they might put it on their n -o -se. Each member understood this, and seemed toenjoy..the lesson. The teacher should pick out of the reading lesson a number of words very nearly alike, as ca -p ca -t cti•n and give a phonic analysis to illustrate the litet letter, or 01 -at c,at f -at r -at to show clearly the initial letter. New words should be taught only as they are required, viz., to make sense. Using two pointers, and with the class standing directly in front of him, the 'Inspector made the class read these sentenees, taking the words in pairs :- The cat can see the rat. The cat can see a rat. Can the cat see a rat ? Can tee cat see the rat? In reading this it was plain that the .pupils were•feeling their way to catch the thought, and to cultivate still fur- ther the observing and reasoning facul- ties, the teacher should put sentences on the board with the words altered slightly from the forte given in the book, and occasionally cover some word with the hand. Mr Manning, chairman of the Col- legiate Institute Board of Trustees, Clinton, was introduced and delivered a vigorous and practical address on several topics in 3onnection with Edu• catio n. A lively discussion ensued in which Messrs Clarkson, Doig, Lough, Robb, seralloch, and others joined. A vote of thanks was passed, on the mo- tion of Mr Clarkson, secended by Mr ..Malloch, with the request also, that the paper be placed in the hands of the Association for publication ; this, it is expected. will be done hext month.. The following officers were appointed for 18149: President, W. 1 Stewart, Vice-president, D. M. Robb, Sec. Treas., A. IL Plan -liner, Delegate, W. Doig, Executive Committee, J, Dickson, D. Johnston, Miss Helyar, Miss Edwards, ?Mee Simpson, Mr R. Hicks, of Egmondeille, ad. dressed the Convention on Public School Temperance andlelygiene. This subject has no set place on his time -table and he teaches it as examples and circum- stances permit. He explains to his classea the general principle s of ana- tomy, naming the particular bones, the heart's divisions and the circulation of the blood, the lesson, that there is a Divine Architect of the wonderful struc- ture, should be thoroughly inculcated. Children shoal net, as a rule, eat their lunch until 11000, and the prac• tice of eating ripples at irregelar times should be stopped. The schoolroom slieuld alway s be comfortable and not too hot. Much can be done by parents in supporting the tertcherei efforts, to- ward greater clealihness of the pupils, and the teacher eliould send ideas to thc home through the scholars ; boys should not be allowed to lounge about,the lungs are •critrepecl, the head is in a bad position, the shoulders rounded, and the teacher ehotild point out to the pupils how they shefficl sit; the girls act just as injudiciously; to beautify their forms they Ince tightly; both sex- es should take abnndant exorcise, and should rest also, where the theta comes; in too many hornet; the light is not al- lowed to enter for fear of injuririg the carpets and tapestry while fregently rooms are in total darkness by reason of the shutters being closed ; scholars see•thift plant life in cellars is sickly ; as the temperature changes, children should make iiere :leery alteration in their clothing, aml frequently it is changed too early. Concerffing "Public) School Temperance be had not been suecessful in using the authorized text. book, and preferred to teach the prin- ciples, as examples presented them. eelves and try to live out before the seholars, the principles of total abstin- ence. Scholars should be let to see that life is uncertain to the man who uees liquors, and why should boys and girls who know that they are now in sound health need anything es a .stim- ulant as they advance in life? 50 years ago insurance companies considered us - era of liquors as 20ee, 236e, and some- times 25% better subjects than total abstainers; now these facts aro jug the reverse ; the "treating" ,, system is unnecessary and unnatural, Many of those facts are so simple that it requires little or no effort to present them fav- orably to the common sense of children. When yonng ladies come to town they go about their business in the stores, while frequently the young men go to taverns, waste time, squander their money, and degrade themselves. Young men shonld be taught what is implied in the terns "gentlemen" and young women should learn how powerful is their influnce when they are 18 eV 20 years of age, and should present no temptation in social tiMes and gather. ings to young men. The teacher who would teach temperance properly mind be a living example -of it. Mr Blackwell and Mr Deerness sup. rifted strongly the position taken by Mr Hicks. At the afternoon session Mr Dearness andreseed the meeting on " Desk occu- pations of junior classes," This was, perhaps, his most interesting address, and was welk received by the teach. Only a mere outline of it cam be itiliert• ed here. A geed pion used by RAMO teachers is to keep a scrap benk enn• taining pictures