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Show !si:ii:jti:. fclLLK-KutCA I'lU.N. Ono of the lest informed uitn ol whom wo have ever hiaril, u uiun who Im 1 read few bjuks, but had nut oulj ujude llu ln his own, but had Iroill I hi uiuteriuls ho iiuaoureJ up, thought oui niuny a problem Hut puzzled the met. nt'ilie tohoola, was u simple iicuiob sht phertl in ilie wild Australian ljusli. Uu liad no education ut the teUU'im beyond be-yond the veil at iuJiujuuis, Lut in .Wuniy yeui'a of thupheid l.l'e ou tin-mil? tin-mil? of 6ooU indt una u liulf duzci. eurd iu Hie Coiuuiei, lie liad uniassuU a wondertul uuiouut of uifuimaiiuu. aud itiut loo uf u tore Usetul uot uuij to hiui.-ell', but to utlieis. A keen uu server uf uuture and uf the thinys blu put under Ins uutite cveiy day, no wa; au invaluable rcicicuce to uot ou.y uu comers, li. quiring cot.CJiuing the pceu-.lanues pceu-.lanues ol ihe. couuuy, but. lu thusu engaged ill fceientiUu leceaich. lu bi.-uui bi.-uui iu Australia bo kept ail the books ue had ever owneu, auu neatly ail hebau jftr read. Au oid liOiaiy tt was fur u puur bhepherd s tiuuse lu the beurt 01 i new eouutiy. A liible, Ohakspeare, Lempteiie'ii Ciassiu.il D.cuouary, a lausiatiuu of the I. lad, OrulUsmuh't Animated Mature,' Bum's 1'ucms, tiaseias, flume's Histury, Juhusou'c Liives ut the i'oets, Go.dsmitU s ilis-ceilauies, ilis-ceilauies, and his ilie bj foster, and an jid bouti Ou Uotany. These were ah, out they had served to give this luau i eultuie far buyoud that uf most men iu higher atatiuus than himself Searce-ya Searce-ya grass, or shiuu, or nee grew in .ne comuy that he could uoceussilj; uot uu auimal or bird, whose habits tic vas not acquainted with. "Much read- ng, but not. many books" bad devel jped luo uiau s power of thought. Uiuse observation aud that uf applying .he iulurmatiou be had extracieU lium oouks tu the cncuuislauces aud uljcCts of his dally fie, bad made such a man as savaus luigUt euvy. This sort ol jducatiuu is what uur workiugmen need. Let sucb bioks bo put iu then jy as will encit ihougtu, aud thej ili toon apply that tuuught to the voik aud cueuuistances ot every day .ife, aud Wd shad bavo a c.ass ui' lucu jf hardy iut.-lligeuco sucu as the schools caiiuut buast uf but who will be x cred.t to the uatiua and lu tbeui-selves. tbeui-selves. AeioAge. |