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| 1e'ised from the prof ssion) looking through this matter before the public, and necessitates “ ‘the schools encouraging, cheering, and My re lying. Icanno* but feel that he has - perenne oo ceieememinahs . ws = i - e ° . ° . eal nec i 7+ tise he t ris Z We do not hold ourselves responsible for the advising these who are just starting out In at m 7c A to adv *é " =~ oe ae eae opinions or statements of our correspondents | the profession. This is the sole remedy, oe tae i in bhi Teland [on _ _ pie ————o--+-————-— on nn (ON, Chin in dene, corbotiaken sa = y. anuieaie : r ‘ |tind a better country to pursue their re- | : os 7 Education in Prince Edward Island | sponsible callin ae thie I a ve heard _ Fevton T. NEwsaer, "allINng : . ave heard General Agent of the Imperial Insurance Co,, the -Jea raised that the teachers in this of London, England | Province have not to serve such a long Charlottetown, Feb. 25, 1882. Sut,—Please allow me space in the time in the Normal Schools as elsewhere, ~+ —--- columns of your valuable journal to call and it does aot cost them so much to How a Horse-Dealer was “ Done.” atleation to certain features in our edu-a-|4alify, therefore they do not deserve so) rn | tiom systém, which are not the best that, much pay; and I wouid add they are not, | Veterinary surgeons (says Mr.

| CORK ESPONDENCE,

l'o the Editor of the Exeminer.

Hugh

cab be found.

Edacation, I believe, has been more

Island this

last yeer than ever before. |

as a rule, as well qualified, either. But ‘this will not remedy the other evil. This,

carefully attended to in Prince Edward | *°0: 38 an evil of some importance, and nnpri) cipled sellers of horses

' should also be remedied.

Ferguson in the Jrizh ‘portsmd) are fre- quently exposed to much anvovarce from The follow-

ing aneedote affords an ex ‘mple of an at-

Under the able, careful and impartial OUR TERM OF APPRENTICESHIP IS TOO SHORT teMpt at horse dealing navery, which met superintendence of our present superin-) and, add this to the evils caused by small with the punishment most felt by the class tendent, it has made many rapid strides in’ pay, and we appear still further in the to which the culprit belonged—namely, the right direction. But it is the opinion seas. It is true there are some individuals P°C¥M*ty loss. Some years ago a veterin- of thefereater part of the people with) who would make good teachers without any “!'*® attended the great fair of Ballinasloe whom Ehave come in centact, that there | training, but they are very few, and they professionally. In the course of the day, ate a few easily remedied thin:s which ave! esash tae superior if they cannot learn a @U!i7g the busiest time of the horse fair, a hindempe, and will hinder (unless re- itile from the experienced teachers placed respectable-looking person called him aside, moved) its progress : and it is my purpose | over them in the Normal School. This I stated that he had sold a horse for a large tv refer briefly to some of these hinder-}| hold is no plea for smal) salaries ; for it, PT'C® 150 gs., to an English gentleman, ances, ten, shuld be remedied, and then it could #¥4 bad recommended the purchaser to A few years ago ‘he great trouble was the! no longer be used as a plea. i have the opinion of the veterinary in ques: constant changing of [n near all the country schools there is %°% After @ great deal’ of prelimin- T£XT LOOKS. INSUFSICJENT ROOM [ary convessation, | stare. alae

: , ‘tery, relative to professional skill and ut t] abate | . , But that trouble is abated, and we are now} {o conveniently accomodate the numbe

; ‘ rof prefessions of a desire to be of settled down to certain books which are a! scholars. The schoolhouses are of the old lservice, &c., he mentioned that the horse great improvement on the old stock.

aad ; : in my mind they are not up to the weir vee tees a ae ts he hed sold had cast e shee comsagy se She lenaa TEE Tichons boule of The other Peo- | tne ae ee oe 3 oe " re where fair, and was, he thought, a little tender vinees and other places. I have had the! i. very of tag Oe Se ane ee bop geome, travelled come miles barefoot-

