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A FORWARD STEP.

We find, with concerning education in which Tne Ex. AMINER is in agreement with The Patriot. The Patriot says:

pleasure, many points

“Away with the grovelling idea that man is only a money grub; that he need« no education to draw out all the powers of his mind and thus fit him for all the higher

duties of life.” We heartily agree. The Patriot

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“Te higher his intelligence, the better will be his opportunities to make the best of both worlds,”

We cordially agree. The Patriot pros

ceeds:

“Tt is an old superstition that only the blockheads ina family should be made farmers. No ‘awyer or doctor should have a better general education than the farmer.”

The Patriot adds:

“Our teachers ut any rate must be ited for their work ; and instead of begrudg- ing education to others than candidates for the teaching profession, we would gladly see scores of students from all parte of the Island attending the College

Again we agree.

every term. It woulddo them and the ccuntry good ! Most heartily we agree. The Patriot

goes on to say that,—

“The farmers of this Island should bave more of their nvm ber in the Local Legisla- ture and in the Dominioa Parliament.”

Tow this also we agree, though we deny that the highest ein of a farmer is to get into Parliament or that we should inetruct our farmer’s eons to that end at the public expense.

If The Patriot can show that instruc- tion in Greek aod Latin and Geometry and other branches of higher education tends to produce a better farming popv- lation throughout the Province; tends to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; tends to produce larger and better crops ot wheat, oats, potatves, mangele etc., tends to produce more valu- able outpute of gilt edged butter and creme de la creme cheese; tends to the breeding and increase of improved herds of cattle and finer studs of horses; tenda to the production of a finer race of men and wo- men to live and die upom the Jand in this Province,—we sha!] rencu. * the prio- ciple which the Patriot denounces, and go the whole length of agreement with the Patriot. If this be «a, we eay, let the dead languges, and geometry, and all the other tools of the professions, be taught freely i our common schools maintained at the common expense, even though the common purse is empty and is to be supplied only by means of increased taxation. We desire it to be fully uuder- atc od t ‘at we are not opposed to higher ed- ucati on for those who are intellectually and murally capable of it. But we waintain that education is essentially the duty of the parent—not of the Siate; that there is a limit in reapect io education beyond which the State need not go; and that thie limit is correctly, if somewhat generally, defined as the point at which instruction in the common schools is ef common utility to the common people. principle, all the children of all the people would be instructed ‘n all the branehes essential to the preservation and upbuild- ing of the State at the State’s expenze ; but fees would be exacted from parents to pay special branches

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According to this

for instruction in those eseential to the further and special development of their children. This is not,as The Patriot deciare+,a going back- ward, It is a going forward in the ednca~ tional path, The fact of she practical success of the experiment inthe Prisce of Wales College, showsthatpareots throughout this country are becoming better able to do their duty towards their children in respect to their inte!leciual development, and that they have a keener appreciation of the value to their eons and daughters of the fuller development of the intellectual faculties. The'more parents pay for, the more they will apprecinie the value of, the} higher education, and the prunder they will feel when they see their sons honored in the land and successful in the respective avocatious for whico they have been specially trained and their laughters as “ polished corners in the temple” ; for they can then say,—“ theee results are produced not at the expense of the State—not ty the payment of taxes by our neighbors, many of whom are poorer than ourselves, but by ourown efforts; we knew ourchildren to be susceptible and capable of development ; we supplied the means; the results prove that we were right ;and we are amply repaid for our efforts.” That this feeling is abroad throughout the country is evident in the iacreasiug numbers of students who atvend the educational institutions at Sackville, Wolfville, Windsor, Halifax, etc.; and

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that a greater number of students woul? attend Prince of Wales College and Nor- wal schools if only there were sufticient room and the efficiency of the staff were we have no doubt,—even though fees continue to be charged,

Tbe Patriot says that “all the other and all the States of the neighboring republic, support their col- leges, universities, or other institutions to give higher education than is imparted in our commend

maintained,

Provinces

schools.” This is true ; and it is alsotrae that in no province or state is education supported in larger measure by the government ofthe province or state than in Prince Edward Island. That ia to say—the revenues of educational in- stitutions outeide this Province,are made,up toa much larger extent ‘from individual sources, the payment of fees, etc.,than they arein this Province. We ought to go forward in this regard; and we ought to apply the material resources of this Prov- ince to the material development of this Province. But as little as possible of the Provincial revenue should go to the training of professional gentlemen who emigrate, for the most part, to other lands.

