Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-01-25
EDUCATION WITHOUT MEANS.

A young man Of Croton, Iowa, writes
that he has $500, that he is married, that
he wants to take a College course and yet
save his capital. He asks advice There
arc many who would like an answer to this
question Thousands of young men have
no money at all.
To get classical education with the use
of $500, requires more skill than any young
man is likely to possess, unless he earned
the money. If he is mechanic, he may
buy house and lot near college and work
during spare hours. Or, with few acres,
he can raise small fruits and vegetables, If
he knows how if he does not he will be
likely to fail Five hundred dollars IS a
very small sum to young man who does
not know how to work, to one who does 1t is
a large one.
What shall our young man with his hand
some wife do? Let him get a small farm
| ten. twenty or forty acres-near libraries
and good society. Or, with choice selec-
| ton Of books, he may live remote. Three
/ things he should do at once study mathe-
MATES, learn TO write a good hand, and plant
an orchard. If he must spend some OF his
hours at billiards and in saloons, be had bet
| ter take rope abou. eight feet long and go
/ out to the barn.
One aim should be to make home elegant
and comfortable Let him not fear this will
distract his attention IF there was ever a
| time when an education which was OF use
could be united with poverty, It has passed,
| forever Days spent in struggling Tor bread
are lost If not the bitterness they bring is
equal to their loss Nor need there be a
fear that sad experience will not come when
fortune smiles.
Education is limited if it do not include
knowledge Of the immensity and the IN
told riches of the affections If a man can
not find happiness with his wife and chill
dren, and in a home Of his own, in vain viii
he seek it over the face of the whole earth.
There cannot be much love Of home where
home is unloyely-where poverty, dirt ano
inconvenience are in every room. Young
men are apt to fear they will not live long
and they are in haste In no situation Is
|, the foundation of a long life so securely es
tablished as on farm.
This conrse will take time. lie should
understand that the education OF this agt
demands time So broad IS the held o
: knowledge, so sharp is competition, that t
succeed, many years are required. we d'
not propose failure Ii is a modern dIScov
ery. and well settled, that from three Il
four hours study of books every day ar,
more profitable to the majority of men thar
any longer periods, Every one cultivatine
t land can have this time. A life which doe
not establish habit of meditation will b
fruitless. We have known lawyers TAX
this, and become judges in high courts
r doctors so skilfull as to give little medicine
and preachers SO learned as to convince bot
5 the understanding and the heart.
D In literature, we confess the examples ar
few But, long ago, there was young pc
ct who set his heart on having farm, an
: what most is known of him, IS the troubl
a he had in getting it. With little knowlcdg
g Of foreign languages, and none Of a dea
:. language, he diligently studied his own
r He became familiar with previous know
y edge, and he noted everything relating
: rural sights and sounds. He was in n
n haste to be eminent. He was only eager t
: excel. He wrote and re-wrote he review
n ed, he meditatcd and fingered and be a
+; auired the rare art of being able to wal
$ The result is a work on the life Of farmer.
G and on arms and heroes, which will last Il
Il the end of time.-N y. Tribune.