Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-27

week, the mercury was that low. Ev-
erybody said that it was the coolest
weather ever known there. l know my
self there has been nothing like II
since. / forgot to tell you one discoV-
cry we made. We found two bee trees
One was four feet in diameter, bul
there was not a pound of honey in It.
The other was eighteen inches in diam
eter u sycamore and we took seventy
pounds of honey from that tree HOW
about the breakup? Well, sir there was
no breakup until the middle of April
We didn't get away from that island
until the 18th of April. We got into
ST Louis on the 9th day of May, seven
months after leaving Davenport. There
we had bad luck. We ran afouf OF a
wood fiat and sunk it, The man sued
us for damages We beat him in court
but we had our la gers fee to pay
We sold the flat GOAT and onions at
auction. The onions spoiled because
of leak that was sprung IN the nun
when we lay at otter island. The net
proceeds after paying the lawyer ana
the auctioneer. We're $s4.'
THE PENALTIES OF EDUCATION.
IGrinnel Herald.]
We heartily concur in the idea which
was suggested rather than discussed
in recent editorial in the Gazette
that a college education has It's draw
backs and penalties. There Is llule
question but that it in some ways
weakens a boy for the hard struggles
of modern competitive hfe. One OF
the penalties of education, or, as a
friend of ours prefers to put 1t. one OF
the penalties of thinking that you are
educated, is a lack of the pioneer spir-
it which burned SO strong in our faith
ers and which enabled them to WIN the
prairies and make streng men of them
selves in the face of trials which the
hoy or the present day does not have
to face.
We know of a half dozen young
men around Grinnell who realize that
it would probably be we'll with them
to leave their old connections ana
strike out for themselves In the great
northwest or some similar new coun-
try. there to work out their own SAL
walton with toll and probably at first,
with fasting. Still they lack the nerve
to cut their connections with their
base of s1ipples-tihe ancestral home.
They would rather drift listlessly
along at home where they can hear
good lectures and fine music and have
their old friends rather than to meet
the struggles of the new country such
as helped to make such rugged, sturdy
men Of their fahters.
Closely in line with this is the view
of a certain local man, whose views
are always worth considering, who
holds that not only does the modern
college education not assist a young
man any for the average business car
eer, but it actually units him for 1t.
The young man just out Of college is
apt to be unwilling to begin at the
bottom of business and work up but
wants to jump right in at the top and
be his own manager and boss before
he has reached the maturity necessary
for such positions. Another we'll
known Grinnell boy who is now a
prominent editor told us not long ago
that he found it almost impossible to
keep men at high wages to run his
linotype machines, but that his desk
was piled up with APPLICATIONS from
young boys just out of college for the
position of editor-in- chief
while we do not believe that the
above are altogether typical, we must
confess that we believe there is much
ground for complaint along. these