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Show u ' HOW SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED "There is no fear of my starving father," said the deaf boy. Kitto. bs jging to be taken from the poorhousej 'and allowed to struggle for an educa tlon, "we are in the midst of plenty, and I know how to prevent hunger "The Hottentots subsist a long time on nothing but a little gum. they also j when hungry, tier a ligature around . their bodies. "Cannot I do so. too 7 "The hedges furnish blackberries (?nd nuts, and the fields, turnips; a I hayrick will make an excellent bed." This deaf boy with a drunken fath er, who was thought capable of noth lng better than making shoes. ; Inanner decamp nnp nf the prpntn-;! blbilcan authors and scholars in the world. His first book was written In the a orkhouse. "Let roe say n regard to your ad verse worldly circumstances," ex claimed Dr. Talmadge lo a class of young men. "that )ou are on a level now with those who are finally to succeed. 'Mark my words, and think of it 30 years from now. "You will find that those who. 30 'years from now, are the millionaire-. I of the country, who are the orators of the country', who are the poets and 'writers of the country, who are the : strong merchants and bankers and lawyers and doctors of the country, who are the great philanthropists of the country mightiest in church and state are now on a level with you. not an inch above you, and in straight .ened circumstances now Ellhu Burritt said the proudest mo jment of his life was when he first ; gained the full meaning ol the first !l5 lines of Homer's Iliad His father died when he was 16. land Elihu WSJ apprenticed to a black I smith in his native village of New 'Britain, Conn I He worked at the forge 10 01 12 ,hours a da . but while blowing th bellow?, he would solve mentally dif ticult problems in arithmetic. In a diary kept at Woreastei whitb-ler whitb-ler he went some ten years later, are 1 such entries as these: ' Monday, June IS. headache, 40 , pages LuOer's Theory of the Earth, 4 pages French, 11 hours' forging. "Tuesday. June 19, 60 lines Hebrew.! JO Danish, 10 Bohemian. 9 Polish. 15 I 1 1 names of atars, 10 hourr forging. "Wednesday, June 20, 25 lines He I brew, s lines Syr lac, 11 hourB' forg- Ing " Burritt mastered 18 language- and 32 dialects and ten years later became president of Wesimore college |