Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-03-30
From the Bosson Recorder.
MANU- AL L. ABOR AND STUD


From the Boston Recorder.
MANUAL ABOR AND STUDY
1t has recently been my privilege {
spend short time Wit, Rev. DR..
in one Of the States west of tn
mountains. lie furnished a fund o
facts relating to the early settlement o
this great Valley, which were to m,
new and truly valuable. None, how
ever, so deeply interested me, as on,
concerning himself
in 1872, when a lad ten years old
the Doctor crossed the mountains with
a step-lather, and settled in East Ten
nessee. In short time the father
re-Crossed the mountains, on business
and left the son in school. While ah-
sent, the father died and the Eatherless
son in the West was cheated out OF
8 UyOOO which it was known the father
had given him by will. When the
Doctor ..scertaiDed that he was thus
left without pecuniary resources and
found himself already in debt lor tut
ton and board; he resolved to leave
the school. But his teacher, being
unwilling he should reIinquish the idea
Of completing his education, promised
there should be 10 charge for tuition
and encouraged him to hope for some
opening by which he would be able to
earn his board.
Soon after a gentleman IN the vicini-
ty offered him the use of his saw mill
from dark to day light, and II cents fori
every hundred feet he would saw. Onl
his way home, the Doctor usually
crossed a hill Astounding with pitch
pine knots. From these he always
took a back load and carried to the
mill, as he went for his supper. In
after supper, he returned to
the mill and kindled FIRE with the
knots. which furnished him sufficient
wn,z,h and light. When he had roll
lea on log, and put the saw IN mo-
ton. he took his book aud studied till
the saw stopped, and then he would
drop his book, move the log OF roll Oh
another, start the saw and return to his 4
studies. Thus he studied and worke d
till he became too sleepy
TO use the book, and then instead Of
studying, he took half-reclining and
posture, with the cold wind
ward d of by blankets, and slept with
his foot OIL a stick, that sprung when
the saw stopped. Being thus awakened,
he ould put the saw in motion again
and sleep till reused by the spriDglng I
Of the stick. In this manner, thro' the
winter and spring, he sawed all night {
Xix times week, and earned on an Z
average one dollar a night. The Doc I
or says he never advanced more RAJ I
,,dly IN his studies than during that '
eason, and that he then formed the ,
'aoit which he still maintains, Of salts I
wing nature with a much smaller a q
Mount Of sleep than is generally taken. [
With the money thus raised, he
vas able to pay up his old debts and {
truggle forward until he was ready to I
inter college. To meet his expenses Z
n college he laborcd four months as /
urveyor in an entirely unsettled sec I
ion Of the Valley. During tive whole
'eriod he never slept in house and i
arely ever met with a white man. Vie I
went to sleep in a cane '
rake, to avoid the Indians, and with I
'othing but blanket to defend him l
elf from the mosture OF the earth and c
Sometimes he would 4
wake in the night, and find the RAIN c
IN torrents, aud the water, n
'lnost ready to run over his BODY. To 1
prevent this. he laid several logs some IA
l'>tanCe from each other so that the Al
Yates could run between them and If
he" rolled himself up in his blanket u
nd laid down on the logs and slept n,
hroug III the night. fl
For this laborious and dangerous b,
ervice he received IL horses, in that M
ectlon Of the country worth about ! 10 Re
piece. On the reception of this
rove he formed plan of taking it to Al
be eastern shore, a distance Of 700 W
niles, where he rightly supposed his er
orses would bring him more than St
ouble what they could be sold for on to
he spot. To
Before this he received letter from ty
n uncle, residing in Maryland, inv,- "
Ing him to come and see him. The W;
"c'e had been made acquainted with da
DC fraud by which be had been de- "
rived OF his fathers property. and W
nth the fact that he was anxious 70 W
his education. and IN his Lot. h.