DREDWARDS WRITES |: CONCERNING THE COUNTY HIGH PAGE TEN. SCHOOL. QUESTION. He Gives Facts to the Frontenac Eleetors----A Clear Presentation of the Kingston Collegiate Institute Difficulty. Cataraqui, Dec. - 21. (To the tor; :-Mecause of recent letters press and with the view 10 havi fatter of secondary education ol ty pupils esruesily consered nomination procyesiugs the county, | beg permission to some facts before your readers The Kingston Collegiate Institut bas thirtedn teachers hundred pupils on the roll, of over sixty are from the county The OUntariy government wilh not class as an. "anprovet senoul" a col legiate where tie average attendance is greater than tharty er. Une of three courses is, therefore, open to the city, viz.: (1) Allow the county pupils to attend and Inve the collegiate rated as nom-approved, or below the standard required by the education department; (2) build an ad- dition at. great expense to the city taxpayers, or (J) exclude the county pupils, in which ease the average at tendance would be about twenty-six per teacher and 'thé collegiate would rank as an 'approved school," and possess certain, privileges not at pres ent enjoyed. The oi of education, last Uc- tober, notified the parents of county pupils, by circular, that unless. the county council decided to meet the full cost of tuition (about $17 per annum) it would be obliged to exclude chil- dren from the county. The fees at t are $325 for the first two years throug no nil se wisom to each teach- . and $30 thereafter. Allow me to add, refunded. 25¢. that the city board did not ask the patents if they would be willing to pay an increased fee, and, therefore, | assume the board has something more than fees in mind. As the board has not laid any definite'proposition before the county council, it is up to us to consider the position of the county pu pils of the front townships if they are debarred from the collegiate. Position of Front Townships, Without previous warning the par- ents of over sixty pupils were suddenly faced with the prospect of their chil- dren being refused at the collegiate, Tuition fees for the first term were tendered and were courteously declin-. ed. I drove to Sydenham and inter viewed the principal of the high school, and was told that there was scarcely sufficient accommodation for the present attendance of 107, and that it would be utterly impossiblé to take in the 60 townships il they were excluded from the collegiate. 1 wrote to the minis ter of education, setting forth the facts and asking him to endeavor to matters with the city board so that our children might continue their studies at the collegiate, at least . lumtil next summer, or until the coun- ty had an opportunity to increase the ation at Sydénham, or pro- vide in some way for the sixty pupils affected. J. 8. Gallagher, M.P.P., and W. F. Nickle, M.P.P., with commend. able energy, made a special 'trip to Toronto, and interviewed the minister of education along the same line. | also talked with several members of the city hoard and asked them to con tinue our pupils at the collegiate un-. coved WM. MUMKAY, Auctioneer. ven special at. lori To have: a lame back or painful stitohes, means disordered Kidneys, the sooner you have the Kidneys Bladder in a perfectly healthy condition, the sooner you will enjoy far as 'we kuow there is only/ that is guaranteed to cure that is FIG PILLS. 1 they you a strong, healthy per- weeks, your. money will be a box, at all leading. drug stoves, at Mahood's Drug Store. Chivers'. Marmalade, Assorted in t Jenn and Victoria Plumas. Dawson Plums. Peaches. Prompt Delivery. pupils from the fromt ) Aa boy least. Those g= ave their to perform 1 le of the and 1t' is o them to say that 1 do ne » they wdopt' haksh nummer at cnty, wish to of i appealed to me and | called a ment to, talk the I was ng wintetl, chdainman of that meetin I £ g resolution was passed, asking me eral the county parents | matter over, committee to wait' on 1 I selected five ge believe, represented t interested council , who 1 parts of the county as ¥ as the different views advanced, | with that committée to interview county council and we simply laid 1 facts before the council much as I} given them im this letter. Neither | nor any member of th: committee asked the council to dona £10,000 or ten cents to the collegial and when "J H.8.)" of Harrowsmit says that 1 supported anything of t kind he is making a statement so terly unwarranted and so entirely © trary to the facts that 1 wonder him even signing his initials to, | letter . . Inspector Seath, who