The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-11
VALUE OF TIME.
Minutes and Hours Well Spent Have
 Brought Fortune to Many.

Minutes and Hours Well Spent Have Brought Fortune to Many.
 Chicago Tribune.
 People save money. Some have mill lions. some thousands, some hundreds, and some quarters and dimes. The penny itself is ot disdained, and the metal savings bank comes into play less some one else holds the key.
 But time. who thinks of saving it? Where is the metal bank to hold the hours, the minutes?
 'I'd like to do that, but I haven't time. l haven't a minute to call my own. The more leisure man has. as rule. things. The man of action rarely com plains of lack of time. Why? Because he husbands the moments and catches them before they are on the wing.
 It is a momsntous question, the ques. ton of how we spend the quarter, of the hour ,b nis use or ho spse oa ns ne minutes, means either success or fall ure. ,. time. The firm is a small one a bind cry, but new machinery. constantly is added and new men, as the increase of of four brothers, and they do their own soliciting, make their own estimates on work, and are their own advertising to fourteen hours day every day, and on holidays spend half the day at the office. Time to them Is money,
 The office man who voluntarily gets to his office quarter of an hour ear Her and stays quarter on an houi later. to keep up his work when il thickens, is the man who wints. Twas the Duke of Wellington who said that he owed all he had achieved to his be- ing ready quarter of an hour before a lesson learned in boyhood.
 Many a man out of wpr khas found out to his sorrow that in applying for desirable position early Monday morning another more fortunate has secured the job by. beating him perhaps only by the margin of a minute passes on. Fortunes are won and mems names are written in marble while the dreamer has let time, like water, pass through life's sieve and leave nothing behind.
 The doctor who winds is the man who has time to study, time to keep research, as well as time in which to cure his patients. One doctor trans lated Lucretius while going his daily rounds among his patients.
 Take the most prominent clergymen most useful works. They give their not fritter it away. Cotton Mather shows what a strenuous clergyman m the days of simple living could do. He wrote and published fourteen books in one year. This by saving every mo- ment. It was crime not to be dili- gent in those days.
 Geniuses never keep the eight-hour day rule. They are not unionfsts.
 Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith, mas tered twenty two dialects and eighteen languages, and did not plead lack of time or advantages.
 George Stevenson, while a brakeman. took time to learn every detail of the engine And at night he worked over and over in his mind the mechanical problems that perplexed him. and often spent more time in bed thinking than sleeping. Thus do great men attain their heights.
 Charles Darwin pondered twenty years on the origin of species before he gave 1t to the world/ producing work which was the labor of time as we'll as of thought.
 William Gladstone's life was a living example of what man can do with time well spent His words are still a bugle call:
 Believe me. when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and that the waste of it will make you dwindIe. alike in intellectual and in moral stature, beyond your darkest reckon ingS."