" Page 290.

Poverty.

A Topic That Hits Close to Every Man--In the Old World the Countries Are
to Blame; In the New the Individual Is Generally at Fault--Case of
Vanderbilt--Fears of Enormously Rich men that their Wealth will excite
the Irresistible Cupidity of their Governments--Burdens of Immense
Riches in an Active Land Like This--The Shocking Imbecility of False
Poverty--"Appearances"--Popular Errors as to Servants--Big Houses--Story
of the Happy Man. Page 300.

Facts About Progress.

Progress the Stride of God--The Field-Hand in 1350--One hundred and
Twelve Hours' Labor for a Bushel of Wheat--The same Laborer in 1550, in
1675, and in 1795--Seventy Hours for a Bushel of Wheat--The Same Laborer
To-day--Twenty Hours for the Bushel of Wheat--The Children of the
Laborer who Came to America--Seven or Eight Hours for a Bushel of Wheat.
Page 311.

Failure in Life.

Lightning Is More Apt To hit a Scrag than a Tree Which has Never Been
Riven--The Scrags in Society--The Loadstone of Failure at the Foot of
the Scrag--The Lesson to be Derived from Hopeless Failure in
Others--Sorrows March in Battalions, not as Single Spies. Page 321.

Gains and Brains.

The Man of Success--Eggs Trying to Dance with Stones--Trying to Draw the
Prize in a Lottery Without any Ticket--Dray Horses' Honest Belief that
the Earth Moves Backward under the Racer's Feet, He Being So Lucky--The
Heavy End of the Lifting--How Fortune Tellers Make Their Money--Great
Opportunities for All Who Were not Born Tired. Page 325.

Discipline.

One Reason of the Prosperity of the Present Era--Obey Orders--How the
Wonders have been Piled Up--Metaphor of the Organ and Its Pipes and
Reeds--Sound Your Pipe only in Your Proper Turn, and You will hear
Beautiful Music. Page 332.

Books.

We Multiply Our Sensations by Books--Everyone Can have a Library--Books
are the Best of Friends--Charm of a Well-Read Comrade--Bindings--A Book
as Great a Thing as a Battle--Importance of Some Battles--Our Eyes--How
to Judge a Book Rightly--Large Type--Need of Handy Volumes--Aid Others,
as a Duty. Page 337.

Friendship.

Reason of the Melancholy Tone which Pervades the Great Writings of the
Ages on this Subject--Man Expects to Get More than He Gives--How a man
Prepares the Nostrum called Friendship--Unsuccessful Substitution of
Selfishness for a Mother's Love--What is Possible in the way of Ordinary
Friendship--Spot Friendship--Let us not Rail against Friendsh