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Everi dsy,'nid _a phynicign recently, we'u'o,gotting cues fromiho Schools, with norvouu dileuai broiTIghI:_`on " by ex- oeuive study. 'ThIt<` tho:~`eya"Iight in tailing, is evidenced by the great nnnybgr of wonlm. -..vv V vs Apa - dence. morrow Ladies` Church. .4.--u :5: Mrs. N,`Ilu'n9 Hraven family. f`..4.. A Cats: since 8. turned 1 of hittin shoot th Mrs . is spen G. Law laae. Mr. who ha. yvars, month. \t Mr. few day fmany seems I: gracefu '1"L _ , T3}; CODCBBI The co` Elmval Craig, cbairm Kent liamen will be well k Phi lav I~|.n\aI Sum making in com) '" EEK" ronto Medica. BARRIE BRANCH. an I ues-:- an n Kl .1. up... Mr. occupi Church H01 ;-\.V tle and to-nig Our in a r The . great -55 VIII! The an imp Mr. and h II? and fa `II _ nuu In- M rs: H Alton" A.`Mia 3-`. well. eveni T I An 8 line. 48 Ngwnvupor.` j Published tram the 011100. Dnnlop Street" Barrie. in the County of Slmooe. the Pro-_ Vince of Ontario. Canada. every Thurs- day mornink. by A IAMUEL WESLEY. l'll0PlIIE'l`0Bo AAAA av- Mu Anu- We: va'1_1.] .-.19:-Ia CANADIAN` menus or SUBSCRIPTION. oiplef vi -"d1_.V .1?6!P99*i98..~P'9Yi"591; riaht-= W W04 % hr t5!`%Arohb1-h.9p 9 :re1ii9i!*- iP ,h. `ho n.e.;..Tumanqu.ba.~:.uamow chus_ t;-3 -ii 55115 ~5!5ih dlkififi ihiifil it . . .. . * ~..~--~--.~,:..:~- -- .'-' -M-'3'-V no sane maxi in` 110` ` Dominion hoeirea, and the only conceivable reason for ? con- aidering the A1-ohbiahop'a appeal in that of cenrte-Iovoolwspesitivnrs: hv>-* ninlnd` nf .....'.II.; -..-....A:.... __--2-A-2-I nu uuvtvvni tvjlliil` The petition of Archbishop Toohe puk- ing for thediullowenoe of the _ Menitgn School Acts, his` been nnicjeg considere- stion of the Government, -end referred to a subcommittee of the council. That any mpve. viill 11 #19 5.!-#59, 0!!iI!'! G0"!!!-_ -ment to nuilifyf the `judgment of the highest judicial gnthoggw in `the einplte Inn -Ana uni-H I; 'l\.:..._2_l_._ . I_._S1-'J Iran uniiros; scaooz. oulslbn. VIVL- _-a.:;:-_ -1 A.__I.I_!_l_ ,, ' The writing was bad and the spelling worse, while the style was worst of all. The Queen's English was badly mangled and punctuation seemed to be entirely ignored. A great many enclosed recom- mends. . One writes en a big sheet of thick blue paper 10x14 inehes,ruled in blue and red. Another used thin, sea-green tinted paper such as would be used by a love-sick swain in writing to his rustic Angelina. A third begins with Dear Sir , at the extreme right of the note paper, and a number wrote on dirty, greasy paper,fo1ded ina slip-shod way that would produce a slip-shod style in the pupils under such a teacher's example. One man sought to "gain the favor of the trustee board by the information that on one occasion he was presented with a costly inkstand, graced with the antlered head of a reindeer, a fancy china. cup and saucer, an elegant fountain pen, a box of A nely tinted paper and envelopes and some other articles. A Another wrote that he was a graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology," and so on to the end of`,the -chaptari.-g-' `With ; facts and results ` say:that\eIl`.t .C!lt7.el`l|.of educationiedncateaiit The London `F:-e'o Preaafoufi Saturday` has cu editorul on. the oveuyorking of children" in the ichools in order to carry out what` the curriculum prelcribcc5'iud'- . the cramming` that taken tho. pmeu of"1n- 7 - tioucl educating procouono rpi-bpure the- pupil for the over neon:-ring round of ct`-~ cminctiona; We quota; 117-cu: Athc jFroo_ F. H. Tut:-nock` in the last Educational Month-ly*grapples with the question: Does our education educate? The writer had been looking through the applications for vacant teacherships. '1 he . positions applied for were the headmaster- ship of the High school` and the principal- ship