The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-11-20
coon ADxIon TO ArrnnaEIons.
From Be sciehtillc American.

From the Scientific American.
Education is the basis of all success
in life. 1t is much to your interest TO
recognize this fact as early as possible.
Your shiftIess, elder companions in
the shop will tell you that aff1uence
and ease result from mere luck. With
display of dignifed independence,
they challenge your admiration for
their mahliness by prociaiming them-
selves as good, as those persons whose
apparent leisure, luxury and dress
awakened feeling of hostility, which
they endeavof to Intensity by the Bit
terness of feonparison.a AS you have
little intercourse with the world dur
ing the active hours of the day, unless
warned by the voice of experience you
are apt toimbibe these hnFtful impress
sionsa which indicate Vindictive jeal-
ousy, the, consequence of dense, will
full ignorance. The senseless discord
that destroys the identity of interest,
efgcapital and labor is born of such
parentage. Persons advocating these
sentiments are generally men who
T'idicufe the efforts of young nlechan-
les de6iEous of seif-improVem6ut.-
They haFangue idle crowds. at strike
meetings ands demonstrations, which
my AOtAc AZ SQAAGAAC4 AA OcASA
eagle phrase, tsthe efforts of down
trodden working men to achieve their
independence.Rn Drinking saloons are
the chosen theatres of their wordy
disaffection. They crave applause,
and endeavor, by mock heroisTn, to
entioe you to places where lost time
and squandered earnings are not the
only expenses, for, under their tuition
the root of false principles. is made to
flourish in the soil of intemperance.-l
Such Influences Should be stunned as
carefully as we!avoid q loathsoIne dis
ease. Every man will gravitate to the
sphere of life for which his acquire
ments fit him, and neither higher nor
lower. Those sterling men around
us, who represent the wealth and
weight of a great people, are but reap
ing the reward of time well spent,
and could we retrace the course they
have pursued, we would find the
students lamp illuminating hours that
end days spent in exhausting toll. You
may be told that many educated men
achieve but little in the great struggle
of life; yet would they not have done
m uch less If they had been aided by
the brute force of ignorance alone ?
We know of q man now occupying q
position of responsibility under the
government, who some years since,
broke scrap iron with q sledge for q
foundry and axle forge, day after day,
unsheltered from the weather. yet he
found time to read at least zone hour
per day, as well "a to educate himself
in useful branches of learning. His
first expenditure for mental improve
'ment purchased q Webster's Diction-
ary, q years subscription to leading
scientific journal, and daily news
paper. He now owns library which
would do credit to university, and
he is known to aud esteemed by our
most prominent citizens. A different
course when young man would have
enrolled him in that army which stu
pidlys drudges out q mere, existence.
As you value your future happiness,
devote as much time as you reason-
ably can to education "a Throw away
YOUR boxing gloves, for the exercise
which, they afford can be had from
otherasources without pernicious asso-
Citations. Let your shop-mRtes dub
you t.a fat" if they choose, because
youFesign billiards, and know moth
ing about the mysteries of keno; and
spend your evenings in the peaceful
scquirement of knowledge, which
brings length of days, and tranquility
uhembittered by the experiences of
the mere sensualist, isasafisl