The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-31
BAZOO.
SEDA Liza. MO-
SUNDAY MORNING, JULY @, 1888.
IMPROVE THE GOLDEN MO
MENTS.

Many young persons lose a great
deal of valuable time in waiting for
better opportunities and for more
convenient appliances for selfimprove-
ment. We will suppose our remarks
to have especial reference to the OPP
portunities and conveniences for the
acquisition of knowledge. Our rea-
son for this is, that we believe there
is no one wish so universal among
the juvenile portion of the communi-
ty, as that they may, by some means,
become possessed of a good education.
In the newest sections of the country,
almost the first thing is the school
house and the teacher /; and it mat
tiers not how far the pioneer has re-
treated into the wilderness, his dearest
wish is that his children may become
learned /; and among his daily dreams
is that he may live to see the high
school and the academy and the col
lege in his own locality. There has
been go much written about schools,
80 much praise given to them, and so
large part of legislation devoted to
their establishment, and 80 much
money has been voted to their main
tenance, that many people now be-
lieve that no progress worth mention
ing can be made outside of the walls
of an institution of learning. And
hence there are thousands of young
men and women who, for one cause
and another, cannot attend school,
and are waiting for grand opportuni-
ties which, in most cases, never will
come of themselves. This waiting is
a suicidal policy. In no kind of bust
ness does the man or woman of ener.
gy wait for more Convenient oppor'
tunities, or better appliances, but
goes right at what is to be done, in
spite of all the ''lions in the way"
A glance backward at the disad-
vantages that the farmer, for example
labored under forty or fifty years
ago in his work, affords an instructive
lesson. He was obliged to use very
awkward pillow with wooden mold
board, instead of the polished, easy
running iron and steel pillow of the
present day. He was obliged to reap
or cradle all his grain, instead Of
through it with mower or
reaper. He threshed bis grain with
IN old-fashioned wooden fail, instead
Of the modern tbresher that threses
and cleans at one and the same time.
When he wished to visit his friends
in the east or south, after a long
separation, it took him months by
stage, or perhaps by canal, where
now he can accomplish the Journey in
3 few hours.
He had a foreshadowing that there
would be great improvements liz the
next fifty years. But suppose he had
sat himself down and waited ? His
life would have been confined to pro-
viding only for each day the fifty
years would have passed and at the
and he would have found himself too
old to work with the modern pillow
and the threshing machine, and with
no occasion to ride upon the railroad.
And so. waiting for these improve
ments, he bas neglected to use such
as were within his reach through all
the years of lost opportunities. He is
poor, decrepit, and sinks from our
view, a victim of waiting.
1t is thus with those, who, not hav.
ing good schools and teachers, and ap.
planes for learning-which may b
to the improved pillow, the
thresher and the railroad-dawdle
away their lives bemoaning their want
of opportunities. And when at last
the opportunities come, they find
themselves too old to improve them.
There is the high school that they