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Thinking Dangerous. Public Ledger: Cholly—I was think tog of a trip to Boston. Snappey—Better be careful. You're j Hot accustomed to that sort of thing. Cholly—Oh! I'm not sure of going. I \ •ay I was merely thinking of It. Snappey—That's what I mean. You're j not accustomed to thinking. A High Charger. Courier-Journal: McFlub—Dr. Hip rice says he never likes to treat a pa tient with a weak heart action. Sleeth—I don't blame him. He's liable to lose that kind of a'patient the' in- j •tant he presents his bill. He Was a Dime In. Minneapolis Journal: In an address to * woman's club, Francis Wilson, ;; apropos of high prices at the theater, •aid: “High prices would indeed be baneful If they always brought out man's worst nature as they did in the case of an eld erly janitor. He was complaining to a friend of the theaters' rapacity. “ 'Last week,' he said ‘me and the wife started out to see "Her One Sin,” and when I laid down 50 cents for two •eats in the top gnllery, the ticket sell er said he wanted 30 cents more, be cause durln' the engagement of the One Sin company the top gallery prices was advanced from a quarter to 10 cents.' " ‘Of course,' said the Janitor's friend, 'you didn’t go in?’ " 'Oh, yes, I went in,’ said the Janitor, ‘but I sent the wife home, and so, through the theater's blamed greedi ness, I put a dime in my pocket." Arriving at a Verdict. Kushequa, Pa„ July 10.—(Special.)— In this section of Pennsylvania there Is a growing belief that for such Kid ney Diseases as Rheumatism and Dame Back there Is only one sure cure and that Is Dodd's Kidney Pills. This belief grows from such eases as that of Mrs. M L. Davison crt this place. Bhe tells the story herself as follows: •'I have suffered from Rheumatism for thirty years and find that Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me more good than any medicine I have ever taken. I was also bothered with Lame Back and I can only say that my back hasn’t twthered me since I took Dodd's Kid ney Pills." Considering that Mrs. Davison only took two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the result would be considered wonder ful if It were not that others are re porting similar results dally. Kushe qua Is fast arriving at a verdict that “Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the one sure cure for Rheumatism.” Plenty to the Consumer. Paducah, Ky . News-Democrat: It la true, ae Mr. Bryan says, that It la too far ahead to say what will be done In 1908, and, more than that, what Is of particular Interest Is what Is being dona to the consumer In 1905. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake Into year shoe* Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns. Bun ions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At • II Druggists and Shos Stores, ‘j5/\ Sample lent FKEB. Addrese Allen 8. Olmsted, 1* ■Hoy, N. X. Lawyers' Fees. New York World: The fee of "a cool •million," which Wall street guesses that William Nelson Cromwell will get for his services as counsel for the Pan ama Canal company, may not be re garded as exorbitant. The safe guid ance of the Interests of the "French company" during Intricate negotiations called for legal skill of the kind which attains Ita highest development In cor- ' poratlon practice. This, It le believed, Is the highest figure In lawyers’ fees, realizing In cash what Max Pam was to have received in "collateral" for his “services" in the Bethlehem shipbuilding trust affair. Its •tie is significant of the commercial ex pansion of the past quarter of a cen tury. The $400,000 received by John B. Parsons for organising the sugar trust, deemed excessive at the time but jus tified by the law-defying substantiality of the world, would not today excite comment. •Crime no longer holds out such legal /rewards as are offered by commerce. The lawyers who defended Whitaker •Wright got only about $25,000 for their ■services. Canfield was reputed to have /paid John B. Stanchfleld $30,000 for dls •solving the Injunction against him. • John Q. Carlisle got $25,000 for his con duct of the Preston Beal cose before •the Kentucky court of appeals. In the ■scale of fees these correspond only to •those paid In the lesser litigation of •corporations not yet expanded to trust i size. Suits Involving large estate yield ^■counsel returns partly commensurate. " Flske will case against Cornell •slty cost the heirs $400,000. The ses In the Fair will case are e amounted to $800,000. higher rate of legal 'lcated In the coun wed by the court Hut Mr. to be a the av~ ng law. I THE MASTER OF APPLEBY; j » ■ -J:-.