Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Paddle Your Own Canoe. [ARTICLE]

Paddle Your Own Canoe.

Judge S. gave his son a thousand dollars, telling him to go to college and graduate. The son returned at the end of the Freshmen year without a dollar, and with several ugly habits. Apout the cloee of the Vacation the Judge said to his son: “Well, William, you are a going to college this year I' “Have no monfy. father.” “But 1 gave Jojj a thousand dollars to graduate on/! “It’s all gone, father.” “Very well, my son; it wsaall,l sonld give you, you must now pay, your own wsy in the world.” A new light broke in upon the vision of the astonished young man. He accommodated himself to the situation ; he left home, made his way to college, graduated at the head of his class, studied law, became Ooyergor of the Bute of New York entered the Cabinet of the President of tho United States, 1 and has made a record for himself that will not soon die, being none other than Wtitiam H. Seward. — Exchange. A Portland school-house caught fire the other day, and as the boys watched it, one in another school said, enthusiastically and honestly, to his companion, “Oh Johny l don't you wish it was our school house?" Tax Western Farmer.— 1 “ The Best of the Agricultural and Horticultural weeklies.”— Chicago Bae. Journal. See advertisement, Extraordinary Offer.