succeeded
without either--they failed with both; he was obliged to establish a
business--they had the benefit of his great patronage.

It has been said that a lawyer cannot be a merchant. Why? While a lawyer
he thinks for himself: When a merchant he allows others to think for
him. A certain great manufacturer made "kid" gloves his specialty, and
so well did he succeed that to-day his trade mark imports to
manufactured ratskins a value incommunicable by any other talisman. It
is a poor kind of enterprise which thus depends upon the judgment of
others. What can be more absurd than for a man to hope to rank as a
thundering Jupiter when he borrows all his thunder. Remember that the
world only crowns him as truly great who has won for himself that
greatness.

ECONOMY OF TIME.

"Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

How many young men for whom nature has done so much, "blush unseen," and
waste their ability. Franklin said, "Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." We have seen how
Franklin used his time. Born the son of a soap-boiler, lived to become
one of our most noted philosophers, died worth thousands. Advice from
such men carries conviction, for we cannot but feel that our chances
are fully equal to what theirs were.

Gladstone, England's most noted Premier, once said, "Believe me when I
tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after-life with usury,
but the waste of it will make you dwindle away until you fairly sink out
of existence, unknown, unmourned." Thurlow Weed was so poor in boyhood
that he was of necessity glad to use pieces of carpet to cover his all
but freezing feet; thus shod he walked two miles to borrow a history of
the French revolution, which he mastered stretched prone before the
sap-fire, while watching the kettles of sap transformed to maple sugar.
Thus was it that he laid the foundation of his education, which in after
years enabled him to sway such mighty power at Albany; known as the
"king maker."

Elihu Burritt, a child of poverty, the son of a poor farmer, the
youngest of ten children. He was apprenticed at eighteen to a
blacksmith. He wanted to become a scholar and bought some Greek and
Latin works, carrying them in his pocket and studying as he worked at
the anvil. From these he