- ■■:•■ .. .J=a By Fr^nci* Lynd*. ■=:-■■—s-sg..::—j— . j— - .::_■ < I CHAPTER XVII.—Continued. At this, as one sees a landscape struck out clear and vivid by the light ning's flash, I saw the true meaning or the word the hunter had brought—saw It and went upon my knees to grope blindly for the sword I had let fall when Dick had found the arrow. "What is It, Jack?'' he asked, gently. “My sword!” I gasped. “We should have been half way there by this. Yeates was misled. 'Tis Falconnet she fears. She was at bay—hark you, at bay and fair desperate. That word of hers to the baronet was her poor pitiful defiance built on her trust In us, and we'have lain here--" He found the sword and thrust it Into my hand crying: “Come on! You can strew the dust and ashes on me later. You-sald you loved her the better, and I do believe It now, Jack! You trusted her, as I did not. We’ll fight as one man to cut her out of this coll, whatever It may be; and after that Is done I’ll make my bow and leave you a fair field." "Nay, nay; that you shall not. Dick.” I began; but he was half-way through the narrow passage to the open, trail ing the ancient broadsword and the bearskin from his bed; and I was fain to follow quickly, leaving the protest all unfinished. CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH WE HEAR NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. As near as might bo guessed, it wanted yet an hour or two of daybreak when we made a landing within the boundaries of Appleby Hundred, and beached and hid the pirogue in the bushes. Of the down-stream flitting through the small hours of the warm midsum mer night there Is no sharp-etched pic ture on the memory page. As I recall It, no spoken word of Jennifer's or mine came in to break the rhythm of the hasting voyage. Our paddles lose and fell, dipping and sweeping In unison as if we two, kneeling in bow and stern, wore separate halves of some relentless mechanism driven by a single impulse. Overhead the starlit dome circled sol emnly to the right or left to match the windings of the stream. On each hand the tree-fringed shores sped backward In the gloom; nnd beneath the light shell of poplar wood that barely kissed the ripples in passing, the river lapped and gurgled, chuckling weirdly at the padtlle plungings, and swirling aft in the longer reaches to point at us down the lengthening wake with a wavering linger eilver-tipped in the wan star light. With the canoe safely hidden at the landing place, which was some little distance from that oak grove where I had twice kept tryst with death, we set aut for the manor house, skulking In dian fashion through the wood; and, when we reached the infields, looking momently to come upon a sentry. Thinking the approaches from the road and river would be better guarded lhan that from the wood, we skirted a widespread thicket tangle, spared by my father twenty years before to be a grouse and pheasant cover, and fetch ing a compass of half a mile or more across the maize fields, came in among the oaks and hickories of the manor grounds. Still there was no sight nor sound of any enemy; no light of candles at the house, or of camp-fires beneath the trees. A little way within the grove, where the interlacing tree tope made the darkness like Egyptian night, Jennifer went on all fours to feel around as if In search of something on the sward. Whereat I called softly to know wbat tie would bo at. He rose, muttering, half as to him self: "I thought I’d never be so far out of reckoning.” Then to me; “A tew hours since, the Cherokees were encamped Just here. You are standing In the ashes of their fire.” “So?” said I. “Then they have gone?” “Gone from this safely enough, to be sure. They have been gone some hours; the cinders are cold and dew wet.” “So much the better,” I would say. thinking only that now there would be the fewer enemies to fight. He dipt my arm suddenly, putting the value of an oath into his gripping of it. “Come awake, man; this is no time to be a-daze!" His whisper was a sharp behest, with a shake of the gripped arm for emphasis. “If the In dians are gone, it means that the pow der train has come and gone, too.” “Well?" said I. I was still thinking, with less than a clod’s wit, that this would send