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Y0 U R CO0U RSI l "irta or Business -111l rn~u Z- ý su1t? Af akn a etm.r dasb ed1 and thoron 2t reliable scho01. 'WinZrte n e Jan. 4th. 0.65. iegue Ires -Elrish--American- Bulsiness College Central Y M, 0. A Building, Toronto. 1909 Ar-gyle Steamshi*p Co. TIME TABLE Steamier Argyle Cominen cing Tuesday. M!ay 25th Every Tw.e day and Frlday Boat leavem Sewregstle (%.90O a M. Return Fare 700 n1 ý a.viile 7 00 il 70e ()0600 rhiatw y,, 845 60 Children under IR years. hall fare. Ârr tig La Toronto 1115 a in Seur! Ing, leaves Toronto, Tonge Strezt wharf B< ok Tiekets-Booke contaitning20 One W&Y loupl)na eau be obtained froin the loec,1 agenti .t 0 owlrng rate,:- Newcastle and Bowmaii Ville,$ ; Oshawuaad Wbitby. 00. Tbese ~tet are good ether way dnlng the season Frelght hardied carefully and promptly and ,at Very 10w rates, Agents-AI Lake, Newcastle; Y 0 Pethick Euowranvlle 1 W Hiry, Ohawa Harbor D J ro ne Ohawa Town; ýAîbert W Jackson bitby. P T llutphinlon, W Sitmcoe Street, Toronto, Preos Argyle S. S. Co'y. ltI 3laomhi1 ouiIga U~I * 11 IT E fD. 1hal and Express Service BETWEEN Rae61r, N. Y, - Pori Hope - ou. Str. North King. Coxnmencing Mal" 818t. steamer wilI le% veCOubourg at 1 8Bop. mi and Port IMpe kt 2 30 p, m dally except Sunda.' f(r Calte N. Y. [Port of Reehester] IEeturnlni stamer leaveî Uhrtrlctte at e.CO a nm. daily except Sunday Fuil information from ali agente E. E. Horsey, Stott & Jury, Gen. Manager, Il. A. James Kingaton Agents, Ontario, Bowmanville BOTIL WITH GOOD1HU SBAND S. Story of Arehduchess Gisela, Dauglter of Austriau Emperor. A short time ago in one cof the piib1ic gardens in Vienna a seam- 1 ?tress found herseif seated beside ii, quiEýt, plainly dressed woman, who was aiso sewing. They fell in- to conversation about domestic af- fairs, telling each other how they mnade their ewn frocks, and those ùf their tbjîdren. "I like to occupy înyseif with this sort of work," said ihe seainstress. "Se do I," repli- ed the other woman. "It is one ,of my greatest pleasures." Then, gs further confidence seem-ed in or- der, "My husband is a good man" Iho little seamstress continued. "So .ine," admitted the -other we- in a -a "Mine works in a railway station, as di.d bis father before Il, said the seamstress, encour- nedte -go stili deep-r jute ber bis- tory by her listener's interest. "My cw*ln father was a woodcarver. What wa yours l" Aft.e a morne-at's he- mitation the other -,1omnan sad sun- ply, "<My father î, Francis Joseph." Anç.l, ini fact, it was the daughter of thoý Aiîýtrian Emnperor, the Arch- 0ý1U ho'Y, *la, wife of the regent rI 1, avariïa, who was sewing in the public garden ia Vienna, Oî>DD 3ARRIAGE COMPICT. i y f An Objeet Lessono Some praýctical thoughts for Bow- And althi within a ston's throw manville citizen's te censider. A cf the largest stores in Canada! great many people f rem the. smal- i lwd he ol \hy are. thley 1er* towns of this province make nflot frced eut-,of business by their periodical visits te Toronto or rnighty rivais?ý Do you net sec that Montreal, and while there make there may be another side te big- cErtain observations which would ness? If e'ery person patroizcd rather startie the regular inhabi- -±Ie leaorea tiee mal _L tans o thse itis. l'hse on-could net live. And there are se clu siens would be simply amusing many of tbem! In the aggregate were it neot that the observers base the number of people who buy from their future conduct on thiem, to smali stores must, ho larger than the detrimrent ef their home towns. the number wbo deal with the large Fer instance, a visit te the large loues. departmental stores leads the visi- yet these small stores are under tor te the conclusion tbat these just as heavy expeanses, pootion- firuis buy ln snob enorinous quan- atlýýy as the large ones. Jients are tities that they can afford to e sou t, axes are higb, labor is dear. at a lower price than the m"erchants Yet theý,-y compete. Shonld