Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-03-29

mind to result from such reading as
nlne-tenths of the trash now pored
over by our reading public. Apro
pos of Cigarette Burdette who was
asked If smoking them would affect
ones brain. II do not know" said
he, ''that combination has never
been tried.'
Fiction, good fiction is good in
its place, and novelist who teaches
pure morality, and who can clothe
the dull facts of science with the
grace of romance, does much for the
education of his readers.
Let me advise you who are still in
your school days to leave novels un-
til your minds are more matured, as
now such reading can only give
false views of life and fill with ideas
of bellies and beaux brain cells that
deserve a better fate. Put something
substantial in them before indulgIug
in flummery and whipped syliabubs.
Believe me, there is nothing in
heaven above, in earth beneath, or
in the waters under under the earth,
that can kick up such dust as a
boy or girl In an empty head.
Study thoroughly what you un-
dertake, and do not attempt too
much at one time. A little knowl-
edge of simple things is often rare
quality-such as knowing which
moves faster, the top or bottom of a
wagon wheel, or why a surveyors s
mark never gets any further from
the ground, etc.
Our education should not be ga
thing toe fair and good, for human
natures daily food
We read that to the uneducated
man the "rising and setting sun are
simply sunrise and sunset" moth
ing moEe-unless it be token of to-
morrow's weather. Another has hIs
soul filed with noble aspirations and
purifying thoughts by this same
sunrise and sunset. 4 Ounce will
see nothing In brook save chance
for fishing, while thoughtful man
will lie down by its side and note
every change in its appearance-the
swift currents. quiet shadows, and
dark pools-all bring to mind the
parallel course of human life and
action. The flowers, tufts Of
grass, or withered leaves whirllng
from the tree and swept silently
away from slght-all are sources of
education to a mind which has been
trained to frd "tongues In trees,
books in brooks, sermons in stones,
and good in everything"
All may not excel as students,
nor have your names written on the
temple of fame, but you can fill your
own sphere, and none but perfect
ly rounded character can fill a
sphere. What some have done de-
fore you, may again he done--and
why not by you?
Our lives may be compared to two
mountain streams, which flow from
the same quiet spring goes
bounding on its way broadening in
It's course until it forms a mighty
river,
':Flowing downward to the sea,
Pouring all its treasures
Beautiful and free
and bearing on its bosom the pre-
cous freight of humsn hopes and hu-
man lives, seen and lauded by
thousands.
The other after a short course
among green valleys and around
purple hills, sinks beneath the arid
soil of the burnt lands and is lost
river.
Weary travellers find a fountain in
the desert-a cool oasis and well
come shade. They quench their
raging thirst, rest under the trees,
and, being refreshed, go on their
way, without thought of the foam
ing torrent that, though unseen, is
still at work far below the sands.
Both reach the great ocean, and
each has fulfilled Its destiny.