the baronet captain about his master’s business, and so Margery would have surcease of him for a time, at least. But Jennifer fetched me awake with another whip-lash word or two. “Jack! has the night's work gone to your head? If Faleonnet has got his marching orders you may be sure he's tried by hook or crook to play ‘safe bind, safe find,’ with Madge. By heav en! ’twas that she was afeard of, and we are here too late! Come on!” With that he faced about and ran; id forgetting to loose ins grip on my . took me with him till I broke ,y to have may sword hand free, gunning, we earns presently to the space before the house, and, truly, s well for us that the place was deserted, for by this we had both |t the very name of prudence, rnlfer outran me to the door by l length, and fell to hammering ly on the panel with the pommel » broadsword. en! Mr. Stair; open!” he shout ween the batterings: but it was minutes before the fan-light began to show some faint gs of a candle coming from beyond. rested at that, nnd in the voice shrilled from within, runagates! Oft, I say! through the door!” i the threat, Dick n, calling out his ! old man open to of the hub ,able dick of a ’as barely :er and r-stone and a e oaken lddle, e at, iking alnst srlng _^ flint had failed to bring the firing spark, the old man had set hts piece off with the candle flame. We found him In the nook made by the turn of the stair, flung thither, as it seemed, by the recoil of the great hell-mouthed blunderbuss which he was still clutching. The fall had partly stunned him, but he was alive enough to protest feebly that he would take a dozen oatha of his loyalty to the cause; that h had mistook us for some thiev ing marauders of the other side: craft ily leaving cause and party without a name till he should have his cue from us. Whereupon Richard loosed Ills neck cloth to give him better breathing space, and bidding me see If the rev elers had left a heel-tap of wine In any bottle nearer than the wine cellar, lifted the old man and propped him In the corner of the high-backed hall settle. The wine quest led me to the ban queting room. Here disorder reigned supreme. The table stood as the rois terers had left it, the very wreck and litter of a bachanallan feast. Bottles, some with the necks struck off, were scattered all about, and the floor was stained and sticky with split wine and well sanded with shattered glass. I found a remnant draining in one of the broken bottles, and a cup to pour It In, and with this salvage from the wreck returned to Jennifer and ills charge. The old man had come to some better sensing of things—he had been vastly more fright ened than hurt, as I suspected—and to Richard's eager questionings was able to give some feebly querulous replies. yes, they’re gone—all gone, curse ern; and they've taken every plack and bawbee they could lay their thieving bands upon,” he mumbled. "’Tls like the dogs; to stay on here and eat and irink me out of house and home, and then to scurry off when I'm most like to need protection." "But Madge?" says Richard. "Is she safe 111 bed?” 'She's a jade!" was all the answer he jot. Then the old man sat up and peered around the end of the settle to where I stood, cup and bottle In hand. •'Tls a Christian thought," he quaver ed. "Clive me a sup of the wine, man.” I served him and had a Scottish plesslng for my wastefulness, because, forsooth, the broken bottle split a thim bleful In the pouring. I saw he did not -eeognlze me, and was well enough con tent to let it rest thus. Richard suffered him to drink In peace, but when the cup was empty he -enewed his asking for Margery. At :hls the master of the house, heartened lomewhat by my father's good maderla, :nade shift to get upon his feet in soma remulous fashion. "Madge, d'ye say? She’s gone; gone where neither you nor that dour-faced teevll that befooled us all will find her loon, I promise you, Dickie Jennifer!" be snapped; and I gave them my back ind stumbled blindly to the door, mak ng sure his next word would tell my poor wronged lad all U>at he should lave learned from nevePany other lips put mine own. But Richard himself parried the impending stroke of truth, laying: *. . ... __ a_m_ii cn. tls all I ask to know.” "She Is safe enough; safer by far than you are at this minute, my young 'ock-a-hoop rebel, now that the king— God save him!