The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-16

press upon them this permcious belief-to I
give them hopes that can never IN most in-
stances be realized. He teaches the boy
that one Of the learned professions must be
ms, and the girl that the elcgancies Of maid
enhood and the luxurics of wealthy woman
MOOD must be hers. lie nevcrtclls the boy
that there is merit in cxcclling as me
chanlc, or the girl that she may bc com
PEELED to earn her own bread by making
bread for some other person. And yet it
must be apparent TO the most casual OBJ
server that when education has become
uniyersal-whcn every man and woman be,
come cducated-men must still be booted.
horses shod, beef roasted and soilcd linen
laundried. 1t is consequently important
that you, the children Of our public schools,
should be taught that all men cannot be-
come politicians and fill important
offices Or soldiers and become great gen,
erals, or professional men and win renown
and acquire great fortunes; that all women
cannot afford purple and fine linen or be-
come great geniuses endowed with the
mission Of developing 1.-The woman of the
future" who will toll not neither will she
SPIN but will stand exalted above the dire
necessity that now compels delicate hands
to do the manifold duties of the house
hold. sir, said DR.. johnson, while learn
ing is distinction, the few who have thM
distinction may be less inclined to work;
but when everybody learns to read and write.
1t isno longer distinction. A man who has
a laced waistcoat is too fine man TO work;
but if everybody had laced waistcoats, we
should have people working in laced
wais,coats. All Of which is true.
And it consequently bchooves YOU, my
young friends, now that you are putting On
the laced "aistcoa,s Of learning, to teach
yourselves that you must work in your fine
clothing that learning does not make
either the mechanics trade or The laborers
work disgracetul expect to live to see
the day when the man who works in the
stone'quarry will be enabled to resd the
history OF the creation in the rocks he drills
and blasts; when every man who labors
with pick and shovel will be enabled TO
look up from the earth and using the
science OF astronomy read the mysteries o,
the skies; when the man who shoyes the
plane or fashions iron will be enabled to
solve all the problems Of Euclid and when
the cobblcr-the member Of bad soes-will
quote the classics as he drives the peg.
Applause
But must de,ain You and these yisi,ots
no longer.
Permit me therefore to say in conclusion,
that my observation OF this school has salts.
fed Inc you have acquired as much of the
wclath of the mine of learning as is usually
acquired by children of your age in the
best regulated public schools; but you may
be assured that you have not obtained more
than glimpse of the great intellectual
treasures education has the ability to I'm
cover TO the apprehension of man. And
you must pcmit me to add without offense,
that most Of you are wiser now, in your own
estimation, than you will be when you have
grown Older and have learned the sad lessons
taught by experience, the stern schoomaste+
that strips from fact the mantle of poesy
You arc now wandering very pleasantly by
the nyulcts of learning overhung
by fragrant banks but, in
good time, Education will lead you past her
mountains 10 the margin of her great ocean
which will mock your imagination by its
| illimitahIcu',S,
Long ago-how many years ago ] do
not care TO tell lived boy by the Allie
ghcny river; and, 10 my youthful mind, It
was one Of the craudcst as well as most
beautiful of streams. The hiIlsoi Wcstmon-
| land, to which looked across the streams
( wide current seemed to me what now the
Alps are in my imagination Yet boy
left the old home and lived Tor years BY the
Mississippi farther to the south than Cairo,
and. travelling. | saw mountains swelling
! from the plains and lifting their heads
! above the clouds. But the impressions Of
my youth continued 10 make the hills Of
WcatmorcIand more imposing than the
mountains had seen and the Allegheny
grandcr and greater stream than the
| Father of Waters, ! returned to tho old
home at last, and -lamentabIc fact some
| thing had worked observation-disclosures. lStood
among the old scenes and looked around
me. The Allegheny had become the
smallest of streams and the mountains of
Wcstmorclnnd had become dwarfcd into
insignificant hills, iou, my young friends.
may expect, in your educational life, un
experience not unlike this, After YOU
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