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THE QUAKER DETECTIVE.

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We were five passengers in all; two i is ” ;

| ladies on the back seat, a middle-aged | gentleman, a Quaker, and myself, on the

| front. The two ladies might have been |

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IMPORTER & REPAIRER | it proper for two ladies to travel togeth- |

er unattended. The middle-aged gentleman was spright- ly and talkative,umd soon struck up an ac | quaintence with the two ladies, toward | whom, in his zeal to do the agreeable, he | rather overdid it—bowing, smiling, and | chatting in a most attentive manner. He | was evidently a gay Lothario. The Quak- er wore the usual garb of his sect, and confined his speech, as many an M. P. would save his credit by doing, to simple ‘yeas’ and ‘nays.’ As tor myself, I make itan invariable rule of the road to be merely a looker-on and listner.

Toward evening I was aroused from | one of those reveries into which a young man, without either being a poet or a lover, will sometimes fall, by the abrupt query from the talktive man:

‘Are you armed, sir ?’

‘Lam not,’ I replied, astonished, no doubt, visibly, at the question. | * 1] am sorry to hear it,’ he said, ‘ for | before reaching our stopping place it will be nearly midnight, and we must pass over a portion of the road on which more than one robbery is reported to have been committad.’

The ladies turned pa'e, but the strang-

‘Not that I think there is the slightest danger at present,” he resumed; ‘only when one is responsible for the safety of ladies, you know such a thing as a pistol in one’s possession would materially add to one’s confidence. Your principles, my friend,’ he said, addressing the Quaker, ‘are as much opposed to carrying as to using deadly weapons.’

‘ Yea, was the repose.

‘Have the villains murdered any of their victims?’ inquired the elder lady, nervously.

‘Or have they contented themseves with—with pluadering them ?’ added the younger in a timorous voice.

‘ Decidedly the latter,? the amiable

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‘ Nay,’ urged the Quaker, with sudden jabruptness, and laying his hand on the other’s arm, ‘ business before pleasure, | and for business there is no time like the | present. Will thee be good enough to | search the prisoner ?’ he said to me, still | keeping bis hand in a friendly way on the | passenger's arm. I did so, but none of the stolen articles | could be found. | ‘H must have gotten rid of them in the coach,’ suggested the gay gentleman, and immediately offered te go and search.

‘ Stop!’ thuadered the Quaker tighten- ing his grasp. | The man turned pale, and struggled to release his arm. In an instant one of the pistols was leveled at his head.

‘ Stir a hand or foot and you are a dead man |’ said the Quaker, who must have | been awfully excited so to forget beth the | language and the principles of his per- suasion.

Placing the other pistol in my hand, | with directions to fire on the first of the | two men that made 2 suspicious movement, the Quaker went to work on Lothario, from whose peckets, in less time than it tukes to tell it, he produce@ every article of the missing property, to the utter amazement of the ladies, who had begun in no measured terms to remonstrate against the shameful treatment the gen- tleman was receiving.

The Quaker, I need scarcely add, was no Quaker at all, but a shrewd detective who had been set on the track of a band of desperadoes, of whom our middle-aged friend—who didn’t look so middle-aged with his wig off—was the chief.

The robbery had been adroitely plan- ned. The%leader of the gang had taken possession of the seat in the couch, and af- ter learning, as he supposed, our defence- less condition, had given his signal to his companions by throwing out the bit of paper already mentioned, After the un- suspected capture of the first robber, an attempt was made to save the booty, by secretly passing it to the accomplice, still believed to be unsuspected, who counted being able to make off with it at the next stopping place. The result was that both for a season ‘did the state good service.’

MISCELLANEOUS.

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Mr. Disraeli has disappointed the ex- pectations of the Irish members, and has refused to listen to the appeal in favor of the Fenian prisoners.

‘and as we are noue of us prepared t offer resistence in case of attack, uothing | worse than robbery can befall us.’

Then, blaming his thoughtlessness in | having unnecessarily introduced a dis- | agreeable subject, the gentleman quite ex- | celled himself in his efforts to raise the | spirits of the company, and succeeded so | well by the time night set in, that all had quite forgotten their fears, or only re- membered them to Jangh at them.

Our genial companion fairly talked him- self hoarse. Perceiving which, he took from his pocket a package of newly in- vented ‘cough candy,’ and after passing it first to the ladies, he helped himself to the remainder, and tossed the paper out of the window.

