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by winds and the visits of insects the pollen may be carried and 

 fruitfulness result. That a like condition exists to some extent 

 with some kinds of grape vines and pear trees. That the pollen 

 from the tassle of the corn must fall upon the silk, each individual 

 thread of which connects with what will become a kernel of corn 

 in order that the perfect ear result. That this condition of things 

 exists throughout animate nature with plants and animals. Their 

 minds will then be prepared to understand the sexuality of the 

 animal kingdom in a perfectly natural and logical manner without 

 a thought or the suggestion of a thought of indelicacy. Simple 

 as this is an important truth has been unfolded, an important lesson 

 learned, and in the right way. 



Of course you will not fail to inculcate a spirit of that "greatest 

 thing in the world," of which Prof. Henry Drummond writes so 

 graphically, and which distinguishes the humane man of the pres- 

 ent, and the still more humane man, we hope, of the future, from 

 the savage type from which he has sprung. Knowledge is second 

 only to "the greatest thing in the world." It has been said 

 "knowledge is power." Let me add, in the pursuit of knowledge 

 is happiness. 



Education is of necessity partial and comparative, the ocean of 

 knowledge is so vast. A person may be learned in one thing and 

 unlearned in another. Someone has aptly said, "One should know 

 something of everything, and everything of something." That is, 

 he should have some knowledge of all things, but a thorough, 

 exhaustive knowledge of whatever he makes his life work or busi- 

 ness. 



You come to us amid the snows and inclemencies of winter. We 

 wish it could be at some other season of the year, and that you 

 could view some of the scenery that nature has given us here. For 

 who ever knew a person with a natural love of fruits and fruit 

 growing in his heart to be indifferent to the beauties of nature ? 



This county is the favored location of some of the great scenic 

 features of the State. Its great lake, with its wonderful Mount 

 Kineo, forms a portion of its western boundary. Its highest moun- 

 tain, Katahdin, stands in majesty on its eastern border midway up 

 the line. Its greatest river, Penobscot, rolls its flood of water 

 across the county, and curiously enough passes by within only two 

 miles and forty-seven rods of the upper end of Moosehead lake. 

 Beautiful Lake Sebec, with its unique mountain background, the 



