ing his good judgment with his capital, making an opening for many industries and many homes, that man should be encouraged and rewarded to the full.

He is a very small man who envies the success of the legitimate higher worker. He should rejoice in that success and wish that it might be greater.

The great, heavy ball of progress needs a great deal of pushing, and there is room on its surface for every man, woman and child to push unceasingly.

We should honor the man whose persistent plodding does most of the work in the long run. We should honor also those whose big, individual conceptions have done so much.

Incidentally, each of us ought to question himself and ask himself whether he is pushing and doing his little share, or just sitting about and watching others work,

Keep your head clear, with regular sleep, hard thinking, wise living, constant observation.

Start now, young man, ahead of the others, and they will never catch up-if you stick to it.

It is not special brilliancy that makes success, but persistency.

What men want to do, they can do. They want gold, and they get it, wherever it is. Prove that gold is at the North Pole, 1,000 Pearys will arise, and corpses will mark the road to the new gold fields.

Poverty-the Great Curse

Clutching hands represent the grip of poverty, the grasp in which debt holds you, the powerful curse that keeps men miserable and anxious. Poverty is slavery. Fight it.

YOUNG men, and old men, fight poverty as you would fight slavery. Ask the old and they will tell you that poverty is the great, widespread curse.

Not wealth is necessary to happiness, but freedom from poverty that grinds, poverty that worries, poverty that makes a man the slave of any man who has a dollar -that is necessary to happiness.

You have seen pictures of slave-traders rushing through the African forests and poor blacks fleeing before them.

What the slave-catcher was to the black man on the Gold Coast, poverty is to you today.

If you are young, if the dollars slip through your fingers, and you feel that the future will take care of itself-think about it for a while.

The grasping hand of poverty is above every man; every man lives in danger of this powerful clutch unless he has regulated his life with wisdom-and actually lives today in such a way as will make it impossible for poverty's grip to seize him.

The word "mortgage," which means "a death pledge," is a curse upon many homes and many lives.

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There never lived a man who never had a chance." Dr. Chas. P. Steinmetz came into this world severely handicapped by nature. But he overcame all obstacles by sheer will and ambition and today he is one of the greatest scientists in the world-whose name will live forever.

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It makes men, women and children homeless. It turns old age into the streets. It is merciless and cruel as in the old, primitive times, when death itself could be made the penalty for failure to pay the death pledge.

Death in thousands of cases would be more merciful, less painful, than the mortgage against which men fight year after year, paying out interest, struggling, hoping, and at last giving in.

Keep out of poverty-keep out of debt.

The dollar you spend so quickly today, the other dollar tomorrow, and the day after, might mean later independent manhood, power to control your time, direct your career.

Money enough-though it be but ten cents a day more than you spend-means freedom, independence, the right to look any man in the eye as his equal.

And poverty, debt, the spending of ever so little more than you actually have, means slavery now, anxiety, humiliation in the future.

Poverty deprives children of education—and so it means ignorance.

Poverty deprives children of care and good foodand so it means disease.

Poverty takes away men's courage, drives them to despair, makes them seek relief wherever it can be found -and so poverty means drunkenness.

Whenever you find men miserable, poor and underpaid you will find ignorance and drunkenness.

Wherever you better conditions and lift the weight of poverty, drunkenness and ignorance diminish.