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and to supply which deficiency no educa.

and TO supply Whlch denclency no euuca
Life is so Short, that many lack time to ac
complish much. For this reason 1t is otter
better for a boy to stop his school education sc
that he may, at an early age, enter upon the
active scenes and important duties OF life,
II he waits too long the evening shadows
will come. and he will be dispirited from
making even the efforts to accomplish much
work had been commenced earlier In lie.
THE ADVANTAGES OF WEALTH NOT EASILY
ESTIMATED.
The advantages Of q reasonable share OF
this worlds goods Is of vast importance, and
If each and all of US could have an equal
share of gold the duration OF life and the
equalized. l would not depreciate the value
OF education, nor would I disregard the dis
advantages of illiteracy. bnt would protest
against attrlbuting all the Ills, from which the
cause of their trouble is the lack Of the art Of
spending less than they make. II they saved
more they could securely eptrench them
selves against many OF the evils that beset us.
THOSE WHO MAY MARRY.
To begin at the very beginning, man ought
to be born right
In coming into this world the child should
choose to be born of parents who have robust
II the child comes from such stock, the bat
tie of life is already more than half won.
But the child Of feeble minded, sickly, short
lived parents has but little to hope for. BY
the time he has finished his course at school,
disease and premature infirrnities, overtake
him. and after holding to life for short time
he sinks into the grave, before he has fairly
begun the important work which he may
have assumed.
Deformed people, or people of weak mind
or unsound body, have no right to propagate
their species.
They should have no right to tax theGovern.
ment with the education Of siekly children
community, for the outlay.
WE SHOULD GIVE AS MUCH CARE OF THE
REARING OF CHILDREN, AS TO THE
BREEDING OF CATTLE.
Iflovers of their fellowman. and II public
spirited citizens would benefit mankind, let
them consider proper marriage as OF first I'm.
portance. We ought to give as thought to
the rearing Of children as We give much to
the blood OF our horses or To the breed of our
cattle, or to the feather of our fowls.
If our men and women are properly mated
as great an improvement can be made on the
human race as has been effected In the differ.
eDt species Of the lower animals.
Instead of breeding down to the level OF
or idiocy, disease and short life. those persons
who contemplate marriage should Consid-
er the moral. the Intellectual. and tho vital
questions.
If proper care be given to the question Of
marriage the average duration Of life will be
increased, and superior race will inhablt
the earth.
Then we will hear less of the necessity OF
educating children who were half sired and
half damned. and who as conse
quence, must go to their graves before they
are twenty-five years OF age.
If more attention was paid to the laws OF
health, and II we were governed more by good
morals than by disposition to have good
time we would have fewer, occasions to hear
of the mysterious dspensations of divine
Providence.
If common sense, Instead Of superstition,
ruled, we would hear more OF the necessity
would hear less of idiotic rot in trying TO
charge an early death to the act Of the AL.
mighty.