New Advertisements This Week. Stratford Times. Wanwesnax May 9, 888 ~-spithethy-s---The.editor of the _stupidity of the up street "kids," he the lot of thelr daddy's pablication ta thTs a ee pn nrermetve eelcg, To The Frent--Cheap simon. Catalogue Sale~-W_$, Cowan. ~mmotion--Banting & Scott. For Sale--William Battershall. Phen yle--J. H. Naamyth & Co. For Sale, Cheap--Mrs. A. Baker. Court of Révision--Tp. of Ellice. Men's Suite--Thornton & Douglas. Fine Dress Goods--W. J. Perruson. Coatmaker Wanted----A Macnair & Co. Court of Revision--Tp:"cf Mornington. ered that waa occupied Ly the congregation of The new law the Chicago police are , letter, and that a promise of the above striving to enforce, bas ita humorous -- side, as was shown recently in that city. | Mr. Smyth's insincere and absurd proposal The law states that there shall not bea saloon within 200 feet of churches or i . school houses. On Monday a with « hall in ae -- THE os -In Canals while none ' A PARSON SALOON-KEEPER. | promises : oere saloon was discov- an upper flat the Lutheran Piatt Deutsche church, and i ordared to move. astonished saloon-keeper explained he 'was also 'pastor of that church, [refused to go" --s™S of the gentlemen of the cloth have so tar ag we have heard embarked in the ealeom business, some have engaged in questionable kinds of MT SUFLER, BSITOR AND-PACPRIETOR. | cheap lecturca on morality, While others '« grove have figured in "class room scenes" and We. escapades," with .picnic applica-. tions, that well might cause all honest = ---- a -------- | men to blush for the future of religion. The --The Palmerston Te/egraph remarka Herald had surely been indulging too much when he wrote the tollowing :-- "Th ne friends of temperance no doalt expected ran high so ¥ ly expected with euch force as was the flow of the few years ago, to ebb, but tae wave to rush landward Thursday." "Pancy the tide cAbing landward !" Li the Telegraph kuow the matural born probibition ware, which bb, he! would not be astonished if they wrote that ] the natural course for water to ran was up- hill. That ia the course which has fallen to it.--Ep. 'Trmzs. E rt ly it u : s ¥ fl bi : i E i ith the with them. , et of these child. ren frome qs iteelf. disseminate menti 4 Dr. Sproule, M. P., had met with some children who were tainted with disease, but had 1, M.-P. - hed Po Pisth Moers bets: ter said it was in Scotland soli phe! Poon he received his worst | Messrs. Do! got lees ot this class of immigrants, ation appointed by the cou: is retarded other intermarriage would ilitie taint which b THE ONTARIO oGOFiNwexT Trowxsair or $17,000 cesesof the Orangeville prayer for paraly- ala tostrike electors, the Rev's, Longley of Toronto, Carson and others might be cited as instances wherein the cause of religion an advanced. Whéa | the public awakens to the fact of treating this class with the contempt they deserve, instead of favoring, and striving to sup- portthem in their misdecds, then and not till then, will the eguse of religion be advanced, The parson! saloon- of Chicago isa hero compared with those other ghouls we have mentioned, SHOULD BE MaDE AN EX- AMPLE OF . The appended clipping from the Bob- time ; ?. acity T possessed belay prevent : Gamed Mr. A. F.] the aud: at Jery, oat , was heard upon theeub-} as he had been called first. tried to Raton te tiatin ten aie ne ie ane sy OS By em t 80 oe A m for 7. had a _---- t I hia t I had ts. He thereup- work that he had on bi wee ie evi a . doligeardeg, Gad. woridlig the ead emegek after be bad de aa me Sree migt were os of. y paths Ae by end. gave me to understand that he had Guardians, He...aleo . j there which I did not possess, I, Sl a eal 5 opposed Qne would -harly. think at this late : na now det date of the world's history, that a man cat Males x tthe. lastoers whose oceupation is to alleviate the suffer: quarters in Stratford). ings of weak humanity, could so far for- inant kway dt Tal coe sn, Ce d pertmentas te conduct himself ison. Shah. a intge proportion of teem] massec as desceibed by Dr. McCamut. If were diseased, it, would be 00.) tha friends of the lady patient had taken Parag inppribodom, ten Spealpecenlentiny | the audacious "prig