—has has own again.” I turned quickly on the broad door stone to look within. Out of doors the »arly August dawn was graying mlst ly over head, but In the house the sputtering tallow dip still struggled teebly with the gloom. They stood racing each other, these two, my hand some lad, the pick and choice of a :onioly race, looking, for all his tolls ind vigils, fresh and fit; and the old man In his woolen dressing gown, his wig awry, and his lean face yellow in the candle light. "How Is that you say. Mr. Stair?” says Dick. “The king—but that Is only the old Tory cry. There will never be a king again this side of the water.” The old man reached out and hooked a lean finger in the lad's buttonhole. "Say you so, Richard Jennifer? Then you will never have heard the glorious news?” This with a leer that might nave been of triumph or the mere whet ting of gossip eagerness—I could not tell. “No." says Richard, with much indif ference. "Hear It, then. 'Twas at Camden, four days since. They came together In the murk of the Wednesday morning, my Lord Cornwallis and that poor fool Gates. De Kalb Is dead; your blether ing Irishman, Rutherford. Is captured; and your ragtag rebel army Is scatter ed to the four winds. And that’s not all. On the Friday, Colonel Tarleton came up with Sumter at Fishing Creek and caught him napping. Whereupon, Charlie McDowell and the over-moun tain men, seeing all was lost, broke their camp on the Broad and took to their heels, every man jack of them for himself. So ye see, Dickie Jennifer, there’s never a cursed corporal's guard left In either Carolina to stand in the king s way." He rattled all this off glibly, like a child repeating some lesson got by heart; but when I would have found a grain of comfort in the hope that it was a farrago of Falconnet's lies, Jen nifer made the truth appear In answer to a curt question. ”'Tis beyond doubt?—all this, Mr. Stair?” The old loyalist—loyalist now, if never certainly before—sat down on the settle and laughed; a dry wizened cackle of a laugh that sounded like the crumpling of new parchment. "You’d best be off, light foot and tight foot. Master Richard, lest you learn shrewdly for yourself. ’Tls In everybody’s mouth by this. There were some five and forty of the king's friends come together here no longer ago than yestere’en to drink his majesty's health, and eh, man! but it will cost me a pretty penny! Will that satisfy ye?” "Yes," said Jennifer, thinking, may hap, as I did. that, nothing short of gospel-true news would have sufficed to unlock this poor old miser'e wine cellar. "Well, then; you’d best be oft while you may; d’ye hear? I bear ye no ill will, Richard Jennifer; and if Mr. Tarleton lays hold of you, you’ll hang higher than Haman for evading your parole, I promise you. We’ll say naught about this rape of the door-lock, though 'tls actionable, sir, and I’ll warn you the law would make you smart finely for It. But we’ll enter a nolle proseaui on that till you’re amnestied and back, then you can pay me the damage of the broken lock and we’ll cry quits.” At this nly straightforward Richard enorted in wrathful derision. However arch he loved the daughter, 'twas clear ^Uiad small regard for the father. ^Bteelng we came to do you a service, fff^Mair, I think we may set the blun ^and the handful of slugs over against the smashed door. And th*t fetches me back to our errand her*. You say Madge 1 safe. Doe* that mean that you hav* spirited her away sine* last night?" “Dlnna fash yourself* about Madge, Richard Jennifer. She's meat for your betters, sir!" rasped the old man, laps ing Into the mother tongue, ae he did now and then In fear or anger. "Still, I would know what you mean when you say she is safe,” says Rich- 1 aid, whose determination to crack a ’ nut was always proportioned to the hardness of the shell. Gilbert Stair cursed him roundly for an impertinent Jacknapes, and then gave him his answer. "’Tls none of your business, Dlekls Jennifer, but you may.know and be hanged to you! She rode home with the Wltherbys last night after the rout, ,and will be by this safe away In t’other Carolina where your cursed Whlgger les darena lift head or hand.” "Of her own free will?” Dick per sisted. "Damme! yes; bag, baggage, serving wench and all. Now will you be oft about your business before some spy ing rascal lays an Information against me for harboring you?” Richard Joined me on the door-stone. The dawn was in its twilight now, and the great trees on the lawn were tak ing gray and ghostly shapes in the