flot the in the smaller places. Withoult mechnt owmanville be stili lookinïg furtber into the mattrbtter abl1e te compete! Here v%7e they purchase as much as possible havev lower taxes-, lower rents; while in the cîty and -order by mail ev ery fixed charge is lower. frein the saine firuis between visits. - A littie examnination will show that Ask yourself ra ' -dy, Are yen se this roasening is superficial and mucli wiser than people who have lea.ds te erroneous conclusions. tb ese departmental stores rigbt at If yeu are one of those who hav.e their own doors? Do yen thiak been thus misied, we would ask you these people woull Continue te pay the aex,-t time y,)u are in Toronto, high prices if they euld save money for instance, and have seen the 1,ý7dcaling at the large stores? We sights of thec large stores, te take la might also add that these smaller trip ont Qucen Street West, right stores have a splendid delivery ser- threugb Parkdale, and keep your vice, and send tbciî goods aIl over cyes open on route. Yen will find the ýcity, just the samne as the big for miles, starting withia a few feîîow's. yards of the large stores, bundreds The moral of ali this is that it cf small stores, each coafini dees net pay t, send your moey self We ele line of business-ene te) away frein Bowmianvile. Our local boots and shoes, a second te gr,,-, merchants have got 'or can get yen ceries, a third te fruit, a fourth te- anytbing yen -want and save yen clething, an-dlse on threugh evcryl money on the transaction. lineocf business. If cevery citizen cf Bewmanvîlle Ahl these stores lo.ok prosperous. would act fairly in this matter, we- They continue te do business year would have better schoois and after year. Tbey are filled with churches, and perhaps botter mer- customers, who are just as intelli- als.' Keep your meney ia circula- gent anxd discriminating as-the pat- tien here. Buy frein Bowmanville rens of the dcpartmental stores. merchants. NOUNO I FOLKS THlEBEFE STOBY. Graadmnama was going along the lane, hunting for strawberries. She was net grandmamz then, of course, only a littie girl named Mary, wbo lived on a tarm. She, had jnst kaelt down te look under some, big leaves whben rigbt ahead of ber she board a queer, buzzing souad. She looked up quickly, and saw a black cleud cemaing straight toward bier.,Inaa mioment it had flown over bier head and had tumned inte the orchard. Mary dropped ber basket and fol- lowed. Througb theoerchard and exýer a field went the becs and IMary after tbom. There was a smiailcer orchard beyond, and preseintly th'e' bees lighted ou- the limb of oeeoe the apple trees. Mary Waited ,a minute, but as they did net nove, she ran back te the bouse as f ast as she could. She was a country, cbild, and knew what this meant. Whean Mary's mother heard that a swarm -of becs had settled in the rorchard, she went te the linon-cie- set' and teck eut a large, cearse sheet. Then wben Mary had feund ber father and excitedly toid ber stery, tbey started eut. Mary was almost afraid te look for fear that the bees had gene, but there they we r0-, on the same bough. Mary's father climbed the troc and began to saw off the brancb. When it was cut throngh he laid it on the, linon sheot. Al this time the becs wcre as quiet as possible, ail huddled togother, se tîîat tbey looked liko, a big rubber baIl. The hive, or as Mary's fa- ther called it, "the skip," n'as put over theni, and the four corners of the shoot tied tegether over the tep. Thon some cf the nen carried it back te the bouse. Tt was put -10, +1-. -4L --- --11 41, -- Lucy wanted tho menkey te play on the fiddle again, but the man said, "Ne. Menk's womk bard ahl day- ho, tired,," and patted the littie mnkey kindly. "Tee timed," ne- peated the, nan; and the monkey spnang up on the organ-grnder's sheulden, put both arma round bis aeck, and bliaked sobemly fron un- dem bis cap. The man noddod and smiled, and started -off. When tbey came te a toma in the noad the organ-grindor stepped for a moment, and tho nonkey maised bis red cap and waved it tewamd Lucy.