hysiologist, inventor, nor scientist
has ever been able to point out a single improvement, even in the
minutest detail, in the mechanism of the human body. No chemist has
ever been able to suggest a superior combination in any one of the
elements which make up the human structure.

[Illustration: Mark Twain]

One of the first great lessons of life is to learn the true estimate of
values. As the youth starts out in his career all sorts of wares will
be imposed upon him and all kinds of temptations will be used to induce
him to buy. His success will depend very largely upon his ability to
estimate properly, not the apparent but the real value of everything
presented to him. Vulgar Wealth will flaunt her banner before his
eyes, and claim supremacy over everything else. A thousand different
schemes will be thrust into his face with their claims for superiority.
Every occupation and vocation will present its charms and offer its
inducements in turn. The youth who would succeed must not allow
himself to be deceived by appearance, but must place the emphasis of
life upon the right thing.

Raphael was rich without money. All doors opened to him, and he was
more than welcome everywhere. His sweet spirit radiated sunshine
wherever he went.

Henry Wilson, the sworn friend of the oppressed, whose one question, as
to measures or acts, was ever "Is it right; will it do good?" was rich
without money. So scrupulous had this Natick cobbler been not to make
his exalted position a means of worldly gain, that when he came to be
inaugurated as Vice-President of the country, he was obliged to borrow
of his fellow-senator, Charles Sumner, one hundred dollars to meet the
necessary expenses of the occasion.

Mozart, the great composer of the "Requiem," left barely enough money
to bury him, but he has made the world richer.

A rich mind and noble spirit will cast over the humblest home a
radiance of beauty which the upholsterer and decorator can never
approach. Who would not prefer to be a millionaire of character, of
contentment, rather than possess nothing but the vulgar coins of a
Croesus? Whoever uplifts civilization, though he die penniless, is
rich, and future generations will erect his monument.

An Asiatic traveler tells us that one day he found the bodies of two
men laid upon the desert sand beside the carcass of a camel. They had
evidently died from thirst, and yet around the waist of each was a
large store of jewe