The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1875-08-14
Edueatiea Throxa Away.
The Complaint OF = Dissatisfied
Farmer Who had Sent his Sons
to College.
From the Providence Journal

MIs1uR EDITuR haint no ed
ieation. anu l thank God for it
Gov. Lippit said in his Kollege
speech that edlcation paid better
than mortgage at six per cent.
Gov. Lippit, l ask you, have
you got such things as three high
ly edicated sons on your hands,
who can't supp it themselves, and
all living on the old man2 You
know you haint, and as l have,
guess l know as much about the
edication matter as you do. ! cuss
the day when liturray ambishun
broke out in my family, ! lit three
sons for kollege, and i'll had not
had one lett to stay on the farm
aud work with me, we should all
on us be takin deep interest in
the annual appropriations for the
poor Of the town.
My Silas studied law, and oil the
write he has yet seen has been on
hisself. He has to swear out Of
Jail three times q week, regular
trips he makes, Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday, like the Rhode Is
land from StoniMgton.
lie has got a pretty little Hoflis
as ever yon see, with the legal
work Of Smollet, Byrons, and all
them great Jurists ranged on shell
vcs-the portrait Of Rufus Chotc
aud the gurl what dances so good
at the Theatur hung up Oh the
walls. We furnished him with all
those neccssaries of the legal pro-
fession, aud although he smokes
and drinks beer, and does oil 0
young lawyer ought to do to win
confidence and public esteem, it is
all no 60.
He belongs to ten secret societies,
and | tell him | wish to God he'd
jine one SO secret that his credi-
tors co,lld not find him.
lie buys all his tobacco in my
name for fear OF its gettingattach-
ed, and as for his beer, he drinks
up i've dollars worth ut time, ant
then swcars right out on II. Hei'
! getting low spirited now, and says
all the Blackstone lie wants L
know about is the Blackstone riv'
, cr, witha big stone tied to hi'
heels, which made his mother cry
. but | told him that he was OF aye
! and had no control ovcrll him.
n Poor Silas, when he gradcratet
! at Kollege, his orashuh was on "A
classical edication indurspensibl'
to success in life.'
; Ills mother and I cried In til,
Baptist Church when We hcert
!, him deliver it, we didn't know
/ what for then, but we have since
i found out. tell Silas that the on
u IL chance | see ahead for him is t.
: tako to drink strong, and then re
p form, and may be the Temperance
i folks will shove him along to kecl
Y him moral and steady.
! My t'other boy, Ezra, studic'
e to be a doctor. The first case h
!, had was Hawkins, that was gore
u 50 bad by Omey's big bull. uaw
i kins had six good stiff horns abor
Is of his own before the bull nuke
$ with him, which made 1t ba
y case. Ezra wanted to be sure, 8
i he.gave him all the medicine b
is had Oh hand at once. Just as Hav
= kins was dyin' he writ an afyd;
'. davit that the treatment he ha
a a received from the bull was gene
L. ous and humane compared wit
d that Of his doctor. Hawkins
- =, widow sued for nal practice, All
10 her lawyer told the jury that \
hit y. stood for mur!crDus doses, al
" tha, Ezra was drunk, and that
~ was Il doctor Of many drains al
rs but few scrllplcs. AT this joke Il
to Judge and jury laughed like spli
rs and they gin big verde, again
y, y. Ezra, and he had to run to Califo
IL ny.
as lie drors small drafts Oh me {
- - ten 50 we know that he is ali,
he which is more OF a comfort to h
We mother than TO myself. When /
re IA graderatcd his orashun was
w. "Knollcgo a purtection again
the KaIamities Of Life" His mot
or and | cried bad then, and !
!. have since found out why.