The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-09
IVALUEOFTIME
MINUTES AND HOURS WELL
sPENTs HAVE BRO ueHT5FoR:
II TUNE TO MANY. q
;om tlle ChIcago. Tribune.

People save money. Some save mil.
lions, some thousands. some hundreds, |
y and some, quarters and dimes. The
penny itself Is not disdained, and the
! metal savings bank comes into play
! for those who cannot hold money un-
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?
We meet people every day wao say:
..rd like to do that, but haven't
time. i haven't minute to call my
own The more leisure man has, as |
q rule, the less time, he has in which to
edo3 things! The man or action rarely
complains Of lack Of time. Why? Be.
cause he husbands the moments and
catches them before they are on the
wing.
II Is momentous question, the
question Of how We spend the quarter
\ Of the hour. This use Or dlsuse Of the |
half hour, the quarter hour, or the I've
minutes, means either success of fall.
ure.
There is firm in Chicago today
that Is staylng ahead simply by its
use Of time. The arm Is a small one,
a bindcry, but new machinery con.
stantly Is added and new men, as the
increase Of business requires. sThe
i firm consists OF four brothers, and |
\ they do their own soliciting, make
/ their own estimates on work, and are
their own advertising agents. These
men work from twelve to fourteen
hours day every day, and on holl.
days spend half the day at the office.
I Time to them Is money. \
N The office man who voluntarily gets
!, TO his office a quarter Of an hour
earlier and stays quarter Of an hour
later, to keep up his work when I'll
thickens, is the man who wins. Twas |
the Duke Of Wellington who said that he |
! owed all.he had achieved to his being
ready quarter Of. an hour before It
seemed necessary, and that this was a !
lesson learned in boyhood.
Many a man out OF work has found |
out to oils sorrow that In applying for
desirable position early Monday
morning another more fortunate has
secured the job by beating him per.
haps orly by the margin Of a minute
The train waits for no man. Time
pasa.s on. Fortunes are won and
mems names are written In marble
while the dreamer has let time, like |
water, pass through llfe's sieve and
leave nothing behind.
The doctor who wins Is the man
who has time to study, time to keen
abreast Of the times. time for orlgipa,
research, as well as time in which u
cure his patients. One doctor trans.
lated Lucretius while going his daily
rounds among his patients.
Take the most prominent clergymen
Of amy city. They are engaged In tho
most useful works. They give tneir
time up to worthy causes, but they do !
not irilter IL away. Cotton Mather
shows what strenuous clergyman in
the days Of simple living could do.
@He wrote and published fourteen books
in one year. This by saving every mo.
ment. 1t was a crime not 10 be dili.
gent in those days.
Geniuses never keep the eishi.hourl
day rule. They arc not unionists.
Elihn Burrltt, tie blacksmith, mas.
tered twenty-five dialects and eighteen
languages. and did not plead lack Of
time or advantages.
George Stevenson, while a brake.
man, took time to learn every detail
Of the engine. And nj night he work.
ed over and over In his mind the me.
chanical problems that perplexed him
and often spent more time in bed
thinking than sleeping. Thus do srea,
men attain their. heights.
Charles Darwin pondered twenty
years On The origin Of species before
he gave II TO the world, producing a |
work which was the labor OF time as
well as of thought.
William Gla,lstone's life was a lly |
Ing example Of what man can do |
with tine well spent. His words arc
still a bugle call:
Believe me. when | tell YOU TIM,
thrift Of time will repay you in after
life with usury Of profit beyond your
most sanEuinc dreams, and that the
waste Of 1t will make yon dwindle,
alike in intellectual and In moral stat. |
,irei' beyond your darkest reckonings. :,