Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-12-19
"Iogoresse

by a valued correspondent, is so true,
and 80 thoroughly illustrates the mat
ter treated, that we publish II YER
batim:
there is nothing so annoying to
those which are brought into contact
with il as ignorense is. Ignorent PEG.
pie are unable 10 understand those
things which The eversge mind should
comprehend at onct. Education opens
the mental vision, as IL were, and
presents 70 the thinking mind a vast
psnorammy Of beauty, while TO the
course and vulgar eye % ignorense
there is nothing attractive. Vn
"daniel webster oncst said that mol.
edge is power and bis great dictionary
is adequate proof that he was no
SLOUGH himself in the education line.
l have often saw people who became
the victims Of their fellow men be-
cause they were not informed upon
things Of which they shoald have OBJ
tanned a nolledge. while others who
had obtained thorough education
could take pencil or a piece of chOck
and add up any thing.
eli I had child and could give
him an education or sheep ranch, l
would give him the education and
then let him acquire the sheep ranch.
If l had son aud could give him a
large herd Of cattle or good educa-
ton, ! would educate him, and he
would geta soreback mule and Tex
as steer and LET nature take It's course.
81 knew at one time a boy who was
bent upon going to collidge although
his folks was poer and he persevered
for fifteen years through thick and
thin ill he came out with a diploma
and tape worm. You can acquire
almost any thing at collidge from a
Greek education to a hectic flush.
Another young man who | knew first
ass poor boy with red hair, applied
himself at bis studies patiently and
industriously till he was a good pens.
man, and then he wrote a check by
which he got $1,000 and eighteen
yean 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
rackit.
81 can count over among my own
acquaintances a hundred / should
cackelate who had as good opportu
MITES 10 acquire q prominent position
in life as l did, but they would
druther catch cat.6sh and curse their
future with ignorense and wise. Had
they applied themselves while young,
they might as well have been in the
Legislature as for they possessed
the same natural heaven born genius
that did if they had improved it as
they ort. 10 a4.'C ilN a
"when was young tackled the
more difficult branches with great ar.
dor and before / was nineteen years
old could reduce fractions TO q COM
mon denominator readily with one
hand tied behind me. iiiiaND
"Do not dispise learning. Men
stand in Congress to-day as the result
Of thorough and studiOus labor in
school who otherwise would perhaps
be unknown, unhonored and I'M
sprung. They worked hard at school
while other boys were out at recess.
They toiled at noon eating their bread
and cold beef with one hand while
with the other they worked out their
sums in algebray.
"If George Washington had neg
lected his studies in his youth, where
would he have been to-dayS He
would have filed an unknown grave,
instead of resting in a stone milk
house at Mount Vernon with hun
dreds Of Americans coming there day
after day to shed the scalding weep
over him. Adams Il jefferson, Fore.
paugh, Alexander the Great, Jesse
James d Queen Victoria were all
alike poor boys but they acquir-
ed a nolledge Of the spelling book and
slate early in their lives and now they
are we'll heeled.
"The pen is mightier than the soard
and a thorough nolledge Of grammar
is better than farrow COW in fly
time. II it was the last words could
utter | would say; Get wealth ii you
can, but if you can't, get education
aud marry rich, -lNyss Boomerang.
A widow writes to cavalry officer in
Dakota; dear Sir My man, per
haps you know, is dead. | buried