eir appearance in the government organs. The "leading
article" also was introduced to stay. The aggressive editor
antagonized the government, and his foreign dispatches were all stopped
at the outposts, while the ministerial journalists were allowed to
proceed. But nothing could daunt this resolute young spirit. At
enormous expense he employed special couriers. Every obstacle put in
his way, and all opposition from the government, only added to his
determination to succeed. Enterprise, push, grit were behind the
"Times," and nothing could stay its progress. Young Walter was the
soul of the paper, and his personality pervaded every detail. In those
days only three hundred copies of the paper could be struck off in an
hour by the best presses, and Walter had duplicate and even triplicate
types set. Then he set his brain to work, and finally the Walter
Press, throwing off 17,000 copies per hour, both sides printed, was the
result. It was the 29th of November, 1814, that the first steam
printed paper was given to the world.

"Mean natures always feel a sort of terror before great natures, and
many a base thought has been unuttered, many a sneaking vote withheld,
through the fear inspired by the rebuking presence of one noble man."
As a rule, pure grit, character, has the right of way. In the presence
of men permeated with grit and sound in character, meanness and
baseness slink out of sight. Mean men are uncomfortable, dishonesty
trembles, hypocrisy is uncertain.

Lincoln, being asked by an anxious visitor what he would do after three
or four years if the rebellion were not subdued, replied: "Oh, there is
no alternative but to keep pegging away."

"It is in me and it shall come out," said Sheridan, when told that he
would never make an orator as he had failed in his first speech in
Parliament. He became known as one of the foremost orators of his day.

When a boy Henry Clay was very bashful and diffident, and scarcely
dared recite before his class at school, but he determined to become an
orator. So he committed speeches and recited them in the cornfields,
or in the barn with the horse and cows for an audience.

If impossibilities ever exist, popularly speaking, they ought to have
been found somewhere between the birth and death of Kitto, that deaf
pauper and master of Oriental learning. But Kitto did not find them
there. In the presence of his decision and imperial energy they melted
away. He begged h