The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

was Lose Pid poi ov Sink what double 2 edged gue 4 might be 10 in- vest money in a stock company ? You $3 The company s: profits are big; but the $500 doesn't know it. He may led 0 believe that the concern 'is 10 real vote in directing the affairs of the company. . "Controlling interests' : caught {can attend to all that and take care of Wan. Taylor 2} me broke, £00. "Finally the $500 in- | vestor. grows tired of being like the man who was seasick--everything go- "ing out and nothing- coming in--and fthen he can find a man who will {gradeingly give him from 25¢ to. 50¢ on 'the dollar for: 'his 'shares. This man makes bis commission on the have employed him 10: secure the sk of the swall investor. i incotporated stock 'companies Sweet: 7 are not run in' this dishonest way; but Plum, the settlers. in the far beyond the The ciatter Wis brought to the notice of /a grant of 400 acres of land and "cer- > Willian und Hassard Purdy, at Lind- "These men accordingly no locks in it, and cet, en. the. running through, into a ter permit o the Island; but: ces at 'the. sQlith nthe water was' nd the result was a' the Honesty. of the "controlling inter- ests." The law should be changed so that the small investor would have the same right 'as the small partner--the right to. demand his original capital or wind up the business. Tn -- Schools and Roads Se Saturday Evening Post The most serious charge yet lodged against the 'rural school is that' the rate of rural illiteracy is twice the ur- 'I ban rate, despite the fact that" three. fourth of our immigrants are in the cities; and illiteracy" among native. born children" of native parentage. is more: than three times. as great 4s he as native children of foreign' born | pasentage, says A.C. Monahan, of Federal Bureau of Education. ,000 one-teacher school- hich §o0o dre log build- -}ings, we face the fact that the rural plant to! ¢{school is alarmingly neglected. Al- though more than - sixty per cent of children of the entire country ate en- led in in. country schools, the aggre: Sueste courbes for hens willhd tield at the Tniversity of certificites in Eleémen j Service, Elementary Nl Timo yt Physical Cultaral a and other Sul Application should be made et: fessor Abbott; Secretary of the versity of Toronto Extension, coms witge, Toronto, not later than May "The teacher should state the grade of his certificitesy' profes academic, and the school in which he is teachine: RIS La ga Over Farm. for Miss Sarah Ann Pherrill; an aged woman of Reach town Ontario county, A. J. Russell Snow, K. C. yesterday issued a wnt against his client's sister Mary Henderson, 10 set aside the conveyance of Miss Pherrill's farm on Jan. 11, 1913, On he g that "it as im without i pendent advi it" any consideration rece veceived and under alleged undue influence. + Why Not For Port Perry SCOUTS FOR UXBRIDGE A Scout troop. was started = with flying colors in Uxbridge on April 24, when many of the business men of the town prominent women and plenty of eager boys gathered in the Town Hall for organization purposes. The Mayor, Mr. N. R Beal, presid- ed and spoke enthusiastically of the movement and many of the men gave promises of their support. Provincial Secretary Mr. H. G. Hammond was present and in his address he urged upon the parents the ' necessity of making the home more attractive to their cHdren. Rev, Mr. idge was elected Scoutmaster a Rev. Mr, Fraser was appointed his assistant, Dr. W.-F, Ganton will act.as Secretary for 'the local association and ca strong. com- mittee was appointed. After the meeting was adjourned the local council held an 1mprompt meets ing and discussed the future, * . This is a practical method of keep- ing boys with a healthy, moral interest in life and traimng them in the simple vittues of manliness: ¢ Called To Blackstock actor of rl On Monday 28th, May thé Presby-* terian. Congrégation of Blackstock, Nestleton and Enniskillen estended a unanimous callto Rev. J. C; Tibb, of 'Glamis The call was sustained at a meeting of Presbytery at: Bowmanville nd the induction will take - place 'on onday, Toth of May at four be'afternoon, The call is unani- Welpek Py