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Show HIS AMBITION TO READ AND WRITE Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 2 Declaring it his life-long ambition to learn, to read and write. John VS. Smith, CS years old a negro and a former slave, ra.st night appeared at the nlht school for negro children in Kansas City, Kan., and nsked to be admitted. He will be enrolled but will have to pay a dollar a month tuition. The dd negro, woo followed his owner, Colonel Polk. In the Civil war when tli" master fought the Union troop;, cfv.Ialncd 1ns Ignorance by taying: 'My old master was mishty good to me. but nobody used to think of teach-inc teach-inc a slave to read or write. I have given all of my hoys a good education educa-tion and now l ain going to have my turn. Almost evervbody can real and write, and when I want to know what Is In a paper, I have to get someone to read It to me." |