Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-09-20

prOHlS, De sel00W ldlu by more tndu TWO Or
three hundred dollars year. Vel on this
small income, without the prospect Of hav-s
ing dollar to;gise themwhen they became
of age, his children must be educated
gentlemen and ladies!-as If heirs to prin-
| cipa tiles. Letus see what gentlemen and
ladies he made of them. 1t will serve
briefly to develop system Of gentility and
genteA education, iamentably prevalent
throughout the villages and small towns Of
New England.
Amelia grew up tall and well formed, pale
and romantic. She had attended the viii
Iage Female Academy. from her youth up
ward At eighteen she left school, tolera-
bly, well odu Gated That is, she was vers-
ed in Geography, and could tell you the
capitals of every European state more rea-
I ly than those of the various states Of her
own country; and knew, so deeply learned
was she, more about the lives ofthe kings
of England and of, Egypt, than Of the i
paint fruit pieces and mourning pieces,
which still hung over her mantel in testi-
mony of her skill; write neat hand, cy-
pher tolerably, and play a little on the pia11
no. Yet with all these accomplishments,
she found herself at the age of "a unmar-
ried, and at last to escape her mothers
tongue, which grew sharper as she grew
| older, and wagged particularly against ''oId
ma ds,p and to find the wherewithal to pur-
chase dresses, for she had inherited her
mothers love Of finery, she accepted an
offefto keep school. This not being me-
chanical except in cases of faggellation,
! is, therefore, "respectable," and comforting
no disgrace, in neighboring village ID
which delightful task, pei adventure, she il
still engaged. u
The second child, who was son. hax-
| ing natural mathematical turn, and much
mechanical ingenuity, at the age Of sevens
teen. when his father proposed taking him
into ''the store, plead hard to be allowed
to become mechanist, or goto sea--any
thing but to be tied to the counter Of q
country grocery. His parents were shock
ed at his vulgar tastes. The young man,
I after staying behind the counter three
months, during which time he was placed
at the station at the farther end, where rum
was retailed, because his careful parent
could trust no one else there, and, after
hearing more oaths and seeing more in
temper ance than would have CORRUPTED
Samuel, be yielded disgnsted with his em-
ployment, to the offers Of an intelligent sea-
captain, and, amid The tears, groans and
prophecies Of his mother, (for The caste Of
sea captains is not exactly c0nsne II JdufJ
went to sea with him He is now though
young, the first officer Of packet ship from
New York, aid a gentlemen in spite Of
his father.
The third son, fine, spirited boy, who
wished to become a jeweler ratherthan to
succeed his seastruck brother in the store,
eventually followed his brothers. example,
by clipping, and after various adventures
during which he lost both health and repu-
tation, became one of the lowest supernu-
i meraries on HE New York stage. The.
cholcra.o of 1882 put an end to his misery;
his dissipation, and pecuniarys wfetched-
ness, and the Poiter's Field has become his
last resting place. 8 The fourth was APP
! prentice to a respectable wholesale dry
goods merchant, in Boston. When he be-
came of age, and desired TO enter into bu-
siness on his own responsibility, his etli-
ployer, to whom he looked for assistance,
'sfailed," and he was at once thrown upon
the world with but few hundred dollats
Lin bis possession. He again became 4
Iclerk to another house. on scanty salary.
for although man of business, integrity
and industry, he was not man Of capitdl:7
He knows no trade--he is fit for nothing
but merchants clerk. He is still clerk
ing, although nearly thirty years Of age; /,
while he finds about him men Of wealth
and Independence, although mechanics like
their fathers before them, whom. when at