id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 20064 Parton, James Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money .txt text/plain 92725 4368 73 carpenters to work upon a new church, and one of these men, having left held that in this country the entire people are one great working class, John Harrison lived to the good old age of eighty-three years. Poor boys had a hard time of it in New England eighty years ago. his new place; and scarcely a day passed during his first year when he farmer, thirty years of age, cultivating with great success his own farm can work in a cotton mill ten hours a day for years at a stretch, years old worked regularly fourteen hours a day, with but half an hour's In two years the young men were selling fifty or sixty thousand pounds' the year in London, working night and day as a member of Parliament. By the time he was fifteen years old he had of business in the good old times. ./cache/20064.txt ./txt/20064.txt