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noting who has worked for their interests, and the unfaithful ones 

 are the first to go. Can you watch with eye and ear open and 

 keep up " a terrible thinking," but keep a close mouth? This is 

 a valuable qualification in a man, in a woman and boy as well, 

 but a little rarer. 



Have you accomplishments, which you think grand, in the way 

 of chewing tobacco, or twirling a cigar, playing billiards ? Do 

 you think it manly to drink beer, and can you boast of having 

 drank something stronger? The ones to whom you apply may 

 ask you, and you with crimson face will be for once ashamed, for 

 you realize that the situation wants none such. If you feel the 

 need of doing something, do not stand idly waiting for weeks or 

 months; fall in with the humble work you may be able to find 

 Dear at hand. It may seem but a thread as it were at first, but 

 pull away ; at the end of that, you may find a twine, and then a 

 tiny rope, then a stout cable, at last the long hoped for position, 

 that you may well be proud of. Strict attention to whatever you 

 undertake will always be required. Do not overlook or forget 

 trifles. The boy who will tidy up around his desk, who will fold 

 up the sheets of wrapping paper that have been thrown down in 

 the hurry and not leave them to be swept out with the rubbish ; 

 the boy who can pick up stray tools and return them to their 

 proper places without being told to do it; who is always watch- 

 ful that nothing in which his employer is interested goes to waste 

 through any neglect of his, is the boy who is wanted. Do you be 

 that, young man, for fortune is for those who by diligence, hon- 

 esty, frugality, place themselves in a position to grasp hold of it 

 when it appears in view. Commodore Vanderbilt said: "There 

 is no secret for success in life; all you have to do is to attend to 

 your own business, and go ahead, except one thing; never tell 

 what you are going to do 'till you have done it." 



Our daughters should be as carefully taught to do for them- 

 selves, as our sons. If they are fortune's favored ones and never 

 have to make practical use of all their knowledge, very well ; if 

 ever reverses in fortune's wheel do come, they are the ones the 

 more to be pitied unless they have had this training. Many a 

 parent's heart has ached at the situation they find their delicately 



