Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

A young man, of Croton, Iowa, writes
that lie has $500, that he is married, that he
wants to take a college course and yet save
his capital. He asks advice. There are
many. who would like m answer to this
question. Thopaands of young men have
no nancy at ALL
To get'a 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 NAV
buy house and lot near college and work
during spare hours Or, with few acres,
he can raise small fruits and vegetables, ifhe
knows how if he does not, he will be likely
to fail. $500 ia very small sum to young
man who does not know how to work; to
one who does, it is large one.
What shall our young man with his hand
some wife do? Let him get small farm
ten, twenty or forty acres near libraries and
good society. Or, with Il choice selection
OF books, he may live remote. Three things
he should do at once, study mathematics,
learn to write good hand, and plant an
orchard. 1.-The must spend some of his hours
at billiards and in saloons, he had better take
II rope about eight feet long and go out to
the barn.
One aim should be to make his home ele-
giant and comfortable. Let him not fear this
will distract his attention. Ifthere was ever
II time when an education which was of use
could be united with poverty, il has IN sscd
forever. Days spent in struggling for bread
are lost; ii not, the bitterness they bring is
equal TO their loss. Nor need there he
fear that sad experience will not come when
fortune smiles.
Education is limited if do not include
knowledge of the immensiy and the untold
riches OF the affections. Ifa mnn cannot
ftt,d t,,.,., 4,
and in home of his own. in vain will he
seek it over the face of the whole earth. -
There cannot be much love of home where
home is unlovcly-where poverty, dirt and
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 lifi, so securely estab-
lished as on a farm,
This course will take time. He should
understand thtit the education ofthis age de-
mands time. So broad is the field of know
ledge. so sharp is competition, that to sue
ceed, many years are required. We do not
propose failure. 1t is II modern discovery,
and well settled, that from three to four
hours study Of books every day are more
profitable to the majority of men than any
longer periods, Every one cultivating land
can have this time. A life which does not
establish a habit of meditation Will be fruit.
less. We have known lawyers take this
course, and become judges In high courts
doctors so skillful as to give little medicine !;
and pre- achers so learned as TO convince both
the understanding and the heart.
In literature, we confess, the examples are
few. But, long ago, there was a young
poet who set his heart on having farm, and
what most is known of him. is the trouble
he had in getting IT, With little knowledge
of foreign languages, and none OF a dead
language, he diligently studied his own. He
became familiar with previous knowledge,
and he noted everything relating to rural
sights and sounds. He was in no haste to
be eminent He was only eager to excel.
He wrote and rewrote; he reviewed, he
meditated and fingered; and he acquired
the rare art of being able to wait The re-
suit is a work on the life of farmers, and on
arms and heroes, which will last till the end
of time.
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