'WHIG'S PUZZLE SERIES Bk um tn pre arts me Vy Prizes for Three Successful Replies. " a Address "Puzzle Bditor" THE WHIG, Kingston, Ont. beund But w round. ~Dr. J. G. Holland. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, 5 When Duty whispers low, "Thou must, The youth replies, "1 can."' -- Emerson. w <i» . . In a thoughtful article in "The Far mer's Advocate," Prof. James W. Ro bertson, commissioner -1 | and dairying, deals with the improve | ment of the rural schools in Canada. He suggests the introduction of a course in nature study, with manual training and domestic economy on either side of it. 'These three, hi says, "are not fads in any sense They are fundamental to the mainten ance of &vilization and the upward progress of the individual and the race. We are part of Nature; life itpelf is sustained by natural processes; therefore, a study of Nature is neces- sary. We are the tool using, weapon- using, instrument-using creatures on earth, and manual training makes for mental power through these agencies. We seek to make comfortable, happy homes, and science and art in domes- tie economy enlarge our ability to gain and enjoy that chiefest earthly | goal." Passing to particulars, Mr. Robert yon gives us his idea of how the sub- ject of nature study should be taught, and his views are worthy of careful attention. "Nature study is not for the pur pose of acquiring information about soils, plants, animals and inorganic things; it is rather a means of train ing the personal power of the pupil in- to a condition of symmetry and ma turity, through a knowledge of and sympathy with those things acquired by doing something with them. "Nature study would not crowd out any essential branch of learning from the common schools, but, on the other hand, it would stimulate an interest in all subjects as the pupil discovered their relationships to his daily life and the world about him. 'The improve ment in the school course is to be made not so much by a change of curriculum as by a change in the me thods of treating the various sub- jects. For instance, let a pupil plant ten grains of wheat - in a row, ten grains of Indian corn in another row, ten seeds of potatoes in another row, and ten seeds of clover in an- other row. Let him pull up one plant of each row every week and find out competent teacher, what bad happen: ed in the meantime. Further, as far as he was able, let him make draw- ings of the plot of ground and of the plant, and a written statement of the progress and growth as he was able to observe it from week to week, If then his lessons in reading and in grithme tic should have a direct bearing upon this Nature study work, would not such a course give an intelligent boy or girl a grea amount of exceedingly valuable education 7" «0» It seems to me that there 'is other 'study as important and neces sary in the schools--and especially the country schools--as Nature study. It is pre-eminently the study of our en vironments--of the great whole of which the individual forms but an in significant part. A well trained mind is the "ultimate goal of all education. Having this long-established conclu sion before .as, there arises the en quiry : How best can we develop a well-trained mind ? Is it not by train ing the child to observe, to see things for himself, and to relate them ? He should know that every part. of Na ture is inseparably other part. As the child begins to see things for himself, and to note their relation, self-confidence will be estab lished. Without confidence in himself no individual can rise to the full mea sure of his being. > Children have been encouraged to study books too much, and to rely up on these for their conclusions. to an unwarranted extent. It is not books they should but things. The text book should be only an aid-a means toward ah end. The child, as | stated above, should be taught to ob sorve things for himself. We have set before us a high ideal, and striven to wards that--a grand anil ennobling About Drainage IRON-OX CURE CONSTIPATION Twenty-five Adult Doses 23 Cente THE DAILY WHIG, SATURD EL Galks vv Wayside FOR THE WHIG. Heaven is not reached by a single thi And we mount to its summit round by We rise by the things that are under our | feet-- By what we have mastered of good or in, And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. PePPOPE By a Farmer's Son. SoS POOPE in itself--but we have overlook- ed the real. The child cannot under- nag, ne bulla the ladder by which we stand the it wold, and be. call un From the lowly earth to the vaulted | derstand the real. Ihe latter is of ab- skies, sorbing interest to him, and be is al- ways eager to learn more concerning it. Let us then, .[ollowing the true process of education, assist him. in this natural inclination, and help to lead him from the known to the unkmown gain, 3 By the pride deposed and the passion | hy consecutive and well ordered steps. Just here is where the great ad- vantage and importance of nature study comes in. In the following pdra- raph Charles E. Barr, of Albion Col- ege, Albion, Michigan, has clearly set forth the objects of Nature study : "Ihe objects of Nature study," he says, 'are to link the school life of the child to his previous experience; | to develop and perfect his powers of of agriculture observation; to lead him to question . | intelligently from the thing he sees to the causes that produced it, and which he cannot see; to realize the interdepen- dence of natural phenomena and hence their, essential oneness; to bring him e | to place himself in' proper relation to for himself, under the guidance of a.