of the common school in the largest and most important town in the North- west. There were over 60 applicants and all possessed at least second class certicates, a large number were univer- sity graduates, the great majority of them had secured their qualications in Ontario, and, for the most part they had been actively engaged in the teaching profes- sion. I :1 these applications there seems to have been but slim evidence of--"`f_';that good sense,.sound judgment, culture and renement, which the best education` is expected to produce and which, unless possessed by himself, a teacher cannot impart to those placed under his control. Fully 75 per cent. of these applications could be passed over without a second l reading, and all but half a dozen` were |d`iscarded. ` ` . I What is true of the examinations re- ferred to by the editor of the Educational Mon.hly is trueeapecially of the entrance examinations. A ` written examination does not properly test a candidates edu- cational standing. It misleads not in two ways merely asthe "Monthly states, but in various ways, often the _more in-A tellectual candidate fails while the con-. dent, shallow but well crammed one suc- ceeos. ' -- - ~--~ -V--~ --- ---J l""' r""" The. injustice done to candidates by examinations and their results is becom- ing so apparent and so `notorious to the best and most experienced educatori that the question of what to do in the matter, whether to abolish examinations altogether or how to modify their results.'is now a very serious question to those who are res_ponsible to the public -in educational a`_airs. - T One hopeful sin: that needed changes` in our educational methods may be made is the fact that the Minister of. Education is becoming convinced that changes are necessary. Last {July at the Dxminion Education" Association in Montreal, he referred in "strong terms to his disap- pointment at the results. of the annual examinations conducted by the Edu- cational Department, and expressed an ardent wish that some better plan could be devised which would serve to secure the -ends arrived at in a better way. In commenting on this the Educational Monthly editorially says : It is an undoubted fact that the discontent with examinations in every form is growing stronger every year. Less reliance now is being placed on `results obtained by examinations than for many years past. TL; ....'..-a:..' .1--- A... _-~3!'| - ' over pressure i_n';,ou_r_ -_edI.Ioa__tioual -system." The pupils are in fact not _ being `educated in the nroper . sense of `the word; V-they? are simply slulcd and for ex- aminations, and the memory taxed at the cxpense. of bodily health and wise mental processes. We believe -that thisha: come to be the opinion of many public school teachers who are themselves as much the victims of the cramming system. es the unfortunate weaklings who may beamong the attendance. The little boy or girl who spends ve or six hours in the hard competition of the class-room, end is sent home with a list of eight or ten studies to be compcssed over night, has a greater drudgery In proportion t9 his or herphy- sical strength than the hardest Tworked day laborer." inl- and therein T Indiod laying thnt this is one of the fruits ofthe Julian DnQA-l`-1'3 `-5 Anna A_-_L3-__I , _, A _ A! ugue jilyoto-'. J than pawn :.in 1Engi1i_l"=_t_Uqh|I?ig' the principles of % P9-`.L,!d,'999KA the;i-ntere.-.t_-9t b`tiA j . i tlL1~cr_u_tUI.-v:Qnb}3:oihugku51jfqt/Qiqiiut;; ` .4 _ but , an oI.n` nn. ' In the October Arena, Mr. Edgar Lee has an interesting article on `the position which faatrology holds now in England. He says it will. surprise a large number of readers of the Magazine to be boldythat astrology, aaaueience, in not only hold-. in; its ownin -Encland to-day, but has, dmjing the past ten years,` made such strides that is is` felt by many ` that the Rogue: 'and Vagabond: Act, which for-- bid: the caitin of ' for gain, _ by next` :Qai'liaineny,. stand} Va: chance of v ` s~2t`u;oi ain:i1it*.nsiiyiica;vay..l-igaogg nsze`1a*.:*:iaii z`se=:-mmttcstalr: M:-azia ago In}! l9thI9!9l|=._!Pd.!'