dim perspective. "You heard what he had to say?" said he. I nodded. Jt 8e»ms we have missed our cue on all sides,” he went on. not without bitterness. “I would we might have had a chance to fire a shot or two be foro the ship went down." "At Camden, you mean? That's but the beginning; the real battles are all to be fought yet, I should say." He shook his head despondently. “You are a newcomer, Jack, and you know not how near outworn the coun try is. Gilbert Stair has the right of It when he says there will b nothing to stop the redcoats now.” I called to mind the resolute little handful under Captain Abram Forney, one of many such, he had told me, and would not yield the point. "There will be plenty of fighting,yet, and we must go to bear a hand where it Is needed most," said I. "Where will that be. think you? At Charlotte?" He looked at me reproachfully. "This time ’tls you who are the lag gard in love, John Ireton. Will you go and leave Mistress Margery wanting an answer to her poor little cry for help?” I shrugged. "What would you? Has she not taken her affair into her own hands?" “God knows how much or little she has had to say about it," said he. "But I mean to know, too, before I put my name on any company roll." We wer* among the trees by this, moving oft for safety's sake, since the day was com ing; and he broke oft short to wheel and face me as one v ho would throttle a growling cur before It has a chance to bite. “We know the worst of each other now, Jack, and we must stand to our compact. Let us see her safe be yond peradventure of a doubt; then I’m with you to fight the redcoats single handed, If you like. I know what you will say—that the country calls us now more than ever; but thers must needs be some rallying Interval after all this disaster, and—" "Have done, Richard,” said I, "Set the pace and mayhap I can keep step with you. What do you propose?” “This; that we go to Wltherby Hall and get speech with Mistress Madgt, If so be—” “Stay a momsnt; who ars thess Wltherbys?" “A dyed-ln-the-wool Tory family seated some ten miles across the line In York district. True, 'tie a rank Tory hotbed over there, and we shall run some risk." •Clever name risk to me if you love me, Richard Jennifer!” I broke In. "What Is your plan?” His answer was prompt and to the point. "To press on afoot through the forest till we come to the York settle ment; then to borrow a pair of Tory horses and ride like gentlemen. Are you game for It?" I hesitated. "I see no great risk In all this, and whatever the hazard, ’tls less for one than for two. You’d best go alone, Richard.” He saw my meaning; that I would stand aside and let him be her succor If she needed help. But he would not have It so. "No." he said, doggedly. "We’ll go together, and she shall choose between us for a champion, if she Is In the hum or to honor either of us. That is what ’twill come to in the end; and I warn you fairly, John Ireton, I shall neither give nor take advantage In this strife. I said last night that I would stand aside, but that I can not—not till she herself says the killing word with her own lips.” “And that world will be—?” "That she loves another man. Come; let us be at It; we should be well out of this before the plantation people are astir.” (Continued Next Week.) u / A Bad Habit. She—Dick married a grass widow. He—Dick always was up against green goods. Judge Shay of New York was travel ing In Ireland, and on one occasion was obliged to sleep on an Irishman In a crowded hotel, when the following conversation ensued: "Pat, you would have remained In the old country a long time before yott could have slept with a judge, would you not?” "Yes, your honor,” said Pat, "and I think your honor would have been a long time In the ould country before he'd been a Judge, too.” Agricultural Implements exported from the United States last yeag amounted to $21,000,000 In value. DINNER TIME AT A GREAT AQUARIUM Over 2,000 Submarine Cap* tives in the New York Institution. REPRESENTS 213 SPECIES Nearly 5,000 People Are on Hand Daily to Watch the Feeding of This Enormous Collection. St. Louis Republic; The New York Aquarium Just now is one of the city’s most popular and interesting show places. Over 2,000 submarine captives, representing 213 different species of various sizes, strange and unfamiliar In shape and brilliant in coloring, dls__ port themselves in the 100 wall tank's and spacious floor pools, forming a never-changing