The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-27
BY nrNREsyfED DFFsHEn.


Gas one of the visitors at Ghe East
ern State P~enitentiary, l have ascer-
tanned that, ont of600. prisoners, only
sir eeer karacdJa trade: namely, two
shoemakers, one blacksmith, one-ca.
binet- maker, one tin smith, one stone
cutter. Several began to- learn trades,
but ran away a short time"
Here is atextI One cannot but
remember the lines. of DR.. Watts:
ssAnd Sitan finds some mischief ,stin :,
Feridle hands te dor 9HS Z A5Gl
There are good reasons for learning
a wholesome trade, aside -from-the
direct question of good morals. Even
if one is placed beyond the Feed OF
manHal labor for his own support, q
mechanical trade will afford amuse-
ment. A shop in the house, with all
mechanical tools, would give exercise
to scholars, professional men and gen
tlemen retired upon. a. competence
from business. We have known men
who made the most of the repairs on
their properfya who took care of Their.
owu.clocks; who could maputacture,
very excellent pieces Of furniture and
found pleasure and exercise in doing
But a trade val Railways be a re-
soureeIen which to fail back inrase Of
pecupiary misfortune. And It is IN
this view, especially, that VIC considert
it important that boys who are e&Pec@
tant heirs of property, young men who'd
are tofentef upon coulmerciatpursuits,
and literary and professional men,
should learn enough how to work with
their hands, to enable them, in; ease
of ~reverses, to earnitheir bfeaduO Vel
never heard more Ebitter curses than
those which q young man once pouredf
upon the head of his father. He was
the child of a very rich father. He
was sent to school nh his youth long,
but Yas,taught-to do absolutely moths
ing. He could not harness a horse3
milk a COW; hold a plow,L mahagela1
spade 4 hse a tool of any kind. He
had never been taught to provide for
himself a single. article. lie was ash
ignorant how to get along in the world
as a baby. And when he was about
OF age his father utterly failed, and
his SON was launched upon the world
to seekla livelihood, with no IDEAS of
money exdept how p~rofusely to spend
it, andIyith no tact Mt business of anYE'
kind and with a disposition which
had been educated to expect men to s
look up to him. With sensitive pride;
with little knowledge of men, with p
faculties decidedly above the average +
he managed Ito get along in q poeHl
way, forever in gdebt, 7Perpetuallyh1
changing his occupation, and alwaYsl'
the result of leaving him, if post
sible, a little worse off than before. {
He never spoke of his father without I
age. @4Fhat-busiBess Aadhe-te4eaRe+s
whole life open TO misery by neg a
his duty to me? If he had .
.ut OF my hands and my feet he g
Sould not haye been more cruel than 7
o have left me asihelpless as am" !
Every. child has ALRIGHT to be taught f
low t., work with his hands. EyerYr
10Y should be taught not only all com7 c
non work Q q farm OF in a garden, '
tut should be taught some simple eleE =
nents Of mechanical trades. 1t would +
We especially well that the young should p
earn minor trades. The manufactured #
# boxes, baskets and the hundred 'ft' ?
lie conyeniencesiof daily life, rot only II
end toNcrrate an occupation of amuse- J
nent, Ht,-sheuld ferttH1e.b be reversedB 'H
t will enable one to gather up a slen-a
Ter support. o - yfc'9f'
1t ought MOTTO be Supposed that a !;
wi4jRsserye = mans integrity \
md honor. There are many rogues =
Who follow trades. There are, in =
Iew York and elsewhere y
Who make! their trade q cloak under a
which they carry on knaveries. But o
is still true, that an honestThads
viii deliver a man from y5pf4hsse 81,
emptatiens under which weak men g
all into ruin that it will save him u
ufering,and disgracefW mendicapcy ~
srery man should hare a. trade, even if = =
does not expect to live by it. NoES
nan a tell what win happen OHM. a
\ trade may now be your amusement, ~
ut by and by it may be your support y $
The Jews had a proverb in old time q
that does not teach has child a trads,,fE
aches him to- steak."b The letter with a
-hich we began is the best common 9
,ry that;we can offer on this proverb.c