—— : y : y often too small to have them rightly'ed on the road. The veterinary surgeon pleasure of perusing various books pre-| arranged. When the echolars are in a row }remarked if the horse went tenderly he scribed, for use in schools in different parts | along the side of the schoolhouse so close} would be obliged to pronennce him un- of the United Ssates and Oniario, and I,!that there is not elbow room, and three! sound, ed thet St ties toedeetingh deelitall with many others, have come to the con- sitting ata desk which was meant for only m-rely from the foot being brok: n from the clusion that, as far as good text books are two, there is neither comfort nor conveni- joss of a shoe, he woull staie to the pur- concerned, we ars far behind both of these ence for teacher or scholars, aod when in} : ¢

col \chaser the temporary nature of the lame- place

joy, knowing, as they do, that we have a man at the head of a‘Tairs well able to make a better selection. Evenif a change is not made, the teacher can do much for himself aud pupil by procuriag schovl books in use at other places, and by perusing and study- ing them he can improve himself, and will be helped io improve his scholars. A teacher should not confine himself to the books his pupils are studying out of, especially when they are such as we have. He requires a wider tield than that. He can gather facts bearing on the lesson (which are not contained in ihe scholars’ text-book) out of other books, and by thas mingling the opinieus of different authors, togetber with what is contained in the scholars’ text book, he will make the lesson exceedingly interesting and in structive, and the pupil, without knowing it, has all contained in his own bok, to- gether with o’her information equally as) valuable, nicely in bis mind. I believe that, to a certain extent, this is what makes a teacher successful. An ambitious teacher does not rest content with the mere finding out whether @ scholar has learned what is in his book; but, by numerous examples and iUlustrations—some original and some obtained from other text-books— he strives to make the child see the point more clear ly than he would otherwise do. Of course that is whaé a teacher is for—that is what he is expected todo, But we cannot ez- p. ct young and imexperienced teachers, of which there are many on this Island, to have examples and illustrations always at his command, and to have these he should have other books out of which he could get the required examples, ete. It would do the teacher a great deal of good to study the many text books that are to be had, all of which explain things in a different way; but at last it amounts to the same In short, a teacher should have a library of schoo! books, and other which would be beneficial to him, to which he could refer if there is any matter that bothers him, or if there is anything he cannot see his way clear in explaining to his pupiis. And a great many teachers would do well also to take the advice of ‘*S. M. B.,” in your issue of the 10th instant. This, I believe, would be beneficial to all teachers, but especially to the young and inexperienced. But there are some unreasonable individn- als, who think that nothing in the shape of assum, or question in grammar, should baffle a teacher. To such I would repeat the difference which (as I once read) exists between a wise man and a fool. The fool thinks he knows everything: but the more wise and learned a man becomes, the more clearly he sees that he knows comparatively nothing.

But perhaps I have wandered too far away from the subject to which 1 meant to eonfine myself when I beyan this article. To return to the hindrances: I have noticed one way in which a great many teachers agree that we are behind the times. I will now notice ancther:

OUR TEACHERS ARE YNSOPFICTENTLY PAID, The salaries of the different grades are very smail; not large enongh to ke-p a gwod, energetic, ambitious teacher in our schools fur any length of time. If a teacher is a good teacher he soon finds it ont, and he svo” finds out, too, that P. E. Island is not the place for him to be in when he will have a family depending on him for support S», as soon as he, by being very economi- cal, gets means to start him at something better, or to go elsewhere to pursue his occupation, he does so; and teaching schoo! i. thus made a ‘‘stepping stone” to sume ‘hiog higher. This should not be the case. The most successful men in any bueiness are the experienced; and if this state of things continues, we shall have very few experienced teachers on the Island. True, we have quite a number of elderly teachers i: onr ranks, but the cause is easily ex

plained. When they started teachiuy, tfiere was not such mducements to gv

Bthere is at the present time. Is

y Not a remedy for this? There is, ada simple one, too; and that remedy is, ake it a peying business—one on which a

family can be supported—and in’ thirty ye rs time we will have teachers (who well

