The Osceola times., 1883-10-27

! ttllNt, hPuIWtIth HtDliR uiliil lllt lilp-
ment came when he must earn his
first fee. From his first case, his
path in life lead him up step by step
into the regions of culture and refine
ment, and being man apt and
quick to learn, after he had found
what he was good for, it took him
little or no time TO catch the genuine
tone, pronunciation and grammar Of
his language, and the recognized
standard of elegance. In time, as
his means of sulf-culture increased,
his earnest efforts corrected all faults,
and in the prime of glorious, So
Der manhood, he had attained such
purity and elegance Of expression,
that not a trace Of his former illitc-
racy and rusticity could be detected.
No doubt it would have been far
better for him to have had the train
ing oe college; bat he was oppress-
ed by poverty, and colleges and
academies were closed and barred
against him. 4 copy Of Livy's His
tory Of Rome, the History of Virgin
ia, and few other books which he
could help himself to, he read with
an unappeasable relish, and besides
these, Patrick had the great volume
Of humanity around him and had the
nateral " sense TO read it like a
book volume which it takes nat
ural sense to understand and lay up
for use, We are bound to admit,
even though we may have unpleas-
ant forebodings that our sense is ar
tihcial and smells too much of the
lamp, that "Nafral parts is better
than all the i1rHia on yearth." lfthis
homcly sentiment is not true, then
let mankind make a bonfire Of all
the recorded experiences Of men, and
begin fresh.
We have never written a line
against colleges or academies; we
say, and mean it, if a youth of natu-
raj sense can attend one, let him do
50 by all means; but, if he lacks cash
and finds his note Of hand no induce
ment to the Faculty, has no rich un-
Gle or aunt to help him develop, and
the old man is still worried with the
hog and hominy question, we say,
with the names of the mighty dead
teeming in our memory, whose lives
prove the fact, if said youth have
the spunk, grit, sand, backbone to
hold him up to the hcighth of mans
resolve to make a way for himself,
and the GUM TO STICK TO MS OBJECT,
he viii reach his object, if he keeps
in the path of duty and don't seek
to rest and refresh himself too often.
Lacking grit, spunk, sand, backbone
and gum to stick, a college can do
nothing for him. We believe that
if youth can find his true path in
life, or can be pat in it by somebody
who knows, and has the will, he can
make his life a success, with or with
out the aid of systematic education.
" All things are possible to him that
svHk," said the laborer of Lyons to
the desponding Kossuth. 1t was no
less a person than Thomas Carlyle,
a collegian, and the wisest man OF
our century, who has written these
words: " "Alas. such is the miseduca-
ton OF these days, it is only among
those that are called the uneducated
classes those educated by expert
once-that you can look for Man"
What did Carlyle mean when he
penned those remarkable words?
Ponder them, for they have a mean
ing. Look among the merchants
and planters Of Mississippi county,
and see who, and what they are, what
were their advantages in the way Of
systematic education. Let us not
ignore a truth because it is old; let
us think OF the proverb, " Where
there is a will there is way"
Not great willie ago, we were
turning oyer the pages of work on
Heraldry, looking at the pictures of
the English, Scotch and Irish family
coats of arms. Any man can, in Great
Britain or Ireland have the grant Of q
family coat of arms who has by the
use Of talent and industry, worked
his way up to certain standing in
society. The honor is a kind of re-
ward Of merit, and in those old coun-
tues, is much coveted and eagerly
sought after, because it is the eyi-
dence of the fact that the family be-
long TO the higher classes. Even in
America, especially about Washing
ton, where such a device can have
no recognized legal existeree, you
will see family arms painted on car
riages, etc. In the old countries,
these armorial achievements have a
scroll with a motto on it in Latin,
expressing generally some noble
sentiment as the watchwords of the
family. In the book we were exam
ming, the motto ON the armorial
achievements OF one family in par
ticular fixed our attention. 1t was
expressed in the brief Latin words,
g Per Ardua-through difficulties"
The arms with such motto, was a
brief yet telling biography, of pa
tient endurance, of hard work, Of
self-denial; OF, to put it in language
which we like better, of spunk, grit,