The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-02-15
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
Nowadays Education Stands at the Head
of All Required Gifts.


In olden times education was not vals
aed as it is now. 1t was realized that
an educated man was in some sense su-
perior toignorant people. but he was re-
garded as elfeminatc for wasting his
time in poring over musty parchments
and missals, and otherwise looked upon
pretty much as people nowadays re-
gard man trying to discover perpetual
motion.
Nowadays, says Golden Days, educa-
ton has been exalted to itsproper place,
at the head OF all acquired gifts.
An uneducated adult is an object of
pity, and frequently of contempt and
the very first step a boy makes toward
future greatness is to acquire an educa-
tion.
He must be stupid boy, indeed, who
/ does not value an education and realize
that he can not become great without it.
| 1t is true that there are rich men who
are illiterate, but these are accidents of
fortune. They may have had money
left to them, may have discovered a
mine, or may have boarded up money
like a miser. But these are exceptions
the rule is that education is the only
ladder to fame.
But then arises the question--what
constitutes an education? Tho Wabash
railway has issued positive order that
no boy shall be employed in any of its
shops or other departments, for the
purpose OF learning any trade or skilled
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from his instructors stating that he has,
completed his studies up to the second
class of the grammar school. This would
include a knowledge of arithmetic up
to mensuration. reading, writing,
spelling, elementary geography and
| grammar, some history, etymology and
natural history. and may be taken as
fair standard Of common-school edu-.
cation.
If boy has the means and can affords
the time, he should not stop here. He,
should go through the high school and
college, and take special courses in en-
gineoring-ciy mining or electrical
chemistry, physics, or any one or more
of the numerous useful branches now
open to bright, energetic boys But if
he must stop at common-school oduca-
tion, or even if he'goes through college,
he must not stop learning if he wishes
to become great.
Textbooks do not contain all the in
formation with which boys should ac-
quaint themselves. They are but the
fOu11at;o, cfnpac ,Nf 1-po,ufaJ,-n A I,,r
should study current events the history
of the world which is always happening.
Here is where books, magazines and
newspapers haye their greatest value.
He must read books of travel if he
would know about tho geography of the
world; as, for instance, Stanlcys de-
scription of Africa in the light of re-
cent discovery.
Almost every day the bright boy may
read Of some new discovery in science,
history, botany or chemistry, and add to,
his education by just that much. The,
knowledge thus acquired is always a.
source of pleasure and frequently OF
profit And it is popularity of learn
ing that the more you study the easier
\ 1t is to study.
The Agent Met Her Match.
81 was settling down to work, said
/ business man to Boston Globe re-
porter, ''when pretty woman entered
my Office. No one would suspect that
she was book-agent. She placed a
volume in front of me and began to talk.
/ told her / would not buy the book If |
really wanted it. Never mind, said
she, gaily. 1T won't cost you any thing
to look at it.
Gas she desired, did look at il. |
read the introduction and then chapter
1. 1t was about ten o'clock when
opened the book. At eleven o'clock the
pretty book-agent had become uneasy.
l never raised my eyes. Another hour
and she was pacing up and down the
floor. At one O'Clock, when she had
nearly worn herself out, ! laid the book
down, and. putting on my hat and coat,
said to the acknowledgements
woman: That's a clever book; regret
that / can not read more of it, but. Il
must go away to dinner.
''She was mad, but she didn't say
word. Grabbing the book, she showed
it into her sachel and make for the
street."
/ THE University of Pennsylvania will
contribute to the folklore department.
of the worlds fair collection of the
games of the world. The origin of
playing cards will be traced from the
primitive linuclrle-bones up to the Chi
nose cards of the present.
HIRAM w. srBLEy, Of Rochester, Ne
Y. in accordance with the wishes os.
his father, has givcn $4,000 to Cornell
for new building, to be used by the
\ sibley college of mechanical engineer
ing. The building is to be completed
hbcfore the university oaens in Septem