The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
DRUDGERY A PLEASURE.
Men Who Won Fame By Putting Their
 Heart In Their Work.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Some map think that constant work will make man a drudge, without any pleasure in the world at all. So it would if the man did not train himself to have an aptitude and love for the work, which all can do, and then the drudgery in itself becomes a kind of pleasure. In the end we all may be divided into two classes, the drones and the drudges, or the idlers and the workers-the drudges or the workers "get there," the drones or the idlers are left behind in the race.
 Constant dropping wears away the hardest stones, and constant drudging can accomplish wonders. Slow as Is the pace at which a snail travels, in time it could reach Jerusalem. If you get tired at one thing take up, something else equally as useful. Some men get relax ation from one labor 'py taking up an- other. Try to be so enamored of your work that you won't get tired; try to fall in love with your work and be an ardent wooer.
 John Adams became tired of his Latin lessons and asked his father to excuse him from them. Certainly, John," said the father instead you may dig some ditches-the bog needs draining" Digging was so productive of reflection by that first night that young John begged per- mission to resume his Latin on the nor row He became one of the pillars of the revolution, and the successor of Wash ington as President.
 Cyrus Field entered A. T. Stewards store an errand boy at $50 year; he said he was there before the partners came in the morning and did not leave until they had gone in the evening. Then he spent every evening in the Mercantile library and joined a Saturday night de- batting society. He was rewarded for his faithfulness and his example is worthy of imitation. A. T. Stewart himself owed his success to downright drudgery. John Wanamaker walked four miles every day to Philadelphia and worked in book store fore yl. 25 a week.
 It was to drudgery that the old masters owed their success and fame. Angelo studied anatomy 12 years. posting him. self on every curve, and evolution and angle, and elevation, and depression of the human body, and this drudgery de- termined his style. In painting he pre- pared his own colors; neither servants nor students dared mix them. Raphael. who died at the age of S7, gained his success by keeping constantly at his chosen professor. I've made 1t my prin- ciple" said he, never to neglect any thing" Da Vinci often went to work at daybreak and did not come down from the scaffolding to eat or drink till the light had left him. Millais said: l work harder than any plowman; my advice to boys is, Work "
 Charles Darwin collected his facts with almost incredible care and perseverance. On one of his subjects-the action of the earth worm in the formation of the mold he spent a period of A years from its commencement to publication. Plato wrote the first sentence in his Republic" nine times before he had it to suit him. Gibbon wrote the first chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10 times and spent 25 years on the whole work.
 Rufus Choate declared that success was not an accident; you might as well let drop a Greek alphabet and expect to pick up the Iliad.' '"
 Drudgery is the secret of success every time. The old German inscription on a keep. If l rest I rust" is as true of men as it is of the iron in the key. To be bright and shining, to be successful and consequently happy. we must keep our selves polished with the oil of work.