, 1888-04-19
EDUCATION FORTY YEARS AGO.
Difficulties of Environment In Pioaeer
Times-Studying by Firelight,

cit is IL fortunate thing" said an old
resident the other day, THAT the death Of
Logan has turned public attention to the
school in which he imbibed the principles
of patriotism and the fundamental idea Of
personal integrity. Difficulties thrown In
the way of boy developed the qualities
that made the stubborn, aggressive and
persistent man. The difficulties of en-.
vironmcnt in pioneer times made of II boy
who had the material to build on the very
best kind of man. In the city latent
qualities of the severest type of manliness
may not he developed in the boy because
there is nothing to call for their mani.
festation.
mot many children now prize an edu.
cation as we did in the olden times, and
not many are excited to that enthusiasm
that made the poor country boy II fanatic
in the matter of gaining information l
can remember when | was n boy of or
10 of taking my little wagon with its
wheels cut ont Of II thick plank, home
made in every particular; remember Of
going with this little wagon half II mile 10
where the bark had falcl. from the rails
along n fence, and of gathering this bark
and hauling it bn1ne To make light every
night that / mn hit study or read. Ths
idea that II boy should have candle by
which to pursue his studies was moi
thought Of.
''I'his handling of the bark was my own
idea, and my own venture entirely. After
supper, or after the cooking utensils hau
been removed from the big fireplace, lear
ried In my load of bark, and would put
piece after piece on the Goals, rs needed, tc
make light for my reading. 1 have al
ways felt II sympathy for w. ID. Howclls,
because his old father told me gears ago
that the man who is now the leading nov
<,I icf in A nr1n . iri tbn huhit nf Inino
much the same thing, and that the most Of
the reading and study THAT fitted Howells
for his first work In literature was done
by freight.
''That was not more than forty or forty.
five years ago, and yet in n good muny
houses in the farming regions of Ohio and
Indiana, to say nothing Of Illinois, com.
parativcly faw candles were burned. There
was, OF course, at Shat time no kerosene
or inexpensive oil for lamps. The lamp
in common use was II shallow iron cup,
with u pitcher sort OF a mouth, into which
was put lard or meat fryings, and IL mar
row strip of cotton or linen cloth. This
typical lamp of the olden times was stuck
I'm n crack between the logs, or hung on o
Rnil, and ic the lard was not tho sulty IL
gave fair Light, but for the purposes Of
study the freight was better. Inter
Ocenn "Curbst~nc Cr,,vons I"
Tho German embassador at Roine rcr,
e5, 900 year. while the St Petersburg and
London embassies each pay a7,5O0. The
Spanish representative is to have $4,000.
v~ty-one thousand chasubles formed ons
PARTON Of the pope's Jubilee gifts. The CHAR
ereuse monks sent Re0, 900 In cash, and Cali.
fornis sent n staff filled with gold dollars.
A California millionaire named buckley.
says The htsh TimA offered to make Mr..
Farnell HIS hetr, end, ON being rebufred.
asked Mr.. Parnell 20 name somebody else.
Prince hxene, of Sweden, has been study.
Ing art In Paris under an incog. Sometimes
he h recognized under this chin disguisA
and seised upon by fasatsaabls rscspstss
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