The record-union., 1899-11-12
MR.. HuNTINGToN,s IDEAS.
Highest Possible Education In the
Right Line.

Highest Possible Education In the
Right Line.
Too many young men are educated
| to do the things. that they are not
| fitted to do. Boys should rather be
| taught to use the tools that they will
| be most likely to need in their life
work in order to support themselves
and those who will be dependent upon
them for living, and largely for their
| happiness This is an age of special
| ties. and those who confine themselves
| to one kind of work and become as
nearly perfect in their particular line
| as it is possible for a man to become
are the ones who will succeed best
| Real happiness is based upon success
| in something, and as a man rises in
Intelligence and knowledge he feels
more and more acutely the misery of
failure How important, then, is it, in
/ the scheme of life, which is intensely
practical in these days of competition,
that in getting knowledge (and by
knowledge l do not mean the edu-
| cation of the schools alone), a boy
! should gather it, not simply for the
enlarged view it gives him, but for its
adaptation to the needs of his future
| life and work.
i 1 am for the highest possible educa-
| ton for every one in the line of work
| he is doing, but 1 am not in favor of an
| indiscriminate education for every one.
l have seen, and see daily, instances of
distress and suffering and disappoint-
ment that / am certain could have been
avoided had the start been made right,
and l am disposed to believe that the
start, to be made right, should be on
the line of economical living.
| To be happy in this life for any
| length of time one must, first of all.
! learn to live on less than he makes.
| That is as true an axiom as any in the
books, for it applies to all men, except
ing, of course, those who have SO lit
tie manhood that they can be happy
while they let others support them in
idleness. If boy or a man will live so
economically that he will always have
something left out of his income after
paying all his expenses, he is sure
barring the unavoidable accidents of
life, which no man can foresee-to have
a competence and to be as happy while
he is getting it as falls to the lot of
any man.
But it is not alone the work a man
does in the world which gives him his
status; it is the way he does it, and
what he does with his wages and his
time after his days work is done. Those
after hours are the ones which deter
mine very largely a mans joys or sor-
rows whatever may be the grade of his
daily work, whether high or low, ae-
cording to the popular classification or
it. There may be much personal salts
faction in knowing more about the So
called heavenly bodies than others do,
and one may seek qualification in his
endeavor to learn something of the
great beyond which is not known bJ
any one upon the earth. For the teach
ing of these things one needs a higher
education than the man who saws wood
or digs fish bait for a living, but the
latter may be the better man; for it is
not the character of the labor that de-
termines honor and personal worth, but
! it is the way a man uses his money
and his time outside of his days labor,
and how he treats others-the poor and
the rich-which makes him great or
small, in the true sense of the term
c. P. Huntington, in New York
World
Instances of Boer Treachery.
After the humiliation of the hapless
Ninety-fourth two unwounded officers,
Captains Elliott and Lambart, were set
free on parole. They were taken to
drift on the Vaal River and were forced
to attempt crossing where the river,
owing to heavy floods, was impassable.
The Cape cart in which they were sit
ting was turned over, and when swim
ming for the lines the Beers poured in
a volley upon them, killing poor Elliott
at once Lambart who, like myself,
had been on remount work, escaped by
a miracle, and managed, half naked
and footsore, to reach Natal. After
peace was established some of the muir
derers were tried by a Boer jury at
Pretoria and, needless to add, promptly
acquitted. No other reparation was
ever made or asked for by our Gov
eminent for the foul deed.
Another shocking instance of Boer
treachery was that of civilian doctor,
who, with a Surgeon Major, was dis
patched from Pretoria to the scene of
the Brunkers Spruit massacre to sue
cor the wounded prisoners His uni
form saved my friend Comerford, the
army medico, but the other doctor, the
Beers having decoyed him into a house
on the pretenSe or giving MIN urlilk
of milk, was stripped to his neither gar
ments and cowhided-yes, incredible as
it may seem, actually cowhided = TO
within an inch of his life.
The flag of truce dodge was tried
over and over again in the disastrous
campaign of 1SS0-S1 and just as many
times our innocents walked into the
trap At the opening of the ball at
the massacre of Brunkers Spruit, when
the Ninety fourth was cut to pieces,
ia drapeau blanc" was used simply as
a cover under which the Beers closed in
upon the doomed regiment. And at
the action of the Ingogo River these
chivalrous gentry fired upon one of the
heroes of Rorkes Drift the Rev MI
Ritcs.e-who had gone forward With u
white flag in response to one hoisted
by the enemy-St. James Gazette.
No Place Like Home.
A little Grand avenue boy who has
been addicted to reading such high