Dr. Bonnell, by the se Ne ccouhediag the poopie Sisk it ante} Sertif'f the neck and booted. him out of allow wtoney to assist theses children to | the house, they would have been serving come toCanads and spreed tthe | him with the treatment he deserved. starte if they only have -e mind to use it. It is « thousand pitics thatsuch could not be madean example of ins court.of justice. bd (Sa ee ' ---- within an ace of being disqualified ; yet the recklessness of a Cook or a Cameron a year ago, was elected again the other day "| t6 represent Kent. A-few pointers as to . | how the Grits carried the election may not be ocengions, in- namerable. But there ia & niore brazen, bare-faced side to the case than this. . | Someone evidently in the employ ef the ~G00D NEWS FOR RALEIGH! _ | declared be was not ft for any University (2 det. or re clase," Will it be believed 'that thie welt] "7 eee wees same - RELIEVES THE INDEBTEDNESS, | present a special report sent to the } the defects he speaks of in the teach-_ tal Stratford that a class of paid officials d t- of Raleigh | and will be carried out to the very | Pa +: worth a thousand of the election ea Of Henry Smyth and his friends. to dredge Jennett's creek has often been sed to assist him in entrapping innocent oters always doomed to disappointment. The promisesof Mr. Campbell and bis friends are not so numerous, but they are always fulfilled. Already there is talk of a protest being entared against Campbell's return, "Inspector" Seath And Strat- ford Collegiate Institute. What's the matter with the On- tario Government's High School or Collegiate Institute Inspectors" anyway? Are they in their right 'minds ? or are they addicted to the | pase-ot-stimulatits' which' cloud their brains? Or do they possess brains ? If they do, then do they lack 'com- mon sense? THe Times does not ask these pertinent or impertinent questions with any\party or political | intention. Far from it. We ask them simply because between the "mixing and the muddling" of authority prevailing with the In- spectors, the Hon. Minister ef Edus cation;~ the--Coliegiaie-Eystitute- Board, and--well we may-:as well say it--the staff of teacliers, it looks as if Stratford's most importart Educational Institution was destined to become an unbearable burden in- stead of a blessing to the ratepayers ofthe Classic City. Elsewhere we Institute Board by Mr. Inspector Seath, and it will be seen that he condemns almost everything about the whole eencern, and it is estimat-. ed that it will take $6,000 to remedy' ing staff, apparatus, library, gymna- of aReform. Government are sin. | ics' Inatitute for the hooks which the | THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AND school library affords. He had seen 'the | library, on the contrary, and was shown the becks from the Mechamtes' Institute, which were then on the shelves of the &tratford Collegiate Institute. A commit tee of the School Board pointed' ot to him this mistake, and the Head Master showed him a week ago where the books had been, yet he till persists in stating that the Head Master's room had been used as a library, Surely; this is the obstinacy that is begotten of Mer veteeoy ence to the same Teport, he subsequently stated he heard one class read one avthor, and another class read another anthor : whereas, the facts are that neither of these authors was on the master's pro- gramme atall when he visited !! To be charitable, we must. surmise that this was caused. aindedness, 1 0;-is it ITS PRINCIP AEM To the Editor of Tue StaatvorD Trem. Dean Str.--I intended the Lethe I Wrote youon this subject three ks 'go.