} related to ever his environment and to recognize him- self as but one small part oF a great and closely knit whole; from this fo lead him to an appreciation of mutual helpfulness and to regard his own interest not as an end to be advanced but the common interest as para. mount, his own to be secured only as he subordinates his place; to lead him to altruism, to morality and thence on to God. This is a lofty aim, and the claim may. seem o'er bold." . . It is a failure of modern education that the object which it aims at is not to make us good and wise, but learned; in this it has succeeded. It has not taught us to follow and em- brace virtue and prudence, but it has imprinted on our minds the deriva- tion and etymology of these words. We know how to decline virtue; we know not how to love it. lf we do not know what prudence is in its real essence, and by experience, we are, at all events, able to spell and pro- nounce it. . + a» Artistic education, whether by the direct teaching which develops the power of creation or by the indirect influence of surroundings, which im- prove the taste and ennoble life, is not a luxury and should never be so re garded. Luxury pampers the body, art gladdens the soul; luxury seeks for dainty food and soft raiment, art seeks for the beauty which ennobles the mind and uplifts the heart; luxury weakens the powers, art, on the other hand, strengthens them; luxury de bases the ideals of life, art inspires and exalts them . - John B. Gough, the famous temper ance writer, was once in a New kng land town lecturing, and aiter pictur ing the tavern as a place of coptami- nation, even for the abstainer, asked : "Don't you all agree with me, friends, that there is no place a man should go, and of which he should tell his mother and sisters, unless he might take them there, too ? Should there be any such place ?"' "Oh, yes," came drawlingly from a rear seat. The audience was aroused from its spell of adwiration for the orator and turned to look at the man in the rear. Gough smiled as though he thought no discussion possible, and blandly asked : _ "Where, friend, would you go, tell- ing mother and sisters, but refusing to take them ?"' : "The barber's," was the laconic re- ply. « ne» A few day: ago "Old Probs," Tos ronto, says the Brockville Recorder, gave sowe very interesting infor mation about Canada's climate: Toronto is 550 miles further south than London, Eng., he said. A large portion of Ontario was as far south as the south of France, Northern Spain or Italy, and the southern part of Ontario was further south than Rome. No section of Canada's great wheat belt in Manitoba was as far north as Scotland. There was a won: derful variation of climate in Can- ada, ranging from the health resorts of the Pacihc to the intense cold of the Klondyke. The whole of Canada, with the exception of near the coast in British Columbia, was favored with more sunshine than any portion of Great Britain, Germany, Holland or Northern France. Nearly ail parts of the Dominion had an annual per- centage of over forty degrees. and"a summer percentage of fifty-three and fifty nine, whereas it was onlv in the more southern parts of England that a normal annual percentage of thirty- six degrees was reached, and the sum- mer figures, while in a few instances up to fifty, were more generally be- tween thirty five and forty-five." Mr. Stupart coimbatted the idea that the climate of any part of our country is changing; such an idea is fallacious. While climates do change, the change is inappreciable in the lifetime of man; it is comparable, rather than geological change. Without» doubt there are marked variations from year to year, and also for terms of years, but the average temperature of the coming century will, he feels confident, not differ from the last; and precisely the same may be said of rainfall as of temperature. Keeping Tab By Electricity. The Washington postal authorities are experimenting with a mail box, which will keep tab on collections. The boxes will be arranged on a re- gular route and mumbered. Each will be connected by a wire with an elec- tric 'announciator board in the main office, and as the collector opens the box a bell will ring and an index on the board will tell that the box is open. If the collector fails to open a box there is a wire which prevents his opening the next box in the series. Hard or soft corns cured with three applications of Peck's Corn Salve, 15c. at Wade's. E. H. McHENRY, Esq., Chief E HUGH R. CAMERON, Esq., Real Dividends of 15 per cent. per vear, shares allotted. changes in due course. J. RICHARD BROWNE, Esq, HON. T. CHASE CASGRAIN, K.C,, MP. .... .. gineer Canadian Pacific Railway. HON. T. MAYNE DALY, K.C., Ex Minister of the Interior, Canada. .. 