Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-07-17

trollc. The student acquired system
at college for allotting his time, a
part for this use and a part for that.
and that. He will very naturally
so allot his time on the farm, and
a man so given TO good order cannot
tail in accompl: shing double what
the custom is, 11qp labor, study, and
profit.
My book Of local adaptationsFtull
and written, and ready for the prin-
ter and public, my literary life as an
a%mateurist, student, essayist and au-
thor will be but INTRODUCED. The
farm affords a range in this respect
unparalleled in any other. The art
of living long and well, with equal
profit to self and the people, belongs
only to the farm and this becomes
the subject for another book and
moro fame for its author. By a
strict avoidance of otficc-even if it
have to be done by assuming unpop-
ular opinions, and by mastering and,
as it were, keeping a full treasury Of
time to be drawn upon as required,
l shall be able to devote two years
to the study of law, two to physic
and hygiene, two to moral science,
theology, and sacred philosophy,
and the remainder OF life to litera-
ture and varied usefulness.
AS to wealth, the farm, country
and age offer all that a man can ask.
He can acquire by medium industry
and the farm all that be can dispose
of, and any surplus beyond the abili-
ty to consume would be a damage to
somebody by insuring idlencss and
worthlessness. A nan wants just
enough to keep him and all about him
busy; any more would induce idle
ness, prodigality and future depraYi-
ty any less might be i~nconvenient
and cause one to envy the ri@h. To
be rich is to be unhappy, insuring all
the ills of earth. To be very poor
is better: but the only safe sphere
for man IS to have enough, no mor
If a man have q family, wealth
would surely spoil them, wlfe and
chiIdren-possibly a single exception,
that one inheriting the amiableness
of some poor but worthy ancestor.
If in medium circumstances ii is an
easy matter to turn the whole fami-
ly into the way of practising econo-
nv, earning a support and feeling
self reliability. Rich men cannot
get their families into such practice
and feeling the mother and chill
drcn from the first look up to for
tune with down cast eyes upon all
below them. Not one such in a doz-
en- can evoI amount to n straw nei-
Their in spirit nor muscle. Unit for
duty has to be written opposite the
name of each, from ten to three
score and ten-wbilst over The brow
ofmost all sons and daughters of in
telligent parents of middling prop
crty has to be written, ft f3r any
duty.'
Thus and moro said the young
college graduate, seeming to unTolll
his singular web Of thought as from
aroom. every color, shade and figure
appearing of his own design. His
future life and practice, with the
very details, appeared to have been
chalked out-his account thereof be
ing merely a description of the chalk
marks. | have no doubt he viii fol-
low the plans laid down with hardly
a change or variation, being a man
of that frontal breadth and height
which i~nsurcs the firm execution Of
q purpose. Reserved in manners
and his intents usually masked, |
had previously failed in getting the
least clue to his future designs as to
a profession. If vanity he possess
cd any or aspiritions Of any sort, l
was unable to detect the like.
81 confess he opened to y Y mind
what appeared as ii new and glorious
field for learned men to cultivate, a
field surely the least occupied of any
other. ! should feel incapable, if
willing, to refute any one point in
his many new alternatives, or to
dispute the force of his negatives.
A long life of respect, if not admira-
ton, for the law and other learned
professions taken up with avidity
by most graduates, renders me inca
pable of adopting his conclusions
and sanctioning his life Of apparent
scclusion IN the farm, yet the logic
and common sense appeal all on bis
side. have met and disputed the
wares Of the"German Universities
and of the French schools Of skepti-
cism, always feeling self satisfaction
at least; but this young mans phi
losophy so check-mated NY every
idea Of literary life and practice,
and of the true way to I've in the
full enjoyment of literary light, that
| have since felt as one having lost
his faith il the gods and found a
priceless pearl
We have written out in substance
She points of a late conversation and
publish them above for the profit OF
parents and young men about to en-
ter college, but undecided as to what
purpose they mean to apply an edu-
cation.
The law is ovcr-run with lawyers,
and in "A few years cannot fail of be-
ing a spoiled trade the department
Of medicine is so full Of doctors that
they are filing all the by-ways and