Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-02
Education without Means.


A young man of Croton, Iowa, writes
that he has $500, that he is married, that
he wants to take college course and yet
save his capital. He asks advice. There
are many who would like an answer to this
question. Thousands of young men have
no money atall. ioi s.Ilay 90 H
10 get classical education with the use
OF $500, reQIires more skill than any
young man is likely to possess unless he
earned the money. IL 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 veget-
ables, If he knows how; if he does not he
will be likely to fail. $500 is very small
sum to a young man who does not know
how to work, to one who does it is a large
one. 'u" iET
What shall our young man with his
handsome wife do? Let him get small
iarm--ten, twenty or forty acres-near liz
braries and GOOD society. Or, with a choice
selection of books, he may live remote.-
Three things he should do at once; study
mathematics, learn to write a good hand
and plant an orchard. If he must spend
some vi his hours at billiards and in sa-
looms, he had better take rope about eight
feet long and go to the barn.
One aim should be TO make his home
elegant and comfortable. Let him not fear
this will distract his attention. If there
was ever time when an education which
was of use could be united with poverty, it
has passed forever. Days spent in strug-
|. Cling for bread are lost; if not the bitter
ness they bring is equal to their loss. Nor
| need there be a fear that sad experience
! will not come when fortune smiles. 1a
Education is limited if it do not include
knowledge of the immensity and the un-
told riches of the affections. Ii man can
not find happiness with his wife and chill
| dren, aud in home his own, in vain will
he seek it over the face Of the whole earth.
| There can not be much love of home where
| home is unlovely-where poverty, dirt and
| Inconvenience are in every room.H Young
men are apt to fear they will not live long,
and they are in haste. In no situation is
the foundation of long life SO securely es-
tablished as on farm. 1 4.t
This course will take time. He should
understanding the education OF this age
demands time. SO broad is the field of
knowledge, so sharp Is competition, that to
succeed, many years are required. We do
not propose failure. It Is a modern discoV-
cry, 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 habit of meditation will be
fruitless. We have known lawyers take
this course, and become judges In high
courts; doctors so skillful as to give little
medicine; aud preachers so learned as to
convince both the understanding and the
heart. .g,a ,iAla gu
In literature, we confess the examples
are few. But, long ago, there was a young
poet who set his heart on having a farm,
and what most is known of himysis tile
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 previ-
Gus 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 rer
wrote;- he reviewed, he meditated and lin
gered; aud he acquired the rare art of
being able to wait. The result Is a work
on the life of farmers, and on arms and
heroes, which will last to thelend OF time;