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Economy.
A Small Leak Will Sink a Great Ship--The Little Cloud Arising out of the
Sea Waxes into the Storm that Lashes the Trembling Ocean--The People
with Small Wages Can Often Save the Most Money--You Cannot Spend Your
Money Without the Righteous Criticism of Others--How Young Men Spend
Much of Their Extra Cash--Rural Saloons--A Gallon of Whiskey--What It is
Actually Worth--What It is Sold For--Ordinary Profits of Legitimate
Business--Tobacco--What Three Years' Savings Will Do for a Man in
America--A Good Wagoner Can Turn in a Little Room--When You Buy a Horse
Reckon on What He Will Eat Instead of What His Price Is--Save all You
Can--Harness It up and Make It Pull in Interest. Page 88.
Courage.
Adversity's Lamp--Youth Has Great need of Courage--It should be
Long-Suffering Rather than Intrepid--You Must Gain the Battle by Taking
Sudden Advantages--You Must Hurl 10,000 Men Against 2,000 Before Your
Enemy Can Be Reinforced--Story of a Young Man Who Broke Through the
Enemy's Lines at Chicago--His Low Wages--His Bad Prospects--Reading the
Bible and Plutarch--Studying French--The Attempt to Become an
Actor--Dismal Failure--Difficulty of Conquering Wounded Pride--The
Return to "Hard Work"--Progress--Triumph--Reason of the Victory--Hope a
Quality Closely Akin to Courage--Courage, However, the Grand Motor that
Moves the World--Courage Builds the Great Bridges and Hope Rides on a
Free Pass over Them.
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