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

cannot 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: I'D like to do that, but 1
haven't time. l haven a minute
to call my own" The more Ieis-
ure a man has, as a rule, the less
time he has in which to do things.
The man of action rarely complains
of lack of time. Why? Because
he husbands the moments and
catches them before they are on
the wing.
1t is momentous question, the
question of how we spend the
quarter of the hour. This use or
disuse of the half hour, the quar-
ter hour, or the FIVE minutes,
means either success or failure.
There is firm in Chicago today
that is staving ahead simply by
its use of time. The firm is
small one, bindery, but new ma
chinery constantly is added and
new men, as the increase of bust
ness requires. The firm consists
of four brothers, and they do their
own soliciting, make their own es-
Inmates Oh work, and are their own
advertising agents. These men
work from twelve to fourteen hours
day every day, and on holidays
spends 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 keep up his work
when it thickens, is the man who
wins. Twas the Duke of Well
lngton who said that he owed all
he had achieved to his being
ready quarter Of an hour before
1t seemed necessary, and that this
was lesson learned in boyhood.
Many a man out of work has
found out to his sorrow that III ap.
plying for a desirable position ear
ly Monday morning another more
fortunate has secured the lob by
beating him perhaps only by the
margin of a minute.
The train waits for no man.
Time passes on. Fortunes are
won and men 5 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
keep abreast of the times, time for
original research, as we'll as time
in which to cure his patients. One
doctor translated Lucretius while
going his daily rounds among his
patients.
Take the most prominent clergy
men of any city. They are engag-
ed 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. Itwas crime
not to be diligent in those days.
Geniuses never keep the eight
hour day rule. They are not un-
ionists.
Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith,
mastered twenty-five dialects and
eighteen languages, and did NOT
plead lack of time or advantages.
George Stevenson, while brake
man, took time to learn every de-
tail 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 at
tain their heights.
Charles Darwin pondered twen-
ty years on the origin of species
before he gave it to the world