-t> have been my last, but a sentence in the principal's report to the Board last Juesday evening, makes it necessaty that to jastice to the Suara. the Institute, the public, the principal and myself, I should speak again. This is the sentence "Though a coward who tries in vain to vonceal his indentity by signing himeelf, 'An Interested One,' among other untruth- {al- remarks; states' that 1 -ealling foe more teachers," and that though we have six teachers, I still ask for another, you know this to-be wholly untrue, and I am fully persuaded that your staff will be equal to the work, for at least some time to come " Now, I find that the principal is right and that in my last letter I made three misstatements, If the principal haa done war methe justice I ta co dam now do. We call attentjon to our Great Stock -- or -- And have. no -hesitation,_in saying it-is the Finest as well as Cheapest ever shown west of Toronto. BZ slliw 2. excusable in an official who takes notes at the time, and especially when he is a man who persistently and obstinate]ly sticks to absurd and truthful stat ta, even after they are pointed out to be utterly and entirely incorrect? We think the public, who are the parties directly inter- ested, will say with Tur Times, --* decid- ing him, he would have mentioned the three "untruthful remarka," as he calle them, to the Board, instead of only men- tioning one and trying to mislead them as | to the other two, ; The © 286 was the one he mentioned and which knowledge to be untrne, as I find that the- principat-dit te * ee before Mr, Croley was appointed. I stated in my last letter that 202 was Lai ScTinery ww Manties; Silks and Laces, New, Nobby and Reasonable Great Bargains CHEAPSIDE. © Dress Goods, : id edly not," . To show this " model Inspector" still further, he condemns from attic to base- ment our handsome, large and in every way convenient Institute building, one of the fiecst-in-Canada.--Ket thie-buikling-was the very building which -his masters, the Ontario Government, selected as the beat specimen of a Collegiate Institute building 'in the Province, -and-orderedt a special en: graying of it to be prepared, and printed tens of thousands of circulars, with a picture of Stratford's Collegiate Institute England, Scotland and Ireland during the [Intercolonial Exhibitien, | When the Board met him a few days ago and pointed out tohim thathe cut out apparatus which Inspector Hodgson al. lowed, he told them that at last mid- summer vacation he and Mr. Hodgson spent some time going over apparatua, and determined upon a uniform plan, and such apparatus. This is a very plausible story, and to use a nautical sim, and the dozen other require- ments _needed..in-. hia idea. 'This is independent of the grounds, which sod | cost Stratford $80,000 this cranky | Inspector now declares in effect that | they are not fitted for the purposes of | 8 Collegiate Institute! Are we to abandon our 'present fitie building' and erect a new one to please this Toronte Government's "'High School Inspector" who outshines the Ot- tawa Government's 'Indian the trustees of that institution and the majority of the teachers--/at least until within a year or so)}-- have pursued a system of "stand-off" toward this paper which was dis- ¢ereditable to them, but which we have been quite satisfied to allow togoon unnoticed. But even this will not prevent this paper from pro- ducing a few "pointers" which will show the heavily taxed ratepayers of} are going about the country "in- specting schools," ordering this, that, and the other; putting hun- dreds of thousands of dollars on the people by ordering new buildings, new teachers, new books, new "'ap- paratus,"' etc., etc., who really do not know ten minutes after they have left the school they inspected wheth- er either teachers or children were in the school, or whether the windows were is tha roof or in the cellar. Just read the following and see if we are mot correct. At ois former inspection here, Mr. " in- speotor " Seath in some cases * examined " four large classes_in halt an hour, but, strange to say, it took him nearly an hour write in a month after for honors at To- ronto University. After his tabortous work "examining" this one scholar, he the building and f Agency *-in his search for "'de- |) to "'examine" one scholar who was to}. - [| material on the expression, } one that "he should tell to the Marines !" apparatus wae fairly there was almost no physical and yet the Inventory. of Instruments, kept by the Board, shows that the physi- eal apparatus obtained hag cost more than Mr. Seath is said to entertain a deeply- The fact ia that the Department is get- ting out a new arithmetic, to he author- ized next August. In the interval, mas- ters have to do the best they tan, and