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the schools in Murray Harbor~ and _ its suburbs, especially the one at Wnite Sands, where you will sometimes find fifty-two schelars huddled together ina room not half large enough for that number. The four districts of Cape Bear, Guernsey Cove, Murray Harbor, where a small vil- lage has lately sprung up, and White Sands are very thickly settled, and by referring to the Register of those schools for ihe past few years, a person will find that the number of school children has increased rapidly, and by visiting the children’s homes, he will also find thar there is a younger generation growing up, which will more than make up for those who are Jeaving every year, so that there is no fear of the number decreasing, buat it will rather increase. Look at the regis- ters of any of these schools and you will find that the number of enrolled pupils is close uron sixty, while the ‘‘ School Act” plainly says that from forty to seventy scholars require two teachers. These dis- tricts are anxiously looking forward to the time when there shal) be at least one GRADED SCROOL

in some central position, so that they can all enjoy the benefit of 1t. Yes; they are looking forward to that time; and if there is a piace on P. E, Island that needs a graded school more than another, that place is Murray Harbor South and vicinity. If something is not speedily done, a great many of the children will have to go with a meagre education, to what they would have if they had a right chance. The teachers cannot be expected to do as well with fifty scholars, in a small room, as with forty, ina house with plenty of room. I have only taken these four schools as ex amples, because | know more about them than any others on the Island. I have no doubt but that there are others working under difficulties equally as great. Of course it is the district’s duty to erect new school-houses when they are wante |; but { do not think they have the power to) make it a graded school. Hoping that what I have said will arouse others to agi- tate the same matter, and thanking you for so muvh valuable space in the columns of your paper, I remain, Yours truly, PROGRESS.

Murray Harbor, Feb. 20, 1882.

Letter from F. T. Newbery.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

“rr,—Yeur correspondent ‘* Policy Hold er,” in your issue of the 22rd instant, criticis«s the ‘Card of Thanks” ziven by Mr. Seaman, to the Imperial Fire Insurance Compa y, which he denounces as a mean style of acver- tising, and goes on to say that it is imposing on gvod vature to require a Policy Holder to sig: his name to an advertisement for an In- surance Company.

I would respect an expression of opinion in such ma‘ters ieoas a bona fid: policy holder, over hisown signature; but 1 entert.in great co tea pt for an anonymous seribi ler, who, unier the guise of uphslding public commer ciai morals, simply takes advantape of it to ventilate his personal grievance.

in this instance, Iam satistied the author, is nene other than an Insurance Agent, whose conduct can scarcely be taken as an exam: le of ** square dealing” to wiich he lays claim.

In reply to his statement I beg to say that policy holders are not r quired by the ‘‘ im- prial” to sign advertisements for (.e Com- pany. Iti purely a voluotary acknowledye ment onthe part of the assured, when they consider such is justly merited. The publish ing of such cards, howev r, is not confined to this Province, but has been frequently done in other countries, long before ‘* Policy Holder’ made hi debut as au insurance critic.

well known to require any puffing, either from *- Policy Holder” or others ; and the publica- tion of such cards as those referred to would not have been deemed justifiable by me, but for the fact that so man

te-ted by Fire Insurance

English as well as Canadian—that a

cases of loss.

deserve to have a pension, and whe have

Lhe Imperial Fire Insurance Company is too |

oe of @8 good as new or no charge made, — WILLIAM uneasiness and suspici p has bern created on the minds of the people as to their security 10

a But T suppose that the country | this predicament both are working under | ns ss. and that most probably the horse would be very indignant if another change | great difficulties, giving neither a chance to! wonld be taken , were made, though I believe that the ma-| prosper. I need not leave this place to find! seller htewed Waite tien . cit eal aie jority of teachers would hail a change with | 4 schoolroom crowded to the extent that I}, roposed to ietta Bes indtwodle pounds” have described, I need only refer you to!if he made it all vivht.

