was won, Napoleon gave the
command to charge; and, the trumpet's blast being given, the Old Guard
charged down into the weakened center of the enemy, cut it in two,
rolled the two wings up on either side, and the battle was won for
France.

Once when Marshal Ney was going into battle, looking down at his knees
which were smiting together, he said, "You may well shake; you would
shake worse yet if you knew where I am going to take you."

It is victory after victory with the soldier, lesson after lesson with
the scholar, blow after blow with the laborer, crop after crop with the
farmer, picture after picture with the painter, and mile after mile
with the traveler, that secures what all so much desire--SUCCESS.

A promising Harvard student was stricken with paralysis of both legs.
Physicians said there was no hope for him. The lad determined to
continue his college studies. The examiners heard him at his bedside,
and in four years he took his degree. He resolved to make a critical
study of Dante, to do which he had to learn Italian and German. He
persevered in spite of repeated attacks of illness and partial loss of
sight. He was competing for the university prize. Think of the
paralytic lad, helpless in bed, competing for a prize, fighting death
inch by inch! What a lesson! Before his manuscript was published or
the prize awarded, the brave student died, but his work was successful.

Congressman William W. Crapo, while working his way through college,
being too poor to buy a dictionary, actually copied one, walking from
his home in the village of Dartmouth, Mass., to New Bedford to
replenish his store of words and definitions from the town library.

Oh, the triumphs of this indomitable spirit of the conqueror! This it
was that enabled Franklin to dine on a small loaf in the
printing-office with a book in his hand. It helped Locke to live on
bread and water in a Dutch garret. It enabled Gideon Lee to go
barefoot in the snow, half starved and thinly clad. It sustained
Lincoln and Garfield on their hard journeys from the log cabin to the
White House.

President Chadbourne put grit in place of his lost lung, and worked
thirty-five years after his funeral had been planned.

Henry Fawcett put grit in place of eyesight, and became the greatest
Postmaster-General England ever had.

Prescott also put grit in place of eyesight, and became one of
America's greatest historians. Francis Parkman put grit in place