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3 has been prominently mentioned for the vacancy on the Supreme bench of Wis. But I think another is to be named. I have
been for many years in the government service as a railway postal clerk. I have four children living, a boy and three girls,
and they are all at home, so we are enjoying life about as well as any family can who haven't much of this world's wealth.
I have always taken a lively interest in the world's work. As a member of state Senate in 1874-6, I fathered a scheme for
establishing a state normal school at Cedar Falls in this county and made? it illegible . The school has been a grand success
and of course I am proud to be identified with an institution so useful. Pardon me for again referring to Stickeen , I am
still firm in the belief that if the story of your wildest of wild days were fully illustrated, it would make a most attractive
little volume and would 02387