The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-30

day I learned them all from one
teacher.
L had but one year in which to get
my preparation for college. My money
would not last longer than that time,
] and in order to go on / must win one
of the two scholarships in Prince of
Wales college offered in each county of
| the island. 1 don't believe 1 ever
! worked so hard before. or since, as L
did in those months. The result was
that | began to have a bad pain in the
back of my head. l told a physician
whom 1 knew about it, and he said:
a RULE FOR GOOD HEALTH.
IF you want to keep on with your
studies. this is what you must do: At
the end of the term, shut UD your
books. Don't look at a book all sum-
mer. but go out and work on your IA
Tiers tarm''
Il took his advice. For three months
l did not open book, but went home
and did all kinds of farm work. 1
| bound wheat behind the reaper and
kept my end up with the other work
ers. For me il was the best thing /
could have done.
L mention this particularly here be-
cause at the time l formed a habit
which l have kept up ever since,
through all the busiest years of my
~ nat 10 " SiitiiQ tNO AAbA4S u NN-
cry day in the open air. If l had not
done so l could not have kept up under
the strain of hard study To which l
subjected myself during the following
years.
HIS GREATEST SUCCESS.
THE college scholarship examinations
were held in September. / was afraid
that l had not much chance of win
ming, but l not only won my scholar
ship, but l stood first of all the can
didateS in the island. l have been for
tunate since then and have had some
rewards that most persons would con-
slider very much greater than this mod
est prize of $50 a year But I tell you
that this was the greatest success 1
ever won. That $50 a year made all
the difference in the world TO me then.
With il l could continue my education;
without it L could not have gone on.
Sixty dollars is not a large sum Cor
a boy to start out school year. But
in Charlotte Town. where Prince of
Wales college was located. living was
cheap, and 1 earned it by keeping books
for a stOrekeeper at night.
Prince of Wales college was half
way between a high school and coun-
try college. In two years l had finished
the course there and cast about to earn
some money TO go on with. The natural
charge of one of the best general
schools in the island for a year. Here
taught everything from the alphabet
up To Virgil and algebra, and laid by
over 500.
With this capital 1 went to Acadia
college, in Nova Scotia, to complete
my college course. Acadia was a small
college under the control of the Baptist
denomination. OF the seventy-five or
eighty men there. probably four-fifths
intended to become ministers. I still
looked on the pulpit as my natural
gaol, but just at the time I was eager
for more learning and thought chiefly
of that.
TOOK MOST OF THE PRIZES.
During my stay in Acadia college, L
am bound 10 say that 1 took most of
the prizes for which 1 was eligible In
the second year l learned of a scholar
ship in the University of London offer
ed for competition TO all the colleges of
Canada l made up my mind 10 try for
IL, and sent to learn the particulars
The questions in the examination were
sent out to the governor general. and
by him distributed to the colleges in
which there We're competitors. after
the examination the papers were re-
turned through him to London. The
examination was held in June. l took
II ana theh went Dach 10 Prince Ed
ward Island for the summer. The
weeks passed and heard nothing as 10
the result of the examination At
length. when September came l gave
up hope and started back to Acadia to
finish my course. On the way / met
some men whom l knew. They congrat-
ulated me. l did not understand it.
and asked them what was up.
Why, they said. you have won the
scholarship haven't YIN THAT'S
news up town
ANOTHER SCHOLARSHIP WON.
when L got to the college found