'Their removal is one of the tasks that .are presented to Lhe school authorities, general and local, hy the facts thus summarized. INDIA STUDIES ENGLISH. In conversation recently with the representative in India of a leading London publishing house it was men- tioned, says the United States Con- sular and Trade Reports, that India, and especially the province of Bengal. in North-Eastern India, in which Cal- cutia is located, affords an important market for educatipnal text hooks. The more ambitions and intelligent young people in India evince a great thirst for education, as the principal means of rising superior to their en- vironment and improving their condi- tions in life, so that every possible sacrifice is made to get an education, There is a special desire in India for 'femployment in government positions, 3 {as such positions give fixed income and have special advantages. English education is considered essential for those who wish to have the best suc cess, and large proportion of the text books are .in 'the English lan- guage, although many of the more rudimentary books are translated into pative languages. The most elementary schools for na- tives in India begin their instruction ( year, 30a Year. ff EI w nth, eel BE pes § ited States ........81.50 s a Bega i Bu 8 Dro' Fath. : of the best job © printing oMces in Canad, 2 TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE -- § 3 Smal sins 01 Chiron ", oes 7 Fifth Ave. ¥ rank R. Northrup, Er Slag 3 4 rank R. Northrup, Manager. SHUT OUT THE DRINK There seom to be different lights on the trend of liquor consumption at the present time. Sir H. Johnston writes in the Nineteenth Century that "much has béen achieved already during the last sixty years in shaking ourselves free of the tyranny. of -alcohol." He = ¥hinks that "the brewers will have to turn much of 'their plant and capital to the manufacture of 'ginger beer and similar drinks containing a neligible Quantity' of aleahol. The distillers," he says, "will produce as much alco- hol as ever,.not for throats, but for fuel and motive power." Over against these rosy views, how- a a ever, ard the stern statistics of drink. | Each yedr, in increasing quantities, liquor hénds the hill of expense in food and drink in: civilized countries where * prohibition' measiires "arfe not in force. wit The only. way. to desl with the drink Loew) is not to wait for' if, or even voax {588 to dio a natural death, but 'in Vol- he Enire's words, 'with 'a better applica- Stkion, "to "amish, the infamons thing." qm Bards oi "FE It is becoming' 'more and | more eonviction © that school buildin should be used for local purposes, they should be social centres and the peo- ple of the neighborhood should come to regard them as meeting places for instruction "and entertainment of a happy - character. = The . buildings be- dong to the people. The periods dur- ing which the 'structures are used for strictly educational work as represent- of in clags instruction is. comparative fy small. 'The buildings lie idle ior a long period. Tt, theréiore, follows that there is that much loss to the community. The school building is " "the taxpayer's investment, and the taxpayer . has the right to use that building for certain purposes and along certain lines so that 'he can get just as much out of his investment * a8 possible. He is coming more and * more to. realize 'the value of this op- portunity, and is taking advantage of 4436 more. ire Not only in cities but country sapchools should, even to a greater ex- #4%ént, become the social centre of the Community and everything of an ele- «wating character should be presented "dn it by the leaders in the section. 