Self Made Men Of Other Days

The self made 'man is by no rueans solely the product of modern times. Cohiinbus was a weaver, Franklin was a journeyinan pi-inter, Pope Sistus V was employed in bis young days iu keepiug swiue, Robert Burns was a plowinaii, iEsop was a slave, Homer was a beggar, Daniel De Poe was apprenticed to a hosier, Deruostuenes was the son of a cutler, wbile Virgil was a baker's son. Ben Jonson was a bricklayer, Cervantes was a common soldier, Canova's father was a stonecutter, Captain Cook com menced life as a cabiu boy, Haydn, the musioiau, was the sou of a poor wheelwright, Pizarro, iustead of going to school, was sent to keep hogs. Kirke White's father was a butcher, and