Then Andrew Jackson, the tall and fearless judge, said, "Marshal, call me. This court is adjourned for three minutes."

He then descended from the bench without any weapon and walked up to the braggart who held the revolver in his hands. There was not the slightest evidence of fear in the young judge's face, and the bully dropped his hands and submitted to

arrest.

Why do we not, all of us, approach our difficulties as Jackson did his? In most cases it is because we do not have the moral as well as the physical courage which he showed in solving this particular difficulty.

There are a great many different kinds of courage, and physical bravery, which often attracts the most attention and excites the loudest admiration, is not the highest kind. Much of what passes for heroism, when in great catastrophes men rescue others from burning buildings or perform daring deeds in a railroad wreck or shipwreck, or on the field of battle, is born of excitement and a natural impulse to rush into danger.

Greater than all these heroes is the man who in the face of ridicule, amid the sneers and contempt of his fellow-men, in spite of popular clamor, stands true to principle, justice, right. Moral courage is a nobler, higher thing than mere physical courage.

There is a sublimity about moral courage which

rides triumphantly over the difficulties which awe timid souls, because it releases from the fear of man, the fear of public opinion, the fear of criticism and denunciation of our fellows.

Not having the moral courage to stand the jeers of a crowd at San Francisco who called him a faker and a coward because he hesitated to go up in a flying-machine which he knew to be defective and dangerous, John J. Frisbie finally made the ascent and was crushed to death before the eyes of the people who shortly before had laughed at him for being a coward.

This man knew how dangerous it was to go in a defective machine, and that he was taking his life in his hands, but he could not stand the jeers and sneers of the disappointed onlookers.

Many a youth goes to the bar and takes a drink and does many things which he knows are not manly or quite right just because he has not the moral courage to resist the appeals of his associates who laugh at him or call him a baby, and tell him he ought to be tied to his mother's apron-strings.

There is probably not a person in the world. so evenly developed and so symmetrical in his mental growth that he is not a coward somewhere in his nature.

What a rare thing it is to find a man who is courageous enough to say what he thinks, to think out loud; who has the courage to step out of the crowd, to make his own creed and live it!

Moral courage is a great virtue. Many people who do not use profane language, who do not openly cheat, who are not openly dishonest, people who attend church and Sunday school and who are called "good Christians" are cowardly. There are people who form the habit of deceiving and lying because they haven't the courage to say "No." I have known women of such weak, vacillating characters that they will often put clerks to the trouble of sending articles home on approval without the slightest intention of purchasing them, because they lack the courage to say "No" at the counter. It does not require any courage to return the package when the clerk is not present.

Many people have what might be called longdistance courage. They will write, telegraph, or say disagreeable, cutting things over a telephone which they could not possibly get up courage to say to your face. But when these long-distance-courage people meet you face to face they wilt, their courage oozes out.

Moral courage and self-confidence are the very backbone of character. They support and buttress a man against all sorts of trials and temptations before which a man lacking these falls. They back up his chances where the slightest sign of weakness would bring defeat or disaster.

A great many men and women who wonder why people do not believe more in them carry the reason in their very faces. Everybody who knows them

sees there a confession of weakness, a lack of confidence in themselves.

How can one win the confidence of others who says by his eye and his very manner: "Do not take much stock in me; do not believe in me, for I do not believe in myself. You are much mistaken if you think I am capable of doing anything worth while, for I am not."

The man who slinks out of sight, who never thinks he is just the man to do this or that, who thinks that perhaps somebody else could do much better, shows that he has no faith in himself, that he does not really believe in himself, and people take him at his own valuation.

Many people are all the time "queering" their own interests by communicating their doubts to others. It is a very difficult thing to clinch a bargain with a great doubt in your mind. To convince another, you must be convinced yourself. Doubt in yourself can not bring conviction to another.

When you go to a man for a position or a favor or an order look him in the eye and tell him what you want. Approach him fearlessly, with confidence and assurance, with a consciousness of ability and strength, and you will be much more likely to get the thing you desire. Our moods are contagious, and the man you approach will feel your confidence or lack of it very quickly.

Everybody admires the manly man, the one who carries himself with an air of assurance and confi

dence and who radiates force. It is easy to believe in such a man. But the man who crawls into your presence like an Uriah Heep, apologizing for imposing himself upon you and taking your valuable time and asking a favor, almost always gets turned down. We can not make a good impression upon another unless we are self-confident, manly, and courageous ourselves.

It is worth everything to you to have people believe in you, to have faith in your ability to do the thing you undertake, to bank on you. Your own attitude will have more than anything else to do with establishing this condition. The world believes in the man who dares, the man who trusts himself.

If you approach your task with the expectation of winning, with assurance and confidence, you will soon gain a reputation for putting things through, for bringing everything you take hold of to a successful issue; and the very reputation of being master of the situation, equal to the emergency, no matter how formidable, is of priceless value. It will give a momentum almost irresistible, for people get out of the way of a man who makes a program and carries it out against all odds. Such a man becomes a power in any community.

No matter what discouragements confront us, what difficulties oppose us, what obstructions stand in our way, if we hold fast to our courage we can face toward the front and push on to victory.