panorama of deep-sea life, the largest to be seen anywhere in the world. Nearly 4,454 daily, or, in round num bers, 1,625,770 persons the last year, passed through its doors to study and view these live wonders of nature. The attendance is probably not equaled by any other institution in the world. The present director, Mr. C. H. Townsend, has carried on Important scientific re searches for the government, especially in the fishing and fur sealing indus tries. He is recognized as the leading authority on these and kindred sub jects relating to marine life. Two years ago the aquarium was turned over to the management of the New York Zoological society. Many Innovations have been introduced, which now afford the most palatial and up-to-date home for exhibiting fishes In existence. One of the busiest places in the aquarium which is not generally seen by visitors is the fishes’ kitchen. Here, from morning until the middle of the afternoon the steward is kept hard at work preparing the daily menu for the vast crowd of piscatorial boarders. All of the food is first class, and is kept fresh and cold in a large ice chest, and when ready for use is placed in var ious tin receptacles. Several attend ants devote the best part of the after noon to serving out the rations. The food is varied to suit the size of the specimen, and consists of beef (sliced, chopped or minced), liver, fish (cod and herring mostly) and clams. All the fish in the markets are headed and eviscerated before us. The cod and herring are halved, the backbone deftly removed with one sweep of the knife. The rest of the flesh is cut into strips at different lengths. In summer a great deal of live food, such as min nows, marine angle worms, small crabs and crustaceans, such as sand hoppers, ] Is used, being better for the collection In general. In winter marketable food stuffs are largely consumed. A special collector is kept busy the year round foraging in adjacent bays and ocean shores to keep the fishes’ larder well stocked. The average board bill for the aquarium’s guests for a month is *100. Some New Arrivals. • Among the chief specimens of the lquarlum at present, from its size as well as from the fact that it is almost new to the general eye, is the curious sea cow, or manatee, from Lake Worth, j Fla., probably the only one in captivity. The animals in their , wild habitat are very shy and j cautious, disappearing immediately ( upon approach. Owing to their pecu liar tropical habits, they are given spe cial treatment and care, such as a suit- , able warm temperature, between 70 ( and 72 degrees, for the water of their - pool and a sufficient quantity of nour ishing food. Eel grass and lettuce leaves strongly tempt their appetite. The former, however, is used in more abundance when obtainable; a bucket ful is usually given for a meal. The manatee is a female, eight and one-half feet long, weighing 600 pounds, and was captured by “Alliga tor Joe” at Palm Beach in a large drag seine of extra strong manila hemp, made for the purpose. Numerous at tempts were made at different times for a month, and seven manatees escaped and broke through the net be fore one was finally obtained. The fe- j . male was placed about June of the last . year in a tile-lined pool, twenty fee* long by thirteen feet wide, with ^ depth of four feet of water. The latte* |s renewed nightly. The feeding of the animal is Watched with unusual interest by the visitor® Mr. W. De Nyse, with a suspended landful of eel grass, cap coax thi manatee to raise her head and neck i completely out of the water. Seacows have a peculiar structure! ■< having no front teeth, hind limbs or| hip bones, but a huge beaverlike tail Their bones are said to be the heaviest known among mammals. The best! view of the creature Is obtained wher; the water Is drained from the pool fof| tank cleaning, when the whole form is j strikingly outlined against the white, tiling. The home of the seacow in the United States Is limited to the Indian j River lagoons of the east coast of Flor [da. Other species are found in various ; tropical regions. In captivity they live seldom longer than five or six months but the present specimen has survived nine months. The care and express transportatloi on such a large individual is consider able, and almost equals its sale value ^ A huge tank was constructed and filled with just enough water to float the [ massive body. mu __-t_. !