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Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879 TWO men lived in the same town a century ago; they knew the same people and had an equal chance in life. One spent all his spare hours in idle talk or with the daily paper; he knew nothing beyond the day's news. The other brought to every subject a wealth of sidelight and illustration that kindled the interest of men and women, no matter where he went. The name of the first man has long since been forgotten; the name of the other, the humble clerk in a country store, will live forever. He talked like a man who had traveled, though his travels were confined to a few backwoods counties. He knew something of history and biography, of the work of great philosophers, poets and dramatists. What was the secret of his wide range of knowledge? How can a man who must work every day in a routine job find time to make himself so interesting to other men and women? 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