ing" the dry goods men at an Arkwright Club dinner or giving sound advice to Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Bible class.

With all his enormous wealth he takes pleasure in the simplest things, provided they are genuine. While a frequent visitor at the opera, he owns no box, but sits in the body of the house. He has traveled widely, yet he does not own a private car, adhering to the democratic principles that he has so forcibly laid down. He has the truly great physical ability of going to sleep at will, and in the intervals of important duties he will drop off in a short sleep, gaining refreshment denied to most men.

His sympathy is always with any man, particularly a young man, who is hammering away honestly to make his success. A friend says of him :

"Andrew Carnegie has none of the arrogance of wealth, and his kindliness of spirit goes out most warmly to the people who are struggling to get ahead in the world, whether in business, in education, musical study, or, indeed, any direction. As an instance of this, I know of a case where a young man was leaving a position which he had filled successfully for a good many years, to start in business on his own account, sacrificing a large salary and risking all. Mr. Carnegie, hearing of this, and knowing the young man slightly, wrote him a letter out of pure kindliness, congratulating him on making the change, and prophesying a success. This letter was timed to arrive when it would do most good,- the moment when the difficulties of the struggle seemed most trying. The young man of this instance gained a confidence and a wholesome faith in himself, which has been of the utmost value to him."

One secret of Mr. Carnegie's success is his profound confidence in the people whom he has gathered about him. He does things which a stranger would pronounce unbusinesslike and careless; but that stranger would be struck, upon investigation, by the fact that never once had this habit gotten him into trouble. He acts on the principle that to trust a man in itself goes a long way toward making him worthy of trust,- and his judgment of men is so keen that he trusts the right man.

Eminently broad-minded, Mr. Carnegie believes in all religions, but in no theologies. He has great sympathy, for instance, with a young Chinaman who came to him, heartbroken, because he had been told by the missionary that his fathers had been heathen for centuries, and that his children

were idolaters, and that they would surely be found in the place of everlasting punishment! He sees the good in the religion of Confucius, of Buddha, and, in fact, all the sects, Oriental and Western. He is not a contributor to foreign missions, and confines his giving to directions in which he is familiar, and of which he has knowledge.

It is a pleasant picture this, of a sturdy, forceful, largeminded man, putting the whole energy of his nature into carrying out great enterprises, or playing golf, or writing books, or fishing, or coaching, or placing the means of selfeducation within the reach of millions of his fellow men. Surely he is a fine specimen of the modern Citizen of the Republic.

The first volume of his life is closed, and the poor bobbin factory boy retires from business, as Mr. Morgan says, "the richest man in the world," all made in legitimate manufacturing, never a share sold or bought on the stock exchange. This is a "record breaker"; but what if the last volume of this man's life is to render the other, marvelous though it be, comparatively unimportant? Others have made great fortunes, though less in amount; but it is often said of Mr. Carnegie that he never does things like other men will he give the world a last volume more surprising than the first? There are those who so believe, but that is another story. We must await developments.

HOW TO START IN LIFE.

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HE first great lesson a young man should learn is that he knows nothing; and the earlier and more thoroughly this lesson is learned, the better it will be for his peace of mind and success in life. A young man bred at home, and growing up in the light of parental admiration and parental pride, cannot readily understand how it is that every one else can be his equal in talent and acquisition. If, bred in the country, he seeks the life of the town, he will very early obtain an idea of his insignificance.

This is a critical period in his history. The result of his reasoning will decide his fate. If, at this time, he thoroughly comprehends, and in his heart admits and accepts the fact, that he knows nothing and is nothing; if he bows to the conviction that his mind and his person are but ciphers among

the significant and cleanly-cut figures about him, and that whatever he is to be, and is to win, must be achieved by hard work, there is abundant hope of him. If, on the contrary, a huge self-conceit still holds possession of him, and he straightens up to the assertion of his cold and valueless self; or if he sink discouraged upon the threshold of a life of fierce competitions and more manly emulations, he may as well be a dead man. The world has no use for such a man, and he has only to retire, or submit to be trodden upon.

When a young man has thoroughly comprehended the fact that he knows nothing, and that, intrinsically, he is of but little value, the next thing for him to learn is that the world cares nothing for him; that he is the subject of no man's overwhelming admiration and esteem; that he must take care of himself. A letter of introduction may possibly procure him an invitation to tea, and nothing more. If he be a stranger, he will find every man busy with his own affairs, and none to look after him. He will not be noticed until he becomes noticeable, until he has done something to prove that he has an absolute value in society. No letter of recommendation will give him this, or ought to give him this.

Society demands that a young man shall be not only somebody, but that he shall prove his right to the title; and it has a right to demand this. Society will not take this matter upon trust at least not for a long time, for it has been deceived too often. Society is not very particular what a man does, so that it prove him to be a man; then it will bow to him, and make room for him. A young man, not long since, made a place for himself by writing an article for a certain review. Few people read the article, but the fact that he wrote such an article, that it was very long, and that it was published, did the business for him. Everybody, however, cannot write articles for reviews, although every person at some period of his life thinks he can; but everybody, who is somebody, can do something. A man must enter society of his own free will, as an active element, or a valuable component, before he can receive the recognition that every true man longs for. A man who is willing to enter society as a beneficiary is mean, and does not deserve recognition.

There is no surer sign of an unmanly and cowardly spirit