Show au a figures will not lie is a household woid that has been passed down for many generations cageful mathematician never asserts the correctness of his solution of a problem until he first sees that the figures before him have done all it is possible for them to do in this manner correct statements aio made aio enabled to furnish us with important and and by then ue be anili ces of and gigantic coi po rations are con estly so that at a moments blinco anyone cin see how matters stand if an investor v ashes to purchase government or railroad stocks he first makes an and proceeds to examine the books or is furnished with a statement showing the assets and liabilities of such coi horation po ration tho figures are him over the signature of a responsible man and he feels satisfied that an investment would be safe and profitable in the bands of competent mathematicians they are invariably truthful every en cars a of the united states is talen to the exact number of inhabitants of the american go ci n ment every census agent is inquired to be a good penman reliable and must make bis figured plain so that no mistakes roa occur when the final result is made knorn kno rn in the possession of buch statistics ve are enabled to know the extent of our population agricultural mechanical mineralogical miner and all othni u as well as a correct statement of educational matteis the of educated and uneducated men women and children iho census of 1880 show there are of people over the ago of 21 in the united states who can neit liei read nor write in aay language four million of men and wo who called upon to sign their names enst make an X and that quite frequently very imperfectly hat a fearful record for a country that boasts of arco schools and free in of learning settle choso I 1 in an arez of country sufficiently large as not to crowd abero and turn a book agent au among theia and in two months he will have a celoso rosem blanco to the rooster used as a trade mark by aultman co for their threshing machines in such a the fruits of education woud wither and die if ignorance 19 blib newspapers and boole would be forced to turn away from such happy people and leive beai to enjoy the full fruits of thou ignorance acts the blame for th non education of their children and to those who are indifferent about such important roat teis let the fal uneducated men and women i enand them of an impera tivo duty chev owe to their children |