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The Huron News-Record, 1889-07-10, Page 2gbe Awn %tw-f'fi*caxft IS PUBL1bUED. Every Wednesdaiy Morning k `\` ot., AT THEIR POWER PRESS PRINTING HOUSE, Ontario, !it 7e,et, a :ear—$1.25 Clinton. in Advance. The proprietorsof TiE Gonilttoi NEWS, having purchased the business and plant of TuE HURON RECORD, will in future ublish the amalgamated papers in. Clinton, under the title of "THE Hu1toN NEWS - RECORD," Clinton is the most prosperous town In Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable manufaetttrhig, andthe deiitre of the finest lsgriettlturai t section n Ontario. The combined elrculatlon of Tit ENEws- PEeOtte exceeds that of auy paper pub- lished in the County of Huron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medhim, garRatea of advertising liberal, and furnisher) on application. srPttrties making contracts for a speci- fiedtime, who discontinue their advertise. menet, before the expiry of the same, will he charged full rates. 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Ont The Huron News -Record 81-60 a Year—$1.25 in Advance. lar 17re elan does not do justice to his business who spends less rn advertising than he does in rent. IA. T. STEWART, the ruilli.onaiee werchan of New York. Wednesday, July 10th 18S9 PROTESTANTS IN QUEBEC. We have pessimists in the church as well as in the jour$alistic profes- sion, and they are to be found at times cropping up amongst the Pro- testant population of the Province of Quebec, their favorite theme being the alleged wiping' out of the Anglo- Saxon race and of the • Protestant religion in Lower Canada. Rev. Mr. Lariviere, of St. Hyacinthe, hav- ing made the statement o=1i the floor of the Anglican Synod the other day that Protestantism was losing ground in the Proviuco of Quebec, Rev. Douglas Barthwick, LL, D., of Mon - sets at rest the pretension in question treal,comes out with a rejoinder which so far as regards the city of Montreal as well as the whole Province. The figures are as follows : In 1871 Church of England 11,573, and in 1881 there were 14,31.8, being an in-• creast of 2,705. In 1871, Presbyterians 9,004, and in 1881 there were 11,507, heiug an ins crease of 2,533. In 1871, Methodists 4,503, and in 1872 there were 6,3.20, being an iu- crease of 825. • Iu . 1371, Baptists 028, and 1881 there were 1,402, heiug an increase of 474. In 1871, Congregationalists, 891, and in 1881 there were 1,311, being' an increase of 402. Iu 1881, there were 409 Jews, and in 1881 there were 811, being an in- crease of 402. All other denominations in 1871 were 1871 were 1,835, • and in 1881, 1,992, being an increase of 157. The above statistics, which are official, prompt me to ask where is the dying out ? They of course apply to the city of. Montreal, but the same evidence of increased numerical strength is also visible in the rural portions of Quebec province as well. In the Province of Quobee at the census of 1831 there were found 44,• 681 Church of England names ; in 1861 the number was 63,487. la 1871 the number was 62,036. tThis ap- parent decrease is attendant on the withdrawal of her Majesty's troops from the province, which lessened the numbers by two or three thous sand). In 1881 the number was '68,- 797, a steady increase throughout. In 1851 there were 33,470 Presby• terians in the Province of Quebec ; in 1801 there were 43,735 ; in 1871 there were 46.165, and in 1881 there were 50,287, ::an increase which must please our brethren of this denomin• ation who are so active in showing that Protestantism and its increase are neither dead nor dying in Lower Canada yet. In 1851 there were 21,109 Metho- dists in this province ; in 1801 there were 3),844 ; in 1871 there were 34,- 100, and in 1881 there were 89,701. In 1851 there were 4,493 Baptists in the Province of Quebec ; in 1801 there were 7,751 ; in 1871 there were 8,080, and in 1881 there were 8,8.53 --also an increase, etc., etc. Teachers Who Do Not Know Cannot Teach English. _ - —During the thunderstorm yes, terelay, Mr, .Jas. Kahl, hotellceeper, at Beachville, was struck by lighten• ing and instantly killed. MORE EVIDENCE OF THE UNTRUTHFULNESS OF HON. G. W. ROSS DISCOVERED BY THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS IN ESSEX. On Friday last the Ontario. School Commissioners finished their work of investigation, by visiting the three remaining French schools in the Township of West Tilbury. School No. 7 was found about five miles south-east from Comber. It is in charge of R. L. Pobquin, Afaetber importation from Quebec, teaching en a permit certificate. The school building is well ventilated and commodious, and very pleasantly situated, the playground being a veritable crop of maple trees. Of 'a total of 74 on the roll 36 were present, about half the number being English children. Tho language of this school is essen- tially Euglisl .., and the only fault to be found that the more ad- vanced classes made a very poor show lug in grammar and geography. They also showed poor training in arithmetic. THE PROTESTANTS REMAIN iN SCHOOL 'What religious instruction do you give the miler asked Mr. Tilley of the teacher. 