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the coal beneath the surface was, worth more than his farm over 

 in Huntingdon county. 



I am delighted to come to your county. I had the pleasure of 

 traveling through this county when I was working for the Deering 

 Harvester Company, and the largest sale I ever made in any one 

 week I made in your county, and I found more summer schools in 

 Clearfield than in any other county I ever visited. 



When you talk about Farmers' Institutes, I will tell you that the 

 rest of the counties want to get a skate on, if they want to keep up 

 with Clearfield county. 



I want to thank you for the privilege of being with you. I know 

 that Brother Vaughn has talked about my cow-horn turnips; I guess 

 I am known all over the State, if not all over the country as the 

 biggest story teller in the world, but I would sooner be even a good 

 liar than a poor farmer. 



The Secretary struck the keynote when he talked about the Insti- 

 tute lecturer keeping out of the road of his pupils. The whole 

 thing hinges on education. I once heard a definition of education 

 that struck me very forcibly: "An education is that which puts a 

 man onto his job." It is just that. It is just so with the architect, 

 just so with the lawyer, and just so with the farmer. I remember 

 a story of a certain man who fell down and struck his nose in such 

 a way on a sharp instrument that it was cut completely off. He 

 picked up his nose and stuck it on again and tied it on with a ban- 

 dage, and after a while, when he thought the nose had properly 

 healed, he took off the bandage and looked in a looking-glass, and 

 lo and behold, he had put his nose on upside down, and every time 

 it rained, the rain ran down his throat, and every time the poor 

 fellow sneezed, it blew his hat off. He wasn't educated; he didn't 

 observe, or he would never have put his nose on wrong side up. I 

 tell you the whole thing hinges on education, yet often the man 

 who has given us a new idea has been called a crank. 



When Fulton built the first steamboat, he had a rich uncle who 

 had money to burn, and the uncle told him it wouldn't do, but 

 Eobert Fulton worked on through his rich uncle declined to help 

 him out with a cent. He never ceased his efforts and after his 

 little steamboat was completed and he pushed it out into the Hud- 

 son River and rang the bell to go ahead, there was trouble in that 

 little boat and it wouldn't move and his rich old uncle stood on the 

 river bank and said, "Bob, I told you it wouldn't go; it won't go, it 

 will never go." But Robert was not discouraged. He took his. 

 wrenches and his tools and he did this and he did that; he adjusted 

 a bolt here and a screw there, did a few things that he thought neces- 

 sary and then he pulled the throttle open and his little steamboat 

 moved on, and his old uncle stood on the bank and shouted after 

 him, "You'll never get it stopped, you'll never get it stopped!" That 

 is the way it has been ever since the foundation of the world. "It 

 is the man who does the best who gets more kicks than all the rest." 