!18?". were than " poieic incl-the cam ot,Ph.gaoh;; sndisen ;centnriec_latar they Tennyson will take rank with Spencer, Milton and Shakespeare as a poetyof the highest order. His death causes universal" regret. His remains will have a plaoein Westminster Abbey. The last few months have been fatal to great poets of the era, Browning, WhitI'nan,Whittier and Tenny- son having passed away, a quartette with no equals in the world; EDUCATIONAL. Discontent is becoming pretty general. with the methods of our publicschool sys- tem and with its results. We have often called attention to the inadequacyof it for the great bulk of our rural pupil population who do not attendhigh schools after passing the entrance examination, and do not -want to take a high school course. We refer to this matter now more for the purpose of indicating the widespread dissatisfaction that exists, of the necessity for a remedy being ap- plied. - ' . nnsrn or ran: pour Lsunns-u. Alfred Tennyson, the sweet singer, is dead. He passed peacefully away on Thursday morning, 6th inst., at 1.30 o clock, and Sir Andrew `Clarke, his physician, says his death was the most glorious he had ever seen. There was no artihcial light in the room, and the chamber was almost `in darkness, save where a ood of moonlight poured in through a westernwindow and fell across the bed. As peacefully and gently as he "lived, so he died. 4 V I - . No. right should be withheld from any. religious body in the country, not should any privilege be granted to one body` which is withheld from another. While it is clearly a function of the state to educate its children, it is clearly out of its function to take `public money to pay for. teaching religious oreeds. If remedial legislation is required at "all, it is to. undothe serious `mistakes which have led to t-hepresent diiculty. ' place. ' But though this reverend man takes the part that might be expected of. him. his attitude is not universally adopted by Vhis co-religiouists. La Semaine Rah- gieuse, understood to be the organ of the episcopal bench of _Quebec, thinks the. Federal Government cannot interfere and says that Manitoba Catholics must accept the inevitable. 'l`he diiculty in the way of interference has been vastly augmented by the fight which the Liberal party has made for many years in favor of provin- cial home-rule. What has been the his- tory of_ the conicts between Mr. Mowat and Sir John Macdonald? It has been the assertion of the right of provinces to manage their own 'a'airs, and the triumph of that right in the Privy Council of England. {Va xnay take it for granted, therefore, that although the Cabinet are considering Archbishop .l'ache s remarkable petition, no "' Remedial legislation will take Not only is the Empire getting into linewith the country press on this ques- tion, and trying to induce the Roman Catholics of Manitoba to accept the situa- tion, but the. Ottawa Citizen clearly indicates that the Government must not interfere with provincial rights. In speaking of the Archbishop : appeal, it says :- . 1-: . - __._- __ --w vnrlnvn Of course not, nor would it dare to do it indirectly by alienating a portion of_ the Public schoo1lands, for such a pur- pose which `the "Empire hinted some time ago might be done, though in" its Saturday's issue it takes the backtrack on that also. ' It is to be hoped that the Empire has becmne conscious that it cannot load the Oonserrative party much less get it to endorse an unwise and _unj ust policy in the face of the protest of an in- dependent country press, whose opinions have innitely greater weight with the people than the dicta of a mere party organ. even though the mouth piece of a cabinet minister. s o the-t ~.;_:' T! ii` I. *4 hutthat the douse-sos;.: i 5 Privy .ho.ah;; g, ` 3 tez-rde%1s;_i-:`~- arias-:% iinidii-E phenomenon.