The Osceola times., 1883-09-22

work away from nome. me boy
was making his living at time when
other boys were being dosed with
Greek and Latin at Colleges. The
father was poor, but he knew the
world, loved his son, and thus ad-
vised him:
81 hope you are well, and give
full satisfaction. APPLY YOURSELF
STRICTLY TO THE INTERESTS OF YOUR
EMPLOYERS; and at all leisure hours,
read the Bible, and inform yourself
in reading valuable and instructive
works,-the law particularly, will be
profitable to you, let your after pur-
suits be what they may, either bank
er, merchant, public life of any kind,
a general knowledge of tie law will
be useful to you; and let your moral
department be irreproachable; asso-
ciate as much as possible in refined
society, especially with the ladies" }"
etc, etc.
How could more solid and endur-
ing instruction be condensed into a
single paragraph? First, be faithful
to those who have sted you; i'm
plying obedience, fidelity and duty.
In your moments of leisure, read
your Bible,-the book which Patrick
Henry told his daughter was worth
all other books,-and other nstruc-
tive works. Study the laws Of your
country, that you may know your
rights and duties as freeman and
citizen; guard your department, keep
it unsullied; associate with the pure,
especially the ladies. If any boy
will take this advice, he may, though
barred out by poverty from colleges
get for himself, as the boy did to
whom the advice was originally Civ
en-, an education superior to that
which any college can give. Colleges
may help those whom God Almighty
has created and intended to be Doc
tors, Lawyers, Preachers, Editors
aud leaders of industry and COM
merce; but lacking natural aptitude,
and unquenchable thirst for knowt
edge, they are only too apt to dis
qualify young men for any useful
employment in life. 1t is sugges-
tive fact for boys who can't get off
to college, that the most valuable
lessons taught at such institutions
are taken from the lives and works
of men who never saw the inside of
college. What Washington DID
is taught in colleges; yet he educa-
ted himself, and at sixteen, was hard
at work IN the woods of Virginia.
Franklin's works and discoveries are
taught in colleges; yet he got his
education mainly in printing Office.
The speeches of Demosthenes are
taught in colleges, and yet he edu
Gated himself, and by his own indus
try, developed the gift bestowed up
on him, having been swindled by a
rascally guardian out of the means
of being regularly educated; and the
"Forrest Born Demosthenes of Nir-
ginia," Patrick Henry, hardly had as
much chance for an education, as a
toad under a harrow has to mark out
his next days hop; still, the little
chance he did have, was used to the
best advantage, and so he figures as
model in the school-books. The
columns of the TIMES wouldn't hold
the names, even, of the men and
women who have mustered on
fame's eternal camping ground"
and who got their own education,
lust like a mother with II dozen chill
drcn and one at the breast, finds
time to read Demorest, that is,
when Morpheus, out of sympathy for
the mother, has scattered his poppy in
the face of her howlers, and put them
to sleep for the night. Genius, like the
mother of a bakers dozen, is apt to
be wide awake, when all the world
is fast asleep. 81 CAM" is the mot
to of the boy who has the develop
ing principle in him; al CAN'T" is
the creed of the tramp. lfyou have
a restless, craving, Unsuitable desire
to learn the recorded experiences Of
the great lights in science and liter
ature, depend upon it, if the feeling
abides with you, you will be uncon-
sciously led, if you "keep moving
and cropping about, from one open
ing in the roads to another, by way