not wait for his
grandfather to die and leave him that legacy but went right at some
work. It may be possible that the grandfather gave him that money
because he felt that young Stewart would make good use of it. Certain it
is he did not wait but went right to work, saved his money, and was well
prepared to use the legacy skillfully when he did receive it. However,
if Stewart had never had that money given him, he would have succeeded.
His whole life was a series of maturing plans, which had been carefully
laid, and then pushed to completion. A man must have ability to plan
well, and the courage and backbone to push those plans to success. A. T.
Stewart possessed these qualities to a marked degree. He began as his
moderate circumstances would warrant, and best of all he never allowed
his energies to slacken. He never became a lazy business man. He never
allowed himself to rest content with the laurels already his. He was a
man of enterprise; while competitors followed the footsteps of their
fathers, A. T. Stewart was progressing--he was original in nearly every
undertaking.

On the 10th day of April, 1876, this great magnate died. His business
was carried on, for a time, by others, but the mainspring was gone, and
in 1882 the great clock stopped. Here is an instance that should
convince us of the result of courage, energy, and self-reliance. A. T.
Stewart began without a dollar, and succeeded, while they who had the
benefit of his experience, the use of his vast wealth, and a marble
palace, could not succeed.

The history of the stealing of Mr. Stewart's body is well-known, and as
the papers have succeeded so well in keeping the subject before the
people, we will not speak further of that here, our object being rather
to instruct than to narrate sensational episodes.

NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.

In the year 1782 there was born a child of parents who had once been
somewhat wealthy, but who were then living in poverty at Newark, New
Jersey. This child was Nicholas Longworth, the father of grape culture
in the United States.

He attempted to learn various trades, at one time being bound to a
shoemaker, but finally settled upon the law and began its study, as his
circumstances would allow, in his native city. Young Longworth saw that
he would have far more chance to rise in the new country west of the
Alleghanies than in the over-crowded East. Therefore, when he was of age
he emigrated "out west," stopping at the ou