— votnEoRlir til A Anil The seahorse is probably the only fish with a prehensile tail. He uses this In a monkeylike fashion, constantly anchoring himself to weeds, stones and sticks. The position of the body la usually vertical, especially in swim- | mlng. They are found all along th« American coast, from Cape Cod tc South Carolina. There Is, however, one remarkable feature about them, little known generally. Contrary to the rest of the animal world, the eggs while hatching are carried by the male in a pouch, and the young are said to re turn to this for shelter. Hundreds, probably thousands, of baby indi viduals are thus transported around by the paternal member of the family in his strange incubating pocket, while Mrs. Seahorse, released of care, roams fancy free. The clever maneuvers of the two little harbor seals from the Maine coast, come In for a great share of the popular Interest. One of these was yhown at the World's Fair at St. Louis. They are hearty eaters, and devour •trips of cod and herring for their luncheon. These are usually thrown Into the pool, but are oftentimes, when the seals come high on the platform, suspended over their heads for a moment and then eagerly snapped at. The seals are rapidly disappearing from our coast. Owing to their ravages on the fish many of the New England states offer a bounty of from $1 to J3 for their destruction in order to pro i tect the fishing industry'. I HOW TO WIN SUCCES& — Governor Douglas of Maseachnaetta Gives Advice to Boys. From a place at the cobbler’s bench at a mere pittance, William L. Douglas has risen to the highest executive po sition in the State of Massachusetts, that of Governor, and has made him self a millionaire. His rules and pre cepts of success are given by hins through the Boston Sunday American. The Governor is interested In boya and declares that these rules are given for the benefit of boys. The Governor says; Recently, in talking to a delegation of bright-faced boys, I told them that they, should, in order to make the most of life, obey the old maxim, "Stick to your last.’* If you don’t you’ll find that old ogre, called trouble, bobbing up in your path way every now and then, and you’ll never get to be on speaking terms with success. Fortune, you know, favors the brave. In the battle of life the really brave man is the one with courage enough to "stick to his last” in the face of early rebuffs and temporary reverses. He’s the fellow who will eventually be able to laugh at trouble aud to get chum my with success. What would you thinis of a shoemaker who, after making part of a shoe on one last, became dissatis fied and started another shoe on a dif ferent last, keeping up this method until he had finally spent all his money for stock and had nothing but a lot of half finished shoes to show for it. Foolish! way to do, isn’t it? But it’s no more foolish than for a youag man to tackle a new line of business every little while until he grows too old to learu any busi ness thoroughly. Everything in nature is fitted to do one thing well and spends its whole life do ing it. You never hear of the ant going into the honey-making business; nor of the bee building ant hills for a change. Each one knows its place in the world and sticks to it, and that is what boy» must do if they would accomplish great things. Nearly every boy at an early, age displays an aptitude for something, and if that aptitude is properly devel oped the process of selecting a last is simplified. And remember always to keep your ambition up to the top notch. Whatever you do, try to do it better than the other fellow. At school make it a point to stand at the head of your class: and at play don’t be satisfied until you can jump the farthest or throw the straightest. Then when, you enter busi ness life this matter of getting ahead will become a habit. Now another thing to think about i» this: Don’t try to do what you like—do what you can. That’s a good compan ion piece for “stick to your last.” Don’t1 let the attraction of something you don't know lure you away from the thing you do. Do what you cau and stick to it. That’s wisdom. Poor Fellow. Public Ledger: “Yes, he's in college,, but he's not very bright." “No? What studies has he taken, up?” "Greek and stenography, and the Greek characters and the shorthand; symbols have got him so balled up that he can't tell one from the other." His Fourteenth. 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