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 A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which a sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper under the sleeper until the sleeper jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper, and there is no longer any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper.

We dare to say that it would profit children a great deal more to know all about the common things around them than about remote events in history or obscure arithmetical processes which are never of any practical use. After all, education is intended to make people intelligent, and those who are so densely ignorant of the things around them cannot be called so.

During the past seven years the number of horses in the country has increased about 30 per cent., from 15,000,000 to 23,000,000 — but value has increased about 112 per cent. The average price on the farm in 1900 is stated at $44.50. In 1907 it is $94.50 — the highest price of which there is any official record. Instead of the automobile putting the horse out of business we are farther from the horseless age than ever. Automobiles came along just in time to pre- vent a horse famine. They merely change to some extent his "sphere of influence."