4 Citizenship would be greatly improved &'and helped, if more literary~entertain- 'ments; dwelling on agriculture and so- 1 cial work, were to be presented in the long winter evenings in the school "4 house. * 4 . <A ORNSUS OF THE SCHOOLS 4 That there is in Canada too great : 'proportion of children between the Tages of seven and fdurteen who do not 3 attend school "is the inference drawn Min the latest issued bulletin of the s of 1911, which deals with 3 sols and school attendance. v ) ecording to the figures, there were "in Canada 1,154,000 "children between jhe ages of seven and fourteen. Of @ whole 921,000" attended school {or ome period, leaving 233,000, or fully y por cent. out of the classes. is on this fact the remark noted RE in vernacular languages and then teach English later on, and finally consid- erable instruction in many courses may be given in the English language from English text books, and in higher edu- cation most of the courses may be given from English text books. In some instances, instruction in English is given at » the "very. start. Among the young people in the province of Bengal, where there is by far the larg- est opportunity of employment by European commercial houses, such as are concentrated at Caleutta," there is an especially keen demand for educa- tion from English text books. No oth- er city in India contains anything like the number of fairly well-educated English-speaking native clerks, typ- ists, ete., as are in Calcutta, | : THE BRITISH AND MEXICO Sir Edward Grey maintaing his gt- titude of friendly * reserve toward the United States in)regard to Mexico, aod in doing so undoubtedly reflects the sentiment of the great body intelligent Englishmen, f remarks the New York Times. There is no ques- tion that the people as well as {he government ; of Great Britain believe that our government is animated hy worthy motives in its course toward Mexico and is doing its best to Preserve peace and to secure the ulti. of mate establishment of law and-order intthat distracted land. They have no wish to, hamper the efforts of our government, and they will pot! do 50 unless 'there shall arise some un- fortunate situation involving the rights of British subjects to a degree not yet realized. At. the same time «ther is to he noted in the. British press, quite with- out reference to party;~the expression of the feeling--in some cases, of a deliberate and reasoned opinion--that the only possible final outcome of the situation is the active intervention of the United States, the occupation of Mexico, and its reorganization on the lines of' order and safety. Gen- erally . this is regarded as the logical conclusion from the wish of our) gov ernment to be left alone in dealing with Mexico. . Our assumption of the right is held as carryimmg with it the duty of dealing with Mesico and of | doing 80 in a way that will' ade- quately provide for the protection of the rights and interests other countries. Our government has not acknowledged the correctness of this assumption, and there is no sign that it will do so in the near future, But the fact that this view prevails in -a friendly country of the importance of Fngland is one that cannot whollyebe ignored. We have no doubt that it ia in the mind of the president and his advisers. : : EDITORIAL NOTES. The tory papers are as silent the grave as to the elections. the announcement premature? of as Was The Toronto, World (conservative) thinks that the forcible lowdring of hydro rates in Toronto is a politi- cal play to the gallery, pulled off he- fore an- election, It is in accordance with the spirit ol the times snd the genius of the American - people that the first ves. based, It is between the ages of i en and fourteen that the mass oi children of a country get school pation that is to carry them life. To. miss opportunities the ages stated is to be bfind- the population between fifteen sevenieen yeats, given as 405,578, 110,082 attended school, the per. varying from barely twenty cent. in Quebec 18 over thirty-four cent. in New" Brunswick. Beyond on years of age there were some school or rollege at , ly taking advanced ec or sels to pass through the Panama ¢; nal should be merchanimen rather than warships, While it is -- « oped that the A. It. (. mediators "will pe able to work out their plans concerning Mexico, if they really have any formulated, the feeling that they will fail in their vindertaking ig Rrowing in the United States. The progressive " orchardist whe follows modern: Practical methods of culture, sprayi s iraying and pruning, pick: ing, Packing and marketing, will he the winner. The men whe are not : He says: ®] cieath of. her" husband, Jrock and closing the tells of his venom in reply to the Rillingsgate of a contemporary and 'his final disposal of his "hot stuff." | "It, was a warm 1 ttle piece. It pulsated with: life. It had a sulphurous odor. We regarded that little piece with some fondness. Then we counted