'We have the catechism twice a week. The prayers of the school aro the "Our Father," "Hail Mary" and the "Angelus."' 'Do the Protestant children re• main in the room duriug.tho teach- ing of the catechism 1' '1 allow them to go out if they wish, but they generally remain.' 'How many of the French chil- dren do not learn English at alil' 'There are 33 in all. These are in the Syllabaire and First French book. They will all learn English before long.' The sinalleat children in the school were then called up and given an object lesson. They know the English names of common objects and showed a ready pro- ficiency in expressing themselves. This knowledge they had doubtless acquire3 on the playground with their English associates. I have noticed in nearly all the schools where a fair proportion of,, the pupils are English, that the French children who have never read a word of English, are able to talk quite fluently in that language, simply from the conversations they have heard from their little Saxon playmates. Does not this partially explode the theory that it is vdry difficult to teach a French child English without instructing him. first in his own language 1 The door of school No. 6. Til- bury, West Township, was opened by a very French -looking individual named Michael Belleau, who for the. past twenty years has been teaching on an extension of a third-class cert.iricate. There is none of that kind demeanour that usually characterizes an old pedagogue about Mr. Belleau. A grizzled moustache bristles over a mouth rather hard in its outline, and the severe expression of the eyes and forehead could scarcely fail to be anything but intimidating to a pupil. Out of a total of 71 on the roll but 2 wore English children. NO ENGLISH GRAMMAR TAUGHT. 'Does your French class study F.uglish granimarl' was the first question propounded.• `No, they do not learn English grammar, only French grammar.' `Do I understand you to say those big boys and girls have never learned any English gram ar et alil' asked Mr. Tilley. 'They don't understand English, and I ant obliged to teach thein in French.' Here Mr. Girardot, the inspector, called the teacher to him and asked him to explain how it was that English grammar was not taught. 'If the children do not know Eng- lish it is your duty fo teach them, That is what you are here for,' he said. 1Ir. Belleau finally managed to stammer out that he taught thoni some English grammar, when he was teaching that subject. 'Well, we'll see what the chil- dren do know,' said Mr. Tilley. 'Fourth and third classes stand i' The children in these advanced forms evidently did not understaud this simple command, as they did not rise until the teacher requested them in French. In a spelling lesson of words taken from an easy selection in the Third Reader, an average of .81 mistakes out of a possible 11 was made by each pupil. 'That is very poor work,' was the comment of the .commission. 'Do they know any geograehy 1'• 'I have taught thorn the cardinal points aud' the definitions,' 'Tho definitions I why that is work for the second class !' Mr. Tilley then proceeded to examine the class in geography— that is, ho proceeded to ask ques- tions, aud the class proceeded to maintain perfect silence. The children in the fourth class did not know north, south, oast or west on the map, or the simplest definition iu geography. On being naked fur an explanation the teacher said :— 'They do not understand the Eng• lish questions; they can answer all these questions in French.' 'Just let me see how you teach those children the definitions in geography, 4' said Mr. Tilley. The teacher braced himself up, picked up a pointer, advanced to the clase, and pointing out one girl, asked her in a imperative voice. 'What is continentt Answer!! I' There was no response. 