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by every age and to day she remains the transcendent model of a true mother.

Not a night passes but that I thank God for blessing me with the love of just such a mother.

I am so glad that Elmo has at last noticed the neglect of his early education. He has now a dear wife to support, and inspired by that fact, and realizing the impoverished condition of his faculties I am sure that he will profit by this course. He can

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now see the need of a good education in this living, struggling and progressive world of ours; for the only man who now arises from the clamoring multitudes at the foot of the ladder of life is the one equipped with a good mental training. Brain has usurped the position of muscle, and the intelligent man makes his way in the world as if he had seven-leagued boots, while the uneducated being plods along slowly and unhappily, never