twenty-five, rolled the copy papers into a spill, and used it to light a cigarette with But we have all the satigiaction of having written that nice "little piece." Thera are. others. The Coming Tnfliction Quebec Dally Telegraph Soon the cheerful hum of the mos- quito will bring added interest to the sober twilight hour. As Good an Argument as Any, Peterforo Review. Women should not * be given » the ballot as ong as they get oli the street cars facing the rear No Value to the Farmers. Calgary Albertan Of what value is thet reduction * in the duty upon harvesters and bind- ers 7. The implemerht companies in Calgary are preparing for their sea Son's sale, and have made no redue- tions in the prices of last year. - A Cowardly Gerrymander Brantford Expositor. The Whitney government, with its gigantic majority, stoops to a cow- ardly gerrymander. Why 'not pass a bill prohibiting liberals from seek- ing election? Mr. Hanna would then, no doubt, tbe - spared Proud foot all Snider charges. Dominant Influence, Washington Star "So yon thisk that men are shrew- der than women ?" "l don't say that," replied (iroweher. "Bat you may have' ticed that a lot of these Paris peo nhle who make such extraordinary EOWnS and persuade people to buy 'em are men," Mr. no Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. The Elks baseball team of Ports- mouth is being re-organized. The mayor to-day issued eleven new white helmets to the police, The custom house is undergoing re- pairs, MORMONS IN EUROPE, They May, Shortly Be Barred Out of Switzerland, New York, May 11.--A cable from Geneva says: There are signs of trouble "with thé American Mormons settled in this country. Expelled from nearly every country in Kurape they have made Switzerland their "centre of activity," and Zurich is their headguarters. Hunted © from pillar to post they 'may be shortly obliged to change quarters agmin, 43 a very strong protest is out against them, gotten up by S¥ics re- sidents. > So powerful are the Mormons ihat it is estimated that thei missionar- ies in Eurepe--exclusive o England-- send across the Atlantic between 800 and 900 young girls annually. The Swiss ' girls * alone number | from 100 10-120 yearly. SALESGIRL WORTH MILLIONS Husband Dies on Board Ship, Lea- ving Har Fortune, Mass., Hay 11.--By Francis Skin- ner, on the steamer Caronia, en route from England to* New York, his wid- ow, formerly Miss Sadie Carn, be- comes heiress to an estate valued at $10,000,000, Mr. Skinner was neph- ew of Mrs. "Jack" Gardner. The marriage was romantic. Miss Carn, then a~saleswoman in a Boston store, was at. Marblehead one day with' several girl friends, and with them was admiring the yoo Con= stellation as she lay at anchor in the harbor.* Mr. Skinner inyited her aboard to make a closer 'inspection, and the acquaintance which began that day resulted in the miarriage. > Boston, the LIGATNING'S ODD ¥'REAK. Struck Hydrant and Shut Of Water Supply. Hamilton, May 11.---A curious thing took place at Burlington Beach duringy a recent storm, when ihe water sup- ply was stopped instantly. The work: men dug down at the gydrant. After going three feet down they: found that a bolt of lightning had 'struck the ground and melted the hex 'and pipe nto a mass of congealed. metal, mix- ing the iron of the pipe into the brass pipes svith a sub stance from the sand like glass. CHIEF KILLED AT Wimp \ Falls Through Roof, Kosing His Life at Camden, N.J. x .Camden, N.J., May 11. A fre 'which swept through the plants of the camden Electroplatin g company" and the New Jersey Aute Supply company, causing a $20,000 loss, also the lif of Chief Charles Worth- ington, of the fire department. He fell from a roof, and died on the Way to the hospital. He had been chief thirteen years. Francis W, Hartley Divoreed i Vancouver, May 11.--Franeis W. Hartley, Vancouver, manager of the Royal Trust company, was granteu an absolute <deeree of divoree from his wife: May Hartley, a daughter of Sir John 'Reid. The petition of divorce was granted a Years. Molson are now, in The Garbery. paradjse. Mrs. Hatley and Australian, | They couple had been married] mirror is the dudes! " A BS Besant A woman's strength lies in her weakness St "oo, Marriage is more often wf assign- ment than a failure Deliver us from the man who foals entirely art home in jail However, a sarily g00d man isn't neces. a desirable neighbor, Men who pose as judges of human nature 'get a good anany hard bumps every: fancier who can tell a dogwoad tree by its bark It isn't Smarter Than Many Humans. Figg--Wonder why z smart as a steel trap? er See anything particularly intellig & steel trap. Fogg--A steel trap is called smart it knows exactly the right ime to shut up équla ent in A hecause Monetarily Speaking. 