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MANITOBA SCHOOLS,

Noruinc Official has been stated concern- ing the new arrangement entered into between Archbishop Langevin aad the Hierarchy of Quebec, on the ove part, and the Governments of Canada and Manitoba on the other. But correspondenta at Ottewa have obtained a circumetantiel account of the new settlement. It appears that not only Archbishop Langevin and Archbishop Bruchesi were engaged in the conference, but also Mr. Rochon, one of the French school inspectors, and Dr. Bryce, representing the Advisory School Board of Manitoba. It is stated that “acting upon the papal injunction to accept all concessions IHlis Grace of St. Boniface came to the decision to agree to the terme imposed under the present Manitoba law without insisting upon such legislative amendments as would embody further concessions in the provincia! school act. The understanding is that these concessions will be carried out in the administration of the act. According to Inepector Rochon a set of French text- books has been xgreed upon for use in the schools in which the pupils are French- speaking. Thie, of course, is contrary to the spirit of the Manitoba school Jaw, but it is possible that means will be found for getting over the difficulty in that regard, upon the understanding that the minority, as represented by Archbishop Langevin, will accept the provisions of the act which recognizes the rights of Roman Catholics with twenty-five school children in smal districts to select a of their own So it appears that the Rornan Catholics are, after all, to have their 1ights under the Manitoba Act fully

teacher denomination.”

restored. The Settlement provided that Roman’ Catholic children shall have Roman Catholic teachers; and the new

arrangement assures theta echool books of their own choice. That is to say, they are,— notwithstanding all the fuss that has been made—to have separate Roman Catho- lie schools de facto though not de jure, and the Protestants who voted against the government of Sir Ub-rles Tupper because he proposed to restore Roman Catholig Separate echoole in an open, manly and legitimate way have not a word to say about it.

—The Wesleyan: We learu on excellent authority that Dr Grant has failed utterly to make converts within his own precincts to his viewsof Prohibition. His students, who were present at the recent debate, cheered for him lustily, of course, but they said thems+lves thatthey cheered the Principal not the principle,

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MR. PERRY S FUNERAL.

The faneral of the Jate Hon. S. F, Perry took place at Tignish, today and was largely attended. A special train with a number of passengers for Charlottetown arrived at ll o’cluck. The service at the church which began at that hour consisted of a Requiem Mass and Libera. His Lord- ship the Bishop of Charlottetown was not present and but few of the priests. The service was taken by Rev. Father Dougald McDonald snd the pallbearers were A J McFayden,J A Matheson, Edward Hack~ ette, J P Bresnan, KE Gallant and Napoleon Gallant.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS

—Doliarsto doughnuts that toeday no coustitueucy in the province of Ontario has escaped the solemn ancient juke that some- budy iS goingsto be snowed under iu the election,

—That there isa bye election in the wind i+ plain to be seen. The Patriot of last evening contains an advertisement calling for tenders for the construetion et “@ Breakwater at Summerside!”

—ZLord Rosebery, on Jan. 22, in declare ing the People’s Palice in Glasgow open, said the corpcrations of the United King- dom were attending to the sanitation of the mind as well as of the body, and where the ratepayers were allowed, they founded free libraries. While that was done for the mind and senses, the body was not ne- glected, fur wasb-heuses, baths and gyme nasia were elected by the municipalities. Charlottetown has to reach the free library stage yet,

—Senator Perley, on behalf of the pro- hibition people, has moved for a return giving the number of permits granted to persons for the purpose of taking spiri- tuous liquors into the Yukon district, with the dates, name of those who obtain- ed them, the number of gallons covered by each permit, and the fees charged for the permite. By the way we havn’t neticed that the Guardian, and other *independent” papers have ever corrected the falsehood that Sir Charles Tupper had obtained one of these permite,

