Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — For the Boys. [ARTICLE]

For the Boys.

... _Two men stood at the same table in a large factory in Philadelphia, working at the same Having an hour for their nooning every day, each undertook to use it in accomplishing a definite purpose; each persevered for about the same number of and each won success at last. One of these two mechanics used his daily leisure hour in working out the invention of a machine for sawing a block of wood into almost any desired shape. When his invention was complete, he sold the patent for a fortune, changed his workman’s ajoron for a broadcloth suit, and moved out of a tenement-house into a brown stone mansion. The other man —what did he do? Well, he spent an hour each day during most of a year in the very difficult undertaking of teaching a little dog to stand on his hind feet and dance a jig, while he played the tune. At last accounts ho was working ten hours a day at the same trade and at his old wages, and finding fault with the fate that made his fellow workman rich while leaving him poor. Leisure minutes may “bring golden grain to mind as well as purse, if one harvests wheat instead of chaff. — Wide Awake.