t the crashing elements; he
had not received the permission to desert his station and escape."

The world admires the man who never flinches from unexpected
difficulties, who calmly, patiently, and courageously grapples with his
fate, who dies, if need be, at his post.

"Clear grit" always commands respect. It is that quality which
achieves, and everybody admires achievement. In the strife of parties
and principles, backbone without brains will carry against brains
without backbone. "A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no
match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong." You
cannot, by tying an opinion to a man's tongue, make him the
representative of that opinion; at the close of any battle for
principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the
wounded, but among the missing.

The "London Times" was an insignificant sheet published by Mr. Walter
and was steadily losing money. John Walter, Jr., then only
twenty-seven years old, begged his father to give him full control of
the paper. After many misgivings, the father finally consented. The
young journalist began to remodel the establishment and to introduce
new ideas everywhere. The paper had not attempted to mould public
opinion, and had no individuality or character of its own. The
audacious young editor boldly attacked every wrong, even the
government, when he thought it corrupt. Thereupon the public customs,
printing, and the government advertisements were withdrawn. The father
was in utter dismay. The son he was sure would ruin the paper and
himself. But no remonstrance could swerve him from his purpose, to
give the world a great journal which should have weight, character,
individuality, and independence.

The public soon saw that a new power stood behind the "Times"; that its
articles meant business; that new life and new blood and new ideas had
been infused into the insignificant sheet; that a man with brains and
push and tenacity of purpose stood at the helm,--a man who could make a
way when he could not find one. Among other new features foreign
dispatches were introduced, and they appeared in the "Times" several
days before their appearance in the government organs. The "leading
article" also was introduced to stay. But the aggressive editor
antagonized the government, and his foreign dispatches were all stopped
at the outpost, while those of the ministerial journalists were allowed
to pro