The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-03
q I Have no Time to Read"

Honel No half hours, no spare moments.
event Not But YOU have time to eat drink
and provide for the supply Of all your physical
wants. You have time TO build houses shops
and stores, and to labor for money which Won
accumulate until YOU are rich, or spe,d in sen
sual pleasure and remain poor. You have
time to shelter from heat ard cold. A body that
will walk but f9r little season upon the earth
and then DC buried in its bosom. You NAV
nave time to adorn it with purple and fine
hnen, or it may be covered with coarse attire,
and although it possesses the beauty of Apollo
or the strength of Hercules it win soon be
dust under the feet of the living. Do you
sometimes forget that this outer man dies,
while the soul lives forever, and in too great
anxiety for the comfortable support of the one
forget the importance of the otherl
Do you say, men of strong muscles and sim
envy arms-men who plough the ground, and
fashion wood aud iron and brass into articles
of convenience and luxury, that you have no
time to read, and therefore no time to think
Are there no hearts within your breasts that
sometimes beat with noble impulses and have
you not minds that return an abundant har-
vest for the seeds of knowledge sown within
them The farmer who tills the soil will do
so the more successfully, if he can analyze its
properties, and thus ascertain the kind of
grains to which it is best adapted The me-
chanc who best understands those scientific
principles that are connected with his trade,
will WELD his tools with an ability that leavea
4lsegaarant compeatitaE .ias.sss-tLa~Gaag. ~ hd
sgFe guides every stroke Of the hammer NlA
an eye beaming with intelligence; the other
brings to his labor only the strength which he
shares in common with the lower animals of
creation The one is well informed upon the
current topics of the day, has an intelligent
opinion in relation to politics, and casts his
vote according to his own judgment the other
is carried away by popular excitement and falls
an easy prey to the wiles of the partisan and
the demagogue. The one exercises power
full conservative influence in favor of law and
order; the others swells the mob and manifests
his unfitness to share in the government Of
others by failing to govern himself.
1~-saa~a&ss~ycr E~aFot time to read for your
own sake and hlsasaaaaasslLsaaibssa
for whom it is y6hF especial duty to live wisely.
There are some families where children gath
er around cheerful fresides at evening hours,
and receive instruction from the lips of parents
and elder brothers and sisters; not perhaps
~ formal question and parrot like reply, but
win quick and ready tact that obtains stores
of valuable information from cheerful and in
telligent conversation,
Let us not complain because Others have
greater riches and honors than ourselves for
where there are no laws of primogeniture, and
no hereditary peers, riches and honors are the
rewards of industry and perseverance. In this
country only vice and ignorance are disgrace
full, while labor is respected and honored.
The printer-boy who sat up all night to read
borrowed books that were to be returned by
morning, conquered the lighting and was court
ed and admired by the most polished circles
of Europe; and the young blacksmith, whose
classical education began with Latin gram.
mar at the forge, became welcome visitor in
the first literary circles at home and abroad.