` _ _ g such as asked for byAi`c:_hhifsliA'op,Tache is an impossibility. Any government undertak- ing it would be shaken _into fragments. The unanimity`-` with which the country -Conservative press has endorsed the prin-' cipleof the Vhianitoba School lays, and the unmistakable way it condemns any at- tempt by the G.-vernment to render those acts nugatory by handing over a part of of the School lands of Manitoba, for the support of ` Roman Catholic schools, should besuggestive to the Government as to what would be the result of such an unwise` policy. The Toronto Empire, and some other of the `purely party organs, we noticehave taken the hint, and are retracing 5 their steps. The Empire of Saturday ixiiiits _ editorial T leader, says :- N 0 government could be expected to propose, and ~ certainly no` parliament would pass Remedial legislation in the face of such a judgment as that from the highest court In the empire. G3 nnlinnn -scab --.. ____Ij 2; 1 - I ` _ '7 7 ECE J v V wnv CH` terttgined sboui 6i(V)'i1'emb1`-; ofvfthe P A [ r esb - i churclron Thundavovening. On tie -`ocouiair aputie bf: mon'qy;wu preuhted . to: `Rev. Mr. MoL'ean;.1ihon 1IVi!!'f0I'7:3KlI`(/>3_ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Every new subscriber to THE ADVANCE and every old subscriber, whose subscrip- tion is paid at Christmas, now coming, will be presented with The Canadian Annual for 1893,` a magnicently illustrated book of one hundred pages, containing many artistic illustrations, stories, humorous and instructive, and much valuable and useful information. This unique Christmas souvenir will be published by the peoples favorite journal," THE NORTHERN ADVANCE, at that time. This beautiful Annual, which has been prepared with great care and artistic skill is worthy a place in any home inour country. We hope this evidence of our interest in the welfare of our subscribers will be met by a large addition to our hubscription list and in a general settling` and paying up of subscribers accounts. `Without being chargeable with either `vanity or exaggeration we may be permit- ted to say, that for purity of tone, literary excellence, fairness in discussing current topics, care in selections, value of matter selected, variety and extent of local news in the most readable form, loyalty to local, interests, mechanical skill in arrangement and general accuracy, THE ADVANCE has no equal in the county, and no superior` in Ontario for the price. Subscribe and pay up and secure a `two dollar news paper for one dollar, and the beautiful Canadian Annual for 1893. -uunv lvulglll IHIEWBOII UU and `[00 II. . .1 Mn. Lowery `have of a L two gore - iorohard, one hundtod {and fifty barrels `of ohoiodnpplpn-thiraouon. __. ~ ' . ` Mr.- and Mrs. Roebuck, of Wyeval, `G about 6.0`"mexnb`e1`-s of` the Preab zgtin chnrnlrnn I I|nv-nA`..-._:`-~ A-A -` V.c.......w uu nu women ..urengI:h.. : ' - I ` - It in reported that Mr. Samuel Mo l Donald-131:: uo_1dhi| farm to Mr. William . Lennoi- nf than]... c..- ool:nn' v I KT II `III! XIII! W MT. | L;'3'nno:;,::' :I`1 i`|uplpoo, for $3500; u; unowa uppzeu-cnnruuon. . Mr. Geo. :-Gilpln ha been ill for some 'Mtime.and`it=in:to.- be hoped he will soon `be ire-stored to his `wanted ..attength.. ` It :.illannn-tad, ti-Ant ll`. an-.--I" --A - hu gma to Ohava; to attend mother union at the Ladies- College of that p1O0..'- ;. % D\ V Mnnnn 'l`nm..... A...-I.1 1.