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Show His Father's Mark. Dr. Edward Ilrooks, tho noted teacher teach-er aud author, of Philadelphia, do-scribed do-scribed at a dinner tho great strides that popular education had mado In the last CO years. "Smaller and smallor," ho said, "bo-comes "bo-comes tho percontago of tho Illiterate, of thoso who cannot read or write. It won't bo long beforo a thing thnt once happoncd to mo In Sullivan county will bo qulto Impossible. "When I was teaching school In my youth In Sullivan county, a boy, ono morning, undertook to go through tho alphabet. "Ho stumbled along, and Anally camo to a full stop boforo tho letter X. " 'Dunno that tin,' hn said. " 'O, yes you do, Bald I. 'Think a minute.' "He thought Thon ho brightened. "'Why,' ho said, 'that's dad's name.' " |