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e "As you are no dowt well informed s this matter, 1 want to ask your wivice about a resolution our School Board has sent in with me to be enâ€" dorsed by the Convention toâ€"day. We had a meeling of the Board a few rights ago and bne of the members brought up this Adolescent Act, and know the farmers are pretty hard E;.hl.s year with low prices for what have to se and high prices for what they have to buy, so we just thought if this Act is going to awld tpo our burdewms, we can do without it for a whe yet. Hore is the motion the Roard sent in, ‘Resoivedl vrat the AAdrsacnt Crhaot Attendance Act is «see Act andi rur threehed out by the sgrecd that tho> mo tbefore the Convention. it was reaiâ€" Izred by all four that a mesting held wnder the auspiceos of the Trustees and â€" Ratepayers‘ Asscciation, cou‘ld not have a better subject to digcusa than just such a resolution. They wll belteved in the motto, "Progress by Dizcnssion," and based all discussion on the fumdamental prineiple of conâ€" fidence, faith and understanding. It was time to go to the Convenâ€" tion and, walking down the strect, through the rain, one of them rsealled to hMs own mind the wor‘s of Amos, "Shal two wa‘k together excent they COMPLETE SCHOOL SET FRLE 1O BOYS AND GRLS atws yos t '. the wmomey. ana we whi send Â¥se @hoie outit. . Addra:a nOomEn . wararen co., Boept 23, Torento. of the Adol 1 was % iliois hb maiit tmao t+414 h aTxi Con y hest : es ) paitâ€"tin sixteon 3 w f e\ _f and Ti @ 6 [( y#3 0w _ Afe {+ 230 have as This cutht compl«*@® Rchood Case my The Motion That Was Withdrawn sitate to stand and adâ€"| alwa ience. The who‘o quesâ€" coun tolescent School Attendâ€" oofe 1 rural education was) yor by the four men and @ll cons hs motion should be laid , who onvention. | It was realâ€") citie our that a mesting held, rspices of the Trustees‘| ‘ yers‘ Asscciation, could| T witer subject to digcuss Ado h a resolution. They all fore ha matto "Promress by: A P scetst e four men h n shoul c 3t BY W. M. MORRIS. and we w.ll send W beu sold sand q wWl send you escuu hadra Concihs T J GA%em another urging School Boards to study thke School Regulations, with a view to providing Secondary Education for the children, was carried unanimously. Some two hundred such Conventions have been he‘d in all parts of Ontario since last Easter and the above resoâ€" lutton was the nearest approach to the abolition er suspension of the Adolescent Schocl Attendance Act. The attendance at these meetings has ranged all the way from twenty peoâ€" ple to two handred people; such subâ€" jects as Sclisol Attendance, Health Kâ€"ccation, Continuation Schoo!3, Con-‘ solidited Schools, the Curviculum of a Rural School, The Status and Qualiâ€" ficat‘ons of the Teacher have all been' Ciscussed «nd wotions of various! kinds propesed, but this was the only| occasion where a resolution was proâ€", posed t> repeal this Act and it was withdrawn. | It stands to the credit; of the rural people of Ontarlt that they have always been anxidus to : havo their children educated. That: the townships and counties have been‘ ‘ in the van of moral progress is \"v'Li ‘ dent by the expulsion of the barroom " from rural areas long before the large urban centres could be convineed . of | â€" / the evils of the Hquor traffic,. A very ‘‘ much larger percentage of the adn\â€"f ‘ ascents in the country are found in ¢ the regular church service than in the: " towns and cities, If country parents â€"‘ guard their adolescénts morally and * provide for them religisnsly, it is unâ€" $ reasonable to suppose they will negâ€" P lst them educationally. Has it not â€" always been the recruits from the ~‘ country homes, graduating from our â€"‘ colleges and universilies, coming to %$| our great industrial centres with good 1\ consciences