Show ONTARIO SUPPLIES ALL Aft SCHOOL BOOS BOOKS fREE TO CHilDREN Canadian Province Follows Example Set Long Ago by Salt Sal LaKe Lahe Consul Martin R. R R Sackett of Prescott furnishes tho the following information concerning concerning con eon cering the cheapening of school books to the pupils in the public schools of Ontario Canada A ten year contract be beginning nning on August August Au Au- gust 1 1909 has been entered into by bythe bythe bytho the tho provincial government for the manufacture manufacture manufacture man man- of the series of five readers adopted for use in tho the public schools of Ontario whereby these books will wi be besold besold besold sold to the pupils at very much reduced prices The net cash prices for the five fe books will wi be as follows Primer 96 pages 3 5 31 5 1 cents first reader pages 4 5 4 cents second reader 22 pages 7 71 5 5 1 cents third reader pages 11 5 5 1 cents fourth reader pages 12 5 5 45 cents total for the tho five I books 39 5 5 1 cents as compared with I for the books in 1 use up to 1907 and 49 cents since that date The government makes its it own plates 1 I from which the books are printed and II advertises for tenders for the work of making up the books The new books I are to be printed on a superior grade I of paper handsomely illustrated and bound in the latest and nd most desirable manner while the reading matter is asserted by competent judges to be superior superior su suo su- su to those now in use The series of new books will contain wi pages more than those in use at present |