Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-08-11
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The following article, contributed by
valued correspondent, is so true, and
so thoroughly illustrates the matter
treated, that we publish 1t verbatim:
"there is nothing 30 annoying TO
those which are. brought into contact
with il as ignorese is. 1gnorent people
are unable to understand those things
which the everage mind should COM
prehend at onct. Education opens the
mental vision, as 1t were, and presents
TO the thinking mind vast pano-
rammy Of beauty, while to the course
and vulgar eye of ignorense there is
nothing attractive.
"daniel webster oncet said that nol-
edge is power and his great dictionary
is adequate proof that he was no slouch
himself in the education line. l 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 a
nolledge, while others who had OBJ
tanned thorough education could take
q pencil or piece of chock and add up
anything.
"If had child and could give him
an education or sheep ranch, l would
him acquire the sheep ranch. II l had
a son and could give him large
herd. of cattle or a good education,
would educate him, and he would get a
sore-back mule and Texas steer and
let nature take its course.
II knew at one time boy who was
bent upon going to collidge although his
folks was poor and he persevered for
fifteen years through thick and thin till
he came out with diploma and a tape
worm. You can acquire almost any
thing at collidge from Greek educa-
tion to hectic flush. Another young
man who knew first as poor boy with
red hair, applied himself at his studies
patiently and industriously till he was q
good pensman, and then he wrote q
check by which he got $4,000 and
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
Other boys would have been contented
with ten, but he was ambitious and
onct said that he would not be satisfied
with any little fool petty-larceny racket.
]" can count over among my own ac-
quaintances hundred l should cackle-
late who had as good opportunities to
acquire prominent position in life as L
| did, but they would druther catch cat
fish and curse their future with ignor-
ense and wise. Had they applied them
selves while young, they might as well
have been in the Legislature as l for
they possessed the same natural heaven
born genius that did if they had i'm
proved it as they ort. oH1f1'
"When l was young l tackled the
more difficult branches with great ardor
and before l was nineteen years old
could reduce fractions to common de-
nominator readily with one hand tied
behind me.
"Do not dispise learning. MUn stand
in Congress to-day as the result of thor
ough and studious labor in school who
otherwise would perhaps be unknown.
unhonored and inspiring. They worked
hard at shool while other boys were out
at recess. They toiled on at noon eat
ing their bread andcold beef with one
hand while with the other they worked
out their sums in algebray. rt
"If George Washington had neglected
his studies in his youth, where would he
have been to day? He would have filed
an unknown grave, instead of resting in
q stone milk-house at Mount Vernon
with hundreds of Americans coming
there day after day to shed the scalding
weep over him. Adams & Jefferson,
Forepaugh, Alexander the Great, Jesse
James 4 Queen Victoria were all
alike poor boys, but they acquired a
nolledge of the spelling book and slate
early in their lives and now they are
I we'll heeled.
"The pen is mightier than the soard
and thorough nolledge of grammar is
better than farrow COW in fly time.
If it was the last words could utter i
would say: Get wealth if you can.
but if you can't, get an education and
marry rich. ''-Nye's Boomerang. .a