Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-10-15
Young Men.

patriot, was not yet twenty years of
age when he was appointed major
general by the American Congress.
When he fought the battle of Mon
mouth he was only twenty-one.
Alexander the Great at twenty
three, with comparatively insight
cant force. almost annihilated the Per-
sian army, numbering, it is said, Co.,
600 men, and made himself master oi
all western ASA
Napoleon was at the head of the
army of Italy and had defeated four
of the armies of Austria at the age of
twenty-eight
At twenty-five Demosthenes was the
greatest orator Of Greece, and Cicero
of Rome.
Daniel Webster had won fame as
lawyer, statesman and orator while
yet in his twentes
William T. Gladstone, the Grand
Old Man, was a member Of the House
of Commons at twenty-three and Lord
Of the Treasury at twenty-six.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declare
tion of Independence before he was old
enough to act as President OF the ma
ton, whose inaugural address to the
world was contained in that document
The most brilliant efforts OF Angus
tus Caesar were accomplished before
he was Of legal age.
Siris,ac Newton was oniy twenty
three when he immortalized his name
by the discovery of the law of gnvita-
tion.
Benjamin Franklin was publisher
and editor of a newspaper, author of
Poor Richards Almanac" and had
founded the Philadelphia Public Ii
brary before he was twenty-six.
Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest
chemist the world has produced, was
what he was" at the age OF twenty
three.
Calico, the inventor Of the tele-
scope was only eighteen years Of age
when he became the inventor of the
clock pendulum.
Prot Agassiz, the beloved naturalist
and scientist, was recognized as one Of
the most profound scholars while yet
in his twenties.
Mccormick bad conceived and con-
structed with his own hands "har-
vesting-reaper" before he was twenty
two
The discovery Of the use Of ether as
an angsthetic to relieve pain during
surgical operations, was made by DR..
Thomas Morton at the age Of twenty
six.
Thomas A. Edison, styled by the
Commissioner Of Patents "the young
man who keeps the path to the Patent
Office hot with bis feet, was acknowl-
edged to lie an intellectual wonder
while yet young man.
George Stevenson, the inventor Of
the locomotive, began to apply him
self diligently to the study Of steam
engines when only fifteen years Of age.
Edward Everett, the noted Ameri-
can orator, was one of the most elo-
quent and forceful speakers in the
United States at the age Of twenty.
Washington Irving published his
History Of New York, by Diedrick
Knickerbocker, at the age Of twenty
Elk.
Victor Hugo published his "odes
and Ballads at twenty.
John Ruskin had written his famous
"Modern Painters at twenty.four.
Bayard Taylor, the American tray-
eler, began bis public career at seven
teen. His frst book was published
when be was nineteen. At twenty
four be was one Of the editors Of the
New York Tribune.
John Wesley, the founder Of Meth
odism, was a polished writer and
tboughtful logician at twenty-three.
Confucius, the Chinese philosopher,
was experimenting puolic affairs at
twenty, and began his public teaching
when a young man Of twenty-five.
Martin Luther, at the time be as
cended the holy staircase in Rome on
his knees and heard the inward voice
saying, THE just shall live by faith,
was only twenty-seyen.
John Calvin was gwen pastoral
care" at seventeen. lie pubIishsd his
famous "Institotes Of the Christian Re-
ligion" at twenty-seyen.
Charles Spurgson began to preach
in the London Tabernacle at twenty.
George Williams, the English dry
goods clerk, founded the Young Men's
Christian Association at the age Of
twenty-three.