with great interest.

He purchased a copy as soon as he could get the necessary sum of money and thus was early instilled into his soul a taste for poetry in the writing of which he was destined to attain such eminence. The translation of "Gotz von Berlichengen" was Scott's first literary effort and this work, Carlyle says, had a very large and lasting influence on the great novelist's future career. In his opinion this translation was "the prime cause of 'Marmion' and the 'Lady of the Lake,' with all that has followed from the same creative hand. Truly a grain of seed that had lighted in the right soil. For if not firmer and fairer, it has grown to be taller and broader than any other tree; and all nations of the earth are still yearly gathering of its fruit."

Thus we see how much there is in life for those who observe their surroundings, who read the directions on the guide-posts, who study the guidebooks and who are wise enough to receive and to utilize the advice and suggestions that are everywhere offered them, and which their reason tells them are good.

CHAPTER X

REAL SUCCESS

"BOY Wanted."

Are you the boy?

If you have carefully read and digested the foregoing chapters you have a pretty clear understanding of the sort of boy the world prefers for a life partner. You have learned that you must

Ask no favors of "luck,"- win your way like a

man;

Be active and earnest and plucky;

Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh, how lucky!"

In studying the history of the lives of successful men we are constantly being impressed with the thought that they make the most out of their surroundings, whatever their surroundings may be. They do not wait for a good chance to

a

Resolve to cultivate cheerful spirit, a smiling countenance, and a soothing voice. The sweet smile, the subdued speech, the hopeful mind, are earth's most potent conquerors, and he who cultivates them becomes a very master - HUB

among men.

BARD.

They also serve

succeed; they take such chances as they who only stand and can get and make them good. We very soon learn that

wait. MILTON.

Two things fill me with awe: the starry heavens above, and the moral sense within.- KANT.

The realities of to

day surpass the ideals of yesterday. FROTHINGHAM.

The person who considers everything will never decide on anything.-ITAlian.

The ones who shall win are the ones who will toil;
The future is all in our keeping;

Though fortune may give us the seed and the soil,
We must still do the sowing and reaping.

We learn, also, that one may achieve a full measure of success without accumulating much money, and may accumulate much money without achieving success. "Mere wealth is no more success than fools' gold is real gold," says one of our wise essayists. "Collaterals do not take the place of character. A man obtains thousands or millions of dollars by legal or illegal thieving, and society, instead of sending him to prison, receives him in its parlors. Men bow low when he passes, as in the fable the people bowed to the golden idols that were strapped on the back of a donkey, who was ass enough to swell with pride. in the thought that all this reverence was for him. The man who puts his trust in gold and deposits his heart in the bank, and thinks money means success, is like the starving traveler in the desert, who, seeing a bag in the distance, found in it, instead of food which he sought, nothing but gold, and flung it from him in disappointment, and died for want of some

thing that could save his life. The soul will starve if gold alone administers to

Nobody can carry three watermelons un

its needs. Better to be a man than merely der one arm.-SPAN

a millionaire. Better to have a head and
heart than merely houses and lands."
It is along such lines of thinking that
I offer these thoughts

ON GETTING RICH

Get riches, my boy! Grow as rich as you can;
'Tis the laudable aim of each diligent man
Of life's many blessings his share to secure,
Nor go through this world ill-conditioned and poor.

Get riches, my boy! Ah, but hearken you, mind!
Get riches, but those of the genuine kind.
Get riches, not dollars and acres unless
You thoughtfully use them to brighten and bless.

Get riches, not such as with money are bought,
But those that with love and high thinking are
wrought;

Get rubies of righteousness, jewels of grace,
Whose brightness Time's passing shall never efface.

Get riches! Do not, as the foolish will do,
In getting your money let money get you

To steal life's high purpose from heart and from head
And prison the soul in a pocket instead.

Get riches! Get gold that is pure and refined;
Get light from above; get the love of mankind;
Get gladness through all of life's journey; and then
Get heaven, forever and ever. Amen.

ISH.

When men speak

ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.-PLATO.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-being and well-doing, and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.SAMUEL SMILES.

The wide-awake boy will see the advantage of carrying in his thought these words of Lavater: "He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man."

The man of words and not of thoughts
Is like a great long row of naughts.

"There is a gift beyond the reach of art, of being eloquently silent," says Bovee, and Caroline Fox tells us that "the silence which precedes words is so much grander than the grandest words because in it are created those thoughts of which words are the mere outward clothing." To speak to no purpose is as idle as the clanging of tinkling cymbals.

A thoughtful man will never set
His tongue a-going and forget
To stop it when his brain has quit
A-thinking thoughts to offer it.

"If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once," says Penn, "thou wilt speak twice the better for it."

It is this matter of thinking, of con