had been se down by the minister of education confer with the county council, i formed that body that as the law now stands, the county could not Yogal contribute any sum™to the ¢ He but that if the county desired it the law eould and, no doubt, would amended to meet théir wishes Sydenham High School. The assessed value of Portlaul, Loughboro, Storrimgton and Hinchin brooke, from which nearly all the pu pils come who attend the county high school, is about one-third of the total county asseshment. The townships of burg, Portsmouth and the three ands, from which the sixty pupils come who attend the cgllegiate, hae as assessment within 3100,000 of hulf of the total for the county. These statements indicate the 1 spective proportion of taxes borne by each of the two groups. 1 would be very sorry indeed to se e anything done to injure Sydenham high school. All of the townships of 'the 'county were formed into a high school-dis- trict and all- aré in homor bound to support it. The trustees of the hizh school have not had sufficient force to impress on the county council the ne cessity for for all, and sixty county pupils have had to go elsewhere. We cannot have a high school at every man's door} What we have to consider now is not only how to improve conditions at our county high school, but how to most thoroughly: asd economically provide for the secondary education Kingston, Pitts townships and many in the north of the county as well. No money spint will give so good a return as that ia- vested in education, and to no clyss in this country will the benefits be so great as to the agriculturists, I have a very warm feeling for Syd- enham high skool and many pleasant recollections of the days 1 spent there when a boy. The building is the same now as thirty years ago. When we consider the disadvantages under which our county high school has been, we have every reason to be proud of the splendid work it has done and is still doing. Let "J. .H.8.," of Harrowsmith, do something more than draw on his imagination before he undertakes misrepresent and assail those who are earnestly and honestly endeavoring to improve educational conditions in the county. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for this privilege,I remain, yours sincerely. J. W. EDWARDS, to Chance for the Lawyer. Montreal Gazette An interesting suit involving the du- ties of banks towards their depositors and the powers of a legislature over property within its jurisdiction hag been begun in Alberta. That province guaranteed the bonds of the Great Waterways Railway company, which were sold, the proceeds being deposited in the banks. Then there was trouble over the bargain between the province and a political upheaval, pot to build the rail: way under - the plan at first devised. The legislature passed an aét to for feit- the company's rights and author- ize the government to take possession of the money designed for the com- pany and held by the banks. With fair reason the banks hesitate to regard a statute of the province as a receipt in full for money another may claim. The Alberta people are in the way of ac quiring knowledge of law and banks by the process of paying for it. vestigation and a decision ee ---------- 14th Regt. Christmas Souvenir. The historical booklet of the 14th regiment, ~ of Kingston, makes a Christmas souvenir that, would be ap- iated by former members and riends of the regiment who are living elsewhere. The publishers offer the balance of the edition at ten cents a capy. The booklet may be had at the Whig offfee business counter, McAul- ev's bookstore, W, J. Paul's and" 1g- low's bookstore, Choice im Children. New York Times, Wn Representative Oleott, of New York, has a neighbor who has two children, and .a girl. This same neigh- por recently adopted a little girl. * The sister and brother looked the adopted sister over carefully and made some disparaging reriarks about their superigrity. Ewell," sniffed the little adopted girl, "your papa and mamma to take vou, but they choosed me." ----------------- ; Truth Cheaper Than Fiction. Oitawa ournal, xe 4 Dr. Cook, when he wrote a lie about the pole, made $100,000, Now when he is prepared to tell the truth--pec- gets but $1,000, | Which proves that while truth is stranger than fiction, it is also cheaper, this ing one case where the price is not governed by the law of supply and de maid. A ER ; The government has let the contract for a wew lighthouse stenmer for coast service to the Colling- ilding company. Cade i wight providing accommodation | of three score of children in