Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1881 — Manual Erudition. [ARTICLE]

Manual Erudition.

St. Louis R®pubijcka. I think I would learn to use my left band as freely as my right one, so that if lufo thing happened to either of them tMfother would be all ready to write Mia “handle things,” just as if nothing had occurred. There is no reason in the world why both hands should not be used alike. A little practice would soon render one set of finKra as expert as the others; and I ve known people 1 who never thought, when a thing was to be done which particular hand ought to do it, but the one nearest the object took hold of it and did the office I would learn the art of using tools of various sorts. I think I would insist on learning some trade, even if I knew there would be no occasion for me to foliowit when I grew up. What a pleasure it is in after life to be able to make something, m»4he saying is—to construct a neat box to hold one’s pens and paper,- or a pretty cabinet for a sister’s library; or w frame a kayorite engraving for a present to a kind, d?ar mother. What a loss not to know how to mend a phain that refuses to stand up strong, only because it needs a few tacks and a bit of leather here and there. Some of us canuo even drive a nail straight, and should attempt to saw oft an obtrusive pfSGB of wood, ten to one we should lose a finger in the operation. It is a pleasant relaxation every day ™ *. nd Btudieß '•nd work , ln s 1001 8bo Pl and friend, the learned and lovable Holmes® finds such comfort in “mendiviJ h ’ B 800x6 brain » repose, that he sometimes break a a t^ tUre u°P P ur P°« e that he ‘ ,^ he rel [ ef of Putting it totefore lEfc C sJ etter tha " U waa iJa Set • W tS 04 a { mech »nic as he ‘SSifSgtg S' J.f 6 . ? x P Jorer or traveler, when h<X b X 1 „* e * nd ■ rtcap » )*L y WM never at a less for remedies on the road when thZ carriage broke down. when the hnl. t Wer6 8 **** *£•*» 1 would learn how to row a boat and handle * salt • n • A newspaper correspondent who has long known Senator Mahone intiWAtely writes of him: “I saw him jJtUBg giH fashion, on hte horse at Gettysburg, just as the first battle of the general engagement of the second day was about to begin. He was fa a field alone, away from his command, calmly regarding the enemy on the opposite heights. • Approaching, I ‘General, I think we are on the of • twat victory.’ ‘ Without nhs&w? 1 ®* 1116 replied «»- ofth?’ y A t " ir \ we aT ? on toe eve of th e mogt defeat of the ' V 'Av.