—A correspondent of the London Times writing on the subject of British trade, gives some interesting tacts and figures to prove that the capacity of Englishmen for food consumption is gradually increas- ing. During the years from 1891 to 1895 the total consumpiion of meat-—home and foreign combined—wes 121 pounds per head, against an average of 112 pounds for the four preceding years; the years of 1896 and 1897 show aetil! further increase. Of butter, eheese, eggs, sugar and tea, taken together, the coneumption per head has more thon doubled, eo far as they are imported, since 1868,and it is said the home supply of the first three articles has increaeed in the sams proportion as population—that is, by 25 per cent—+inee 1868. Thecorrespondent continuss: “We were eaid, some thirty years ago. to have drunk oureelves out ofthe Alabama difficulty, Let ushope that we sre not now, a8 @ nalion, Over-eating ourselves inte anotber difficulty! We have now the largest and most magnificent business that the world has ever -e*: ; but, like all other very big busine-+es, needs conétant, careful watch’, 1) order to be quite eure that it is proti.acie ws well as big.”

See the Summerside and Charlottetown teams at the rink tomorrow night.

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THE SKATER My glad feet shod with theshining steel, 1 was the God of the winged heel.

The hills in the far white sky were lost; The world lay still in the wide white frost;

And the woods hung bushed in their long white dream By the ghoetly,glimmering,ice-blue stream

Here was a pathway, amooth like glass’ Where I,and the wanderivg wind, might pars

To the far-off palaces, drifted deep, Where winter’s retinue resis in sleep,

I followed the lure, I fled like w bird, Till the startled hollows awoke and heard

A spinning whisper, a sibilant twang, As the stroke of the steel on the hard ice raug:

And the wandering wind was left behind As faster, faster I followed my mind,

Till the blood eang high in my eager brain, And the joy of my flight was almost pain.

Then, I stayed the rush of my breathless speed, And silently went as a drifting seed—

Slowly, furtively, till mv eyes Grew big with the awe of a strange surmise,

And the hair of my neck began to creep At hear’ng the wilderness talk in sleep.

Shapes in the fir-gloom drifted near; In the deep of my heart I heard my fear;

And I turned and fed like a eoul pursued From the white inviolate solitude.—

Charles G. D. Roberts in March Ladies’ Home Journal.

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Extensive Sale of Dry Goods and General Merchandise

The undersigned having taken posses- under a Bill of Sale, trom: the McKay Woolen Company t them of all the tweeds, readymade clothing goods and al! general merchandise of the said Company contained in its store oa the corner of Queen and Grafton Streets, in Charlotte- town, and in the mill of the said company von the Malpeque Road, hereby give po: tice that they will receive sealed tenders for the purchase of the whole of the said goods and merchandize, up to Monday, twesty-eighth day of February, instant,at the hour of two o’clock, p. m.

Lists of stock to be tendered for can be seen On application to Mr. Danie] Gordon, at the store of Messrs. Gordon & McLel- lan, Queen Street. The goods can be ex- amined any day on applicatign to Mr. Gordon.

_ Tenders marked “McKay Woolen Co. Tender,” can be addressed and handed in of mailed to Mr. Daniel Gordon, Char- lottetown.

On the acceptance of any tender, cash for the full awount tendered will be réquired.

The undersigned do not bind themselves te atcept the highest or any tender.

JAMES A. LEAMAN, ROBERT A. EDWARDS By W.S. Stewart, their Solizitor. Ch’town, Feb. 14—

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Aericultural Addresses

ADDRESSES on Agricultura] Subjeete, will ve given by direction of Honorable Sydeey Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, at the following places and dates:

Charlottetown—On Tuesday, Ist., Merch, at 1 p. m., in Kindergarten Hall.

Kensington—On Tuesdsy, let March, at 7.30 p. m.

Summerside—On March, at 10 a. m,

Alberton—On Wednesday, Znd March, at 6.30 p.m.

Morell—On Thureday, 3rd March, at 7.30 p. m.

Montague Bridge—On March, at 7.30 p. m.

Murray Harbor South—On Saturday, $th March, at 12, noon.

The following gen:lemen are expected to addresa these meetings: Messre Blair, Bobertson. Dr. Pethick, V. S8., and probably Professor Hopkins,

As information; of much value to fare mers will be given, there should be a large attendahce.

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Friday, 4th

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ThetAnoual Schein’ ot “The Telephone “‘ompany.of Prince kaward Island.” ior the

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