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Show JOHN M. MIELS THE SPEARED IN TDE THIRD INADD John M. Mills, superintendent of city schools, addressed a large congregation con-gregation In the Third ward last night on the subject of Education. The meeting was conducted by Bishop's Counselor Myron B. Richardson, Rich-ardson, and. In addition to Professor I Mills' talk the fine rendition of two baritone solos, by Caleb Marriott and a bass solo by Walter Stephens were appreciated bv those present Genevieve Gene-vieve Marriott and Thora Williams acted as accompanists and Miss Williams Wil-liams also played the incidental organ or-gan music Professor Mills began by saying that education was the getting of power by training the mind so that people should be enabled not to live by doing less work, but to do more work and to be of greater benefit to the community. The obtaining of facts, he said, was not education but how to use them for a useful end was education Schools are not absolutely ab-solutely necessary for the obtaining i of an education but hard work and ' observation with the ambition to be j something of consequence in the l world Is necessar) and many great men have received their educatiou with only those tools to work with. |