will give you a reward," solemnly spoke the grateful woman. "He will
do great things for you in return for this day's work, and the
blessings of thousands besides mine will attend you."

The youth was George Washington.

"Your Grace has not the organ of animal courage largely developed,"
said a phrenologist, who was examining Wellington's head. "You are
right," replied the Iron Duke, "and but for my sense of duty I should
have retreated in my first fight." That first fight, on an Indian
field, was one of the most terrible on record.

When General Jackson was a judge and was holding court in a small
settlement, a border ruffian, a murderer and desperado, came into the
court-room with brutal violence and interrupted the court. The judge
ordered him to be arrested. The officer did not dare to approach him.
"Call a posse," said the judge, "and arrest him." But they also shrank
in fear from the ruffian. "Call me, then," said Jackson; "this court
is adjourned for five minutes." He left the bench, walked straight up
to the man, and with his eagle eye actually cowed the ruffian, who
dropped his weapons, afterwards saying, "There was something in his eye
I could not resist."

One of the last official acts of President Carnot, of France, was the
sending of a medal of the French Legion of Honor to a little American
girl who lives in Indiana. While a train on the Pan Handle Railroad,
having on board several distinguished Frenchmen, was bound to Chicago
and the World's Fair, Jennie Carey, who was then ten years old,
discovered that a trestle was on fire, and that if the train, which was
nearly due, entered it a dreadful wreck would take place. Thereupon
she ran out upon the track to a place where she could be seen from some
little distance. Then she took off her red flannel skirt and, when the
train came in view, waved it back and forth across the track. It was
seen, and the train stopped. On board of it were seven hundred people,
many of whom must have suffered death but for Jennie's courage and
presence of mind. When they returned to France, the Frenchmen brought
the occurrence to the notice of President Carnot, and the result was
the sending of the medal of this famous French society, the purpose of
which is the honoring of bravery and merit, wherever they may be found.

It was the heroic devotion of an Indian girl that saved the life of
Captain John Smith, when the powerful King Powhatan had decreed his
deat