Daniel Safford, one of the wealthy, noble, honored business men of Boston, carried home on his back the iron which he bought when he commenced the blacksmith's business in that city; a New York millionaire earned his first dollar as a hod carrier in the city of Troy, and he never became so proud as to despise a hod.

In our day, many schools and seminaries of learning introduce industrial occupation, at least for exercise. We think that the first institution to adopt this method was Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Its founder, Mary Lyon, aimed to acccomplish three things by requiring the domestic work of the institution to be done by the students; namely, health, learning how to do the work, and cultivating just views of the dignity of labor. There is no doubt that this arrangement has accomplished much to make all necessary labor honorable, and to eradicate that narrow-minded disposition to feel above one's business. Any culture of the young embracing this noble purpose deserves well of the public.

We do not affirm that all persons who do not feel above their business will be successful, but that this spirit does characterize nearly all successful men. Success does not appear to wait on the man who is too proud to wait on himself.

CHAPTER XVI.

LEWIS WALLACE.

A CONFESSION - HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN CAREER OF HIS FATHER EARLY PRANKS UNDER LIMITATIONS

ANCESTRY

INCIDENT AMBITIONS -PAINTING HIS FIRST LITERARY WORK-READS LAW IN THE CIVIL WAR

MEXICAN WAR LAWYER MILITARY CAREER RENEWED
LITERARY CAREER-METHODS OF WORK. HOW TO USE YOURSELF.

I cannot say I was a model boy. As a matter of fact, as I grew up and my love of adventure and of mischief asserted itself, I became a terror to the community,

and my activity did not cease with the daylight.

Very fortunate for me I was a passionate reader, and my father had a good library, which I read with the eagerness of an omniverous boy, though, of course, I had my favorites, of which a prime one was "Plutarch's Lives." When I went away, which I often did for two or three weeks at a time, with a dog and gun, on excursions, during which I lived with the farmers, who all knew me, a volume of "Plutarch" was apt to be my other companion.

This course of life was inconsistent with a regular education. At ten, however, I made a scholastic experiment, but it was not successful. My elder brother was already entered at Wabash College, and it occurred to me that it would be a good thing to join him. So I joined him by running away; but the studies naturally demanded both more maturity of mind and previous preparation than an idle boy of ten could possess, and at the end of three months, I terminated my academic career by running away again and resuming my nomadic life.

Of course this could not last forever, loath as I might be to have it come to an end. When I was sixteen, my father called a halt and a conference. He showed me the twelve years' school bills that he had paid for me, while I had not

had a year's schooling in all, and said that he had done his duty in providing for me these advantages, by which I had not profited, and that now it was time to make provision for myself. This was the beginning of whatever success I may have achieved.

Lew. Wallace.

HERE is no American career that is more remarkable and interesting than that of Gen. Lew. Wallace. To have served in the Mexican war; to have been one of the most distinguished generals of the Civil War, with whose military services those of few indeed of the survivors of the war can be put in competition; to have been intrusted with an important diplomatic mission, and to have taken it so much more seriously than the usual American amateur in diplomacy as to have won not merely the approbation of his own government, but the special and complete confidence of the sovereign to whom he was accredited; and finally to have become one of the most distinguished authors of his time, is to round out a career positively unique in American history, if not in any history.

General Wallace was born in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, April 10, 1827, of a family that was originally settled in Virginia. At the time of the Revolution it comprised four brothers, of whom one died in the hulks, the British prison ships of New York harbor,- two were killed in battle, and the fourth, his great-grandfather, settled after the war in Pennsylvania. His grandfather went to Cincinnati shortly after it had been founded and established there the first newspaper of the place, the Liberty Hall Gazette, which afterwards became the Cincinnati Gazette and is now the Commercial Gazette. His father had a boyish inclination for the military profession, and in order to gratify it, his grandfather made application for an appointment to West Point, and invoked for it the powerful influence of Gen. William Henry Harrison. General Harrison had made a like application, as it turned out, on behalf of his own son for the same district, but hearing that there was another worthy aspirant, he withdrew his own application, leaving the field clear for young Wallace. That was an obligation which, as you may suppose, neither the father nor his descendants were likely to forget. When

General Harrison's grandson Benjamin established himself two generations afterwards as a lawyer in Indianapolis, the result of it was a warm friendship between the Wallaces and the Harrisons.