'What is au island ! ! !' Again there was no response. The teacher looked the picture of vindictive wrath and the glass correspondjugly timid. Mr, Tilley sized up the situation in an instant. `No, there is no use, Mr. Belleau,' he said. "rhese children have not been instructed as they should. They can't answer questions that they don't kuow." 'Well,' said the toachei•, "they can't express thenmselves in English I am obliged to give justice and fair play to their parents who are French.' Tho fourth class has evidently never proceeded further iu the arithmetic than the four simple rules. Fractious they had evident- ly never heard about, and the reduction of bushels to quarts was a brain twisting conundrum. The school was a most disappointing one throughout, and ' Inspector Girardot could -scarcely oouceal his chagrin.at the poor showing made. COMPELLED TO TEACH TIIE CATECHISM. School No. 8 is under the mauagement of Miss Campbell. It was found to be iu a fair condition, the children being qnite conver- sant with English. Rev. Mr. Mc- Leod, himself a rigid Scotch Presbyterian, has evidently as much ability in the line of denomina- tional discriwivation as in the detection of nationality from flame. 'Campbell' was 'evidently a Scotch name, and to his mind Mise Camp- bell appeared like a Presbyterian On being asked Miss Campbell admitted frankly that she was a Presbyterian. She stated, how- ever, that she had been asked by the priest of the community to teach the Roman Catholic catechism and had agreed to do it. Tliis was the way she put it, but there is little doubt that she knows that she has the option of teaching a • re- ligion repulsive to her or throwing up her situation. Is any. better iustance wanted of church interior ance in public affairs 1 The inspection of this last school. completes the work of the com- ,nissieuers in the county. During the past two weeks they have driven through the north riding of Essex from west to east and examiued about thirty schools. In all of these at least one-third of the pupils wore said by the teachers to be in the first French class and consequently had never been in- structed in English. Of the re- maining two-thirds it was found in the majority of instances that so much attention was paid to their instruction in the higher French classes, that it was quite imposeiblo for them to gain even a meagre knowledge of the ordinary English branches. Hence it was found that nearly all the ,schools were very weak in English grammar, spelling and geography. It is argued by those favoring the French school systein that it is A MOST DESIRABLE THING. that a child should learn the two languages, and that a knowledge of French is a rare accomplishment worthy of the expenditure of time and money in acquiring. Granted ' that this is true. Why then isnot French taught in all our public schools 1 Simply because 11 is well known to all our educational authorities that the mind of a child is not capable.ol' mastering the two languages, aid it is conceived that a thorough knowledge of English, the language of our country, ac- quired in the Public school, with the privelege of studying French in the High school is a niuclr more beneficial course. Now as a matter of fact the school age of country children is between six and twelve years. The opportunities of adding to his knowledge after that period are few and far between to a French boy. In our best English schools rho majority of children 12 years of age are in the third reader. It has taken them five or six years under skilled teachers to acquire a fair knowledge of grammar, history, geography and reading. Does the Minister of Education wish to have it inferred that French children aro so much superior to English that they can acquire in the seine time in addition to the subjects men- tioned a thorough knowledge of French, etich as they endeavor to teach in Essex schools 1 IIe and everybody else must certainly admit that it is quite impossible for a French child to obtain a thorough knowlodgo of the common -school English branches, unlose French bo very a thick the contention that it is nearly IMPO8SUILE TO TEA011 a French pupil English without first giving lesseue in French is buite absurd. The method of instructing little children is always by associating the word with the object signified and thus impress- ing it upon the mind. As remark- ed before, I think, the fact that French boys iii the first form learn English from their play -fellows, before any lessons have been given them in the language , is a strong argument against the theory. INCOMPETENT