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Show HIS IDEA OF IT. Former Representative John Allen of Mississippi tells a story about a school commissioner who was appointed In Chicago. The new officer was from the Emerald Isle, and on one of his first visits to the public school In his ward he became very much interested in a large pair of globes which stood on a table. "And what phor be thase?" asked the commissioner. "They are globes." answered the teacher, "one to show the heavens above us, and the other the various countries on the earth.' "Oh, an' I thought you tached chlm-istry, chlm-istry, an' thase be a pair of stame hilars." hil-ars." said the learned overseer of teachers. teach-ers. - |