be- cause our Head Master is continuing to 'senior class in the meantime, thus saying parents unnecessary expense, the Inspector accuses him and the Board of signing a document in reference to unauthorized books, The Minister of E-ucation had been-informed of the tact, and as he had no feeling against the author of the book, he did not disapprove of the commEndable course adopted in the meantime. Mr. "Inspector" Seath promised to send the Board a list ot the apparatus re- quired, but instead of keeping his promize ak { asa frontispiece, for special circulation in | an puse Dr. McLellan's arithmetic for the |! J : ed, .and Berlia | [ think the principal ie it Hum ber ef pile "that ths Stratford Collegiate Institute had ever had on its roll, also that the number on the roll three years ago was between 17° and 180, T cords that at the meeting of ike ~Board-on~ 'cdnesdazy evening, --feb.---4th; 1586, principal McBride reported as follows :-- 'That notwithstanding that fewer passed the recent examinations - than fatrt steadily -- coming in every y' begun with 180 names on the roll, now, however, there were "33 names i ed -in--frem country, net come regularly, yet the average attend- ance for January, ran up to 190, being the record the school," were attending, He does not take seach pride in the number of his non-residents now, We also see that the Stratford men certain to have an ot pes. residents, as they "coming every few days," but since incl have learned porte ke a4 few'ds ve out a8 Fe Gill te retoontbineet ther te Tote toe Iostitute had and with i tothe general work of the i to. creep through with its t staff. But why should we creep A eget pay h for the maintenance of our Institate to be able to fy? 'ne I stor rts the descipline crosliant. Why abscidn's: te be anotlent or two spector is there ! wonder wonld he mark it grade (1), if he were there to hear the way in which the pupils sometimes cheek the principal for whom they have little or no respect, and whom they know to be too fearful lest the thread which suspends him in his position should break, to-retaliate. Now 1 think I have done justice to every I will only say that ought to have men- tioned these three "untruthful remarks" to the Board, and not have misrepresent- ed my letter as he did. By so doing, however, he exhibited his fear of "a coward," These mit be the "'untruthfal remarks" he refers to, as there are-no others in any of my letters. My impression is that the pal would like draw me out to make a martyr of him, as Mr. Idingtun did, but he will not succeed. ~My sole--aim---has--been to show -the citizens of Stratford that the principal of and has been for the coc on, . I Stratford Collegiate Inati- you that the ( ' , tute has one teacher above the overeas._ contend that Enatitute bas one teach- but, that} to $48,000 | 99,000 to pay instead of jant heretofore due the Government. SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! This t reduces the cost of the drains from $64,000 leaving only some 926,575--the . a- lilt H ig | f iF isl i | FEER F f rt é t : : Hy i ? f L PPE ef H gr" f i: Scott, haa Mr. Hoch still owas -| ton, ; v Stratford, May 7th, 1888. time to the hotel in the Collegiate Institute is totally unfit Wool, | , Tapestry -- AND -- Hemp Carpets. ~| Lace Curtains, Poles, &c, MEN'S and BOY'S (CLOTHING. In this Department we having the . BEST, as well as - CHR APEST, | Goods in the Market. 1. A look through cur several ; Departments will be to your _ CHEAPSIDE : Dry Goods, ,| Millinery, Carpets, and | Clothing, J. DELANEY, Manager. Ww. J. FERGUSON, -- IMPORTER OF -- Fine Dress Goods. Th Stratford Presbytery met Monda: e ¥ in the Presbyterian Church. . school at the recent Promotion ex- position, passing amination held its usual Hu candidates, cannot be undersold, and. shall .. keep up, our reputation of | i : i t Beattie was sees and bie 600 wife, and son, of effects the the estate, Ss, are.to of Beattie : of the man- : in the hands partner iq the frm. - Fg ig rg ron 4} Jennie. Begg, 3; Nellie _ [See eewe ee , brother, Jas, B Glasgow, Scotland peso oe Perth, Scotland, $1,000 ; 'Geo. Ross, clerk in the St. ; ymca Po sum of $500 is left in the re sie me eo tt ee eT |