nd so Armour, already bowed with burdens, kept the Straits of
Mackinaw open in midwinter, and delivered millions of bushels of real
wheat for real money to meet the machinations of the bounding Leiter.
Here, too, Armour was fighting for Chicago, to redeem, if possible, her
good name in the eyes of the nations.

And Armour won; but it was like that last shot of Brann's, sent after
he, himself, had fallen. Philip Armour slipped down into the valley and
passed out into the shadow, unafraid. Like Cyrano de Bergerac he said,
"I am dying, but I am not defeated, nor am I dismayed!" And so they laid
his tired, overburdened body in the windowless house of rest.

JOHN J. ASTOR

The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine
o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going
to bed does not make him rich--I merely mean that such a man will
in all probability be up early in the morning and do a big day's
work, so his weary bones put him to bed early. Rogues do their work
at night. Honest men work by day. It's all a matter of habit, and
good habits in America make any man rich. Wealth is largely a
result of habit.

--_John Jacob Astor_

[Illustration: JOHN JACOB ASTOR]

It was Victor Hugo who said, "When you open a school, you close a
prison."

This seems to require a little explanation. Victor Hugo did not have in
mind a theological school, nor yet a young-ladies' seminary, nor an
English boarding-school, nor a military academy, and least of all a
parochial institute. What he was thinking of was a school where
people--young and old--were taught to be self-respecting, self-reliant
and efficient--to care for themselves, to help bear the burdens of the
world, to assist themselves by adding to the happiness of others.

Victor Hugo fully realized that the only education which serves
is the one that increases human efficiency, not the one that
retards it. An education for honors, ease, medals, degrees, titles,
position--immunity--may tend to exalt the individual ego, but it weakens
the race, and its gain on the whole is nil.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives service gets great returns.
Action and reaction are equal, and the radiatory power of the planets
balances their attraction. The love you keep is the love you give away.

A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one e