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THE DAILY EXAMINER,
THk DAILY EXAMINER.
AUGUST 20, 1990.
Education and Agriculture.
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Ir is evident—from the long list of suc- cessful candidates for admission to -Prince of Wales College and Normal School, » pub- lished a few days ago—that the spréading young intellect of the Provinee has already exceeded the bounds provided for it within the College walls. It is also apparent that Prince Edward Island is paying more for education out of the Provincial exchequer than she can afford in the present state of her finances. On the other hand, the Government Stock Farm is, under existing conditions, ‘‘ a losing concern.” There is, too, an awakened consciousness of a want in our agricultural system. At the same time, the protest agaimat. teaching young men Latin and Greek and Mathematics at the public expease,—unfitting them for work on the farm and educating. them to become doctors and lawyers and professors, ete., in foreign lands,-—grows stronger and stronger every day.
Now, what is best to be done under these circumstances’ This is. the difficult and perplexing qrestion with which the Legis- lature must grapple—the sooner the more decisively the better.
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The Government have obtained the ser-
viessofa Pe er of Agriculture—one
. tapadle and energetic} buf by the views and sympathies of all dis-
..o enlarging ahd improving
tilding. These are right
~seares, aud if they will go of to provide means for the instruction of a class of farmers sons in the higher branches of the agricultural scieuce they will, in our opinion, take still another. step inthe right direction. Let young men who desire to become excellent farmers be permitted to come to the College without having: to undergo the preliminary examination in latin, Greek and Mathematies.; Jet them listen to the lectures of the Agricultural Professor and, under his direction, take object lessons at the Goverement Stock Farm,—and at least one practical method for the improvement of the agriculture of the Prevince will have been adopted. The Government Farm will thus become, in part at least, a model farm, and continue ~ to be of some. use in the community; and it may also be found that improved methods of farming and management will make it self-sustaining. 4 But, though this be done, the problem
. will still -be only partially solved. How to provide for the expense of education ? and how to recoup the Government for expenses incurred in educating young men ‘and women to leave the farm and the Prov- ince /—these are questions which,remain to be considered: It will be admitted that the classics and higher mathematics are be- yond the sphere comprehended by the idea of “a common school education;” for only the tew, couipatatively, can, after all, study them. It is,therefore, wrong that tuition in themshould be acharge uponthe public at large. Clearly, those particular persons— those highty-favored-individuals—who can afford’ to”'expend’ yents' in acquiring the
higher. branches of learning should, themselves,—-or, their ...parents _ for them—pay the-cash that is required on account of their ‘instruction in
those higher branches. It is a great thing to be 4 classical scholar, A classical scholar has a source of wisdom and mental pleasure and culture from which common men, cow-: pelled to earn their livelihood in the ordin- ary ayocations, cannot possibly draw. Surely this imestimable privilege is worth paying for by the person who . recwives it, surely the poor and common people—the people unprivileged in chis respect—the people compelled to labor upon their farms —should not be compelled to bear the ex- pense of the higher education of per sons whose position may enable them and whose ambition may impel them to seek the learned professions. ft fol: | lows, then, that the Government should receive payment on account of every scholar in the public schools who may be receiving instruction in the higher branches of learn- ing. Fees should, in our Opinion, be charged in all theGovernment high schools, as well asin Prince of Wales College, for instruction in the dead languages, in the foreign modern languages, and in mathe: matics,
If, after this be done, it be found neces- sary to still further lighten the burden which the Government is bearing in respect to education, each district might well be asked to make up a reasonable amount, to be paid either directly to the teacher.or indirectly to the Government which pays the teacher. This Province has. been pay- ing 4 largeer part ofits revenue: for the. support of schools than any other province. of Canada or any State of . the North American republic. Elsewhere, the parents, the school districts, the municipalities, bear a proportion of the cost of education as well as the Province or State. Here the Pro» vince has hitherto, except in Charlottetown, paid almost the whole of it. But for the increased cost of education since 1878, the Province need not—under the economical policy and administration of the Liberal- Conservatives—have gone into debt to the amount of a single dollar. Moreover, the people.of the various districts are now mich better off than they were in days gone by.
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Th Fare how able to pay a pat of the cost of-thie educapi@h of theifchildten\; and they woe. w ieve, be qitite “wr do so thah submit Mto.direct taxation after the manner of the Davies regime. The question is, certainly, 1 large, diffi- cult and important one, a question ‘not. to be disposed of in the course of one editorial article. , }t,ought, in the highest interests of the Province, to befairly atid carefully discussed, and wisely decided.
