The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-08-18

The following article. contributed by
I valued correspondent. Is % true. and
% thoroughly illustrates tho matter
treated. that we publish Il verbatim:
"thcrc II nothing 50 annoying %
those which arr brought into contact
with 4 q ignorese Is. ignorent people
are unable 10 understand those things
which the everagc mind should com
prchend q onct. Education opens me
mental vision. ~ II were. and presents
10 the thinking mind . vast piano.
rammy Of beauty. while 20 the course
and vulgar eye Of ignorense there -
nothing attractive.
"danicl webster oncet said that mol
edge IL power and his great dictionary
Is adequate proof that he was no SLOUGH
himself in the cd cation line. have
often saw people who became the VIC
Tins Of their fellow men because they
wore not informed upon things Of
which they should have obtained .
nolledge, while others who had OBJ
iained q thorough education could take
q pencil or . piece Of chock and add up
anything.
III had a child and could give him
an education or a sleep ranch. would
| give him the education and then let
h m acquire the sheep ranch. II had
a son and could give him a large
herd Of cattle or 4 good education. !
would educate him. and he would eei =
sore-back mule and q Texas steer and
let nature take It's course.
~ knew al one time a boy VINO va
bent upon going 70 coolidge although his
folks was poor and he perscvered for
fifteen years through thick and thin till
he came ont with 4 diploma and a tape
worm. You can acquire almost any
thing at coolidge from a Greek educa-
ton ID 4 hectic flush. Another young
man who | knew first as a poor hoy with
red hair. appl.e I'D himself ut his studies
patiently and indu~trionsly till he was q
good pensman. and then he wrote =
check ~ which he rot $1,000 and
eighteen years in the peni entiary.
Other BOYS would have been conten' I'd
with ten. hut he was ambitious an 4
onct said that be would not be- satisfied
with any little fool petty-larceny racket.
I'll can count over among my ac-
quaintanccs a hundred | should cacklc-
late who hal rs good opportunities q
acqu re a prominent position IN lie -
did. but they would druther each cat
fish and curse their future with ignor.
ense and wise. Had they applied them
selves while young. they might a. vel
have been in the Legislature Is ! fol
they poss sscd the same natural heaven
born genius that l did il they had i'm
proved il as they ort.
"Nhen | was young l tackled thu
more difficult branches with great ardoI
and before was nineteen years ole
could reduce frac ions 10 a common dc
nom'nator readily with one hand tles
behind me.
DO not dispise learning. NJ stan,
in Congress TODAY rs the result Of thor
ough and studious labor in school wh'
otherwise would perhaps he unknown
unhonored and inspiring. They worries
hard at shool while other boys were on
Ut recess. They toiled IN at noon eat
ing their bread and cold beef with on|
hand while with the other they worke'
out their sums In algcbray.
IF George Washington had neglccte'
bis studies In his youth. where would b
! have been 70 day? He would have tlle'
an unknown grave. instead of resting \
q stone milk house at Mount Vernol
with hundreds Of Americans comin'
. there day after day 70 she'd the scaldin'
weep over him. Adams A Jefferson
Forepaugh. Alexander the Great. Je~~
James u Queen Victoria were a
!. . alike poor BOYS. but they acquired
= nolledge Of the spelling book and slat
early III their lives and now they AZ
Y we'll hecled.
..The pen Is might'ef than the 3
and A thorough nolledge Of grammar
\ better than Il farrow cow IN fly Tins
= II ii was the last words ! could utter
: would say: Get wealth If You cal
but II you cant. get m education an
marry rich. Mes boomerang.