Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-11-18
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article sought is attainable. They have it
there, but it is no earthly use to them.-
Better is little reading with much thought
than much reading with little thought
This mode of study you say, may answer
for some persons, doubtless very many, but
you are peculiarly constituted--so peculiar
" that solitary study is monotonous, and
hence you cannot pursue this course. Well,
sir, where there's will there's a way"
Suppose then you go to work, and put the
ball in motion for the purpose of establish.
ing library and reading club which shall
assemble at I o'clock, P M.-say, three
nights in the week, and one member be APP
pointed to read on one subject and another
onanother subject for the edifcation of him
self and fellows. Suffer each member or
any member, under proper restrictions, to
stop the reader at such points as to such
member may seem fit, and commenting up
on the matter, hear also the comments and
opinions of his peers upon the subject under
consideration. Thus all the club OF society
is studying the same book at once and in a
short time a vast deal of useful knowledge
and information is disseminated throughout
the whole club. On the alternate nights,
three in each week, you can confne yourself
to solitary study. as you are pleased to call
it, without being liable to the charge Of
monotonous. s.s .ssi.Es. L, ~
You cannot get books for a library with
out great expense, you say. Well, sir, you
are wrong again. Suppose you try the ex-
pertinent in this wise-four or FIVE young
men form themselves into an association for
mutual improvement. Each Of them has
perhaps one or more useful books of science
and Information, which the others have not
!, read, and it may be that he has not read
them carefully himself, let each loan book
z or two to the club and thus lay the founda-
ton for a library, and then let each person
pay into the hands of one Of the members,
as treasurer, the sum of twenty-five cents as
an entrance fee and an additional sum of
ten cents weekly thereafter How long will
it be before you have permanent library 2
Let US see. suppose there he in the village
of Port Tobacco twenty young men who re-
solve to .turn over new leaf and fit
themselves for the station Of man. Well,
sir, we have then the sum Of FIVE dollars to-
commence with, and two dollars week
thereafter, SO that in the course of the first
twenty weeks, before spoken of, we have a
library with forty five dollars, and by con-
tinuing thus. under suitable arrangements,
through Spring, Summer and Winter, we
have at the commencement of the second
season of long evenings a library of books
worth one hundred and nine dollars. and no
man Of the club would miss cent of his
money thus expended. Or. suppose We go
back to calculation made in our former ar
ticle, and make the contribution equal to
the sum there specified, which is just seven
and half times the above mentioned figures,
what have we then9 Would you believe it,
that the trife thrown away as before shown,
would in the course ofthe first twenty weeks
amount to the sum of three hundred and
twenty seven dollars and fifty cents Or,
carried out for the space of one year, you
have a library worth the snug little sum of
fifty cents! Indeed! Impossible! $817
so cents? Yes, sir, that is the figure, and
if you will make the calculation for yourself,
young man. you may find itezceed even this
amount But let us take the first figure of
500, as easiest obtained, and lay it out in
suitable books, who can foretell the good,
which may result? No longer will it be
said Of Port Tobacco, that lit is hard
place." Yoursyoung men will grow up an
honor to society and sure bulwark to our
American Institutions. Port Tobacco will
then furnish men for the use of her country
and by the help of this single institution,
when once permanently established, who
shall say, but that, under God, it shall be
said abroad. LET us honor this young man,
he comes from good old Port Tobacco. .
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