Part 8 (1/2)

Lincoln studied law during his spare hours while surveying, and learned the co store Mrs Somerville learned botany and astrono and idling At eighty she published ”Molecular and Microscopical Science”

The worst of a lost hour is not so much in the wasted time as in the wasted power Idleness rusts the nerves and makes the muscles creak

Work has system, laziness has none

President Quincy never went to bed until he had laid his plans for the next day

Dalton's industry was the passion of his life He ical observations

In factories for le broken thread ruins a whole web; it is traced back to the girl who es But who shall pay for the broken threads in life's great web? We cannot throw back and forth an empty shuttle; threads of some kind follow every movement as eave the web of our fate It may be a shoddy thread of wasted hours or lost opportunities that will mar the fabric and olden thread which will add to its beauty and luster We cannot stop the shuttle or pull out the unfortunate thread which stretches across the fabric, a perpetual witness of our folly

No one is anxious about a young man while he is busy in useful work But where does he eat his lunch at noon? Where does he go when he leaves his boarding-house at night? What does he do after supper? Where does he spend his Sundays and holidays? The way he uses his spare reat o to the bad are ruined after supper Most of those who clis to study or work or the society of those who can help and i nificance in the lines of Whittier:--

This day we fashi+on Destiny, our web of Fate we spin; This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin

Tiy or mean with it, but we should not throay an hour any more than ould throay a dollar-bill

Waste of tiy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it

”And it is left for each,” says Edward Everett, ”by the cultivation of every talent, by watching with an eagle's eye for every chance of i te sensual pleasure, to make himself useful, honored, and happy”

CHAPTER VII

HOW POOR BOYS AND GIRLS GO TO COLLEGE

”Can I afford to go to college?” asks many an American youth who has hardly a dollar to his nae course reat hardshi+p, indeed, for a youngin the world to be coe by hard work But history shows us that the ress have been, as a rule, self-educated, self-e boy of to-day ishes to obtain a liberal education has a better chance by a hundredfold than had Daniel Webster or Jaood health who reads these lines but can be assured that if he will he may Here, as elsewhere, the will can usually make the way, and never before was there sowill, the inflexible purpose, as there are to-day--at this hour and this moment

”Of the five thousand persons--students,--directly connected with Harvard University,” writes a graduate, ”five hundred are students entirely or almost entirely dependent upon their own resources They are not a poverty-stricken lot, however, for half of thee allowance of boys in ses Fros of a student who is capable of doing newspaper work or tutoring,--branches of employment that pay well at Harvard

”There are some men that e with about twenty-five dollars As a freshle In his junior year, however, he prospered and in his last ten e expenses, which were none too loard of 3,000

”Heventures A fewco in Springfield, New York, worked his way through an acadee, and he deter wholly on hily, he proceeded to Schenectady, and arranged with a professor of Union College to pay for his tuition by working He rented a small room, which served for study and ho fifty cents a week After graduation, he turned his attention to civil engineering, and, later, to the construction of iron bridges of his own design He procured many valuable patents, and amassed a fortune His life was a success, the foundation being self-reliance and integrity

Albert J Beveridge, the junior United States Senator froe with no other capital than fifty dollars loaned to hie club, and added to his original fund of fifty dollars by taking the freshman essay prize of twenty-five dollars When summer came, he returned to work in the harvest fields and broke the wheat-cutting records of the county He carried his books with hiht, and studied persistently When he returned to college he began to be recognized as an exceptional man He had shaped his course and worked to it

The president of his class at Columbia University recently earned the ricultural is of two years' work as a far done after study hours, not only paid his way through college, but helped to support his aged parents He believed that he could afford a college training and he got it

At Chicago Universitytheir way The ways of earningupon the opportunities for work, and the student's ability and adaptability To be a correspondent of city daily papers is the most coveted occupation, but only a few can obtain such positions Soht school Several teach in the public schools in the daytis, so as to take their degrees Scores carry daily papers, by which they earn two and one-half to three and one-half dollars a week; but, as this does not pay expenses, they add other e work in the city library So several of each to care for, they earn from five to ten dollars a week Many are waiters at clubs and restaurants Some solicit advertisements The divinity students, after the first year, preach in s men made twelve hundred dollars apiece, in this way, in one year One student is atwelve dollars a week A few serve in the university postoffice, and receive twenty cents an hour

A representative Aard it as, on the whole, a distinct advantage that a student should have to pay his oay in part as a condition of obtaining a college education It gives a reality and vigor to one's hich is less likely to be obtained by those who are carried through college I do not regard it, however, as desirable that one should have to work his oay entirely, as the tax upon strength and time is likely to be such as to interfere with scholarshi+p and to underreat reat career The boy orks his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn hoork his way in life, and will often take higher rank in school, and in after life, than his classhter of the fare class of our country, whose funds are small and opportunities few, that the republic will depend on ood citizenshi+p and brains in the future The probleood education, where reat iement and useful hints are offered by the experience ofpeople who have worked their way to diploraduated at the Brattleboro, Vt, High School, taught district schools six terh to pay the first necessary expenses He worked in gardens and as a janitor for soht six terh school, and one year as assistant superintendent in the Essex County Truant School, at Lawrence, Mass, pushed a rolling chair at the Coluo, was porter one season at Oak Hill House, Littleton, N H, and canvassed for a publishi+ng house one summer in Maine None of his fellow-students did more to secure an education

Isaac J cox of Philadelphia worked his way through Kie, doing many kinds of work There was no honest ithin the limits of his ability that he would not undertake to pay his way He served su head-waiter Like Mr Frost, he ranked well in his classes, and is a young uished attainreat prize winner of Coluy to any work that would bring re cash,--and every cent of this hout the four years of his college course was devoted to getting his education