Le was in the midst of high enconiums on the pew nostrum, more than half the efficacy of which; he “insistéd, depended on its being taken by suction, when a shrill whistle was heard, and immediately the coach stopped, and two faces hideous- ly blackened, presented themselves, one ut each window.

‘ Sorry to trouble you,’ said the man on the right, acknowledging with a bow two lady-like screams from the back seat ; but business is business,and ours will soon be over if things go smoothly.’

‘ Of course, gentlemen, yoo will spare as far as may be consistent with your disagree- uble duty, the feelings of these ladies ? |

est manner.

‘Qh, certainly,’? was the reply, ‘they shall be first attended to, and shall not be required to leave their places or submit to a search, uuless their conduct renders it necessary.’

‘And now, ladies,’ continued the rob- ber, the barrel of his pistol gleaming in the light of the coach lamp, ‘ be so good as to pass out your purses, watches, and such other trinkets xs may be accessible without much trouble.’

The ladies came down handsomely, and were no further molested.

One by one the rest of us were com- pelled to get out, the middle-aged gentle- man's turn comiug first. He submitted with a winning grace and was robbed like a Chesterfield.

My own affair, like the sum I lost, was scarcely worth mentioning, The Quaker’s turn came next. He quietly handed over his pocket-book and watch, and when asked if he had any other valuables, said, Nay.

A Quaker’s word is good even among thieves; so after a hasty good night the robber thrust his pistol into his pocket, and, with his two companions, one of whom held the reins of his leaders, was about to take his departure.

‘Stop!’ exclaimed the Quaker, in a tone more of command than request.

Stop! what for?’ returned the other in evident surprise.

‘For at least two good reasons,’’ was the reply, emphasized with a couple of pistols cocked and presented.

‘Help!’ shouted the robber.

‘Stop !’ again exclaimed the Quaker, ‘and if one of thy sinful companions ad- vance a step to thy relief, the spirit will surely move me to blow thy bruins out.’

The robber at the opposite window,and the one at the leaders’ heads, thought it a good time to leave.

‘Now, get in, friend,’ said the Quaker, still covering his map, and take the middle seat; but first deliver up thy

istol.’

The other, however, hesitated.

‘Thee had better not delay,’ said the Quaker, ‘1 feel the spirit beginning to move my forefinger.’

The robber did as he was directed, and the Quaker then took his place by his side, giving the new comer the middle of the seat.

The driver who was half frightened out of his wits, now set forward at a rapid rate. The lively gentleman soon recovered his vivacity, and was especially facetious on the Quaker’s prowess; but the Quaker’s, relapsing into bis usual monosyllables.the conversation soon flagg— ed.

Time sped, and earlier than we expects ed, the coach stopped where we were to have supper and a change of horses. We had deferred a redistribution of our ef~ fects until we reached this place, as the dim light of the coach lamp would have rendered the process somewhat difficult be tore. It was now necessary, however, that it should be attended too at once as our jovial companion had previously announced his intention of leaving us at this point. He proposed a postpone- ment until after supper, which he of~

Marshals Moltke and Bazaine recently travelled in the same cart from Rome to Naples. They were, however, pot aware of each other’s presence, until the journey was over, as a slight partition separated them, and they had not rifled cannon along to batter it down

Macaulay speaking ofa portrait of him- self said with great candor, * It is the face of aman of consderable inental powers, great boldness and frankness, and a quick relish for pleasure. It is not unlike Mr. Fox’s in Senerai expressions. I am quite content to have such a physiognomy.’

‘The London School Board has passed a resolution, ‘ That, as a means to encourage learning the art of swimming, itis desirable to have inserted in the Education Code a provision to the effect that attendance of scholars at lessons in swimming, undera competent instructor, for no more than an hour a week, may be counted as school at- tendance.’

The following specimen of English pure and undefiled is from the Liverpoe! Tinies : A doctor was lately summoned to a cottage at Harwood in Teasdale, and found a boy in need of his service. ‘ Put out your tongue,’ Said the doctor. The boy stared like an owl. ‘My good boy,’ requested the medical man, ‘let me see your tongue.’ ‘ Talk English, coctor,” put in the mother, and then turning to her son she said: ‘ Hoppen thy gobbler and put out thy Jolik- er. The boy rolled out his tongue in a moment.

