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and should be taught scientifically in every grade of 

 the public school. 



The elements of Astronomy can be made in- 

 tilligible to every child and what study is more elevat- 

 ing. Elementary Chemistry should have a place in 

 every curriculum of the elementary schools, and 

 Botany and Natural History goes without saying. 



The formation of the air we breathe, the water 

 wo drink, the food we eat, the soil we cultivate should 

 be known to every child by the time he is twelve 

 years old. 



Frederick Friebel has proven himself to be the 

 greatest scientific pedagogist the world has yet seen, 

 as his system of infant education embraces the 

 elements of every Art and Science. All the public 

 school needs to do is to complete the work begun in 

 the kindergarten. 



One of the most imi)ortant lessons for young 

 people to learn, is that the world is governed by law 

 and that luck means opportunity, not chance. 



A short time since a young man was discussing 

 this subject of luck and said that it was the leading 

 factor in all great enterprises and gave as an illustra- 

 tion this occurrence. .\ business man had a bad debt 

 and in order to secure himself he took 30 acres of 

 unimproved land in another state. When he came to 

 examine it he found to his dismay that it was a sort 

 of swale under water most of the year. In a few 

 years the country put through it a ditch and his taxes 

 for the same were equal in amount to the original 

 debt. A year or two later a forest fire swept over the 

 land destroying every vestige of ^-egetation. He 

 tried in vain to get rid of his bad bargain but to no 

 avail. When he visited it again a year or two later 

 what was his amazement to find a field of basket 

 willow growing luxuriantly which has proven to be a 

 veritable mine of wealth. All luck, says the young 



