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Show Great Is an Education. It Is easy enough for n man to tako a 2-cont pencil and a cent's worth of writing papor and flguro how ho could rrnko $1,000,000 by running a corner on wheat. That Is tho advantage of having a common school education. A man may havo gono through only two or thrco grades in school, yet ho should bo able to do this In a slnglo ovonlng without biting moro than two Inches off tho end of tho lend pencil, Wo should pity tho poor, bcnlghtod Russians, many ot whom cannot road or wrlto, to say nothing of figuring. It would tako thorn sovoral days to work tho problem out in their heads and by that tlmo tho glorious opportunity oppor-tunity might havo gono by. Illinois Stato Journal, |