Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-06-18
Correspondence.
Mistaken Benevolenee, or the Pur.
suit Of knowledge Under
Oiftieulfjes-

Difficulties.
Kind reader, did you ever labor long
and earnestly for the good Of one, or a
class Of ones, and just when you had az
comPlished your generous designs, wake
up to the dolefdl fact tina. your fancied
good was rearlY an injury2 For instance,
did you ever, out of sheer pity for Mrs.
Pcde's poor little children, incur her last
ing ei'plsasure by pointing out the defect
i've way in which they were being cducat-
cd ?-aud then not satisfied with that
piece Of mischief, did you resolve to
give the dear little darlings CLEAN Of
sunshine by helping them to learn their
Geography brim full of names one can't
pronounce, all in the way of fun? Did
you wear ragged shoes, soiled gloves and
last years hat, saving all the pennies un-
til you had enough tie buy cheap hand
printing press7 and then did you, in your
dotage, undertake the learning of an art
new TO your an art usually learned by
first becoming a "Trinter's devil" and
then working ones way up,up to nobody
knsws what goodness. Did you ever try
'ype-setting before you could tell COM
posing stick from an ink-table' Do you
knoT what fun it is to lock up form
and then find an a whero an should be,
and an just hairs breadth too short,
then all that thrce hours work TO undo I?
Did you at last overcome all difficulties,
and print wonderful card so black that
your thoughts went hurrying off to Hades
in search of friend of note enough, for
such display of mourning ?--ahd then
did you try another, and another, until
the wonderful play was completed? then
did you stand admiring your own work
till tina, ink-roller, you left summing itself
! like snake, had sottened and ha,tenea, 4,
and snake-liko crawled away to be seen
no more ? and aroused at last from your
sclf:admira,ion find yourself minus an
lux k-rollcr, plus black, gummy, greasy
matter drirTinf fitm tho wire, w'sill
down upon your already disordercd car.
pet ? at the same moment did a blue
snole come putting up from the kitchen,
bearing the odor of burnt meat, and
bringing sort Of spiritual Telegram, from
which your nerves seemed to real, "H,usc-
keepers mind your own business 2"
But still worse, did you ever show that
wonderful pro luction to prac i,al print,
CT, and catch that nervous witch about
the corner Of his mouth. and the merry
twinkle that would slip into his eyes il
spite of all his hard winking? Worst oi
all, did you, at last, generously give that
lucklcss play to the little Pede children
aud instruct them in its pleasing mystic
ries, hoping, meanwhile, that the uext
time you questioned them on their knowl
edge of Geography, they would not agar
locate New Orleans in South America
nor the River Ganges IN Europe, ,-fondly
dreaming, meantime that they would learr
more of tho momorizing part Of geogra
ply in the evenings of one winter, --ant
all in tie way Of amusement. than thcy
can learn in three years. at the bottom o
that awful rut, fifty years In depth, whcr'
their parents seem determined TO keel
them We'll, in few days is your gift
returned to you with Mrs. Pede's compli
ments, and few stale thanks. accompa
MED by strong hint that she does no
want her children to learn in that way II
may mislead their minds, besides the mac
curacics Of print will tend to beget heed
lessness in them But why do l ask
kind reader? of course you were never s.
simble, and so have no sympathy for me
and l fancy can see that same contrac
ton Of the mustles at the corner Of you
mouth. just like that polite printer S
Well, know where | can 60 for sympa
thy-even to that invisible, invincibl
power, yclept--government, legislature
said and aforesaid, &C.. for they or III
stand in my position exactly. The Edu
Gators at the hub, the Knickerbockers
and even the Hoosiers, like that polit
printer, are poking sly fun at them, Will
we, the people stand in the attitude O
Mrs. Pede; and I'm sure the great Ut
known heart of government, viewing il
pet system of education, must feel ser
y much ";ke | do" to-day; only with th
4 difference, they have been generous o
. other peoples money. All, that is sue
: an easy way Of being benevolent, beside
:, II is part of their or IT'S profession,
spend the peoples money, and that bring
me to my text at last t,--"Every Man fG
u his Trade" but SO long has been this e1
!. :. ordium shall be obliged to hang up ths
sermon for another tome.
SALLY SLATER.
q.
4 These are the longest days in tb