and other "niolonaoks" of interest and value to pupil's, and to allow deserving students to examine it at suitable times; little halfsinch oubes may be used by children as building blocks; threading beads of various colors to serve the purposes of calculation and perception may be done in various ways, with different degrees of difficulty to suit varying circumstances ; assort- ing oat strawa, colored with diamond dyes is a useful exercise for junior pu- pils. A good deal of the work of the kindergarten oan be introduced into teal ienRTirgnl heryk.aseiiodnnfleogvtdiehl doses s.oshoohool is a; rat the first te dx ybso ao tk school byMr; designs of animals 50(1 simple artioles were given, to show how children may be trained to uee their owil minds in envelopes containing cut letters, which children -may nee with profit in learning to construct names. Many ingenious of the pupil, should be encased in paper outlioe capitals of I LT H FE etc., may and running a third line between them. own imagining, the teacher should take notice of it '• problems in mental arith• Sinclair, of Hamilton, was cited as a valuable help. With young pupils the recesses should be long, and their life should made as happy as possible; the ruler, pencil and slate should be used by the child during its first day at school. Slate pencils, if in the hands by the teacher; curves should be taught be practised by drawing parallel lines metic may be made of real interest, as for instance to show that using colored straws. From F. Bissett, Cornwall, Ont., may be obtained little When the child draws a picture of his 7=3 and 4. 7sezt and 1. 7=4 and 2 and 1. .iTnhgresolutions were passed: That the members of this Association :request, the Hon, the Min- ister of Education to take immediate action to have the present Publio Scheel history supplanted by a more suit- able text book for public schoolchildren, the language in the present history being far too difficult. Resolved, That the Public School Arithmetic is quite unsuitable as a text. book for junior classes, and in view of this fact, that we ask tire Hon. the Minister of Edunation not to strike off the list of authorized books, Kirkland and Scott's elementary arithmetic. Resolved, That either Euclid Book I be placed on the curriculum of studies for third class certificates, or that men- suration be removed, since the teaching of mensuration to students who have not a knowledge of euclid is a violation of the first principles of education. Resolved, That biology and chemistry be made optional for second class cer- tificates. Resolved, That whereas 78)3 (sande dates,v..ho failed at the non•professional examination in passing f or 2n4 and 3rd class certificatee, during the past five years, were awarded certificates on ap- peal; from thie we would infer that a large number also of 'those who were passed by the sub -examiners received certificates which they were not entitled to, owing to the examiners erring in the other direction, we would, therefore, recommend that the Minister of Edu- cation woUld exercise more care in the future in selecting the sub -examiners, so that nothing but thoroughly comp°. tent and reliable persons be placed in that important position. Resolved, That the Minister of Edu- cationbe recommended to select the members of the Central Committee so that no section, either of the Province or educational ioterests, be unduly repre., sentecl, and that no one be placed on this committee who isnot in full accord 'with the best interests .of the Public and High School education in this Province. •. Resolved, That ihe following votes of thanks be tendered: To Mr Deerness, her his edifying address ' in the tnwn hall; for his instructive and practical method e of teaching junior classes, and we heartily recommend him to other Associations, es an educator abreast with the times. To the following gen- tlemen -for their . able addressee and papers, Messrs Lough, Manning, Melte, Robb. To the retiring Sec.Treaso-A. M. Eurchell, and other retiring officers, for the efficient manner in which they have discharged their clutiesefor this Association. Ta.the teachers and pu- pils of the Model School, to Messrs T. and J. Jackson, Sibley and Shearer, ank Misses Sibley, Gregg, Jackson and Andrews, and the Brass Quartette Club, for their able assistance at the evening entertainment, and those who so kindly assisted before and after the entertain- ment. To the Collegiate Institute Board, for the use of the Assembly Room. To the G.T.11., for the speciol rates allowed to teachers on this occa- Bic1Rnesolved, that the Secretar2,' be in- structed to convey the foregoing reeniu- trolls to those for whom they ere spe• cislly intended. This Meeting has bcen in most ways the best that has been held for yea -s. The addiesses by Inspectoa Deerness wore of a practical nature and much good must result from them, The As- sociation was fortunate in scouring the services of such a man. For a number of years lie was editor of the only Ed- ucational journal published in the province and those who had tha pleas- ure of reading it will remember the valuable echoolovork it furnished in each number. As a Public .School teacher lio rankedlwelLand as Inspector of schools his ability for the work is shown by the high state of eneercy of the East Middlesex schools. As a De- partmental Examiner his papers have always been elieracterize'd by fairness, and hie Fiervicee to the Educational De- partment were such a kind SR to show his judgment on important questions was' considered of real weight. Fully abreast of the time in Educational problems and with the training of 1111 all -aroused scholar, his services haps been in requisition at Teacher's 'nate totes throughout Western Ontario. His visit hero will he remembered with ph ;tense. 