'What's funnier than a bull china shop ™ A bear in a bucket shop She Understood Then. Applicant--Nao, - ma'am, I work where there's children Madani--Bypt we advertised for a girl who understood children. Applcant--=0Oh, | understand ma'am That's why 1 wouldn't ~liere they are. And When Money Talks, Sound' travels at rate of vards per second Exceptions to this rule Scandal: 1,000 yards, Flattery: 500 yards, Truth: 21.3 yards. Alarm clock eT --Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. couldn't 'em, work ° the Indeed He Was, 'Was your busbandd cool when old him there was a burglar asked Mrs. Hammer replied Mrs, Gahb, I should Wh¥ hig teeth Cincinnati Enquirer vou the house? "Canl," chat- say he was ered = His Prayer Answered. e sighed, "if youn only gave t hope I--- interrupted 'Pye bee + tony man ee "Gracious," the - hard. 1earted belle, he least 1 ever be 'hiladelphia' Ledg giving you Not That At AL And richt leg, doet r? ctor--0Oh, just old age, Mrs. Mac- Srannie wit's the matte ° Hoots, mdn: yé're haverin' da ) t leg's hile an hey're both the same age Pune and h. MONDAY, MAY ELEVENTH To-day the Hon. Charles Joseph Doherty, Minister of Justice, cele- brates his Afty-niuth birthday. Born in Montreal, he has spent most of his' life in that city, being suc cesively a law- yer afd a judges of the Supreme Court of Quebec, He entered the House of Com- mons fn 1908 and at once took his place as one of y ve par- When he E._WaB . worn in az a member of the Privy Council in 3 © 1911 an amusing 'incident occurred. His new duties required his residence in Ottawa but: not wishing to move- his family from Montreal he dstatmingd to secre au apartment: in Ottawa for himself. He went in the evening ment house and inquired for rooms. The janitor informed Him that a suip able suite hoe just been vacat®d and Mr. Dohert™ might take immediate possession. He was shown into the rooms and wag just on the point saying that they would do, when u sound #8 of some one breathing heavily came from one of the cham- bers. On investigation, he found the Fielding asi part . 'leave him alone" said Mr. Doherty <0 the janitor. "y Suppose it's bad enough to bava turs ed him out of office uy driving Mm out of his home. omy | to a large apart. | eep Inside, he |: i ---- ~ New Collars, 2 for 25¢. | Bibby's - $12.50 Suit Sale Hand tailored suits of fine imported tweeds and worsteds, greys, browns, tans and bronzes; sizes 34 to 44. Regular $15. $16.50 and $18 values, for oN Spring Overcoats $8.75 Very swell Chesterfield models in genteel grey and rich brown cheviots, hand padded collars and lapels. Sizes 34 to 40 Regular $12.50 and $13.50 values, for 5 p 9 Shirt Sal $1.00 and $1.25 Shirts for 69c. Sizes 14 to 161-2, Negligee and Peter Pan styles Coat Shirts, ete., all good pattérns, all new goods; guaranteed first quality. Soriety Brand Clothes ' Men's Caps 75c and $1 Values for 50c. Fine worsted Cloth Caps, in all the newest shapes and colorings; sizes, 63-4 to 714. : ty-1 Neckwear Sale - 3c Values for 25¢. New Tublar American neckwear, re-i, versible, all newest shades; twén- ive dozen to pick: from. Trouser Sale $1.98 Dark brown herringbone tweeds, dark grey worsteds; sizes 33 to 46. The Best $4.00 Shoes in Canada. See Our Dandy $2.00 Hats The Best $4.00 Shoes in Canada. MOTHERS' DAY! ! Sunday, May 10 For mother living a flower bright For mother's memory a flower + white. Leave your orders at F. J. JOHNSON THE LEADING FLORIST 324 King St. Phones: For Sale | A blacksmidy shop, good lo- | cation and plenty of work. In | ery desirable for a blacksmith, Farm and 'city properties for sale. ~ ance companies and the Mutual || Life of New York Money to loan on real ese tate. ' . I. J:LOCKHART, { ; a ® 3 (Over Bank of Montreal) | po LADIES' PATENT, CLOTH TOP BOOTS Ladies' Patent Button, cloth top, medium sole, lat- est last' $3.06, while' they last. ' H. JENNINGS, shee