After a few minutes the

The veterinary surgeon's first impulse was to knock the fellow down, but he restrained himself, and said he conld not make any promise of the kind. The rognish seller pressed the bribe. The vet ct last said he would not commit himself by making any specific promise, but for the movey to be given to him at once, and the other might rest assv‘'ed he ‘‘ would do what was right.” The seller took him into one of the stablea of the old police barrack-yaid, handed bim twenty five pounds, and left to bring the horse back for examination. He returned quickly with the anima! and the purchaser. Vhe veterinary surgeon having examined the horse, was asked was he not all right, The seller's surprise can be more easily imagined than described when the sur- geon replied that the animal was unsound in consequence of being lame in beth fore feet from confirmed navicular disease 5 and also, before the persons assembled, proclaimed the knavish attempt that had been made to induce him bya bribe of £26 to pass the horse as sound. The seller stermed and threatened Jaw, as well ag physical force to get the money back, but the vet. was net to be intimidated. He said he would spend it by paying for a,sup- per that night at Craigs and giving the rest in charity. He even invited the fel- low to partake of the repast, that he might have an opportanity of returning thanks for his. health being drunk. He, however, did not make his appearance at the repast. Independence.

The ‘Independance question” is aga'n mo ted. Those who fee! inclined to regard this subject with seriousness should read and reflect on the foliowing quovation from a speech recently delivered by Sur Jehn McDonald :—

‘‘Independence is a farce. Canada must belong either to the Br.tish system or the American system Here we are with four

fand a half mishon pe ple lving alonside of ‘fifty five millions; the most unhapy position

ian which a natien can be placed ; the most crushing to its energies and it« intellect. the most destractive to its prosperity, is that of living next door to and at the sufferance of a powerful neighbor. Leck at Europ, and you see the pos tien which mi) nations occupy. Look at Belgium aod Hulland. Belgaum trembling for fear France will take her, and Holland in fear of Germany. There is no epirit, there is slmost hopeless- ness iv those countries And I say, locking at the question of independence, that if we had to m«ke a choice between independence avd annexation, I wouid rather that we sionld have annexation, and join wih the United States at once, than be here a small pation, a dependent nation, oblived to raise the phantom of an army aud navy, « blived to have ioreign awhassadors at an enormous @X- pense. and after a brief exietence to be ab- sorbed as l'exas and Califorwia were absorbed, an‘ as Mexico will be absorbed.” a @— Bem Specia: Noneces.

Ticxtep Cabbage tic per peund; Mixed Pickies and ( how-Chow, by th quart ; Cran- berries, Sc. per quart.—R. K. FRrace. {23

Dan. Davies, Jr, has a few tons good Anthracite Coal, which he will sell for cash

feb 18—+f.

Caswep Salmon and Finnan Haddier, only Wets. per can —R. K. Beace £23

Pea Sour (very nice), at Beer & Goft's.

{fe 6 Geop Covri-H at W. P. CoLwiths, {teb 2% Bi A Larce supply of flower pots at W. P, COLWILt’s. [feb 23 31 Trusks axp Vatises —Young men, leav- ing the sland. will save money by purchasing their Truvks and Valises at L. E. Prowse’s, 74 | Queen “treet. {7 A LarcE assortment of cheap crockery at W, P. CoLwIcts. ifeb 23 31 A worn to the ladies! Do net exchange ld ~ewing Machine for a new ore; but \fetch it to me and | will reper itand make it

| Buewn, shop on corner 0! Prince and Grefton Sireets, Charlottetown, P. ei now ltt wy

L. FE Prowse has just received a very

While taking exception to the questionable’ large stock of Cheisty’s, Loudon, hats for wasuer in which “Policy Hokies” brings spring ij