1.,\VS NOTES. len.day wal the closing day of the fiscal year of the Methodist Church in Canada, and reference to the growth of Methodism in this county was made in several of the London pulpits. Thirty• five years ago there were but 253 mem- bers of that denomination in this city, but two ministers, -a superintendent and assistant --and the total amount of money raised did not exceed $1,500. According -to the returns made at the recent meeting of the London dietriet, the membership now exceeds 2,600, an increase of over 300 compared with last year, while the contributions to the Church funds aggregate over $40,000. Saterday evening a young lady in Maine street, Orange, N. J., smelled something burning, and a moment later felt an unusual warmth at her ,back. Quickly looking over her shoulder she • h 4 s smoke and flames floating upward. e began to scream and ran across Cone street, when George Adameon seized her and extinguished the flames which wore rising from her butle. She was taken intolPhilip Kingtiley's office, whore she recovered from her fright. Her overskirt and bustle veers eonattmed and the back of her dress , weed was scorched. Somebody threw ! a lighted oigeretto on her !mole tie the r assed film; the stre;14. '1 he Assiniboine countr- I (By one who has been there.) , At Calgary, is the confluence of the j Bow and the Elbow rivers, whose cur - r ms areehere utilized to drive mills and other machinery. This iii a line town of over three thousand inhabitants, having eleetrio light and two daily pap- ers, the Tribune and the Herald. The country adjacent Calgary, is ro1. ling, and even approaching the state of bluffs in the vicinity of the rivers. The soil is very fertile. One farmer raised 1000 bushels of potatoes from an acre and a half. Another, in 1887, raised 2200 bushels of oats from 20 acres, but, last year was rather dry, so that the same ground produced only 1840 bush- els. 'I he first average was 110 and the second 92 bushels per acre. We walked along beside the crop of 1888, a short time before harvest. The • grain was five feet high, and stood much the thickest we had ever seen. Close by was an equally heavy crop of barley, but we did not see the fall re- ports of that cereal, and do not know the production per acre. The fine brick farm houses'and the stately cut -stone bleoks in the city, would lead travellers to think Calgary more than six years old, which is its real age. We will now leave the pro- lific prairie for a time, and speak of Canada's Rocky Mnuntain Park. Lit- tle is known of this Park by the people of Ontario. In fad it is safe to assume that little or nothieg is known of it by those who have not been there. The park is in Alberta, about thirty miles east of British Columbia, among the Rookies, and contatns 166,400 acres. There are navigable lakes, and rivers, on which we saw three ste boats, ,,,,F\t, carreing pleasure seekers, th u val- ley and dale, and deep int , ei moun- tain gorges, while the band music .ech• oed and reechoed from crag to peak, till fancy affirmed the muses were hold• ing high carnival in the caerellated tow- ers. -But we anticipate. ., We sat in a C. P. R car just at the break of day.' On either hand near by were a couple of small bluffs. They seemed about twenty ro3s distant and not more than twenty feet high. On went the train, and on went those bluffs. One, two, three hours linseed, still on went the bluffs. After a race of four hours, weouttlanked them. We then observed they wore wreaths. of snow. T116 mystery was revealed. What, in the diffuse light of morning, we had taken for small hills near at hand, were in reality stupendous moun- tains mere than seventy miles of. 