The elder Wallace in this way got his appointment as a cadet, went through his time with credit, and after his graduation served for some years at the academy as assistant professor of mathematics. The drawbacks of the army as a profession in time of peace had impressed themselves upon him, and he removed to Brookville, and there read law in the office of his father-in-law that was to be. After his admission to the bar he combined law and politics, was twice elected lieutenant-governor of Indiana, and once governor, and his election took the family to Indianapolis, and later to Crawfordsville.

It was through David Wallace, governor of Indiana in 1837, and member of Congress in 1840, that one of the most beneficent discoveries that has blessed mankind was to take definite shape and direction. For years that idea had been struggling through the mists and darkness of human thought for recognition. Its promoter had pleaded in vain with Congress for an appropriation to give his discovery standing room. For months he had appeared before the congressional committee on commerce, begging for an appropriation with which to make an experiment. He had then gone to Europe with the hope of securing substantial aid, but utterly failed. For three years that discovery, whose monetary value now amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars, went begging through the halls of Congress. Time after time it was presented and ignored. Politicians were not foolhardy enough to peril their political fortunes for the wild dreams of an enthusiast. The early months of 1843 were rapidly taking wing, and the sessional goal would soon be reached, when the committee vote was finally taken. The roll call went down. the list, every Whig voting for the appropriation and every Democrat against it; and when the bottom of the alphabet was nearly reached, the vote was a tie, with one more vote to be cast. And when David Wallace decided the tie by casting his vote for the appropriation of $30,000 which enabled Professor Morse to inake successful experiment of his electromagnetic telegraph from Baltimore to Washington, then was

the historic moment of the century; then the scene for the painter. Governor Wallace decided the fate of the appropriation, and his own fate also, for he was defeated that fall for re-election because of his action on this measure.

of the martyr is the appreciation of the future.

The reward

On the third of December, 1833, twelve young men responded to the roll call of Professor Mills in an unpretentious building at Crawfordsville, Ind. It was the humble beginning of Wabash College. The next September a young man who was to become in after years an able member of the Indiana bar, enrolled himself as a student. He was a son of Governor Wallace. His brother Lew, a lad of ten years, was left at home in Covington, but his heart was with his brother in the new college home thirty miles away. It is entertainingly related by the ex-president of the college that the boy's uncle, Judge Taft, was holding court in Covington at that time, and that as he was proceeding on his circuit to Crawfordsville, he was suddenly hailed by the younger brother from the woods and informed that he was going to join his brother at the college. "He, moreover, invited the judge to wheel his horse up to the fence that he might mount behind him. Without notifying the family at home, he in this mode joined his brother. His 'mount' that morning in the outskirts of Covington, leading to Mexico, Donelson, Shiloh, Constantinople, and the palaces of 'Ben Hur' and the 'Prince of India,' needs no description. It was the beginning of a series of distinguished successes."

Young Wallace wanted, among other things, to be a soldier, a writer, and a painter, and made essays in these two latter directions before he was sixteen. Truth is, he had always been sketching as well as scribbling, and perhaps had a talent for art, though it was not a talent easy to cultivate in that time and place. After he had done what he could, without instruction, in black and white, he aspired to color, and confided his aspirations to the one professional artist that Indianapolis then possessed. His name was Cox. This artist gave the young aspirant some pigments, but they were dry, and he must have oils. Luckily there was a person ill at his father's house, and the doctor had prescribed castor oil. He forthwith confiscated the medicine in the interest of art and pursued his work. It was a portrait of Black Hawk, the In