rand-boy, resolved that he would one day unbury Troy. His bold purpose and the wide renown which it afterwards brought him were born of his boyish dreams. He would never have found Troy, he tells us, had it not been for the inspiration he caught while reading Homer.

Robert Fulton, a young miniaturepainter of seventeen, conceived the bold fancy that a ship might be propelled through the water by steam. Still practising his art as a livelihood he went to London to study mechanics and to Paris to test his inventions. He endured untold hardship and ridicule, and at length, after more than twenty years of study and experiment, he was triumphantly carried on his little Clermont" from

New York to Albany.

The youth who is strong enough to drive out all unworthy aims, who will make room for no ideals but those that are high and pure, is training himself

towards a noble manhood and enduring
success. He may never reach his ideal,
for that will advance with his progress;
but, like hope, it will beckon him on and
nerve him for still higher achievement.
"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave the low vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting

sea!"

IX

RESERVE POWER

"There is nothing so becomes a man as modest

stillness."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

"Gentleness is power."

LEIGH HUNT.

"The world is God's seed-bed. He has planted deep and multitudinously, and many things there are which have not yet come up."

H. W. BEECHER.