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[Frontispiece: Henry Ward Beecher]
STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT
EDITED BY
ASA DON DICKINSON
Orators and Reformers
DESMOSTHENES
ELIHU BURRITT
JOHN B. GOUGH
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
HENRY WARD BEECHER
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BEN. B. LINDSEY
GARDEN CITY —— NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1925
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received fromseveral houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyrightmaterial. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. Inparticular, acknowledgments are due to the Houghton Mifflin Company forthe extract concerning Elihu Burritt; to George W. Jacobs & Co. for theextract from Booker T. Washington's "Frederick Douglass"; to P. B.Bromfield for permission to use passages from "The Biography of HenryWard Beecher"; to the late Booker T. Washington for permission toreprint extracts from "Up From Slavery"; to Judge Ben. B. Lindsey forpermission to reprint from "The Beast."
CONTENTS
ORATORS AND REFORMERS
DEMOSTHENES
The Orator Who Stammered
ELIHU BURRITT
"The Learned Blacksmith"
JOHN B. GOUGH
The Conquest of a Bad Habit
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The Slave Who Stole Freedom
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The Boy Who Half-heartedly Joined the Church
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
The Boy Who Slept Under the Sidewalk
BEN. B. LINDSEY
The Man Who Fights the Beast
DEMOSTHENES
(384-322 B. C.)
THE ORATOR WHO STAMMERED
Modern critics are fond of discriminating between talent and genius.The fire of genius, it seems, will flame resplendent even in spite ofan unworthy possessor's neglect. But the man with talent which mustbe carefully cherished and increased if he would attain distinction byits help—that man is the true self-helper to whom our hearts go out insympathy. Every schoolboy knows that Demosthenes practised declamationon