'eve become excited ; we lied scaled the Al. leghanies, and stood ' on the highest peaks of the Ozarks. Here were the Rockies. Hush ! All conversation ceased, eyes alone were active. Vast- ness: Sublimity ruled the hour. Every ene felt it and was silent. Snow-capped mountains were on either hand, cumu- lus clouds entangled, rested far below. their tops. A long blare from the whistle. Down breaks! Banff! We alighted amid scenery eclipsing Olym- pus, the Mount of Jove. Here then is our National Park. Description fails. Here were the sublime and beautiful, or in close conjunction. The Rockies are detaphed, not ridges as we suppose& Single and alone they stand where they have been standing ever since the birth of time. Between them 'are valleys and dells, rivers and lakes, and lonely silvan plains clothed with evergreen shades and adorned with perennial flowers. Far up the mountain sides are seen tiny groves of white birch poplar and spruce, but the tops are ,with "trackless snows forever white." Bow river, at Banff, is navigable, and is there spanned by an iron bridge three hundred feet in length. Two miles be- low the bridge is a fall. of 'fifty feet, where the left bank is oyer 3000 feet in perpendicular height. Neer the foot of , opened an A 0 rtery and before the bleeding , ',. the falls, and qeito close by the could be stopped he expired. Laura.Bridgeman died on Friday at C. P. R. hotel,. the Bow is joined by the beautiful river Spray, beyond which the South Boston asylum, where she spreads out one of tho loVeliest plains had long dwelt. She was over 60 years eyes ever gazed upon. The site of this old, and has beeen deaf and dumb and blind from her second year. She was hotel bas beeq spelected by. well culti. made widely famcius by Charles Dick. vated taste. From the eastern. piazse ens in his American Notes, and also by the scene satisfies the eye, surpassing - all else in America and many public references to hetwonder- Europe, and we doubt not is without a peer on the ful intelligence. globe. lingereWe looked, but spoke not.d against the mountain While Mr Gladstone was crossing Clouds Piediedilly, at the junction of Berkely, far beneath the crest. Senlight burn. 1 street, last Friday evening, he was ished the vapors, which hung glistened knocked down by a cab which was like polished gold. Out of this bright turning into the strept at the same mo - glory fell cascades clear as crystal, lit- ment. He was immediately assisted erally descending from a golden sky. to his feet by several spectators, but was found to be unhurt. NEWS NOTES Mrs Barr, wife-Of-Charlee D. Barr, editor of the Lindsay Post, died on Saturday. Lit is reported that 1,000 persons have died of cholera within a week in Ganjaw district, India. Joseph Mills, a Delaware Township farm laborer, shot himself because he was "crossed in love." Rev. 11. C. School., assistant rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Balti- more, suicide by shooting, boarded on Sun liddaisyCharged member of the Haverty - Cleveland minstrel troupe attempted to assassinate the manager by shooting at him in the Grand Opera 1 o ite,Toronto. last Friday night. Albert Martin, a mulatto, v:lo had assaulted a farmer's wife living near Port Huron, was taken from gaol by a mob, dragged through the streets and swung over a bridge. A St. Louis and San 'Francisco pas- senger treen'was derailed near Sullivan, Mo.,on Thursday night by train robbers. It was an awful wreck, and 45 passen• gers were badly hurt. The net profits of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway Company for the four months ending April 30, 1889, show an enormous increase over the correspon- dent period of the year preivous. Charles Albert Smith, colored bell boy at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, in 1881, who killed one Hayes in a saloon and was sentenced to twenty years' pen itentie-y, has been pardoned by the Governor General. The monument to the late Rev. Dr Ryerson was unveiled at the Normal School grounds, Eni'ay,by Sir Alexander Campbell, in the pre- sence of a large concourse of people. Lightning struck a barn on the farm of George Scott, Plympton, a few days ago and did considerable damagednclud. ing the killing of a cow. Mr Scott was in the barn at the time, and had a very narrow escape. • The Manitoba Government's Ontario emigration agent has been instructed to .visit Michigan and Wisconsin, with a view to commencing a vigorous' emigra- tion campeign there. It is said a great many are anxious to move out to Mani- toba. Three masked robbers an express car on the Texas -Pacific radroed on Satur- day night, beat the messenger into in• sensibility, robbed the car of e1,000, pulled the bell cord, and when the train slowed up jumped off and escaped. The Canadian Pacific railway has applied to the United States Treasury Department to be bonded SS a common carrier between ports of the United States. The application has been re- ferred to the Solicitor of the Treasury. A Windsor (Ontedespatch M. O'Connor, of Esse* Centre, had new petatoes for dinner yesterday, which he raised in his garden, and James Mar- shall, of,Tilbury, has barley in head. These Crops were never known to be so far advanced in Essex at so early a date before. One of the most curious mistakes -see retord is just reported. The body 01 a Streetsville man WaS sent home from Pittsburg via the M. C. R. a couple of days' ago. When it reached its destin- ation aud Was opened the den was' found to contain the body of the wrong person Whilea ybungman nomad. Oscar tandreyille was giving instructions In surgery before a crowd of students in a Montreal street