Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — A Scholar’s Advice. [ARTICLE]

A Scholar’s Advice.

Th© German historian, Professor Theodor Mommsen, was noted for the facility with which he acquired languages. The tongues of modern Europe as well as the classics were to him not studies, but the familiar tools of bis deadly work. An American reporter who was interviewing him a few years ago asked to have a certain reference put into English, as he did not read German wall. “Not i4ad German Well? And you a journalist?” exclaimed the .savant. “I do not see how it is possible. Young man,‘'German Is one of th© four necessities for a student The other three are English, French and Italian. Without them you can never know the tendency of modern thought If you have them not, d® not rest until you have learned them all.” • ( I cannot praise Piso’s Cure enough for the wonders it has worked in curing me. —R. H. Seidel, 2206 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo., April 15, 1901. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cost but 10 cents per package. Mr* WlnsloWs Soororxa Brscr for Chlldroa teething; eoftene the game, redacee iaflamaiauon, »L liti pain, cures wind colic. 25 cento a bottl*