The Marshall republican., 1906-12-07
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sELF.EpUcATioN.
z Work and study In Odd Hours for I
4 That Which Brings Success.

w NUf'bEO iIinnnt Wftn nt n6A WOth
ed hard seven. eight. or perhaps ten
hours at his regular employment, has
little disposition to devote additional
time IN study or to some other line OF
effort. IIc prefers to spend the rest Of
bis day in rest and recreation. This
preference may he wise or not. accord
Ing to tho conditions of tho particulf
ease. but n is a fact that man m,
have owed their success largely
chiefly 10 work they have done &C
the side" Numbers by studying du
Ing leisure hours have fitted them
selves To rise tn eminence In the call.
ings they already we're In. and others
have by this means been enabled tn
leave tho lines they were In and enter
businesses and professions more con.
genial or profitable. sim others
while continuing In their original avo,
cations. have ny energetic and system
attic uso NJ spare time added TO their
incomes and even achieved Iastin';
fame In altogether distinct branches
~ endeavor.
American history II full NJ examples
NJ men who owed their success largelr
10 the use Of time which others would
have wasted. Henry Clay got his liter.
airy and legal education by studying
outside business hours while clcrking
In n small store and later In the Office
Of the high court of %chancery at Rich.
mond. Thomas ~. Iicnton and Stephen
4. Douglass studied law while teaching
school. Tho story is familiar Of how
Lincoln mastered grammar and Euclid
10y tho Hight NJ n Pine knot and ~ how
he read law after his daily work m
country ~storckccpcr aud postmaster
was done.
Tho case ~ James A. Tawney. chair.
man ~ the house committee on appro'
prla,ions shows II siiil Is possible &,
become lawyer and statesman AZ Clay
aud Lincoln did. He ntted himself for
the har while tailoring ut tho hlscp
smiths forge.
Many mon have climbed ca tho o.
~ tho business ladder In much thr
same way. II ~ Mr.. carncgie's coD
stant study while M " hoy he tended
nm engine. while he was n mcsscngc
IN n telegraph Office. and while he wa
secretary TO Thomas A. Scott Of tbs
Pennsylvania railway that enable,
him Ia become the greatest ~ stce
manufacturers and phllanthropists.
Webster. being asked how he wa
able To prepare his great reply q
' Hayno IN 70 short n time. answered
that no had prepared II years bcfor'
' when he wns n young lawyer without
clients back IN New hampshire. H.
equipped himself To he the 'expound
or ot the constitution by getting .
Arm grasp Of It's principles when h
! had nothing else 10 do. The secre, q
success ~ 10 he ready 10 seize oppor
. tunity when II comes. AZ j. a. Hol
: land said: Work seeks the best hand
| AZ naturally ~ water runs dow
hill"
Probably most persons imagine tina
Charles Lamb. most delightful Of Ems
Ilsh essayists. devoted his life Ia Iitera
u turc. AS a matter ~ fact, most or hi
hest work was done during the thirty
: five years he WIS n clerk In the Office
: Of the East India company.
Tho great philosopher. John stuar
-, MIN, likewise was for thirty.hvc year
n clerk In the East India company's al
fees. his two longest and most impor
ant works, Political Economy" an
y Logic" besides most Of his essay
being written In his spare time durin
this period.
Burns wrote hIs immortal poem
while following the pillow and tendin
' cattle. The American poet and criti'
y Edmund Clarence Stedman. Is a Ne
York banker and a familiar figure
Wall street Charles l.. Pidgin, III
American novelist, is the capapis We
rotary Of the Massachusetts bureau
labor statistics, Edward Moves We
colt. who won fame In n day by h
novel. David Harum' was a banker
Syracuse. N. v. His untimeiy deaf
II AUST before his book attained its almo
= unprecedented popularity Is the ss
n dest event in American literary hi
tory. Among teachers who are aiso a
r ,hors are Myrs Kelly. Stanley Ha
I land Brander Matthews. y. Hopkins
ninth. novelist and painter. In by ~
fesSion an architect. Another paints
. author Is Kenyon Cox.
, MIR. Roosevelt has done some ontsi'
.t.an Aa han haan nro