tuation Found on the
Very Day of the Great Fire, Just Without the Bounds of the
Conflagration--Map-Making--Success--Hope Is the Cork to the Net--We Will
Part With Our Money, but we will Never Sell Our Hope at any Price--The
Celebrated Shield--Hope Unjustly Defamed. Page 107.

Be Correct.

God's Exactitude--One at a Time is the Way Rats Get into a Granary--The
First Rat Eats Out the Hole--Story of Sag Bridge--The Collision--The
Horror--The Cause--Imitate the Detectives--Story of a Cashier Who Left
Off a "Simple Cipher," which Stood for a Hundred Thousand Dollars in
Cash to His Employers--How to Mail a Letter--"We Never Make Mistakes
--The Way People Are Convinced That Care Is Necessary--How a Careless
Clerk Can Drive Away Custom--The Lightning Calculator--He Is Simply a
Hard Worker--Our Multiplication-Table Does Not Run High Enough--The
Freaks of Figures--Correct Your Spelling--Learn to Avoid Foolish
Exaggeration--Force of Habit--"A Man of Good Habits" Is a Man Who Would
Be Positively Uncomfortable and Unhappy if He Attempted to Become
Dissolute. Page 119.

Success.

Hard-Pan Reason Why Nothing Succeeds So Well as Success--Your Good
Fortune in Living on American Soil--Missing Battles and Allowing Others
to Be Promoted Instead of Yourself--No City Ever Withstood a Good
Siege--Get into the Strong Sunshine of active Life--The Safe Time to
Become Discontented--What Praise Means--What Gloomy Predictions Mean
When Your Employer Makes Them--Practice--Example in Proof-Reading--Captains
are Made out of First Lieutenants--The Retail Business--Fools Rushing in
Where Angels Fear to Tread--The Successful Grocery--No Wonder Success Sits
on That Corner--The Painter Who Mixed His Colors With Brains--Story of The
Man Who Could Imitate Birds--Do not Attempt Impossible Journeys--Stop at
Each Inn. Page 132.

Companions.

Truth of the adage that a Man Is Known by the Company He Keeps--Tam
O'Shanter's Habits--Building a House With a Party-Wall--Playing
Billiards at Noon-Time--Smelling of the Smoke of the Kitchen--Bar-Room
Manners--Judging a Man by His Clothes--A Piece of Impertinence which
Cost the Keeping of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars--"The
Companion of Fools Shall Be Destroyed"--Learn to Admire Rightly--Charm
which the Look of Certain Loafers Has for Many Young Men--Getting a
Sitting in Church--Keep in Company Where You Will Be Under a Pleasant
Restraint--Either Wise Bearing or Ignorant Carriage Is Caught, as Men