The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-02-26

are equal, those OF the latter are TO
the general mind far more palpable
and appalling and it is undoubted
ly true that not intellectual growth
and expansion alone, but moral cul-
ture and perfection also, are cramp-
ed and obstructed by Poverty. Ger.
aid Massey, one OF our newest aspi-
rants to soar from the howell of mis-
ery to the heaven of poesy, thus
touchingly moralizes on his own sad
experience of poverty stricken,
hunger-bitten infancy and youth:
81 have been congratulated by
some correspondents on the uses OF
suffering and the riches ] have wrung
from Poverty, as though it were q
blessed thing to be born in the con
dition in which 1 was, and surround
ed with outward circumstances as
have been. My experience tells me
that Poverty ID inimical to the de-
velopement of Humanity's noblest
attributes. Poverty is never-ceas.
ing struggle for the means OF living,
and it makes one hard and selfish.
To be sure, noble lives have been
wrought out in the sternest poverty.
Many such are being wrought out
now by the unknown. heroes and
martyrs of the Poor. / have known
men and women in the very worst
circumstances, to whom heroism
seemed heritage, and to be noble 8
natural way of living. But they
were so an spite of poverty, not BE-
cause of it. What they might have
been had the world done better by
them, 1 cannot tell; but, if their
minds had been enriched by culture,
the world had been the gamer,
When Christ said, Blessed are they
that suffer- he did not speak of those
who suffer from want and hunger,
and who always see the Bastile
looming up and blotting out the sky
OF their future. Such suffering bru-
talizes. True natures ripen and
strengthen in suffering; but it is
that suffering which chastens and
ennobles-that which clears the spir-
itual sight: not the anxiety lest work
should fail, and the want of daily
bread. The beauty of Suffering is
not to be read in the face Of Hun
ger.'
This is one side of the shield
one very truthful and important /
k,aow 1T, and thousands who have
wrestled with and vanquished Desti
tuition will Ii litN in bearing like testi-
mony 20 Massey's. Poverty is 8
rugged mother, and Destitution may
teach us TO bear with fortitude, but
not to live nobly and to lofty ends
II in the hovel or hut we learn that
great lesson-the sum of all knowl-
sage-we learn it in spite of circum-
stances, not by reason of them. He
who is doomed to anxious, daily
struggle for scanty daily bread, is
most unlikely to aspire to aught
higher and nobler than physical CON-
orts. There was a sad truth in tn e
.agged newsboy's response to the
who reproved his dis
honesty in borrowing a six-pence of
, brother newsboy, and coming up
lefaulter at the appointed time of
"You should always make
4 point of fulfilling every promise of
The LATTER" 'but suppose you're short,
and can't?"
All, many a man whose first step
on the ladder of misfor-
tune was simply Insolvency has
has landed at the bottom in ire
deemable Knavery. Indeed, an old
New York merchant affirms, as the
result of extensive observation, that
1e has never known a man become
1opelessly bankrup. yet maintain an
reputation forintegrity.
This may be too sweeping; yet the
great truth that urgent need is one
main source of moral ruin cannot be
'oo deeply considered in our plans
IF education. To send out a youth
nto a world of stuggle and tempta
ion unqualified to earn the means OF
satisfying his legitimate wants, is to
aunch him on a boiling current,
nurrying swiftly toward the deadly
Niagara of destruction. The first
guaranty of a youths integrity
through life may be good moral dis
,ipIine, resulting in the adoption of
principles; but the next, es-
'ential to the support Of this, is that
Industrial skill or training which
will insure him, in the always passi-
,le case Of failure in one vocation,
'eady access to another, and so
guaranty him affair livelihood against
my but the remotest contingency.
And herein is where our American
ystems of Education are destined
to impress the civilized
World, as more clearly composing the
,reat practical want of each individ- |
lal man or woman who may need
n any pressing or remote event.
be facilities of self support; the
hief of which, or more properly, |
he sum of which, is naaaysidedness !,
be ability, if one thing fails, to turn,
Tithout hesitation or discontinue,
o another. This is, happily, tie
Of our best approved sys-
em of instruction to-day.
But, while Poverty has its unques-
oned and formidable perils, Wealth,
DO, has its dangers, different from
hose, but not less real, perhaps not
ess formidable. OF these / will
pea K in continuation of this subject.
How TO JUDGE CArTLE.-In all
omestic animals the skin or hide
,rms one Of the best means by which
estimate their fattening prop
rites. In the handle of oxen, if the
ide be soft and silky, it affords a
roof OF tendency to take meat. A
east having a thick, loose skin,
oating, as it were, on layer of soft
It, yielding to the slightest pressure, i
nd springing back toward the finger
ke a piece of soft leather, such a |.
kin will usually be covered with an .
Guidance of soft, glossy hair, feel ,
g'like bed of moss, and hence it !,
termed messy skin. But thick 5
a