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provinces, and was limited to $10,000. The bill 

 passed in due course. An act was also proposed 

 by the Premier and duly carried for the further 

 encouragement of dairying. An annual appropri- 

 ation of $7,000 was provided for establishing 

 schools where special instruction in this subject 

 could be given and for equipping any new cream- 

 ery that would undertake to manufacture annu- 

 ally for five years not less than 20,000 pounds 

 of cheese. 



Education. The annual report of the Super- 

 intendent of Education, Dr. A. H. Mackay, was 

 presented to the Assembly on March 12. The 

 number of schools had increased from 2,390 to 

 2,417 in the year ending July 31, 1900; the num- 

 ber of school sections without schools had de- 

 creased from 146 to 132; the teachers had grown 

 from 2,400 in number to 2,557; the number of 



pupils had slightly diminish I00.017 to 



100,129. Those under fitter,! \ . .,,. (l) .,..,. ,,,, w . 

 ever, had increased from 91,8(J < , ,.,. 



that age the decrease \\us stated 

 in the house to be probably due to 

 demands of industrial institution.-, \>,\- >,-.. 

 number of normal-school trained 

 creased from 840 to 887. The SHIIOUHI 

 ratepayers for schools increased from .- 1 

 in 1889 to $514),(>20 in 1900. The age iii.ii 

 new teachers in classes D C and if Inid 

 advanced one year. The pupils in the common 

 schools numbered 92,880, against 93,043 in 18!)!); 

 and in the high schools 7,249, compared with 

 7,574. The total cost per pupil enrolled was 

 $8.86 in 1900, an increase of 17 cents. The cost 

 per pupil to the Government was $2.48; to the 

 counties, $1.19; and to the sections, $5.18. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Abbott, 

 Frank Wayland, oculist, born in Sandoway, 

 Aracan, Burma, Dec. 24, 1841; died in Buffalo, 

 N. Y., April 9, 1901. He was the son of a Bap- 

 tist missionary, Elisha L. Abbott, and at the age 

 of three was taken to Fulton, N. Y., where he 

 spent his boyhood. He was graduated at Roches- 

 ter University in 1863, and at Buffalo Medical 

 College in 1867. During the last year of the civil 

 war he acted as an assistant surgeon in the hos- 

 pitals at Nashville and Chattanooga. He after- 

 ward took a post-graduate course in ophthalmol- 

 ogy and otology in the New York College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons, and studied in the eye and 

 ear infirmaries of Brooklyn and New York city. 

 In 1869 he settled in Buffalo. He was a member 

 of the staff of the Buffalo General Hospital and 

 the first eye and ear specialist appointed to it. 

 He was also one of the organizers of the Charity 

 Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital of Erie County, 

 and he assisted in establishing the training-school 

 for nurses at the General Hospital. He was a 

 member of the Erie County and Buffalo City Med- 

 ical Societies, and of other organizations, and was 

 well known throughout the country for his many 

 charities. 



Adams, Herbert Baxter, educator, born in 

 Shutesbury, Mass., April 16, 1850; died in Am- 

 herst, Mass., July 30, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Amherst in 1872. The year following he was in- 

 structor in Latin and Greek in Williston Semi- 

 nary, and the following three years he spent in 

 study in Europe, receiving the degree of Ph. D. 

 from Heidelberg University in 1876. From 1876 

 to 1878 he was a fellow in history at Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and he was connected with that 

 institution as Associate Professor and Professor 

 of History from the latter date till his death. He 

 was lecturer in history at Smith College from 1878 

 to 1881 ; member and secretary of the American 

 Historical Association, and editor of its reports 

 after 1884; and a trustee of Amherst College and 

 of the Boys' Country School, Baltimore. After 

 1887 he was editor of the Contributions to Ameri- 

 can Educational History for the United States 

 Bureau of Education. He was editor of the Johns 

 Hopkins University Studies in Historical and 

 Political Science, which under his direction com- 

 pleted 19 series, with many additional volumes. 

 He was the author of the Life and Writings of 

 Jared Sparks, and of numerous educational and 

 historical monographs. 



Aldrich, Louis, actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 Oct. 1, 1843; died in Kennebunkport, Me., June 



17, 1901. His name was Lyon, but early in his 

 career he adopted the name of Aldrich, and later 

 had that name legalized. When he was ten years 

 old he was thrown upon his own resources' and 

 elected to earn his living on the stage. In school 

 he had been noted among his fellows as a de- 

 claimer. A benefit performance to Mrs. John 

 Ellsler was being arranged at the Cleveland Thea- 

 ter, and the boy, then about eleven years old, 

 begged John Ellsler to allow him to appear in it. 

 After a single test, Mr. Ellsler let him appear 

 as Richard III in two acts of that tragedy. So 

 extraordinary was his acting that the manage- 

 ment engaged him to play the entire tragedy, and 

 billed him as " the Ohio Roscius." He repeated 

 his first success and was immediately taken on 

 the road through the West as a boy star. The 

 lad was first known as Master Moses. Later, 

 when he was starred by Minnie McCarthy, he 

 was called Master McCarthy. Shortly after that 

 he was placed under the guardianship of Thomas 

 Kean, and was billed as Master Kean. Under 

 these names he starred during 1855-'57 in the 

 roles of Richard III, Macbeth, Shylock, Claude 

 Melnotte, Young Norval, Selim in Barbarossa, 

 and Jack Shepard. In the spring of 1857 he was 

 obliged to leave the stage, as his voice \vas chang- 

 ing. He took a course of one year at White Water 

 College, Indiana. In 1858 he returned to the stage 

 and used for the first time the name of Aldrich. 

 He appeared with the Marsh Company, which 

 consisted of 25 girls and 4 boys, in St. Louis, and 

 traveled with them five years. The Marsh troupe 

 disbanded in San Francisco in 1863, and Mr. Al- 

 drich became a member of the stock company at 

 Tom Maguire's Opera-House. In 1866 he ap- 

 peared at the Boston Theater as Nathan in Leah 

 the Forsaken, in support of Kate Bateman, and 

 afterward in New York, at the Academy of Music, 

 as Coitier in Louis XI, in support of Charles 

 Kean. He returned to Boston for seven seasons, 

 and in 1873-74 was leading man of Mrs. John 

 Drew's company at the Arch Street Theater, in 

 Philadelphia; made a short starring tour in 1874; 

 and was then engaged for forty-six weeks at 

 Wood's Museum (now Daly's Theater). In 1875 

 .and 1876 he was with John Ford in Baltimore, 

 and then he starred as Marc Antony in Julius 

 Caesar. His starring tour was closed in order 

 that he might play the r61e of Salamenes in the 

 grand production of Sardanapalus at Booth's 

 Theater. The play had a successful run in the 

 season of 1876-77, and Mr. Aldrich won fresh 

 honors. In the play of The Danites the part of 



