Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, March, 1906Various
General
Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, March, 1906
Various
United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
Yes: I fully agree with you. The Presidential Bee which buzzes in my
bonnet is a feeble little thing, and with the help of a few stalwart
friends I think it can be controlled.
I am willing to line up any time.
Yes: I looked into your book and think it is great. As you say it is the
only book which intimates that there are two sides to Fire Insurance.
I have been thinking here of late that it is highly probable that some
Fire Insurance Companies are grander rascals than some Life Insurance
Companies. Your book deepens that suspicion. $25.00 is little enough for
the book.
* * * * *
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
_Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._
DEAR SIR: Will you please answer the following in the
Educational Department of your Magazine?
(1) Where can I get a McEllicott’s “Debater?” I have been to my
book store and they haven’t got it, and do not know where to
order it from.
(2) I want to be a first class lawyer, and I want to know if
it would be better to go on and get a High School and College
education, and have all of those dead languages to learn, or
get a High School education and read and learn all necessary
studies at home, and state what books and where I can get them,
which to study first, second, third and all the rest until I
have finished my course.
Yours for success,
⸺ ⸺.
P.S.—Is there any use of studying ancient history?
ANSWER
(1) I find that McEllicott’s Debater is out of print, but if you will
send fifty cents to F. E. Grant, 23 West 42nd street, New York City, he
will mail to you an excellent, up-to-date book which covers about the
same ground as the McEllicott Debater.
Mr. Grant is an unwearied, indefatigable, never-say-die bookseller, and
he makes a speciality of getting all sorts of books for all sorts of
people.
(2) Get a thorough High School Education and let the dead languages go
to thunder. If you want to learn any other language than English, study
French.
P.S. Yes: there is a good deal of use in studying ancient history. It is
worth a great deal for a man to have a clear general idea of what was
done on this earth before he got here.
You don’t want to feel bad because of your ignorance when gentlemen with
whom you may be talking refer to Semiramis, Alcibiades, Cyrus, Alexander,
Cæsar and the rest of those ancient celebrities. Oh, yes: read up on
history, ancient and modern, so that when you associate with intelligent
people you will know what they are talking about.
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BELFAST MILLS, VA., Jan. 1, 1906.
_Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._
DEAR SIR: What are some of the distinguishing features of the
“Code Napoleon?”
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