do not be in a hurry to get back home.  Have books with you.  Shun traveling men, as they cannot benefit you.  The desire to have company often makes a man “lose a town.”  It often keeps him up nights.  What is the reason you dread the attack?  Because you have no electricity in you.  You have not slept enough.  Have you not often felt you could walk ten miles as easily as one?  That was just the moment to “fall up against” the hard-surfaced man.  Have you not often felt you would like to be in the little white cottage, reading what a wonderful place New York is?  Just then you ought to be in bed,

MANUFACTURING SNAP AND SPARKLE.

In all your expedition, judgment has been at work.  Judgment sent you out, and judgment pointed out your attack.  You therefore have sold goods to responsible people, and your firm are delighted.  You now have the most powerful lines of money-making in the world right in your hands.  You are the man who can “place the goods.”  You are practically a partner.  If you have perfected yourself in your art, and if you are not in business for yourself, it is because you do not want it so to be.

EXAMPLES.

     Lives of great men all remind us
       We may make our lives sublime,
     And, departing, leave behind us,
       Footprints on the sands of time.—­Longfellow.

It is hard to follow in the tracks of giants, but nevertheless the sands of our time are filled with that kind of footprints.  The present century has beholden some of the most astonishing elevations of all history.  Slaves have become Roman Emperors, but we hardly know what “slave” meant in those days.  Within the last hundred years we see a poor old dame with three sons called Joseph, Napoleon and Jerome.  We see a cooper’s son called Michel Ney, an inn-keeper’s son called Joaquin Murat, a lawyer’s son named Jean Bernadotte, a military cadet named Louis Davout, and a lame boy called Charles Talleyrand.  Behold them mounting the ladder until, at the end of thirty years, the roster stands thus.  Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain; Napoleon Bonaparte, greatest warrior of modern times and Emperor of France, which meant dictator of Europe; Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia; Michel Ney, Prince of the Moskwa and Bravest of the Brave; Joaquin Murat, King of Naples; Jean Bernadotte, King of Sweden, and founder of the present dynasty; Louis Davout, Prince of Eckmuhl, and, in 1811,

COMMANDER OF NEARLY 600,000 MEN;