Show WHAT HIS EDUCATION COST jones has tried various 1 things aings including matrimony aid a d has not yet done paying how flow much old it cost you jov to get your educations education 1 asked jones well said smith lets see my 1 I y primary education was cheap say my secondary condary le training was about twice as much while my college 0 gu I 1 course mounted amounted to something like a thousand a year or tour four thousand in all then I 1 had three years at a technical school at about the same rate so all in all my education came to about or at the outside what do you figure yours cost well replied jones reflectively 1 I guess mine was rather more expensive I 1 went ent through collage col loge but I 1 have any technical training up to that point we are about equal then I 1 went vest est and got interested in a gold mine that bit of knowledge ost cost considerable next I 1 tried stock raising and found that a pretty expensive school s before I 1 was finally graduated from that I 1 took a hand at the tha theatrical business and learned a lot at fairly high rates there was a little girl in the company though seemed to think I 1 got all the knowledge that was coming coining to me so she put me in the matrimonial school not having graduated from that yet I 1 cant give kiy aby final aures figures but I 1 can tell you this the higher up you get the more it costs after a while the kids came along and they taught me a whole heap but bat the bills were high for twenty years or so I 1 worried along on this kind of schooling and then my eldest girl got married her husband thought hed like to try farming and I 1 learned a lot about that in the next few years at the cost of about a year then pretty soon they had a couple of kids and what my own children aint taught me they did the tact fact Is hey there herel where are you going ive only just begun to tell you about my education but already smith was far down the street with his fingers in his ears fleeing as though from the wrath to come success magazine CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY by W A MACY FUTURE GREAT MEN IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR it Is remarkable how many men took part in the black hawk war who afterward became famous the most illustrious name in the list is of or course that of abraham lincoln but there were many others whose names and deeds filled the trump of fame fama in after years zachary taylor became the hero of the mexican war and the twelfth president of the united states state winfield scott beca became me commander comman derin ln chief of the united states army army in 1841 and was the can candidate bdate of the whigs for the presidency in 1852 jefferson davis was for some years united states senator from mississippi and president of the southern confederacy during the civil war mal maj robert anderson was in command of fort sumter when the attack upon it opened the clivi war albert sidney J johnson 0 hn who fell at the battle of shiloh is regarded by many as the ablest general on the southern side W S harney became a famous indian fighter and nd a prominent union general ral edwana 0 baker became beame c a noted orator and united states senator from dreg oregon and fell mortally wounded while chile gallantly ledan leading his regiment at balls bluff joseph E johnston developed into one of the greatest of confederate generals john A a prominent general and aid to grant and gen george W jones was elected the first united states senator from iowa serving from 1848 to 1859 all these in their young manhood served in the black hawk war either as regulars or volunteers vol copyright 1911 by joseph B bollea Bow lea |