Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-11

| sured Tor coat, that | conceived the idea
OF writing this article In well conduct
ed establishments of every kind you will
notice the same faces year after year. for
able men naturally gather able men
around them, and employers and employ
ed, by reciprocal justice and courtesy.
become attached to one another and have
neither motive nor desire to sever the con-
nection. And yet, on that occasion, sec
ing around me the same skillful and oblig-
ing persons whom l had seen there ten
years before, l could not but reflect how
little chance they had to advance from
| cierkship to plastership.
Suppose" thought |, ga lad of sixteen
or seventeen should propose to himself,
as an object in life, to become the propri-
etor of an establishment like this, what
would be the shortest and iikeliest path
for him to strike into %
feel certain that the best thing he
could do would be to apprentice himself
to a good tailor, and learn all there is to
be known about making clothes. Hav-
ing acquired that acknowledgement with
his head only, but with his fingers as well,
nothing would be easier than to set up
small shop. Now what is the difference
between 4 small tailor-shop, (well placed
and we'll conducted and the overshad-
owing house of Brooks or Deylin? Why,
nothing but thirty years growth!
The knowledge which a clerk acquires
is part of the indispensable equipment of
q man Of business but it is far from be-
ing so vital to grand success as that
which comes of Il true apprenticeship.
Gibbon says that going out with the mi
litia on training days was of material as
sistance to him in writing the history of
the grnat Roman wars. JHst giving the
word Of command to 4 few companies Of
country militia let him into the secret of
complicated battles and great campaigns.
Learn trade then, lads, you who as
pire to do something crcditable and sub
siantial during your life. Would You be
an architect, and build the new capitol
west af the Mississippi? We'll, go and
apprentice yourself to the best carpenter
or mason within your reach. Do you
wish TO bc a sculptor, and yet cannot pay
a masters fee? Instead OF pining in your
mothers chimney corner, go to the near
est stone-cuttcr's and cut tom bStones.
The educating effect of learning good
trade has never been sufficiently consid
cred.
Why have we, nowadays, so many
simpering, silly girls about, who know
nothing, can do nothing, and are nothing?
They have been at school long enough 10
get little knowledge, and they do not
appear to be wanting i'll natural capacity;
and yet, so empty are they of sense and
reflection, that often, when | look. into
their cxpressionless coantenances, find
it difficult to believe in the Immortality
OF their souls. 1t seems more reasonable
to think that such abUrtivt efforts Of ma
ture would be quietly absorbed or dissipa-
ted like the leaves which tlutter to the
ground and arc 40 more seen.
What is the matter with these poor
creatures The matter is, they have new
er boiled potatoes, ironed clothes, made
Fuddings, cleaned paint, made beds, Lor
in any other way seriously applied their
minds and hands to the exact and skillful
performance of homely tasks. They have
missed the precious education that comes
of carefully-done work. If any good sonl
woald take halfdozen of these unfor-
lunate beings, and give them . good three
years drill in the work OF a well-ordered
house, the educating effect would aston
ish every one WI o kne9' tlleia. iou can
not boil an egg right without getting Il
little education out of 1t.
Compare the mechanics in the Novelty
Works with the clerks in Stewards storc.
The clerks are excellent fellows; they
look well, dress well, understand their
business, and are in every respect worthy
members of society; but our best me
chanics have n certain force of manhood,
weight of character, and depth of retlec
tion rarely seen in those who only buy
and sell
| should be sorry to say anything TO
disparage our institutions of learning.
Nevertheless, | feel confident that an in-
tclligent youth, who remains at school
until he is sixteen, and then apprentices
himself to a good trade, can get a better
education out Of his shop with all hours
study of principles in the evening" than
it is possible to get in any college in eX-
istence-tEat is to say, q better education
for this new and forming country, where,
fifty years at least to come, no man can
hope to play leading part except in
welding material forces.
say then, lads of sixteen, ii you would
lay a foundation for sure prosperity,
begin by learning trade If you would
escape the perdition of being fool, go
and learn Il trade. If you would do a
mans part for your country, begin the
work of preparation by learning trade.
IMPOSING A SroRY.-A Yankee riding
in railway car, seemed particularly dis
l,osed to astonish the other passengers
with tough stories. At last he mention
ed that one of his neighbors owned an
immense dairy, and made million pounds
of butter and a million pounds of cheese
yearly. The story produced some sensa-
tion. and the Yankee perceiving that his
veracity was in danger of being question
ed, appealed to friend Us follows:
"True, isn't it, Mr.. B.? l speak
of Deacon Brown" ... .. .....
" Yes" replied the friend, that is |
knew Deacon Brown, though l don't
know as | ever heard precisely how many