and high moral standards, E) ce Leun mensgoreed the Hife of areat cities from decay*? consciences and kigh moral s winp have preserved the life Ancther Resolution. | There is anothsr motion re the Adolescent School Attendance Act beâ€" fore the whole of Ontarilo just now. A Bil has been laid before the Legisâ€" lature to suspend the Act until Januâ€" ary, 1928. Every rural member of the Legislature would do well to oppose this retrograde measure. Democracy ca‘lls for a high standard of ecucation M XH W t« 4t at t ple wit €x4 mer M little stim: We\ entiy e people surrot t PDann BET We h the N) it ANCAT W Al M the ¢ N Onta U U h ermin M c of encouraging imâ€" farmer and domestic Orderâ€"inâ€"Council has oving the continuous iong, whereby imtiâ€" ove classes who have me in some counitry r _own can emigrate a. A further Orderâ€" 1s the provision of a f the passport in the eountry. The passâ€" svivama 0c i f1 Ontarto is more ed by the states: Avania, Ohio and | other territory. rio will have to. peaple of those rial, agricwtural vits. In none of ze of fullâ€"time or c education below higan, New York whteen years and een veare. We $ al Ont wit! for Ixt as keen inâ€" Ontario as are is give them a of â€" other tes orig O it yO al ie pici he doe neop. tracde A Un n Are ing a A despatch from London says:â€"=, Scepticism is being expressed in some, quarters in England whether Canada can fwfl her embargo campaign promise to ship 200,000 catile annualâ€" ly to Britain, and the assertion is ber ing made that sufficient steamship accommedation cannot be obtained to transport them during the geasom. W,. Wedde!l and Company, the weoll known Lomdon produce firm, in a reâ€" view of the frozen meal trade said: "The maximum number of cattle the U ho neidtd narew . ts mbout 1,000 view Of ihe iIGACI®D : "The maximum nun steamors could carr head each, which mes ard as the trade is steamors coui carry is SDuub LN0D"C head each, which means 200 shiploads, ard as the trade is seasonal the vesâ€" sels would have to arrive on an averâ€" age of one every day, and the rates would have to cover the return voyage Wwou half WR cigns as well as Canadian coins Are t "C" on its reverse site. The Ottawa hundred years aftor the first British : Heads Health lordon Bates, 2,000 public the ( LC m h M eaith C adian Campaign who has jv Unswick, wiich ndueting an inâ€" ampaign on beâ€" Scocial Hygiene CALL FOR DR. COUE! ek IN RABBITBORO ship ships, / l to the wh 1. <« besides woll son an a reâ€" also p said: Oanada it t t Don‘t look for trouble unless you know what to do with it when you find it. â€" One of the fascinations of living in a new country is the constant revelation of previousâ€" ty unknown resources. It is but a ccmparatively few years since Northern Ontario was on the map merely as so much space. â€" Toâ€"day from out of that area are coming minerals which make Ontario the largest minâ€" eral producing province in Canâ€" ada, and from its timbered areas millions of cords of pulpâ€" wood are being cut. It is reâ€" ported that flowing into James Bay â€" are seventyâ€"four rivers, each with its banks with puipwood species. certainly has a proverb minc ent The Natural Resources Intelâ€" once Service of the Departâ€" int of the Interior at Ottawa, Natural Resources Bylletin OM ACILL Cnfabis aoger is menees AmD ith its banks covered aipwood species. Ontario ly has a proverbial "gold in her northern areas. organization would “’(\‘f(%%j All OW â€" oâ€"o0%8â€"onr t Detrclt News «DDER! ‘_‘-â€"â€"‘- St. Johns, NAAâ€"A despatch from; trict and Hee in tho foothil country‘ Apchaelogists the British Empire Stee Corporation west of Cardston. This project is of Remai of tceijquarters, posted at Boll Island,| 24,000 irrigable ncres. The two pm-q ns announces that the iron mines there| Jects wA bring 1830,000 acres of dand| et Op wi‘l ®oâ€"open immedHatbeby in full swing, urder the «i‘tch, or the equivalent of| . A desrotch fro: and that a full staff of two thousand almoâ€"t six townships. internaticnal gro men will be taken on. The news has | Port AYserni, B.C.