"Don't wait for your opportunity, make it." "Will finds a way, or makes one."

"This one thing I do."

"Dare to live thy creed."

"Find your purpose, and fling your life out to it." "Try to be somebody with all your might." "Self-made or never made."

"Character is greater than any career."

"Do not wait for great opportunities; seize common occasions and make them great." "Guard your weak point."

"Look upward; live upward."

"Do not turn your back on troubles; meet them squarely."

Whatever you do for a living have a rousing, inspiring life slogan that will keep your ambition stirred up, and your brain cells alive, so that you will have the mental vision that sees opportunities and the grit to grasp them with that vigor, determination, and intensity which achieve.

If you have not selected your motto or word of power yet, do so.

Do not choose a money-making motto, but one which will cause you to aspire, which will help to round out and complete a full life; a motto which shall ever be to you a pole star, guiding you to your goal.

It is never too late to adopt a motto or slogan, to begin to improve ourselves or our condition. There are tens of thousands of people in the great

failure army to-day who in six months' time, if they applied themselves, could so jack up their ambition, prod their energies and improve their appearance that they would scarcely know themselves. It is just a question of keeping one's ambition up, not allowing it to sag.

I know men who had apparently lost their ambition, who had been literally down and out, but who, by the reading of an inspiring book, listening to a sermon, the coming of some unexpected responsibility, or by some other seemingly simple thing which thoroughly aroused them to their possibilities, were so completely transformed in a few months that they did not seem like the same men.

Not only choose a life slogan and keep it ever in mind, but keep inspiring books close at hand, keep one in your pocket, if you can, which will stir you to the depths of your soul, spur your ambition and keep you continually up to standard so that your ideals will never fade or ambition sag.

KEEP SWEET

A sunny disposition is the very soul of success.

Mathews.

"You must take joy with you or you will not find it even in Heaven."

"It was only a glad 'good morning,'
As she passed along the way,

But it spread the morning's glory
Over the livelong day."

"Smiles are the only potentials known that move things whether they intend to move or not."

VER all of the telephones in the Western Express Company's offices is a card, bearing the legend, TIPS FOR TOPNOTCHERS, under which are these words:

"The other end of the telephone reproduces only your voice. It gives no other inkling of your disposition. WEAR A SMILE IN YOUR VOICE. It consumes no extra time, costs nothing —and makes friends."

Think what it would mean if the millions of people who telephone every day were to wear a smile in their voice! What a volume of harmony would take the place of the volume of discord which flows daily over the telephone wires! How it would ease the burden and the strain of life if

every one, on every occasion, would keep sweet and wear a smile in his voice!

The man or woman who puts sunshine into the lives of those about him is not only his own best friend, but he is also a benefactor of the race.

The ability to radiate sunshine is a greater power than beauty, greater than any mere mental accomplishment.

If I could give but one word of advice to the young man and the young woman entering upon life's responsibilities I think it would be this: "Cultivate the joys of life. Keep sweet." Resolve that, no matter how you may be situated, what your occupation or profession, you will not allow the disagreeable things you encounter to shadow your life, to make you gloomy and depressing.

People who take life so very seriously, who think it an awful responsibility to live, people who are sad because they say life is short and full of suffering and who are always impressing themselves and others with the idea that they must be 'up and doing while the day lasts, for the night cometh," etc., do not realize that they are making their minds negative. They do not realize that joy and gladness, the habit of good cheer, are tremendous uplifting, creative forces. The mind must be spontaneous, effective, and the sad, serious soul, obsessed with the idea of what an awful thing it is to live is not normal.

We were constructed to radiate sunshine, good

cheer and a spirit of helpfulness, just as the rose was constructed to radiate beauty and perfume. The man or woman who is pessimistic, persistently gloomy, is abnormal, unbalanced. Josh Billings says, "If a man kan't laff there is sum mistake made in putting him together, and if he won't laugh he wants az mutch keeping away from az a bear-trap when it iz sot."

The world has a big place in its heart for the man who laughs and who can make it laugh; who can chase away its cares with rollicking humor and fun. It is even willing to pay any one who can do this a big price for his pains.

The career of the late John Bunny, the moving picture actor, is a proof of this. Mr. Bunny had already succeeded on the legitimate stage as a comedian, when he decided to make his appeal to a larger audience. So he went into the "movies," in 1910, at a weekly salary of forty dollars, and in three years had worked up to one thousand dollars a week.

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Because of his power to chase dull care away Mr. Bunny was known and loved literally in almost every corner of the globe. His mail brought hundreds of tenders of admiration and love. ters came to him from all parts of the world written in every tongue, and countless tokens of affection were showered on him by his unknown worshipers. On the occasion of a trip around the world his progress was a triumphal march. From