Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-05 | Page 7 | Early Years of Great Man

EARLY YEARS OF GREAT MAN livingstone s struggles to acquire an education at the age of ten wrote living stone in his autobiography I 1 was put into the factory as a glecer to aid by my earnings in lessening her my mother s anxiety with a part of my alist s wages I 1 purchased rudiments of latina and pursued the study of that lan guage for many years afterwards with unabated ardor at an evening school which met between the hours of eight and ten the dictionary part of my labors was followed up till twelve clock or later it my mother did not interfere by jumping up and snatch ing the books out of my hands I 1 had to be back in the factory by 1 in the morning and continue my work with intervals tor breakfast and dinner till eight clock at night read in this way many classical auth ors my reading while at work was carried on by placing the book on a portion of the spinning jen ny so that I 1 could catch sentence after sentence as I 1 paused at my work this wag how dr livingstone started his remarkable career