-Yonth's Cempanien. OVER SEVEN FEET T-ILL. England's Talil Man Visîts the Unit- ed States. Wben George Doiliag, au Eng- lishman, 7 foot 2 luches lu beigbt, landed tmom the Elis Island ferry at the barge office, Non' Ye Yrk, thej ether day, bis appeanance creýatod sometbing of a sensation, The giant smiled good-naturedly doenn on the cren'd thut surround- ccl bim, and attor shakiug bunds n'ith bis brother-m-ian', Benjamin Corday, a stripiiag of 6 foot 81 inches, teki interviewers bon' tali ho n'as and said thut hocn'eigbed 275 'peunds. Ho is 28 yoars old and n'eans a Ne. 17 sbee. Ile ad- ded thut ho bas a brother in Eng- land n'bo is just 7 foot in beight. Mn. Dollng - evoryhody nus caneful te caîl hin nister n'alkcd acres ot the f ood wagon ut the edge cf Battery Park, and, stoop- îug, peked bis head ln ut the win- don'and asked for a sandwich. "ley, yen 1" eailed out the nos- taurant mun. "Cerne down off thut n'becl and oome un and -ordor n'hat yen want." Deiiing wnt ar-ound te the deor, and a nîucb suhduod waiter served hlm the sandwich. The giant said be had been with a show in Englaad, but n'as bore te visit bis sister. MAVIiTOBA PUBLIC 14CHOOLS. Teaching 0tho ChUîdren Practical (BJOiaude E. Law, Cold Springs, Man.) In mny hast article I promised te suppleent it by anether, Ia it 1 person wbo bas yes eau see, and 1 believe I have fath_!omeU the cause of -ucb differonco, in tbe tact that carefuluess or carclessucîs seern te be atta.cbed te certain famulies. I suggested that since the sebhool- toucher lias contrel and the' train- ing ef the chodfnetbotb classes, lie night and c!nbe the source ef drawiug the careless ont cf their accustemed letba-rgy and imnplant- ing seeds of carefniness and fore- thougbt. The teachin--g -et agriculture in our sebools was miggest.ed. Iùtlbas been tried and in- the bauds cf an efficient and cafltuiastie teacher it bas been fouud a g 1rand snccess. If there is aiy Acf!-t-e reeing cf dis- content towar-ds the school, it usu- ahly bas its sourc in a lack cf lu- terest. The cidis rnct lnterested in the scbool, sbo-oki a bug- bear which mnst b e tolerated. A ebild cf this dsritonnorniesa teacher a bundred ti M'ore than fifty industrious and xvling chul- dren. The laxsbea usually seces ne live, vital cnecinbetween bhis sebeol stuies a,,,jnd what mnay bo bis future ocuain It, seens te him a wastc cf time. Tonake sncb a boy etnisithe teacber mnust go te bnfia up and help hum Iimprove vwbatover ho is at, 4nd unconscîouly lead cim nby easy stops inte seeiugC that tbere is a vital ceunectica beotn a is home lit e, his future lite aind is school lite. Once this isgase the tea- cher needs oaly te gidez and add a little encouratgeme'nt non and thon wben difficit times cOee. Boys in rural ceý,mmunities are farme rs usually. If they, are net most of then have a gardoen, at lenot, at borne. Se) the teacher bias something bore te begin n'ith. He may teachsou agraculture. This teaching of agriculture bas becorne a real part in my, course et studios. Non', 1 would net recommend any rigld course te be followed eut b3 al teachers. Thereý- are geogravhi- cal, industrial and social condi- tions whicb tho successful teacher must consider la the goenoral schooi worýkse tee witb agriculture. 1 wouhd net recom mend what I have dolle te be followed rigidly b3 auy ether teachor. t would fail. As your roa<1ors are anare. I an located among Icclarders.