-- - W - -' nuyn-wu UV HUD X UllDII'Ill`uo The brethren of L. 0. L.,fNo. 16, Thornton, have also been invited and, no doubt, A grand time my be, expected. Dinner will be served ct Bro. Henderson : at 1 o'clock p.xn., after which the speak- ing will take place in either the Hall or echoolhonee. .- -nn-:_-n 1' - W'- vuuuuu In Bali pl.I0.. - ` I Master Tommy Arnold ha: I pumpkin: -that weighs between 90 and `l00`|bI. ' . Mpg l'.:i'-nun 'I---'-- -`1' - are viewing Irlencll in mi: Vlcllllty. At the last meeting of L. O . L., No. 450, it was agreed to hold in commemora- tion the Gunpowder Plot `with more than usual eolat. The following speakers have been invited :. Revs. J no. Morgen, Gooketown; J. J. Ooohrane, Thornton; Thou. McKee, P. S. I., Barrie ; H. H. Cunningham. Ivy; with 001. Tyrwhitt, Bredford ; Heughton Lennox, Ben-le ; J. T. Sproul, Barrie ; Che:-lea Polling, P-. 0. M. of S. Simcoe. Mr. Polling ha. been invited to not as chairman. . rm... |.-..u....... -2 1' A 1' Iuv JJEIWUUPCI Ulll-Il`UI.l Ill? DIIDDBISII. _ Mr. SaI_n l. Wright and wife, of Toronto, are visiting friends in this vicinity. At the last mnntinu of T. n` 1 . \T. Y C` No new name will he adde(71Zto_ti1'e 8:1?)- Icription List until the money is paid. Snham-ibarn now in arrears fmv tin-no mnnthn I \J\llIu Asuzvuau UV. There was no service in the Presby- terian church nor Episcopal church on the second inat.. owing, in the former case, to the deceue of Rev. Mr. 0ochrane's father, and in the latter case, to the absence of the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, who is atpresent in Muskoka chasing the antlered monarch of the wild. Mr. Coehrane has the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in his sad ainction. Thrnn ntnnm Hn-cal-inn: I-mu... 5...-.. -..-_- vuvuv uunsuuuluuuu III [III IIQ BIIIIOUIOIJ. Three steam threahere have been opera.- ting. here these two weeks, and all report a. bountiful yield. * Rev. Mr. Elwin occupied the pul.pit of the Episcopal church last Sabbath. Mu gnu-vs,` T-.:.u..`.L A...` __'E, I III ..v u nvvvvu nun: DUCIUII LIUFH. number of ex-pupils of the Ivy public school are present attending Barrio ; Cull. Institute. .-- v --vv \.a\IL1IlD]J\Il-IIJUI-IUQ 1 otatoea are yielding an average with few rotten this season here. . ilntinknu A` A- ----3'-- - j_ Vnnxrroman mxnnrs. `,1`h_e,Otta`w'a Free Press says :--It_ is evid,e`n't_'.from the virulent tone of attack made` upon.Edward Blake by the organs of the Dominion Government that the Conservative leaders fear that gentleman : return to the arena of Canadian politics at "an early day. Of course the Govern- ment lsquaking with fear of a man who has been the most conspicuous political failure in the Grit ranks. ru os. What the Globe can hope to gain by its- everlasting `cry that the farmers of this "glorious land are struggling for existence we cannot see. Only the other day it said the Canadian farmers struggle to keep even withthe world is now as bit- ter and in many cases more doubtful than in the days when he sallied out axe. in hand to fell the first tree on his home- stead. Ninetenths of the farmers who read the Globe know that the Globe's wail is of the alligator kind, and that its statements as applied to farmers gener- ally, are grossly untrue. Last August the Editor of Tm; Anvancs had occasion to visit the homes of many farmers in Nor- folk and Oxford Counties, and there were noevidences of a bitter struggle, but on the other hand plenty of evidences of prosperity and contentment. The houses were, as a general thing, elegantly fur- nished, and with as much taste as _one could see in a town or city residence. An organ or piano in almost every home, with pictures, books and other tokens of an easy, comfortable, contented lite, and In not a few, with last year's grain un- sold. Not only this, but the manager of one of the banks in the Town of Simcoe, assured our informant that at no previ- ous time had the farmers of Norfolk and Haldimand so much cash, on deposit as this year, nor were they ever in a better nancial position. What is true of those two counties is, no doubt, largely true of other parts of the country. Why then should the Washington organ at Toronto take such trouble to misrepresent the true state of things, and say that the most prosperous and most contented body of farmers in the world are bitterly strug- gling for existence? Having repudiated Erastus Wiman, the Globe should also dropthe tricks and d_evices_ adopted to boom the reciprocity-annexation fad 7of; which U he,was tl1.e,_'father. _` _ p I Great faith is put in the guesses and grave predictions of Old` Moore's Almanac by the lower classes, but the applications of the large numbers of the aristocracy `and pretty well informed middle classes. for information about their lives, or of their children, resulting from the position of the planets at their birth, shows a credulty among the supposed intelligent people of Britain that creates wonder. The papers of Mr. Levromise to be of more than passing interest. 2_.th'e~fupper ten, ?.; ;._....m.., an the popu ho` `chiey enpport " the: ontological journele, Many pereone yvrite _to the 1$_rofeeeor_a of the eoienoe. to have their, horoeoopeeout and to leern all sort: of things from t'.:e e ppee1-enoe of the men whoiie to. be the inqni're1- e huebend to the exact dete of the {death of some one whose taking off ' would be of eome come- quenoe to the party asking for such infor- mation. . A I `Advance Correspondence. Iunpuun 141314 Illlbll BBB IIIOIIBY 13 D3111. Subscribers now in arrears for three months `Ind over will be charged $1.50 Der annum. : ' V It the reach of such an 0PPt ; |Ltunifry-fto"i:get' i`ciOfre7aI3eixi\ti'.rock bottom prices. We ask You enr;?eteek%befer.e; purchasing elsewhere- _ 1 ;xh'_`;"n L-13 IWRHHVE BEHER nouns BEEN snowm :We gre b61:'ing?` tihei__be`st_ bargains with irresistib`e induce- T ` i , imentsibeyond th'efwhisper of competition. Fine goods ndlow` prices do the `work. % % in all kinds of lFraser, Clark & Co. 3Don t fail to see our bargain table. Ladies `Wool Hose, Ladies Cashmere Hose.V .31 Per Annum in Advance. $1. j `Y. _A-- ---.A A L- AAA.) 4.. LL- 'I_|_ Ladies Wool underwear. Lac` Hygeian wool underwear. Th celebrated Health Brand underwear for ladies and children, all sizes. The Best & Cheapest in the markiet IANIJM Wlll SELL {WET HAVE snumn A large range of Choice Pattern-S andrcolors 1n Planneletts. It % Vwill pay you to see them, I-IC)$IIE}F?.S?! GREY % FLAN N ELS. $13321, BARRIE. 39-51 GEO. REEDY. THE NORTHERN ADVANEE, .1 Q `Quinn AD IVAI---g... E-j.._.__.-_. . _ .- -0 H, wuuUuuUU nut: zu`1'lV'ct1 UI 11. CIIOICC t of th very latest novelties in Dress Materials direct from London, also another 1013 of new Mantle: at very low prices. Our Dress Making Department is as busy as a Bee HIVB. Mantles and Dresses made and nished in a very superior manner. Miss Gilchrist in charge `IT , I 1 DRESS GOODS BUYERSE The Popuia OUR SPECIAL LINE FOR % DIRECT IMPORTER. DEPARTMENT. "Jiar Cash Store, -WILL BE- DEPA-arm ENT ' Deposits of $1 and upwards received and Interest allowed. Interest added to the principal twice in each year. I ` . ' Current accounts opened. Farmers and Commercial paper dis- counted. Farmers Sales N otes collected. Notes. A Note forms free on application. Dnsrrs ISSUED payable in all parts of `Canada, Great Britain, the United States of America, and elsewhere.` Ii. IEI. MORRIS, as. eMANAGER. Advances made on Farmers Slales t-class waist band` We are the leaders B03/8 J11 ssc.s- October J es H 001 Hose, Izibbwz Hose. ESTABLISHED 1337. OAPITAI. - - - - - saooonoo.