the front } and the' company, followed by an in-| soung ; man who !. from Wetland jail, has been re- Te . = | LETTER'NG ON HANDKERCHIEF. | Advising Womanily Industry | Bible Reading. "Mr. O. Van Noorden declares that | he hgs fought for ten years for one of | and | + | these articles in vain, but he has récently been rewarded by receiving a specimen of the true moral pocket handkerchief from a lady collector of | - such things, who had picked up this article in a curio shop at Hammer smith. "The epecimen is not of Pick- wickion date, but is some 60 years | i old ! The lettering on this handkerchief | is as follows: "Famous queens of | England have worked with their own Hands. Mary, queen of William T11., when not better employed, wrought with so constant diligence as if she had been compelled to earn her bread ! by it. She looked on idleness as the | great ecorrupter of human natore, and that if the men had no employment | given it it would create some of the worst sort to itself. Some persons have worked to give away to others; Dorcas was a woman of this charac- ter, as is shown in the Bible; Acts ix, 17-89." Then follows the line in large let ters: "Female industry in the use of the needle." A second morality printed below the picture refers to Dr.~Jghnson's views on 'he value of Bible reading. The moral pocket handkerchief idea is an old one, as several passages in our seventeenth century drama show. Thus, in Sasher Mayne's "City March," play before royalty at Whitehall in 1636, these lines occur: She works religious petticoats; for flowers She'll make church histories; needle dgth So santify my cushionets! Besides My smock sleeves have such holy embroideries, 3 learned that I fear, in tim e All my spparel will' be quoted by Some pure instructor. Political handkerchiefs have, of course, long been common, were issued as lately as .the time of the Hoer war.--London Globe. Pan In South Africa. Dr. Carl Peters, the famous explor er, in London, reported some extreme- ly interesting discoveries which prove, to his mind, a continuation of an- cient civilization in South Africa, says The London Express. "I was fortun- ate enough," he said, "to discover a | tablet 'which, so far as I know con- tained the first actual inseription found in South Africa. Formerly, dis- | coveries have been not of proved ac- | tual inseriptions, but of stones bear- | ing marks strongly resembling an- | cient Semitic writings. | 'The tablet in question was found by one of my men in a slavé pit to the south of Inyanga, north of Um- tali. The district contains hundreds of these pits from twenty to twenty- | five feet deep, in which, the ancients kept their slaves. The let was evi- dently made of cement, and had been cut in two, clearly while it was soft, the letters on it being in no way dam- aged. The characters look to me like Greek letters, but other experts say they are Graeco-Phoenician. 1 take it to be the half of an ancient pass- port, one portion of which was re- tained by the master and the other handed to the messenger." "I also discovered near Zimbabwe a brass figure of Pan, six and a half inches in length, very similar to the figures found at Pompeii, thus prov- ing Greek influémice in South Africa, apparently at a later period than the tablet I have mentioned. Hunt for a Rare Bird. A final attempt is being made by the New Zealand Government to ob- tain specimens of the huis, a bird which has been practically extermin- ated by the vogue for its feathers, which obtains among the Maoris. The huia is a jet black bird with a white band at the extreme end of its tail feathers. The male has a short, strong beak, and the female a long, slender, incuived beak; the male breaks the bark off dead trees and the female then dips her beak { into the holes of the big grubs which | attack dead timber. She presents one grub to her spouse and then has one herself, alternating most con I sclentiously. The Maoris say that when one dies the other must necessarily die of starvation because nature has so ar- ranged that each is dependent on the other.--london Daily Sail. her | The Word Calico. The word "calico" has a queer orig- in. Many centuries ago the first mon- arch of the province of Malabar, in Hindus gave to one of his chiefs as a reward Yor distinguished services his sword and all the land within the limit of which a cock crowing at a certain temple could be heard. From this circumstance the little town which grew up in the centre of this territory was called Calicoda, or "the cock crowing." 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