â€"Construction of wil bogin excav given goneral! satisfaction, especial‘y, a lumber plant, which will be the largâ€" at Ophe! Nill, Jer around Conception Bay, from which est lumber producing mill on Vanâ€" the remains of section most of the miners came. iccuver Islam, wil) be started here tomb of Davit. _ Chariottetown, P.EJ.â€"At a recent shortly by C. J. V. Spratt, prominent ce«s of the Lux« imecting of the Potato Growe*s‘ Assoâ€"| tumbernvan. He is also projident of, men hope to den necting of the LoP2P0 """"â€"+i 90000 the Victoria Machinery Depot. ‘Hm‘ in the sout! M NC â€" ME devnmeas Chariottetown, P.EJ.â€"â€"At a recent meeting of the Potato Growers‘ Assoâ€" clation it was announced that 90,000 bushels of :Green Mountain and 60,000 br:kels of Irish Cobblers, of the past sâ€"sson. Prince Edward Island potato ercp, had been chipped to Long Is‘and, N.Y., to the State of Virginia and other southern United States points, All wore certified fc-cd potutocs. 3 41 8 1400 B c nds acsctcirt F Halifax, N.Sâ€"One of the largest apple crops in the history of Nova‘ Seotia is now practically al} marketed.| Though actual figures are not availâ€"| able, it is estimated by government, officials, that close to a million and a ) half barrels of gocd commer cial fruit was produced last stason. There have been slightly larger crops harâ€" vezted in the Anmnapolis Valley, but taking quality into consideration the: crep of 1922 leads, i Montreal, Que.â€"The Southern Canâ€" ada Power Co., which cperates on the St. Francis River, Quebec, is about to urdertake the development of another 30,000 horseâ€"power in order to meet the growing demand for power from manufacturing enterprises, This and other work in prospect wil mean the increasing of the capital of the comâ€" _pany from $6,000,000 to $20,000,000, PC o on on mngon e itcd. St. Catharines Ont.â€"A _ signal honor has been won by A. Puccini, large manufacturer of macaroni, of this city. At the international expoâ€" sit‘on hbe‘d in Rome, Italy, the Canâ€" adian was awarded the gold medal, gold cross and dip‘oma sigsed by the Italian minister of fore‘gn affairs, and the British consul at Rome, his exk ‘hit of macaroni winning the grand prige. Winnipeg, Man.â€"Last year 2113 men and 553 boats were employed in the Manitoba fresh water fisheries, with an equipment valued at $695,414, Over 1,125,500 pounds of fish were caught under domestic license, while the commercial fisheries realized over lsixtoe-n and a ha‘lf million pounds. _ Saskatoon, Sask,â€"Fiftyâ€"nine creamâ€" ories were cporating in the Province of S the They manufa oÂ¥ butter, an 000,000 pound Lethbridge, gation uhdert berta wi this yes fjects is 000 acre $1,.25 No, 2, 90c. Barleyâ€"Maiting, 59 to 61¢, accordâ€" ing to freights outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 78 to 80c. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 84 to 86c, Peasâ€"No. 2, $1.45 to $1.50. Milfeedâ€"Del., Montreal freighis, bags included: Bran, per ton, $26; shorts, per ton, $28; m‘ddlings, $28.50; wood fced flour, $2. Ontario wheatâ€"No to $1.16, according to Ontario No. 2 white Ontarto cornâ€"Nomi to $1.16, acconding to freights o Ontario No. 2 white catsâ€"48 Ontarto cornâ€"Nominak Ontario flourâ€"Hinety per cen in jute bags, Montreal, promn ment, $5.10 to $3.20; Toranto $5,05a to $5.15; bitk, seaboari 10 Strawâ€"Car lots, ger ton, track, Toronto, $9.50. Smoked meatsâ€"â€"Hams, med., 26 to 28¢; cooked ham, 38 to 40¢; smoaked rolls, 26 to 28c¢; cottage rolis, 32 to 35¢; breakfast bacon, 32 to 35¢; speâ€" clal brand breakfast bacon, 38 to 40¢; backs, boneless, 36 to 42c, Cured meateâ€"] to 70 lbs., $20; 7 "be., and up, $18; do, good, $6 to $6.50 Manitcha oats â€"Nom Manitoba barley â€"To All the above, track, American cornâ€"No. Toronto, Manitcba wheatâ€"Noe arrcls, $08; Heavy stee report of I itchewan _ Dairy _ Association. manufactured 8,001,105 pounds itter, an Ancrease of nearly 2, 00 pounds over the previous year, thbridge, Altaâ€"â€"Two large irriâ€" n uhdortakings in Southern A!