and at the end of that time the damaged volume came into the youthful Abraham's absolute possession. It was a long way from those rude surroundings to the presidential chair in the White House at Washington, but "with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right," he made the journey to the glory of himself and the American people.

What a fine demonstration of the power and efficacy of self-help! It is quite enough to convince any boy that there is no difficulty he cannot overcome when once he has formed an invincible partnership between

"MYSELF AND I"

Myself and I close friends have been
Since 'way back where we started.
We two, amid life's thick and thin,
Have labored single-hearted.

In every season, wet or dry,

Or fair or stormy weather,

We've joined our hands, myself and I,
And just worked on together.

Though many friends have been as kind
And loving as a brother,

Myself and I have come to find
Our best friends in each other,

For while to us obscure and small

May seem the tasks they bend to, We've learned our fellow-men have all They and themselves can tend to.

Myself and I, and we alone,

You and yourself, good neighbor, Each in his self-determined zone

Must find his field of labor.

That prize which men have called "success"

Has joy nor pleasure in it

To satisfy the soul unless
Myself and I shall win it.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.- PYTHAGORAS.

The only amaranthine flower is virtue. -CowPER.

Dr. Arnold, whose long experience with youth at Rugby gave weight to his opinion, declared that "the difference between one boy and another consists not so much in talent as in energy." "The longer I live," says Sir Thomas Buxton, another student of human character, "the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination, an honest purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. This quality will do anything in the world; y and no talents, no circumstances, will make a two-legged creature a man without it."

Says an old Latin proverb: "Oppor

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. BEACONSFIELD.

The only knowledge that a man has is the knowledge he can use.-MACAULAY.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a hu

tunity has hair in front, but is bald behind. Seize him by the forelock."

When Thomas A. Edison went out into the world to make his way, he had received only two months' regular schooling, but his mother had early impressed upon his mind the thought that he must atone for his lack of school training by developing a taste for reading. His biographers tell us that the "Penny Encyclopedia" and Ure's "History of the Sciences" were in his hands at a time when most boys, having become acquainted with stories of adventure, look for mystery in every bush and resolve to become man soul.-ADDISON, pirates and Indian fighters. There are many stories of his early acuteness. One relates how when a boy of twelve or fourteen he was employed in selling papers on a railroad train in Michigan, and upon receiving advance news of a battle of the Rebellion fought at that time he secured fifteen hundred papers on credit, telegraphed the headlines to the stations along the route, and sold his wares at a premium. It was after this exploit that he conceived the idea of starting a noble deed. CICERO. daily paper of his own. Securing some old type from the "Detroit Free Press,"

There is a sufficient recompense in the very consciousness of

he set up his establishment in a car and began the publication of the "Grand Trunk Herald," the first newspaper ever published on a train. He also installed in the car a laboratory for making experiments in chemistry, and both his newspaper and his experiments flourished until one unlucky day when he set fire to the car with phosphorus. This was too much for the conductor who promptly threw the young editor and scientist with all his belongings out on the station platform, and in addition boxed his ears so roughly as to cause him to be ever after partly deaf. But misfortune could not dampen his ardor. His lack of

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.-GEORGE ELIOT.

The secret of success in life is for a man

to be ready for his

schooling was more than atoned for by opportunity when it his grit, ambition and studious habits. comes.-DISRAELI. With the possession of these qualities and the disposition to make the most of spare moments, this famous physicist, chemist, mechanician, and inventor has done more for himself, and more for humanity and the advancement of civilization than any of the college-bred workers in industrial sciences during the last half-century. "Yesterday's successes belong to yester--FITZ JAmes O'Brien. day with all of yesterday's defeats and

He needs no tears who lived a noble life.

sorrows," says a present day philosopher. "The day is here! The time is now!"

RIGHT HERE AND JUST NOW

"If I'd 'a' been born," says Sy Slocum to me,
"In some other far-away clime,

Or if I could 'a' had my existence," says he,
"In some other long-ago time,

I know I'd 'a' flourished in pretty fine style

And set folks a-talkin', I 'low,

But what troubles me is there's nothin' worth while

A-doin' right here and just now."

"Them folks that can dwell in a country," says Sy,
"Where they don't have no winter nor storm,
And the weather ain't ready to freeze 'em or fry,
By gettin' too cold or too warm,

Have got all the time that they want to sit down
And think out a project so great

That it's just about certain to win 'em renown
And bring 'em success while they wait."

Good times will come back to our planet, I 'low,
When I've faded out of the scene;

But it hurts me to think that right here and just

now

Is a sorry betwixt and between.”