Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1910 — Discouraging. [ARTICLE]

Discouraging.

The learned savant came to the struggling student “My boy,” he advised, laying a kindly hand on the young man’s, shoulder, “burn midnight oil If you would rise in this world. I burned midnight oil and now I am drawing SIO,OOO a year.” The struggling student sighed. “Seems like I can’t strike the pace," he responded, lugubriously. ‘1 bum midnight oil every night and don’t draw anything but mosquitoes."