The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-05
Education without Means.
tFrom the n. y. Tribune.]


A Young man of Croton, Iowa, writes
that he has $500, that he is married,
that he wants to take Il collegiate
course and, yet save his capital. lie
wants advice. Many others would
like an answer to this question. Thou
sands 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 lie earned the money. If he is a
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 he
likely to fail. $500 is q very small sum
to n young man who does not know
how to work, TO one who does 1t is q
large one.
What shall our young man with his
handsome wife do? Let him geta small
farm-ten, twenty or forty acres-ncar
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 tOwritc
a good hand and plant an orchard. II
he must spend some of his hours at bill
lizards and in saloons, he had better take
rope about eight feet long and so to
! the barn.
One aim should he to make his home
elegant and comfortable. Let him not
fear this will distract his attention. If
| there was ever time when an etuca-
ton which was of use could be united
with poverty, it has passed forever.
Days spent in struggling for bread are
lost : if not, the bitterness they bring is
equal to their loss. Nor need there be
fear that sad experience will not come
when fortune smiles.
Education is limited it do not in
clude a knowledge of the immensely
and the untold riches of the affections.
If man cannot find happiness with
his wife and children, anu in q home of
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
inconvience are in every Room. Young
men are apt TO fear they will not live
long, and they are in haste. In no sit
uation is the foundation of long life so
securely established as on farm.
This course will take time. He should
understand that the education of this
Are demands time So broad il the field
of knowledge, so sharp is competition,
that to succeed, many years are required.
We do not propose failure. 1t is a mod
ern discovery, and we'll settled, that
from three to four hours study of books
| evary day ara more prOfitable to the
majority of men than any longer peri
DDS. Every one cultiyating land can
have this time. A life which does not
establish habit of meditation will be
frnitless. We have known lawyers
take this course, and become judges in
high courts; doctors so skillful as to
give little medicine; and preachers 80
! learned as to convince both the under
standing and the heart.
In literature, We confess, the exam
pies are few. But, long ago, there was
young poet who set his heart on hav-
| ing farm, and what most is known of
| him, is the trouble he bad in getting il.
With little knowledge of foreign Ian
guages, and none of a dead language.
he diligently studied his own. He be-
came familiar with previous knowledge,
and he noted everything relating to ru-
raj sights and sounds. He was only
eager TO excel. He wrote and re-wrote:
he reviewed, he meditated aud fingered;
and he acquired the rare art of being
able to wait The result is work on
the life of farmers, and on arms and
heroes. whichwiH last TO the end of
time. .,f