â€" will be "brought under the ditch" year. The larger of these proâ€" is the Lethbridge Northern Irriâ€" m District, comprising some 220,â€" acres of land, of which 105,000 ; arc irrigable, The smaller is m as the United Irrigation disâ€" Canada From Coast to Coast 1 an the ONTARIO 306 to 42 Long clo 70 â€"to 90 nO Weekly Market Report 101 wHyâ€"DICK *~ PUMBUNNY! | @4Â¥ \1 f _‘E * L . y U ’é f --‘A“‘ nal. minal. BRay poris $6.50 to $6.75; do, med., $5.50 feignt roiss, in ght rolls, $85. ."$1 to §1.15; vellow, 91 white. $1.14 Al Yorthern, {8 to 50c TORONTO Jac0n, 240 . $19; 99 voiton .00 track pat.. rate thipâ€" ed | 104 { A dgsvpat;h from St. John‘s, NAd., says:â€"The Neowfounmirfand seal fishâ€" | ing season will cpen March 7, it was announced on Thursday. An aeroplane | will be used to "spot" the seal herds ‘ on the ice. 8 | The sealing fleet has now been reâ€" , dueed to o‘ght vesse‘s, Seven of these | will operate en the Grand Banks and | one in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, | _ An geroplane used by the Antarctic | stcamer Quest will be emnloyed in â€" connection with the Grand Banlss conâ€" | tingent of vesse‘s, It will be convey ed ! on a special platform built on the / steamer Thetis. Newfoundard Seal Fishermen to Use Plans More than 2,000,000 nounds of honey were produced in the Province of Manâ€" itoba in 1922, an average of 122 pounds per colony, accerling to L. T. Floyd, provincial @plarist. Memberâ€" chip in the Maniioba Boskesper»‘ Asâ€" sociation increased by almost 400 per cent. during the past year, The Assoâ€" ciation began the year with 46 memâ€" bers, and now 190 are enrolled, $3 |to $6; do, com.,, heifers, cho‘ce, | med., $5.50 to $5 point the © to $6; do, com., $5 to £5.50; butcher heifers, cho‘ce, $6.25 to $6.50; do, med., $5.50 to $5; <0, com., 85 to $5.50; butcher cows, cholce, $4.50 to $5.25; do, med., $3 to §4; canners and cutâ€" tors, $2 to $2.50; butcher bulls, good, 84 to $5; do, com., $3 to $4; feeder steers, good, $5.50 to $6.59; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers, good, $4 to $4,50; wo, fair, £2.50 to $8.50; calves, choice, #13 to $13.50 do, med., 89 to $11.50; do, com., $5 to $8; milch cows, choice, $70 to $90; springers, choice, 880 to £100; lambs, cfiui:e. $12 to $14; sheep, choice, $7 to $7.50; co, culls, $3 to $4; hogs, fed and watered, $10.75 to $11; choice, $7 to $7.50; <o, culls, $3 to $4; hogs, fod and watered, $10.75 to $11; do, fob., $10 to $10.25; do, country noints, £9.75 to $10. Hogs quotations ure hbazed on the prices of thick, smocth hogs, sold on a graded basis, or sclects sold on a flat rate. Bacon.solects, sold on the gradâ€" ed basis, bring a premivm of 10 per Lornâ€"Am. No. 4 yelow, 94 to 95¢. Oatsâ€"Can. western, No. 2, 64 to 65¢; to, No. 3, 59 to 60¢c; extra No. 1 feed, #%# to bic; No, 2 local white, 54 to h5¢c. Flourâ€"Man. spring wheat pats., 1sts, $7.10; 2nds, $6.60; | strong bakers‘, $6.10; winter pats., choice, $6.00. 1y Rollod oats, beg 90 lbs., $2.15 to Bran, #26 to $28,. Shorts,.$28 + Cheese, finest easterns, 2754 to 280. BRutter, choicest creamery, 42 to 500. Fags, frech, 48 to 1Qc. Potatocs, per bay, car bots, O5¢ to $1. Com. quality cows, $3 to $4; do bulls, £3 to $2.50; do, med. light steers, $5.50; canners, $1.590 to $2; good veals, 811 to $12; hogs, selects and good quality butchers, $11.25 to $11.50, MicJl‘ings, $33 to $35. May per ton, car lots, $14 to $15. NiSTeN To A\ | Yiit MOGUnNn * "A,? amp t Tweey 4. p. TwEETt! _¢% I\?.S'f: , mm ies tu"zr 1&):; Di n 0Vet d l iC its of lin Gets Big Job rerford, who Moatreal pr adia ©CO00E, 0 T0 PUC, he lontines innt s V‘h@.t m“.' ‘m. + wno aecines ‘Hh" i strong â€" bukers‘, of the rage. Me is hos: . choice, $6.50. because he does ns*t me« s., $2.15 to $8.25, and chiliren in the gi orts,,.