Show la ill its anor 1111 adilor or many of our young people have bave gone last east during the past ton ten years in pursuit of 11 higher education this ilis has led mo me to reflect somewhat on tho the question whether it is ie expedient for a youns young man with limited mews means to spend all he be hog has in in educating him self or to be content with a knowl edge of the intermediate branches bran shaa giving the remainder of his bis time to money malting making or to put the tion squarely does it pay to go to coll egol I 1 have the testimony on of 0 f in a reliable man to the effect that mt he spent n 11 1200 in in attending the deseret fe university i V ty and is is now recovering the interest on his expenditure but does doea it pay to go to college 1600 put out at interest will ta take keone one through a four years course nicely and he will come coma out oat with a dial diploma mm and credentials that will secure to him a salary of per month on the other band I 1 it he ha puts 1600 out at ton ten per cent interest it will bring him in in four years ile ho will in in the mean time probably lay away 30 per month from his wages this in tour four years will amount to 1440 making in in all a total of asoo which put to interest at ton tea per cent fur I 1 bishes a yearly income income of lie he las has by this time worked his W wages i up to a year a making U g ill his income e SHOO 1100 which bieri is s leas than t that hat ol 01 the college graduate the first year after af ter lis lia return now happiness is is what man is Is seeking booking for we all want wan t to as many of this worlds pleasures as are in store for us at the same time keeping a firm hold on eternity and the question arises which 13 is the bap ba pier man he who possesses weald wealth th without education or the ono one having education but not wealth the pur suit of riches leads lead slone one necessarily into fill all sorts corta of vile company 0 pany that is is of I 1 course where wealth is is the one oas goal of bis ambition the brutal and conscience hardening pastimes of rogues and aid libertines will sooner or later insinuate themselves into his bis feelings and he be will tind find himself seeking them with the same do depraved ved and vicious craving that impi impels pris the tha debauchee those things I 1 which the of 0 a chaste mind become to their blunted sensibilities flab fiat and tasteless on the other hand the man of education seeks his big divisions in literature and the pleasures of ottha i the ims imaginations imagination a domain from which the ignorant are forever oz cz eluded nature to the ignorant is j a sealed volume to the thoman man of intelligence i n tell irence her beri every feature is ii a store house bouse of knowledge in every stone is a truth and in every leaf is an inspiration to lead him hiamon fonto to reflections apon thel the beauties and grandeur ot of the world a and n a of god the waved waves that moan ou on the ili gliori orp the winds that sigh in blo blowing wing I 1 I 1 ardiena are bent to teach it a mystic I 1 love eye which men are wise in in knowing SOLOS SOLON 1 |