The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
VALUE OF TIME.
Minutes and Hours Well Spent Have
 Brought Fortune to Many.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 People save money Some save mill lions, some thousands, some hundreds, and some quarters and dimes. The penny itself is not disdained and the metal savings bank comes into play for those who canont hold money unless some one else holds the key.
 But time, who thinks of saving it? Where Is the metal bank to hold the hours, the minutes?
 We meet people every day who say, 'Id like to do that, but I haven't time. I haven't minute to call my own The more leisure a man has, as rule, the less time he has in which to do things. The man of action rarely complains of lack of time. Why? Because he hus- bands the moments and catches them be- fore they are on the wing.
 It is a momentous question, the ques- ton of how we spend the quarter of the hour. This use or disuse of the half hour, the quarter hour or the five minutes means either success or failure
 There is a firm in Chicago today that Is staving ahead simply by its use of time. The firm Is small one, bindery. but new machinery constantly is added and new men, as the increase of business requires The firm consists of four broth CTS, and they do their own soliciting, make their own estmtaes on work and are their own advertising agents. These men work from twelve to fourteen hours a 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 a quarter of an hour earlier and stays a quarter of an hour later, to kep up his work when it thickens, is the man who wins. Twas the duke of Wellington who said that he owed all he had achieved to his being ready quar- ter of an hour before 1t seemd neces- sary, and that this was lesson learned in boyhood
 Many a man out of work has found out to his sorrow that in applying for a de- sirable position early Monday morning anothe. more fortunate has secured the job by beating him perhaps only by the margin of minute.
 The train waits for no man. Time 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 be- hind. The doctor who wins is the man who has time to study, time to kep abreast of the times time for original research, as well as time in which to cure his pa tients. One doctor translated Lucretius while going his daily rounds among his patients.
 Take the most prominent clergymen of any city. They are engaged in the most useful works. They give their time up to worthy causes, but they do not fritter it away. Cotton Mather shows what a strenuous clergyman in the days of simple living could do He wrote and published fourteen books in one year. This by saw ing every moment. It was a crime not to be diligent in those days. Geniuses never keep the eight-hour day rule. They are not unionsts. Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith, mastered twenty-tow dialects and eighteen lan- guages, and did not plead lack of time or advantages
 George Stevenson, while a breakeman, took time to learn every detail of the en- zine. And at night he worked over and i over in his mind the mechanical problems that perpleXed him. and often spent more l 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 it 10 the world, producing a work which was | the labor of time as well asof thought William Gladstone's life was q living ex- | ample of what a man can do with time | well spent His words are still a bugle 1 call:
 Believe me, wher Itell you that thrift
 of time will repay you in after life with l a usury of profit beyond your most san | guine dreams and that the waste of l. | will make you dwindle( alike in intel | lectual and in moral stature, beyond your l darkest reckonings."