can on Saturday,with an open knife in his hand, he bared his leg and made a cut which unfortunately It was then we first felt the significance of the phrase, "Voice of many waters." The hum of the cascades filled the whole scenery with music which was beyond compare. • We looked and list. lewd but spoke not. And now after the lapse of almost a year, we cannot re- call thiLt experience without deep emo- tion. We have no expectation or wish to ever gaze upon a flees scene. Crus W..Field, the projector cd the first Atlantic ceble, after spending a few weeks at 'Banff, called upon the superintendent of the Park, and said: - "Mr Stewart.you have eitown me a great many beautiful scones. One thing, and and only one is still lacking." "What is that?"asked the ever courteous gentle- man. "Please ehow me the tree from which Eve plucked the forbidden fruit." To nio. coxvNuEil. NEWS NOTES- , The neighborhOod of Quincy. HE, was shaken up by a wind and rain storm on Saturday.- Tho principal damage was to monuments in tho cemetery. James Doherty and Thomas McClay, both eeonayors, on Monday conteeted the town of Mitchell for the mayor's chair, and a tie was the result. ' Oely two victims of the recent Ham- il tem dieestee remain unidentified; and one of these hes been almost positively iibituisli,oi etas Harry If. Hayden, of Col. u A Kingston irecer lately reeeived large shipment of bananas from the South, and in one of tho bunches was a huge tarantula, the bite of which certain deash. Sheriff May, of Shernian, Texas, w a's shot and killed -Saturday while attempt- ing to arrest three desperadors,who sur. rendered when, the ammunition gave out. For the first time in a decade the Sunday law was rigidly enforced at Indianapolis, Sunday. The barber shops, saloons and all places of nenuse• ment were closed. A_ party of Blood Indians went across to Montana, stole some horses from the Gros Ventres and killed' and scalped two of the latter. The Mounted Police are running down the raiders. Samuel McBurney, a prominent and wealthy citizen, living at 60 Beverly street, Toronto, was found on Monday lying unconscious on the sidewalk. A physician pronounced him as suffering from epilepsy- Fears are entertained that he may not recover. The Grand Trunk Railway heel been served with A notice of action on behalf or Mrs Joseph Poore, for a buit to re- cover $20,000 damages as the result of the St. George disaster. This is the third writ served on the company from Woodstock since the calamity, the other Iwo being en behalf of Mrs Swan, $25,• e00, and -Mrs Martin, 1120,000. A novel weddiag took ploce in St. :\fitrys, cm Saturday, the contracting parties beim/ a rich well-to-do widower from Blanchard of 70 years, and a prominent widow lady of that town of 7e years. The novelty of the affair was. that by ,special request his Wor- ship Mayor Stanley and wife consented to discharge the duties of g roomsman anci bridesmaidrespectively, although comparative strangers to both. Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of the f am ous English preacher, was among the passengers by the last Australian steapa• er that arrived at San Francisco last Thursday. At Wawona he narrowly escaped the vengencoof an irate husbann. to whose wife he had paid undue atten- tion. Duckworth struck Spurgeon once, then they clinched, but 5Irs Duckworth threw herself between the conbatants and Spurgeon Made his escape.A few clays ago a horse belonging Henry Hindiey,St. Thomas,waskttae ed with a peculiar disease resembling the epizoo, and died from the effects Sat. nrday. Since then three other homes have been attacked. Veterinary sur - goons have diagnosed the dieease as cerebro spinel meningitis, clue to .the animals feeding on -decaying vegetablee. The animals are attacked with delirium and other symptoms of meningitis. The disease is eontagioue. 13011N. ectexisiouseo in Ctinton, on 17t0 inst.. the uife of Mr R.C. Corneliti4, of a daughter BA la,C11.—IreWoodstook,on the lith the wife of Mr S. F. Hamlett, of a son. SA UNDERS.—Itt Exeter, en the 21th Mgt:, the wife of Mr IV. Saunders, of the Exeter A.lvoettte, ole 5011. DIED - 11A.1;1,C11.—In IVoodstoell,on the2lith inst. the infant son, of Air S. F. Bauleh. ROBTIRTON.—In lIttliett,on the 27t1, inst., Albert H. Son of Mr ltobt,Roberton, aged 7 years, 3 tnonth anti 19 days. TEWSLEY.—in (imerich,on the 29th inst., Mary, wife of Mr James Towsley. PERDUE.—In Ooderieh Townshin on the 20th 1nst„ Stisannah, wife of Mr Caesar Per- due, aged 31 years, 2 months and 1 day, DINSLRY.—In Clinton, on the 2710 inst.. Dineloy, grandson of Mr E.Dinsley,. aged 18 years, 9 months. 'Mew Adverflotivantg. -- VURNISITED MOUSE TO LET.—SUII- X SeR111F114 offers to rent, either I urnished or 001,58111511 cottage on Albert Street north, Suitable fo'r aniaII .family, and has every convenience. Rent moderato. MISS OAR - VIE, on the premises, or of MANNING & SCOTT. G. T. R.. AGENCY. Through tickets to WINNIPEG, on the excursions June 4, 11, 18. For all information apply to W. JACKSON (i T 5 ITTOWN A (fENT.