7 . . WM. JOHNSTON, Esq., of Wm. Johnston & Co., COM. J. U. GREGORY, Agent of the Department of Marine and Fisheries Two representative English Directors will be selected by the subscribers to the stock in England CHAS. F. LAKE, Treasurer, Montreal, Can. BANK OF MONTREAL, Montreal, Can. MACDONNELL & BOLAND, Toronto, Can. Subscriptions will now be received for the balance of th, limited number of 50,000 SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE BRITISH-CANADIAN WHEAT RAISING C0., 2am (INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO). AT PAR VALUE OF $5 EACH. CAPITAL $1,000,000 DIVIDED INTO 200,000 SHARES AT $5 EACH. 140,000 Shares of which are owned by the Company. DIRECTORS . . . Montreal, Can. . .Montreal, Can . . .Montreal, "Can . + Winnipeg, Can. . . Winnipeg, Can. . . Winnipeg, Can. . + « Quebec, Can, Capitalist, President Implement Dealers. .. = . . Estate . at the close of this subscription WM. H. JOLLY, Superintendent, Winnipeg, Can. BANKERS PARR'S BANK, London, Eng. SOLICITORS WILLIAMS & NEVILLE, London, Eng. AUDITORS HARRY VIGEON, F.C.A., Imperial Bank Building, Toronto, Ont CHANTREY, CHANTREY & CO., London, Eng. PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY This Company has secured 10,000 acres of the choicest wheat lands in A ssinibofa; Canada, having paid to the owners in addition to cash, 60,000 shares of its Capital Stock, for which the owners are completely equipping the property with all the necessary buildings, steam plows, steam threshers drills, waggons, tools, fences, and every: thing necessary to operate the said 10,000 acres. The Company's property will always be equipped with all the latest im proved necessary 'machinery to pro- duce wheat at the lowest cost. It is the intention of .the Company to have its own elevator, of capacity sufficient to store its entire production, thus en abling them to take advantage of the highest market time. The market for wheat is unlimited The Company also has an option o n 10,000 additional acres of the same character of wheat land as the 10.000 acres above mentioned, the propert y being located seven miles from the Canadian Pacific Railway, where large elevators are ready to receive the product. i 3 This is an investment that will enhance in value as time goes by, not only from the large production of wheat but the increased value of the Company's lands from year to year prices from time to DIVIDENDS it is estimated, can be paid semi-annually, December 1st and June lst of each year. Outside of the amount paid in dividends, the surplus earnings will be accumulated, and will either be divided among the shareholders as ex tra dividends, or used to purchse new wheat territory; or be otherwise em ployed as may be hereafter determined. Send, for the illustrated prospectus and maps of the company's property, which will be mailed free on request. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The full amount of $5.00 per share must accompany the order. The right is reserved to allot a smaller number of shaees than the amount subscribed for. in which event' the balance of the money will be returned with the Application will be made for a settlement of thése shares on the London, Montreal and Toronto Stock Ex- MONEY MAY BE SENT BY POST OFFICE ORDER, EXPRESS, REGIST ERED LETTER, OR BY CHEQUE. Address all communications, including applications forshares, to The Trusts and Guarantee Co., Limited 14]King Street West, Toronto, Ont. THE MUSICAL PICTURES. The Pussles Were (Guessed By Whig Readers. The answers to the musical puzzle pictures of Saturday, 2lst, were: mandolin, guitar, cymbals, pipe-or gan. The successful responses came from : TT. M. Asselstine, Yth received; Dorothy Hooper, 26th; Marv New- bery, 27th; Barrett Fralick, 29th; A. Petrie, 35th; Stacey Daly, 4lst; M. Saunders, 42nd; Florence Murray, 44th; Edna McWaters, 46th; Rose Jurke, 47th; S. E. Renton, 0th; James Atkins, 52nd; Myrtle Woods, Tamworth, 53rd. The pictures in this issue represent sports. There will be two prizes for city answers and one for out-of-town readers. Do not cut out the pictures to send in; preserve them at home. The Whig will not continue this ser- ies long as it has inaugurated a new series of old-fashioned word puzzles, riddles and guesses. This department will be regularly sustained and?" mo dest prizes given. It is not a wapte- fulbut an improving occupation. An- 'other lot will appear next Monday evening. Qualities For A Nation. "Of course, no one quality makes a good citizen, and no one quality will save a nation. But there are certain great qualities, for the lack of which no amount of intellectual brilliancy, or of material prosperity, or of easi ness of life can atone, and which show decadence and corruption in the nation just as much if they are pro duced 'by selfishness and coldness and ease-loving laziness among compara- tively r people as if they are pro- duced by vicious or frivolous luxury in the rich. If the men of the nation are not anxious to work in many dii- ferent ways, with all their might and strength, and ready and able to fight at need, and anxious to be fathers of families, and u the women do not re- cognize that the greatest thing for any woman is to be a good wiie and mother, why, that nation has cause to be alarmed about its future.'- President Roosevelt. ¢ "Regular Practitioner -- No Re- sult." Mrs. Annie C. Chestnut, of Whithy, was for months a rheumatic victim, but South' American Rheumatic Cure changed the song from "despair" to "joy." She says: "l suffered untold misery iris Frustisn--doviy me icine did me no --two bottles of South i ae Cure Ro ed me--relief two hours after the first dose." Sold by Henry Wade and 'H B. Taylor --50 ; = : Bagpipe, cello, flute, lute, violin, lyre, | GOLD MEDAL AWARDED, WOMAN'S EXHIBITION, LONDON, i900. Neaove's For And | Fl | Infants, Th | Invalids, 0 0 Nea i Nearly 80 Years' Established Reputation. DR. BARNARDO says : "We have already used Neave's Food in two of ur Homes (Rabies' Castle and the Village Home) and I have mo hesitation in saying it has prove -- satisfactory. ""~ July 27th, 1901. Manufacturers: JOSIAH R. NEAVE & CO., FORDINGBRIDGE, ENGLAND Wholesale Agents: lv : holesale Agents: -THE LYMAN BROS. &Co., i.td., Toronto & Montreal: ESTABLISHED 1800. "PHONE MAIN 4303. W. F. DEVER & C0, STOCK AND BOND BROKER, 19 Wellington Street East, Toronto. 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