Notes and Comments.
— The London Telegraph criticises with some force the scheme of the Rev. W. A. Crawtord-F post Lor, a reconciliation in the Christian Church. Mr. Crawford-Frost has probably obtained what he, wanted notice by the Euglish press.
~The Week denounces the (Quebee lottery and says: No argument can, 6
think’ ‘be needed to convince any one who has reflected seriously upon the matter that the lottery 18 distinct ly immoral in principle as well as demoralizing in practice.. 1t | is, in éffect, but one of the most seductive forms of that gambling which is ‘céming tardily but justly to be regarded as one of the niost destructive and ‘degrading vices of the age, albeit it is sanctioned: by | the example of so’many in high circles.
—Commenting upon the Behring Sea matter, the Week says: ‘‘In the preseut state of the dispute,..Lord Salisbury has clearly the advantage, sinceall he has to do is to insist that British vessels shal) not be molested in the open sea by those of any other nation—a position in which he must be sustained not only by thie Jaw of nations interested powers. The mainténance of this position gives, of course, the Canadian fishermen all they désire. If there is real- ly anything in the natural facts of the case, such as the Aabitat and habits of the seal, which gives the American contention any basis in equity, surely impartial arbitrators could be trusted to.do justice in the pre- mises. The British and Canadian. case can afford to wait. a
Singapore.
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Singapore or Sinhapura, the city of lions, is a British dependency, the most important in the Straits Settlement, having a separate colonial government of its own. It con- sists of an island 27 miles long, and 14 broad, lying off the south end of the Malay peninsula, and includes about 70 islets. Singapore Island is separated from the mainland by a strait, at s.ie Joints not more than half a mile in width, which is the channel of navigation to the Chinese Seas. The island is undulating and diversified by hills ranging from 70 to 509 feet in height, and the shores are fringed with coral reefs, Whc.s first occupied by the English, the whole island was c..ered with forest and jungle. This was largely cleared off to make room for nutmeg plan tions, and it is now clothed with luxuriant and perpetual verdure, in which palm trees, ferns and orchids are conspicuous forms. | Near the shore by the mouths of creeks are grouped quaint dwellings of fishermen, built of wood or palm-leaf, standing on piles over
Sketches By @ Correspondent-of
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A Trip t0 Ye Ancient Colony.
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| have no doubt some of your readers will be curious to know the place which the | press holds in such a community. “JY fear! the Newfoundland newspapers are ‘nut as well known outside the Island as they should.be, If they were more largely read abroad the result would, I think, be'im- proving for the papers. I do not caré to say too much about the readers. There’ are three daily papers in St. Jolin’s, and I} think five whieh appear less «frequently. 4 Several] others are published in the out-* ports. “fhe'style of the St: John's papers is peculiar and almost indescribable. | I can- not do better than refer to dn article which’!
appeared in the columns of’ one of them::during my stay. Referring tu} the editor. of the opposition sheet,,,
the writer playfully says: **The fellow is, therefore, proving himself ti be, what he: really is, an utterly contemptible sneak, a! mean and cowardly slanderer, and a white-/ livered cur, who has not the courage. to du more than snarl and snap at one’s heels. He} has to-day only the instincts of a vulture} end the untameable nature of a hyena.” | This is merely a fair sample of the whole leading article, Ata dinner in St. John’s’ the editor of one of the leading dailies re- | plying »tomthe toast. of ‘The Press” ad- ! mitted that the Newfoundland papers were | somewhat personal, but defended thein™ on | the ground that (aking. inte consideration | the way in which the terms used were| understood in Newfoundland, they were} not more severe than the language employ-
ed by the press of the wWominion, He
further urged that their sphere was neces-
sarily contracted and that a daily victiw
puugency to the daily issue. From this | it may be gathered that terms are applied | by the Newfoundland press in aj ‘*Pickwickian” sense, and are s0 understood by the people. To call a man ‘a thrice convicted liar” is held to be a somewhat mild way «f stat- ing that he cannot be relied ‘ou. for strict | verbal accuracy. The unfortunate result of this is that the papers occasionally app
lpr these epithe.s to these who have not had! Its
the advantages of a Newfoundland educa- tion and training and the results are some- times at least, inconvenient. Thus a citi- zen of the Dominion, who, ina newspaper sketch was facticously termed ‘‘a chartered libertine” had the bad taste to feel. indig- nant at such language, and has, 1 under- stand, called in the aid of the courts to soothe his injured feelings. I feel sure that this conduct will be highly reprehen- sible in the eyes of the average Newfound- lander and what the result will be in the hands of a juryit is impossible to deter- mine. Let me do the Colonist, edited by our late fellow townsman, P. R. Bowers Esq., the justice to say that it preserves