The endurance of man has been tested by long walks of five hundred miles, by swims of twenty-two miles and more, by bycicle races against horses and in a variety of other fashions, and now itis to be tried in connection with the speed of horses. Thirty-six wild mustangs have been brought to Jersey City from California, for the purpose of deciding a heavy wager that a man cannot ride three hundred miles in fifteen hours. The conditions of the wager, 525,000 to $15,000, are that the races must be ridden by one rider within the time given, thirty relays being allowed. The event is to come off before the end of the month and the mustangs have been chosen on account of their swiftness and endurance. About twenty of them ace still to be broken in, and three trained jockeys used to the California customs have been hard at work getting the steeds in good order for the race,

The revival work of Mr. Moody, in Augusta Ga., has met witha drawback. When he began holding his open air meet- ings the negroes mingled so indiscrimina- tely with the audience that it became dis- agreeable to the whites, and a dividing fence was put up. Mr. Moody did not like this, and spoke of it, when one of the pas- tors informed him that it was impossible for the blacks and whites to minzle even in a religious meeting. Mr. Moody then said, ‘ 1 see you have not gotten over your rebellious feelings yet.’ ‘No,’ said the minister,‘ I am proud of my rebellious

| feelings, and will be a rebel until I die.’

A corresdondent of the Atlanta (Ga.) Con- stitution describes the iucident, and says that as it becomes known Mr. Moody will have a very few to hear him among the whites.’

The hard times in New York are reflected sharply in the great number of houses tv letandin the general conversion of private residences in some districts into boarding houses with few or no boarders in them. In the district lying between Fourteenth Street and the battery the depreciation is greatest. One large real estate agent says he never had so much unlet property on hand before. On some streets nearly al} the houses are set apart for lodgers or boarders, and are placarded wiih notices of ‘‘boarding,” showing that none of them are filled. On north avenue the elevated railway has depreciated the pro- perty very largely, and many occupants have abandoned houses which continue to remain empty. The number of small stores in this district that are unoccupied is greater than the tradespeople there ever knew before. The depressed con- dition of trade is the chief cause of tle trouble.

ScHootmastTers. — The life of a school- master, writes one of the fraternity to the Cornwall Magazine, has many drawbacks, It is tedious, laborious, trying to the tem- per; and its routine may well produce, es- pecially in the beginning, a certain state of stuperfaction in the mind of the unfortunate whose-life is spent in correcting the mis- takes of small boys, and cutting channels of communication between them and the world of truth, wisdom and genius, which is so hopelessly far apart from their opaque intelligence; but yet it is a worthy life, full of high objects of ambition, and more satis- factory possibilities of action and influence than most occupations hold out. Even in its smallest beginnings the conscientious worker may have the satisfaction of feeling that it is not merely daily bread he is earn- ing, but that the material he works on is the highest and most important, and that more or less he is shaping the mind of the next generation while be toils through even his least attractive work. A great many of us have to work without this stimulant and support, to satisfy ourselves with simple exercise of honesty, turning out the skilfullest manufacture we can ior life's most ordinary uses, as the sole equivalent which it is in us to give for all the comforts and loveliness with which we are enabled to sweeten our existence; but the school. master may always have the consoling cons sciousness of worthy work te keep up his

Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

fered to go and order.

heart and courage,

Paar FRIES

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EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1876.

| tiie wei re \ SPR ‘ | The Education Law. | Report cf Investication Committee.

Joun McSwain, Examined,

I am School Visitor for King’s County, and have been, consecutively, for seven or eight years. [I was, previously, teacher for thirteen years, and latterly a Grammar Sehcol teacher.

During my eight years of office, there has been improvement in one respect; in others not. Those who have been licensed with. in the last few years, have better theoreti- cal knowledge than the former teachers. The experienced teachers have left.

Compulsory attendance at the Normal School was abolished eight years ago. The teachers under the new system do not know how to impart education so well; but being better grounded, they finally become better teachers. They havea better know. ledge of the theory of what they are in- tended to teach, The examiners require greater theoretical knowledge than form. erly. I think attendance at the Normal School would be a great advantage to them. I would strongly advise compulsory attends ance at the Normal School, if properly or ganized.

At the Normal School now, candidates for teachers are placed in classes with other pupils, and receive no other teaching than what other pupils receive. I would recoms mend a preliminsry examination, and that the teacher of the Normal School could ex- amine and give certificates of proficiency in teaching.

