low into
several tons of melted pig-iron, so as to produce intense combustion;
and then adding enough spiegel-eisen (looking-glass iron), an ore rich
in carbon, to change the whole mass to steel.

He discovered this simple process only after trying in vain much more
difficult and expensive methods.

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

The great lack of the age is want of thoroughness. How seldom you find
a young man or woman who is willing to take time to prepare for his
life work! A little education is all they want, a little smattering of
books, and then they are ready for business.

"Can't wait" is characteristic of the century, and is written on
everything; on commerce, on schools, on society, on churches. Can't
wait for a high school, seminary, or college. The boy can't wait to
become a youth, nor the youth a man. Youth rush into business with no
great reserve of education or drill; of course they do poor, feverish
work, and break down in middle life, and many die of old age in the
forties. Everybody is in a hurry. Buildings are rushed up so quickly
that they will not stand, and everything is made "to sell."

Not long ago a professor in one of our universities had a letter from a
young woman in the West, asking him if he did not think she could teach
elocution if she could come to the university and take twelve lessons.
Our young people of to-day are not willing to lay broad, deep
foundations. The weary years in preparatory school and college
dishearten them. They only want a "smattering" of an education. But
as Pope says,--

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

The shifts to cover up ignorance, and "the constant trembling lest some
blunder should expose one's emptiness," are pitiable. Short cuts and
abridged methods are the demand of the hour. But the way to shorten
the road to success is to take plenty of time to lay in your reserve
power. Hard work, a definite aim, and faithfulness will shorten the
way. Don't risk a life's superstructure upon a day's foundation.

Patience is Nature's motto. She works ages to bring a flower to
perfection. What will she not do for the greatest of her creation?
Ages and aeons are nothing to her; out of them she has been carving her
great statue, a perfect man.

Johnson said a man must turn over h