FRENCH TEACUERS. With reference to the inCOm- potence of the tOaehere employed in the ec1. uols, I think it but fair to stiqe the position of Mr. Girardot, inspector of the county. I had a oouvetsation with hint last week upon the subject of the incorpora- tion of French incompetents from Quebec and the pernicious custom of giving permits and granting extensiou certificates. I b•alieve it is the whole-souled object of this truly conscientious old man to do what he conceives to bo his duty regarding these schools, He said to ars :—'You must know that it is very difficult to get teachers who thoroughly understand French. It would be quite useless for tae. to send any others to French com- munities. I simply have to do the best I can to fill vacancies. In this way I often have te take teachers who turn out very poorly.' As :l11. Girardot is one of the most ingenuous of men, I believe his statement implicitly. Ho him- self is most anxious that the chil- dren should learn English and learn it well. At the same time he insists that French shall be• taught thoroughly. Although this appears to Mr. Girardot as the inoet proper thing in the world, I really think that the educational iuterests of bout English and French pupils in Essex schools are simply being sacrificed to this one idea that the French language must be taught in this Public schools. THE CHURCH. AND TIIE SCHOOLS. One of the most noticeable and most objectionable features of the Essex schools is the influence exerted over thorn by the Boman Catholic church. They are Public only in name, Separate in reality. The mark of the church is every- where visible. It , shows in the crosses surmounting the schools, in the crucifixes and pictured `saints inside. Children are taught the catechism and prepared for the first communion .during 'school hours. Tlie prayers of the pupils are those of Romanism,- their textbooks in- culcate the doctrines of that church. To give -the name of public schools to such institutions as these is sem{,ly alieurd. They ata Separate schools drawing Gos ernment mousy. French Catholicism has the upper hand in Essex, and meads to keep it as long as a corporate vote can influence politicians. The County Council freely votes the money of Protestant ratepayers for the assis- tance given private Roman Catholic schools, as is evidenced by the fact that at its last meeting $100 was denoted to Batter's College, a third rate educational institution, under the charge of a priest at Stoney Point. To sum up the situation in Essex, I may briefly make these statements, which can challenge successful con- tradiction. (t) That French is taught iu ;Essex Public schools to the exclusion of theproper teach- ing of necessary English branches. (2)That some of the teachers ere notoriously incompetent and quite incapable of teaching English properly. (3) That books are used iv these schools not authorized by the Educational Department, and pernicious iu their influence, and (4) that the Church of Rome exer- cises an undue and powerful influence in matters purely secular pertaining to the schools. In concluding my letter I wish to convey my thanks to all •the friends in Essex, both French anti English, to whom I have beou indebted for information ; to the members of the commission, Messrs. Tilley, McLeod and Raynor,for the extreme courtesy extended to me throughout the trip, and lastly, but by no means in the least degree, to Inspector 'Theo, Girardot, whose kindness and generosity of heart not only have endeared him' to those whorl good fortune has brought in contact with him, but have become almost proverbial throughout the entire country. A CLOSE CALL. AFTER suffering for three weeks from Cholera Infantum so that I was not expected to live, and at the time, would even have been glad had death called me, so great was my Snffering, a friend recommended Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, which acted like magic on my system. But for this medicine I would not be alive now. TOriN W. BRADSIIAW, • 394 3t. Paul St., Montreal, P. Q KELLY'S CROSS, 1'. E. I. KiDNEY complaint and bad stom- ach troubled me for years, but I was cured by taking less than one bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters. For my present good health I owe my thanks to B. A. B., writes, JAUEs excluded from the schools. I . GORMAN, SEN. CANADA'S PROGRESS. 