$28 to $30.| pleasant noequaintance 6. May, No. 2, friendship. "He ssttein _'97_".5_} _ | families," says the Bit J’;Ty""“; Ll: :.3)(8’ a reason for that, a 1« ic. Potatoes, per !ll '(0 the .'f::'-.u“. sru $1. | ization, to @all that + , $3 to $%4; 4o, hnbitable and life wor med. light steer«,: not gooud tlist the m to $2; gaod veals, alone," says Genesis, elects and good as true as when ther 25 to ‘1‘“. Fihet ( Hhorer atundget c eduaiPch orkd m th e dig U N ig . He oth A derratch from Lomdon says:â€"Ag international group of archasologizue wil begin excavationsâ€"in the snring at Ophe! 11i11, Jerusatem, to search for the remains of the palace and the tomb of David. Insrired by the so>. cers of the Luxor undertaing a men hope to demonstrate that (0»)>â€" Hil, in the southoasterm part of <ho Holy City, was the real "Cii f Dav‘id" or Mount Zion, and no sovuthern end of the woestern hi tracition *kas it. It is belevc@ this excavat reveal all the tombs of the K Judea for 200 years aftes Ds cluding those of Solemon : wives, the site of an old wal‘ remains of the original sanct the Jews, with their relics and tions, throwing@ fieht vson pre and ear‘y Mebrew civilisatio many schn‘ars hold, this k gliven over to @griculture and populsted down from the tim Cesraction of Jerusalem, may information on the brilliant British and French archaeo societies w.? join in the work & American Archaeslogleal Soci Palostine hes been invited, P British, the Palestine Exy‘ Funt, of which Dr. H. R. Hall, tor of Egyptdogy in the Brit seum, is chairman, wil fisnan unJlertaking and have general vision; but the actual exceavatio be entrusted to Dr. R. A. McA profossor of Celtic archraoology University of Dablin. â€" The | will be represerted by Raymâ€"s who made an important exc in the southern end af Ockhel ) withcra w thoupg‘~ OF /+ him and the sascion gr own character zood for him But a willl tion from on tary, hebitca thrope or th« altogether p: We were 1 other lives f« by his Mals by his Maker‘s Gdecreo i being; for him to a@bsoni ) company is to deny his : common knsuage of th flects that understancing. we hear it asked, as one another: "What has beo We never see him any one for whoim the inguiry acquired the bad habit « himself. He avels his he shuns the places whe: be found, Sometimes t‘ nize the dlamentahle chai a gentie conspirecy to growing disinclination to rest, as he did of old. that the isolation is no‘ ; a C ur® un a reason for the tal to the soci ization, to all | h at «Ves in. his acts a must bef: bart to Lie is true theatre ne pace, a Worksi and its people pathy. We ca: main aloof fro: Excavations at Opho! were begun in 1870 and in recent yoars work has been done by Father Vincent and the Frenchmian Weill that has achieved results which have led Prof. Gare‘sng, Dr. Hall and other British arcds>>â€" ogists to the belief that Ophe! ma«y prove a treasure trove of relics A antiquity «eeand on‘y to Luxor. M , DIG FOR DAVID‘S CITY IN JERUSALEM o.l anuy Comnd inquire into tt he has become bijtaisle true that the soul, r/ is conlemned to be a wiao Ca inors® 2 they meant Thevy meent goUu confineiment i# rate. A certs tind, n mrely a 1 i+ r lor Cver S& for the Isolation. iT le 1 t phe alnd 1+ RO W 11 Lo 301 o# bel Search for H (2 tha How « friend n t f} P Aftor renova months . Gold ‘wcs.m‘(lu‘\ Princass Mary ts ready for th While : bethan 5 the insid ©onsAruc. were no poom led per faor furthe some 14 t« Ibni 7X yo t # 1i\ In th £1 Not {= Re het Vhe bus