The children who attend school now, are much younger than formerly. Formerly, they were often fourteen years of age, now they are about ten. This is prejudicial to the schools, and is greatly due to the employ- ment of female teachers, who are unable to regulate the schools as wellas men can. Grown up boys seem to keep away from schools taught by females, and are hard to govern, Another reason is the scarcity of labor.

A first class female teacher was employ- ed in St. Peter's Bay Grammar School, be« cause no Grammar School teacher could be obtained.

I believe, in many districts, there is not as much interest taken in the schools as some years ago. They are dissatisfied with the School Law, and with the election of trustees, [method of electing,] who find great difficulty in performing their duties. In many districts the principal men refuse to act as trustees. I would suggest a re-~ duction in the number of trustees, and that they be made a corporate body, so that they might levy assessment. I would recom, mend tliat a district be bound by the voice of a majority of those present at a meeting, whether a majority of residents or not.

I have had no general instructions from the Board, with regard to the examination

| of Schools, nor as to the general system of

education ; nor, as far as | know, has a gen- eral system been adopted,

I believe that, now, there is no author- ized set of books for the schools.

I am a member of the Board and one of the examiners. ‘Tbe Voard meets only once @ month, and there is sometimes a difficulty in getting a quorum. The Board settles disputes in districts, averages boun- daries, and the like matters.

The Board does not divide itself into sub- committees.

Taere is no regular sub<divison of the Board’s work. [do not think it advisable to continue the present system of a Board, unless betterconducted, If the Board were well conducted, I believe it would be bet- ter than a Minister of Education,

LIST OF BOOKS.

The Irish National Series, and the Nelson, and afterwards, a revised edition of the Irish Nevional Series and, «bout a year ago, the Royal Readers, were adopted.

I had no notice of these changes, except from the Royal Gazelle, and from having been told of them by some member of the Board, or other person. I was not officially informed of these changes. These changes were never carried out. They were made before | became a member of the Board.

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS,

There is, in reality, only one Grammar School—that at Montague, in King’s County The teachers of Gram- mar Schools are required to teach the lower branches as well as the higher; and so the school ceases to become a Grammar School because there is no time to teach all branches.

Parents object to the monitor system, because children lose so much time in teaching lower branches.

The salaries of all teachers are too low. I would not give a beginner at teaching as much as one who had been teaching for some years. I would have a sliding scale of salaries.

RE SECTARIANISM,.

I have found sectarian teaching in only two school. I believe it prevails in a great number. I have heard indirectly that it does. I examine twice a year, and my coms ing is not known beforehand. I believe this is the reason | feund sectarian teaching in the two schools.

I never took steps to ascertain from the teachers if sectarian teaching prevailed.

In some places people complain about sectarian teaching not being allowed.

Ido not believe it is physically good to keep children in after hours for religious teaching, but itis morally good. J believe the instruction is generally short—some ten or fifteen minutes. I would suppose it would do children good to receive some religious instruction.

I believe that in districts where they are all of one denomination, sectarian teaching is practicable and, | believe, advisable. I believe it advisable because it pres vails in so many districts, where they have it either before or after school hours, in opposition to the law.

About a dozen teachers in the country have asked if they could teach sectarianism in school hours. I would let the scholars hear sectarian books recited or recite them< selves, but not allow the teacher to give any oral explanations. I would allow det pnominational books to be read in unmixed schools, I would allow one objecting householder to prevent those books being used.

There are quite a number of unmixed schools in the country, About one third of the schools are unmixed. I take the

various denominations of Protestants into | account as one, in making this estimate.

I believe the Protestant sects unite even now on sectarian teaching as to books and the like.

I know the shorter catechism is used in some schools. I have found it in two or three~in Valleyfield East and Little Sands.

I have seen the Catechism used during school hours at Valleyfield. I have been asked by teachers if they could legally teach it during school hours, and [ told them they could not.

People would not express discontent to me. Some few have, but not generally.

There would not be as muck trouble in introducing sectarian teaching into villages as into rural districts. But in Souris 1 would not attempt to introduce it, because there are not enough of each denomination for a sepsrate school for each, unless the different Protestant sects there united.

I would rather recommend denomina< tional schools in unmixed districts.