1868-1888. Althoughth n mbar of public schools in Ontario has only inceaeed by about a third in twenty ;years the number of teachers employed has almost doubled, and the salaries of tl}ose teachers and the total ex- penditure in connection with the schools have a good deal more than doubled, thus indicating the in- creng efficiency of schools already in existence. It must be to every citiasizen of 'this province a:source of une;Irlalled pride to know that four and a half rnilliou dollars was ex- pended on High, Public and Separ- ate schools last year. There is just one cause for discouragement in connection with this showing, and that is, that notwithstanding all the advantages offered for popular edu- cation, over 20 per cent. of the children of Ontario, between the ages of seven and thirteen, attended school for less than 100 days in 1887. The following figures showing the progress of the High, Public and Separate schools of this pro- vince since. 1868, will prove interesting : PUBLIC SCHOOLS. No. of Average No. of Salary Total cs• schools. attend. teach. paid pensos year. 1868-4,818 162,073 4,760 61,000,000 61,532,000 1887-6,532 215,162 7,594 8.2,458,000 83,742,000 HIGH SCHOOLS 1869— 101 2,542 161 S 95,000 1637. 112 10,227 398 8327,000 • SEPARATE SCHOOLS 1868— 162 9,305 236 838,846 1887— 220 — 491 --- 8117.000 8495,000 8 55,452 6211,223 OUR FARMERS ARE PROSPEROUS. But Ontario's progress is not gauged alone by theadvancemenf',of its educational interests. Materiel comforts and financial gain have kept pace with growing popular intelligence, The prosperity of Ontario is but an evidence of that which exists throughout the Dominion. The Log farm house has given place to the brick residence, and back -break- ing cradle to the self -binder, and improved implements of every de- scription have lightened the labour of the husbandman. In the last five years the value of farm imple- ments .has been added to by $12,- 000,000, live stock by $24,000,000, and buildings by $52,000,000. , . BUT THE GREATEST OF ALL 1S CAN -ADA. When we conte to deal with the Dominion as a whole we find that the showing is no less satisfactory. In 1868 the value of goods'imported for consumption only amounted t� $72,000,000. Last year the total was $102,00.0,000. Our exports have increased dnring the same period from $57,000,000 to 890,000- 000. In ten years the value of ex- port under the head of agricultural products haveincreased by a fourth ; the value of animals and their pro- ducts exported showed an increase from $11,000,000 to $24,000,000; the value of cattle exported has in - increased from less than one million to nearly seven millions ; and the export of cheese has been trebled, our exports in the last line being uow valued at $9,000,000. The value ofimports and exports does not ,after all give . a very clear idea of a nation's prosperity or otherwise; they are regulated in a great degree by the extent to which a country is , self-contained or otherwise. The unfailing barometer' which which marks with unerring ac- curacy the ,prosperity or adversity of a nation is the national revenue, facilities afforded 'for traffic, the development of its post -office service and the records of monetary insti- tutions. Taking this as the basis of calculation no country can make a better showing than can tbie Canada of ours. During the same period the rail- way mileage has increased as follows :—In 1868 Canada had 2,258 miles of railway, in 1875 4,826 miles, in 1880 6,891, and in 1888 12,000 utiles. The deposits 'in Post -office and Government Savings banks show the followigg retnarkable setios of increase : YEAR DEPOSIT, 1868 $ 1,687,000 1888 40,000,000 But perhaps the most remarkable progress of all is indicated in the following short table, showing the increase in the nnnaber of post -offices and letters carried by mail : NO. OF LETTERS AND YEAR. OFFICERS CARDS POSTED 1868 3,638 .18,000,000 18887,671 96,000,000 POPULATION AND TERRITORIAL EX- TENT Our population and territorial extent show the same wonderful ex- pansion as do our trade and eorn- mei•ce. Commencing with a scattered and disunited population of 3,000,- 000, we have graduatly moved up to 3,600,000 in 1871, to 4,300,000 in 1881, and to day we have not less than five and half milliou peo- ple joined in commerce by bands of steel, their •hearts boating response to one patriotism and animated by a common feeling of pride in the flag which shelters them. But while our increase in num- bers llas been satisfactory, nothing cad appeal more strongly to the imagintion or arouse more patriotic reaseereesesseerseseralesee fer'vous than a contemplation of au increase ire area Irvin 416,000 