scorning its difficulties.

Honesty has been talked of ever since the writing of the Ten Commandments, and long before. There are many false reputations, and not a few big fortunes, built on dishonesty. There are some men who might have been rich if they had been dishonest, but who are poor now. But be sure that real success comes only to the honest man, to the man who thinks and works and treats other men honestly.

Whatever you do has got to be done absolutely by the exercise of your own will power: if you deceive yourself, blaming others instead of yourself, you will never get ahead. You must be your own most severe judge. It is not sufficient to wish for success or to admire the qualities that make success. You must develop those qualities and use them.

There is one feature of real success about which we shall say little. That is unselfishness. It is the greatest, highest quality of all-although the usual talkers on success do not mention it. Unselfishness enters into our modern calculations but little. Yet, any man who would be truly great in his achievements must have for inspiration an unselfish desire to be of use to other men. He may pile up millions, but he will not be one of the world's really great men unless guided by the consciousness that a man's first duty and last duty is to try to make others better off and happier for his having lived on the earth.

Where "the fire of talent smoulders," it usually bursts into flame and shows itself.

That "Pulls" You

A man believes that he is pulling a big load, when he is simply part of the harness. Another and bigger power is pulling him.

DRAW in your mind this picture of a performance at the circus.

A wagon is heavily loaded with twenty human beings. Traces are bound to the loaded wagon and are fastened to the arms of a young man. That man with only his own strength could not possibly pull the load.

But in front of the young man stands a carefully trained elephant. For that elephant, able to pull three freight cars, the load is nothing.

The elephant is harnessed, and the traces fastened to his powerful shoulders are united in a soft, carefully cushioned pad at the back of the performer's neck.

When all is ready the partner of the man hitched to the wagon gives the order to the elephant. If the big animal should move too rapidly, if he should fail to start slowly and gently, he might possibly break the performer's neck.

But, intelligent as well as powerful, the big beast leans slowly forward until he has set the wheels of the wagon rolling, then goes along at a slow walk, pulling the man, who in his turn pulls the wagon.

It may seem almost unbelievable that a man could stand this strain upon the back of his neck, and that

loaded wagon, even with the elephant pulling him.

But there is no difficulty about it. Any young man of ordinary strength could perform this feat-the principal thing was to have the idea, and to realize how fascinating it would be to the public to watch the elephant pulling the man by the neck, and the man pulling a wagon and twenty human beings with his

arms.

If at play in a tug-of-war you have pulled against a number of other men, you know that the muscles of the body are capable of withstanding a strain much greater than that which they are capable of exerting.

For instance, if you have in your nerves and muscles and in the leverage of your body power enough to pull one thousand pounds, you could easily pull, as this man does, several times as much if there were a power ahead of you dragging you on.

The only thing necessary is to have the elephant hitched up in front to do the pulling.

Take away the elephant and the harness back of the man's neck, and you would see, apparently, a marvelous thing. You would see one slightly built young man pulling twenty others. If you saw this without seeing the elephant-if the elephant and his harness were made invisible, and you saw this young man walking around drawing such a load-you would believe in miracles or believe that the man had some force above humanity. Many a man gets the credit for pulling a load that he is not pulling at all.

Many a man seems to be doing something very won

That "Pulls" You

A man believes that he is pulling a big load, when he is simply part of the harness. Another and bigger power is pulling him.

DRAW in your mind this picture of a performance at the circus.

A wagon is heavily loaded with twenty human beings. Traces are bound to the loaded wagon and are fastened to the arms of a young man. That man with only his own strength could not possibly pull the load.

But in front of the young man stands a carefully trained elephant. For that elephant, able to pull three freight cars, the load is nothing.

The elephant is harnessed, and the traces fastened to his powerful shoulders are united in a soft, carefully cushioned pad at the back of the performer's neck.

When all is ready the partner of the man hitched to the wagon gives the order to the elephant. If the big animal should move too rapidly, if he should fail to start slowly and gently, he might possibly break the performer's neck.

But, intelligent as well as powerful, the big beast leans slowly forward until he has set the wheels of the wagon rolling, then goes along at a slow walk, pulling the man, who in his turn pulls the wagon.

It may seem almost unbelievable that a man could stand this strain upon the back of his neck, and that

loaded wagon, even with the elephant pulling him.

But there is no difficulty about it. Any young man of ordinary strength could perform this feat-the principal thing was to have the idea, and to realize how fascinating it would be to the public to watch the elephant pulling the man by the neck, and the man pulling a wagon and twenty human beings with his

arms.

If at play in a tug-of-war you have pulled against a number of other men, you know that the muscles of the body are capable of withstanding a strain much greater than that which they are capable of exerting.

For instance, if you have in your nerves and muscles and in the leverage of your body power enough to pull one thousand pounds, you could easily pull, as this man does, several times as much if there were a power ahead of you dragging you on.

The only thing necessary is to have the elephant hitched up in front to do the pulling.

Take away the elephant and the harness back of the man's neck, and you would see, apparently, a marvelous thing. You would see one slightly built young man pulling twenty others. If you saw this without seeing the elephant-if the elephant and his harness were made invisible, and you saw this young man walking around drawing such a load-you would believe in miracles or believe that the man had some force above humanity.

Many a man gets the credit for pulling a load that he is not pulling at all.

Many a man seems to be doing something very won