the water. In the smooth, sandy bays cocoa-nut palms shelter picturesque Malay houses. More inland, groves ot
fruit trees, patches of sugar-cane, Chinese gardens, tapioca and indigo fields. In the: vicinity of the town, neat. bungalows, the | residences of officials, merchants, and rich | Chinese-and Arabs, add beauty and diver- sity to the scene. Almost all kinds of fruit are cultivated on the Island. Coffee, pineapples, cocoanuts, castard apple, lime, orange, plantain, and many others peculiar to the troyics, are in season nearly all the year, The botanical and zoological gav- dens are on an extensive scale. In climate, Singapore is wonderfully fortunate for a
There is scarcely any seasonal change, and the annual range of temperature is gener- ally only from 70 to 90 degtees. The oa especially are cool and refreshing, and enable the people to sleep in comfort. Instead of periodical rains, there are not more than 167 wet ‘days, distributed throughout the year. Besides most of the domestic animals of Europe, which have been introduced sloths, _ monkeys and squirrels; the tiger, which - formerly comsitte
great depredations ‘amongst ‘the tativedh occasionally finds his way across the ‘Strait, ‘The population of the island is estitnated to be about 150,000, 3,00 * of whom are’ Euro- peans. The preponderating races are the Chinese and Malays. The city of Singapore is a bright, picturesque and progeny place. The’ mitnicipality has ‘under “f
control a yearly revenue of tore than $3C9,000. The ‘cosmopolitan character of the population ‘gives great brightness of color to the crowded streets, and is reflected in the architecture of the city, where Mo- hammedan mosques, Chinese joss houses, Hindoo temples'und English and’ American churches ure equally at home. Among the most important Etropean edifices are the palatial Goverment House, with its park- like grounds, the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, supreme court) house, post office, police court, .jail, hospital,
containing 16,348 volumes. Several English papers are published at Singapbréjias well as
| But with this exception the political news-
country within one degree of the equator.
, there are deer, wild hogs, |
ana. ground and this was the place” the first
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citadel, barracks, public schools, and library}.
the amenities to a far yreater extezt than either of its fellow dailies and that it is quaking an honest effort to elevate. the standard of journalism in Newfoundland.
paper would-take a leading place as a party organ in a Presidential campaign in
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A. Disgracefal Action...
Sik,>-A disgraceful action ‘has beca ] 'done in thé ‘thriving ‘settlement of | | Alberry” Plaivis. A ‘promising young mare, the property of Mr. James Hoyns | of this.place, _ we" mysterious- Ty bled ‘to death on Sabbath mor ng * last.
When found by the owner in the afternoon, A care-
the blood had not perfectly dried. ful search was then made. Her track was closely folluwed on the path. Then it
turned to bne side to w’ cleared spot of
_tracespievblood was found with the foot print yof th@ animal in her struggle, then was lad to ore secluded spot where she
the body opened. No traces of anything’ but a sharp weapon could be found. The,
wou, er.an inch long which enter- ed te Dorewst an
for ri and we edior
veins which soon ended life
ectly the keading resh tracks
were found leading from where she was found. One wasof a brogan style, the other more of a dress boot. This has brought a strange feeling in the neighbor- hood, but we hope before long to have the pinee rid of such characters. So far as is
sive man. Yours truly.
Aug 18th, 1890. ————— MARRIED.
At Charlottetown, Atigust 19th, Ge Hooper, son of Hox. Will More!l. to Sarah Alice Houle,
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Ts orge iam. Hooper, of eldest daughter
oné Chinese and one Malay. As a trading port Singapore has great advantages. harbor is safe and has in it several of the
of ships of the British navy. It) is | here
of London, lave their splendid docks ar depots. The commerce of the-port has attained vast dimersions, the annual ex- — and imports amounting ‘to: ‘£25,931, - stg., or nearly $130;¢.4,C..), and the Island is recognized as the great empori of British trade in the East. . Until recent- ly it has been practically without defences, ‘bub within the) last five years the Colony has erected a series of batteries at.a cost of £75,020 stg., and the English Government has expended £90,6.) stg., on the ordig: ance, ”
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W. B. Robertson’s House and Lot at aue~ tion to-morrow, A desirable residence. © ), A.nice little home at auction, at 12 o'clock to-morrow. Terms easy, ‘9. H. Norton & Go. will sell at auction to- morrow, at noon, W...B.. Robertson's house
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