MAXEY. 



GRACE GREELEY'S advice 

 to young men to ' Go West ' 

 has doubtless done much good, 

 but it has also worked some 

 harm. Many young men, 

 fired with a lively but indefin- 

 ite ambition, have rushed west- 

 ward, only to be swallowed in 

 the maelstrom of that wild, 

 hurrying life. Some have there 

 found their fortunes without losing their sense of 

 honor, while others have gained material success but 

 lost their spiritual legacies. 



Fortunately for Herbert Euston, he did not be- 

 long to the latter class. The same spirit of natural 

 nobility which inspired him in boyhood sustained him 

 in after years ; and he went to the mining regions 

 of the West, well protected against its moral malaria. 

 He looked over the field carefully, and finally 