I would advocate compulsory attendance to a small degree, leaving it optional with trustees to enforce it, and only for a certain number of days in the month or year,

The law in many things does not em- power the Board to enforce its order, and there is no connection between the Board and the teachers.

I would increase the taxation imposed by the Legislature for educational pur- poses. I would not give the trustees power to raise taxes. Whatever is raised should be raised by Government. If you empower trustees to raise a local or dis- trict tax, they will not collect it.

\Signed,) JOHN McSWAIN.

On Thursday morning Mr, McSwain sub-

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mitted the following in writing, and desired to have it annexed to his evidence, {copy.]

_ The Board of Education can only enforce its order by doing what may be an injury to a teacher. It can on'y withhold his salary. A teacher is displaced if this be done, but the trustees may almost im- mediately engage another. hey need only | State that they have effected the reforms ordered. In some cases the improvements are satisfactory; in many they are not. The Board must be satisfied with them or adopt the same course of withholding the teacher's salary until their orders are com- plied with,

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Tavrspay, 27th April 1876. Present—full Commitiee. Rev. Isaac Murray, Examined.

I believe I was appointed a member of | the Board as far back as 1865,

Since the Act of 1868 was passed, the Poard have attempted to carry out 31st section of the Act, but under the Act have not power to prescribe a system. It can recommend a system to Government, and have done so. We have never taken the Act as a mere skeleton. We understood we were executors and not makers of the law. We had to carry it out.

Whea the law gives us power to move, we do move.

I recollect that the Irish National Series was recommended, then the school books used in Nova Scotia, and lastly the Royal Readers, There is now no complete list of books, because we could not make one owing to denominational differences—our denominational feelings clash. This diffi. culty ranges Over several subjects.

We travelled as far as we could to get up a system of education, and I am under the impression that we submitted it to Govern- ment. If wedid not do so it was because we could not, as we could draw up nothing satisfactory. There was a committee on | the subject, and we travelled as far as we could on the subject. Owing to denomin- ational differences we could never make outa compleie list of books, and, unless you get men to lay aside their prejudices, never will.

To remedy this, I suggert the remedy of the State’s doing its work. The State ought to, and has power to enforce what it considers to be right. If the State would determine on doing this, it could easily do it.

I do not see any radical defect in the Act. The State is wrong in not taking and acting on its position as an educator, and the State is responsible. The Board is a mere creature—only part of the machinery. ‘the power does not reside in the Loard but in the State. The State, in several things in the working of the system, has not provided the means of carrying out the Jaw. ‘The essential elements of the law are sound. The Board have the power of withdrawing the salaries of teachers not oleying the law.

There are denominational difficulties— then difficulties in detail in carrying out the law. Vesting the power of Board in one person would only remove the difli- culty one step back; it would make no difference in carrying Out the law on this point. ,

Weare only a reflex of public opinion, and the surroundings in which we are placed would modify action.

If the law, the educator, does not go ac- cording to the opinions of the majority, the difficulty cannot be remedied, If the Gov- ernment comes to the determination of carrying out the law, it can do so,and it ought to adopt some certain view of the majority and enforce it. The Government must be first sure it is right.

My own opinion is that there is a system that could be suggested to all Christian denominations that would unify them.

If there was no difticulty with the people on denominationalism, there would be none with the Board, The difficulty lies with the people. The Board have never came into collision or collusion with the govern- ment on education.

THE RECOMMENDATION OF MARCH, 1870.

We recommended to both parties, a cer- tain line in regard to the city schools, and both said they could not, owing to denomi, nationalism, do anything. In 1870, we made a representation and suggestion to uvovernment, as to how schools might be improved, and we tried as best we couid, to | carry out the suggestion. We suggested three or two graded schools. We showed how they could te built without cost to Government,by issuing debentures, and how the interest en these could be paid by the fees. We showed how the difficulty on this subject originated in the city, and how this | plan could be carried out.

Government answered that the country had no particular interest in the city schools, and could not carry out our suggestion, and the whole difficulty was owing to de- nominational feeling. We have frequently approached Government on this subject.

I coniine this entirely to the city, not to the country.

I do not know that the Board have reports | ed to the Government on any other than city schools. ‘The Board could not agree | among themselves.

If the city schools were set right, it would

permeate and improve the whole country

system. But we must keep city and cour~

try schools separate.

The opinion of the country is, that poli-

ticians are afraid of the subject.