The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-06
.tIow to..Getssan Education.

what means they can secure what
they seem very anxious to gain-an
education. Some Of them are waiting
for good friends to aid them. But if
any one wishes to be educated, rlet
them go to work and get it. There
is way where there is will. No
one should ever wait for something
to turn up, but just take hold and
turn it up. Rev. Nj. Trafton, ID. d.,
of the New England conference tells
in Zion's Herald how he went TO work
to get an education, and the same
path of grand success is open to our
young men Of the South. After tell
ing us how he earned S25O.OO in one
year to buy himself off from obliga-
tions to learn trade, he says:
"Thc last Of December, and my
last weeks work was finished, and |
settled my account with my old mas
ter. | had earned the money, and
he brought out my indenturcs, and
put them into my hands. was free!
But l declined, and asked him to
retain them, Which he finally con-
scntcd to do. / had no home to
which to go, and thought it would be
kind Of bond connecting me with
the visible world and I might be
glad to go back to my bench again.
Had he died, his executors could
have called me back by the terms of
the instrument, after l had joined the
conference, 81 l w;.s rot OF age at
the time Of l2y union with that body.
And now for I<cnt's Hlll. TO me
it seemed tie original Eden. l com
mcnccd my preparation. 1t may
strike the reader as strange, but l
coald get no money for my labor,
nothing but store pay, as it was
called. I procured some clothes,
made bargain with the stage agent
sor passage to Augusta, and paid
him i'll shoemaking. The last of Feb
ruary / got into the stage at o'clock
in the evening, reaching Augusta in
the morning, stopped with father
Oliver Bcale, the preacher stationed
there, and Ivy somc mcans reached
Kcnt's ili,l tNo days buiorl ,hr open
ing ot Tic term no sAoc,aaNiug
was donn tAcrc-fniming ana lulni-
.t'rc manufacturing only / at irst
went to turning chair stuff, siX hours
a day The scholars labred for their
board which was rated at one dollar
per week, devoting the morning and
evening to study. After short
time | saw an easier way to get on.
had good trade, and had brought
my kit (tools) with me. Why not
become cure Of "solcs" without or
dination?
| We we're crowded into one build
ing, and lodged in one room, on little
cot bcdstcads, and all occupying one
room for study. connected with the
seminary was little one story house,
at short distance called the hos
pital, and, as it was without patients,
few OF US pctiLioned to the agent for
its use, which was granted. Two
took the front room, and got the
old kitchen and II bed room a,ijoin-
ing. In the kitchen l put bench
and spread my kit, and put out my
sign.
found could BY half days Ia
bor pay for weeks board. | hor-
rowed an old bedstead from Rev. G..
+. Cox, financial agent of the school,
which bcdstead wouldn't stand, or
couldn't, unless it was supported by
the walls. I went into the swamp
near by and pulled some hazcl-bark
of which l twisted a bed cord and so
lashcd the old thing together; filed
sack with straw, procured some
blankets from the Seminary, and,
with an Old chair, and little pine