square, 'WWI i!1 1868 to 3,470,000 squaw miles in 1680, True, Gt11• pu{Yattrl1411 may Seeru small in comparison with that e the United Stales, but it equate or' excels either the ancient kingdoms of Eoy1,6, ttaat thriving hive of in- dustry ; Belgium, the niarititlter union of Sweden and Norway, of that plucky little gtrtrdi,tu of the• Danube, Roumania. Our nistienal recoil nos equal those of Portugal or Not w,ty and Sweden, are one-seventh in excess of those of Mexico, and treble those of Switzer- land. Our railway 1011eagf is as great a8 that of Austria or India, double that of Spain, trible that of Brazell and long enough to form five separ- ate lines across the broad Atlantic.. But great as is the progress of the past it is but a promisee of that which is to come. We have a terri- torial extent forty limes greater than that of the Gorman empire,. and excelled by only ane nation under the sun. Our'resoureee in• sea,foreat and soil are inexhaustible,. Every province hut grin is rich fn. almost every lcnowu niiueral. \Ver have copper, gold and bun enough, to supply the woshl, and in the North-west alone there is a coal - bearing strata double the entire• area of Portugal' Rich in resources,. illimitable in, extent and with boundless faith in• her own future, Canada is the peer of any nation under the canopy or the broad Leavens.. THE RIGEir ®F 1'ItOCESSION,. The Si1vation Aruiy has won a, legal victory iai Quebec • which, should bravo a hearing on the right of Orangemen to walk in procession in that province. Judge Cross ufflrnia- that if a mole violates the law the victims should not be made to suffer for the sins of their persecutors. Public attention is heiug directed' to the admirable judgment of Judge Cross, of Qu•ebeo, affirming the - legality of the Sal vatiou Army pro. cessions. The ease may be stated in a few words. Tho Salvationists - walked ien• procession' through the streets of Quebec ; they were attack- ed by a web and pelted with stones• and snowballs, and they, were prose- cuted for causing a pull is nuisance —the itrgnmen t against hens being,' that if they had nut wal •ed in pro, cession, rhe rowdies would not have thrown stones at them, and there would have been' no disturbance..'• Judge Cross did not take this view. He held, with regard' to a process- iou, what had. previously been held in regard to• a meeting,.namely,.thar the meeting of Salvationists was lawful' ;• that the meeting was not made unlawful simply by ruffians - trying fo break it up; that a breach of the•peaco which renders a meet- ing unlawful must be a breach caused by members of the meeting,, and - not by wrong -doers who wish to prevent its being held. It was enough, the Judge, said, to; hold them responsible for their own acts and intentions, and not for the acts ,end intoutioLs of others. He seems• to have abundance of legal author- ity for the position he takes, and it certainly is in perfect•accort} with justice, common sense and public policy. To take the view that a procession becomes illegal the mo- ment a mob threatens violenoe,- would be simply to submit to mob, rut e. "STINGS FOR :,THF. STINGY:" A very neat essay is one entitled' "Stings for, the Stingy,"'which relates - to the miserly habits of illustrious men and the little arrows shot at them by lavish and therefore impe- cunious literary archers. This is - one on Marlborough, a couplet,., about a bridge over a small stream. at Blenhiem: The lofty arch his high smbition shows. The stream an emhleni of his bounty flows Once a rat was found doad in Lord El.den's house, and an anony mous epigram was composed for the occasion: hound deal, a rat—no cast could sure be• Harder. Verdict —coufi ted a week in Eiden's. larder. Hook was once invited to dine at the Star and Garter by a skinflint peer. •-Fol' a party of four there was a small chop apiece, a few potatoes and a pint of sherry. Af- ter the meager dinner, Hook sang the national anthem with the refrain : happy and glorious, A pint between four of us Cud save the King Lord Alvauley was the guest of a host whose residence was elaborately adorned,. but where dinners were scant. Alvauley wrote: The eye cannot least where the stomach is starving ; Pray less of yenr gilding and mote of your carving. The smartest thing is not in verso but plain prose, and Hook said it. Invited to ding by a Indy, a plate was uucovered and a brace of scant cutlets exposed. "Mr. Hook," said the hostess. "you see your dinner," "Thank you," observed, Hook ; "but where's yours?" 9 _t