> Theso people are vory ciannish -and se ive ,more, or hess in commuuities. They are a fisher-fclk, aind se the meat of the original iuxnigrants are net farmiers iu the ,îcnsE> we Ontario people tblrk, thcyý, love the n'ater, saîlîug, fishiug, long arduonus spelis cf work w itb short periods eof loi- sure, sometimes, dissipation. Ihey are located iu a wooded part et 1 Manitoba betn'een the great inkes, wbich is really a dairy district. They kcnew itie cf grain gron'ing. The first binden for th.is district n'as punchased albout two weeks ago, and sinsce potatoos w ero the onhy vegotable tbey grcvî la Tee- land, gardoning and, farming is liimited. Tbey are very consorva- tive ia custouis. Sualce ergru Ilittie gardon truck and ;n, t~ pecessaiy bu1 iniu.,ao 'e their source cfne 1-epie is lu uryl thev ane ver,, p ur ni ï aýs cu -ýleer, sorlle aemore oaiigh1ten- cd te <anadian ways, and are? do- ing better, If some one n'ho un- èerstoed farîning and gandening cane in bere, briee up teLi, cul- tivated it n'ell,grn a goýod vuriety of vegetables aind g anud sede- moustrate the pessibiiity of living weii' and makîng money, the Tee- lauders ivould not ho slow' te foil- mnake a plan of tho flower bcd, wbýilc the beys and I went -out and laideu the vegetabie gardon. Som-e boys did the measuring whie eothers made stukes, or were busy placiug thein. The next cvoning 1 ienihnont again. Tney watcb- ,ed meý son' the seeds, Mauy kuen' notbiug about bon' it nas donc. Ail nwatcbed carefully overy operation. Successive cve".,ings the beys finish- -cd--the-scding ur a-sawute sebool work, ýexhîbitod how weii they had grasped the idea and the eperations. The girls' fiower gar- dea was dealt n'itb soeewbat in the sarne mariner. ILa.a ier, Ie days n'o nere rewarded by sen ftbec lettuýce, and radishes epn throýugh the sou,. The cildreu n'5tched the gro'tb ciosely, fro-1 queatly wandering througb n'ben tired ef playing hall. Freux time te tîme I expluiued the gnon tb, and cirew tbeir attention te Peculiari- tices. Tbey joytuliy assisted in tbe heeiug. We gren' ah the ondinary vegetubles feund in au Ontario garden, and nithent a single fuil- tire. We bud ettuce, radishes, on- ions (three varieties), carrets, heets (tn'o vanieties), parsnips, cucumn- bers (twc vanieties abuud.intiî>, petatoos, tomatees (sced sown iu a plot in gneuud had ahuadant fruit wheu first carne, large and green, noue were rîpencd), squaw Icern, sneet cern, peas nnd cabbage. Our flon'crs did net dû o swnell as the oeil n'as tee beavy. However, poppios -aud nasturtinins were ubundaut. Ia the antuma we teek euel day's reosses and bronght, in tepreduets. Soînoetthes, sc as cern aud onions I hung up lai the w oed-sbod, as was a -common eus- tom iu Ontarie. The -others ne dis- posed of. I teck a fen' minutes each uttemnoon for a weck te talk about n'bat n'c had grewn, and bon' theso, produets were prepared fer table use, T teck one vegetable eaech day, and atter tour o',check, gave each seme te take home te try. Wlîat came et it? I cannot esti- mate the fulIl value. T know the ,ciîildrea were ouger te couic te scbool and te leara. Parentstes- tified te this, whemeas tmuancy n'as ceîmnrnî previeus yoams. The scbeol and grounds were cleaner and tbe pupils shuned in tbe ougerness te keep it se. Tn this connectien my school was awardedfirst pnizo for the best kcpt sechool grounds in the aeigbborbeod. The prize n'as $5 n'orth et shrnhs awamded bythe We Stern Hortieultural Society. Again, when T proposed this spning to enlunge the gardon, my trustees had about 1-5 et an acre broken and fumnished the scool n'itb shovels, becs and rakes. Non Lu this ahl. About ono-hul of the childron n'ont after their parents early this sprng, bad -a plot dug up or bro- ken n'bere a n'ihdemuess budl previ- oushy been, and fennd that they were tnying a vanicty et seeds, sorno seeds n'e did net have last year. Unfortuuately thoeunaly drougbt lias made somo, gardons a faihure, but T knon' the cbildren n'il try again. Tbey ha-ce learned the old, cld adage: "Try and tr3- ugai'1, You'll sncceed at last," rPý ýFýkýqýý--- - A COZY CORNER 6 or a lonnging placeto ' be delightfully or!izx'alf must partake of' the2 oriental ini scie way. BRNQYOUR WAMT f TO U3. Our fulll unes of new and up-to -date f tirniture are waiting for your in- that cannot be eurpassed. Undertakiug receives prompt and personal attention day or niglit and we do flot make any extra charge for distance, PHIONE 58. ~~ ALAN.WILLIAMSJ Phone 358 BOWMANVILLE. geod sampie and enough fer seed unother year, ut least. I ba'd iu- tended giving euchboby enough te plant ene-twentietb of an acre, in eider.te stant thoni with good cloa secd, and lu tbis wuystt this district, non' on the ove etf intre- ducing grain 'creps, n'îtb geod clean grain. My bopes aý-re a trifie bligbted iu this latter resýpect. Next yean I propose, if I arn stihi lîcre, te divide mypiot into 24 sec- tiens, 10 teet hy 10 foot, or 100 square foot, each section divided into four equal square quartons et 25, square yards, and berdered by [a moud cm nutb 2y, foot n'ide. I propose te have the beys et the upper grades takc, wholo sections, the middle grades hait-sections and junior gradeo quarter sections. Each boy will bold these lots by býease n'itb certain regulutions as te cane and cuht&t±ou, subjeet te the superintoudent' s (teacher' s) in- structions. The boys will thus learn rospenslbility, business lntegrity, and management. Lu short, ho is a littic fariner. Ris arithmetic, geography and other studios n'ill bo udjusted somnenhat te bis pur- suit, and visa versa. This gives bniefly my propesul which T1 nçi_11 prýeentote y trus.teos and rate- payons ut the next aunual meeting, Every toucher cunuot do, vhut T have donc, fer circunstauces do net admit its repetition. But ahi touchers eau de sornething. It us the teacher's business te study conditions et the loculity she may Lo in and adjust ber wonk accord- iagly. 0f course, I thîiuk a man eau de this nenk mnoeffectively thun a lady toucher. We tulk about the, tomeignor as a buck numbor. Give tbom a chance and I kuon' it' wihl make i glish people busthe te keep abreast.* llowver, those changes in i udustrial and social, lite. must net ho tbhrust indiffenently upon them, but they must ho used as uny sensible pensen n'iih treat a child, stop hy stop, startiug ati xvhene thoy are, <and building on ut nbat n'o nisb thente bc. Touchers une sonetimes utraid te adopt such sebemes, fer four et op- position. The secret et sucess is fo r the person te do as fan as ho eau wbut lho nishes doue, and on- list boip. Se lu scheois. The, ton- cher must take a long first stop, show the wisdorn et bis ideus, thon propose te the truste- iSounu siioplo plan et getting the things he needs. Tee fnoqueuthy touchers tell ovcry- body eise but the, trustees n'hat they n'ish. Go te thon directly, kuon' nhut yenun'ant, t 'eil it simpiy and ulmost aln'ays it Couacs. Non' sorne teaceubos may tbink thuat other n'onk nus negleeted. T *l- gueb i-, nnt.0 FAR NORTH EXPLORATION VALUABLE REPORT PROM DE. PPRTMENý"lT OF INTERIR Agnieultural Possibiliti(es, of a xtitli. erto Unk o-wn Part of Saskatchew an. Thore bas just been issoed from the Ruiln'ay Lands Bruuch et the Departmoent of the Tutenior, Otta- na, a report on nortbland explora- tion under bis departinent during the seuson ot 1908, cevering, Sas- katchewan neortb et Prince Albert as tan as the Churchill River, ex- tending frein Montreai Lake and Lue la Ronge, on the oast, te Green Luge and ceanccting waters as far north as Portage la Loche on the n'est. Lnformation ab-out this portion of the Canadian n'est, uorth et the ex- istiag sumvoys, bas bitherto heon difficoît te obtain. The incrousiag pressure ou the available snrveyed lands lu the western Provinces bas, hewever, CREATED A DEMAND for ail possible information about the ugnicultural and other msounces et the undeveloped north et n'estcru Canada, and on accouat oet the me- portod minerai diseovenies ut Laie le Ronge, and la the coiuntry r- "1ýh cDf it, th-e publication et the, repoý.)n g'vîng information as te,;the niieans of acccss meets a public n'an-t. Aý numben et excellent cuts et g'-, îag cnops and naturalfetes tnorn photograpbs taken by tee- plorer, are scattered tbneugb t'l' report. An up-te date mup v' hir-t ccx ens the counîtry explored und- for a considerable distance north cf lt-,about 350 miles in ail, nortb et Prince Albert, accompanies tho ,re- pent.