The result among the poorer classes of natives was blank illiteracy.

The deplorable illiteracy of the people of India is disclosed by the recent census.

How strange, that in localities in which there is such frightful illiteracy the school authorities should fail to welcome, with large-hearted cordiality, teachers who come among them.

There has been forced upon the New South the conclusion that the best way to increase its wealth is to increase the number of educated, intelligent producers, and with this conclusion it realizes that it cannot afford to let two million colored children grow up in hopeless illiteracy.

"I did not, know you knew half those things," she said, and became depressed at her relative illiteracy.

"But what would you say was the first thing needed in the fight against the almost total illiteracy of the freedmen?" "Why, teachers, I suppose," said J.W.