"You may well shake; you would
shake worse yet if you knew where I am going to take you."

It is victory after victory with the soldier, lesson after lesson with
the scholar, blow after blow with the laborer, crop after crop with the
farmer, picture after picture with the painter, and mile after mile
with the traveler, that secures what all so much desire--SUCCESS.

A promising Harvard student was stricken with paralysis of both legs.
Physicians said there was no hope for him. The lad determined to
continue his college studies. The examiners heard him at his bedside,
and in four years he took his degree. He resolved to make a critical
study of Dante, to do which he had to learn Italian and German. He
persevered in spite of repeated attacks of illness and partial loss of
sight. He was competing for the university prize. Think of the
paralytic lad, helpless in bed, competing for a prize, fighting death
inch by inch. What a lesson! Before his book was published or the
prize awarded, the brave student died, but the book was successful. He
meant that his life should not be a burden or a failure, and he was not
only graduated from the best college in America, but competed
successfully for the university prize, and made a valuable contribution
to literature.

Professor L. T. Townsend, the famous author of "Credo," is another
triumph of grit over environment. He had a hard struggle as a boy, but
succeeded in working his way through Amherst College, living on
forty-five cents a week.

Orange Judd was a remarkable example of success through grit. He
earned corn by working for farmers, carried it on his back to mill,
brought back the meal to his room, cooked it himself, milked cows for
his pint of milk per day, and lived on mush and milk for months
together. He worked his way through Wesleyan University, and took a
three years' post-graduate course at Yale.

Congressman William W. Crapo, while working his way through college,
being too poor to buy a dictionary, actually copied one, walking from
his home in the village of Dartmouth, Mass., to New Bedford to
replenish his store of words and definitions from the town library.

Oh, the triumphs of this indomitable spirit of the conqueror! This it
was that enabled Franklin to dine on a small loaf in the
printing-office with a book in his hand. It helped Locke to live on
bread and water in a Dutch garret. It enabled Gideon Lee to go
barefoot in the snow, half starv