The Golden Censer | Page 2

the Bible--Bible, Shakspeare, and
Geography More Necessary than Grammar, Botany, and
Latin--Worship--A Suspicious Parent--The School-Master
Experience--Try and Cut Down the Extent of His Services in the
Education of Your Child. Page 42.
Brother and Sister.
The Noble Brother Will Have a Noble Sister--The Young Man of High

Tone Will See to It that His Sister is Treated with Respect--He Sets the
Example to All Others--Utter Selfishness of a Young Man Who Drags
Down His Sister by Falling into Bad Society Himself--The Summer
Vacation--Why a "Crooked Stick" Has Been Picked up By the
Sister--Your Sister Your Other Half--Watch Her and Mend Your Weak
Places--A Quick Temper--Scene in a Field Near Stone River
Battle-field--The Sister's Influence on Your Fortunes--Brother and
Sister as the Two Heads of One Home. Page 53.
Youth.
"Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy"--The Great History Written by
Thiers, and Its Central Thought--The Impressibility of Youth--Much
Can Be Accomplished in Youth--Alexander, Cæsar, Pompey, Hannibal,
Scipio, Napoleon, Charles XII, Alexander Hamilton, Shelley, Keats,
Bryant--Youth Our Italy and Greece, full of Gods and
Temples--Edmund Burke--Rochefoucauld --Chesterfield--Lord
Lytton's Love of Youth--Shortness of Youthful Griefs --Hannah
More--Sir Walter Raleigh's Wise Remark--The Extraordinary
Expectations of Youth--Dr. Watts--Story of the Alpena--Lord Bacon's
Summing up of the Differences Between Youth and Age--Introduction
to the Hard-Pan Series. Page 62.
Prudence in Speech.
Need of Money--Difficulty of Getting It--Testimony of the Closest
Mouthed Man Who Perhaps Ever Lived--"No Man Can Be Happy or
Even Honest Without a Moderate Independence"--You Find Yourself
Behind a Counter--The Little Boy's Shoes Wear Out at the Toe--They
are Therefore Copper-plated--The Young Man's Common Sense Gives
Way at the Tip of His Tongue--Difficulties in the Way of a Boy Who
"Blabs"--A Man Who Is "Pumped" Like the Secretary of the Treasury
Must Have Practiced Silence All His Life--Story of the Barber of King
Midas--Beware of the First Error--How Things Leak out--Put a
Copper-Toe on Your Tongue. Page 74.
Courtesy.

Courtesy Rests on a Deep Foundation--He Who is Naturally Polite is
Naturally Moral--You Wish to Have Your Customers Brighten
up--Brighten up Yourself--What is Good-Breeding?--Read
Chesterfield--Study Your Customer--You are Young and Positive--Be
Careful on That Account--Your Hands--Jewelry--Act Respectfully and
You Will Be Full of Good Manners--An Example--How to Treat the
Busybody--Zachariah Fox--Ralph Waldo Emerson--Milton's Allusion
to the origin of the Word "Courtesy"--The Celebrated "Beaux" of
History--Momentary Views of Our Souls--Your Clothes--They Should
Occupy Little of Your Mind--Civility Costs Nothing and Buys
Everything. Page 80.
Economy.
A Small Leak Will Sink a Great Ship--The Little Cloud Arising out of
the Sea Waxes into the Storm that Lashes the Trembling Ocean--The
People with Small Wages Can Often Save the Most Money--You
Cannot Spend Your Money Without the Righteous Criticism of
Others--How Young Men Spend Much of Their Extra Cash--Rural
Saloons--A Gallon of Whiskey--What It is Actually Worth--What It is
Sold For--Ordinary Profits of Legitimate Business--Tobacco--What
Three Years' Savings Will Do for a Man in America--A Good Wagoner
Can Turn in a Little Room--When You Buy a Horse Reckon on What
He Will Eat Instead of What His Price Is--Save all You Can--Harness It
up and Make It Pull in Interest. Page 88.
Courage.
Adversity's Lamp--Youth Has Great need of Courage--It should be
Long-Suffering Rather than Intrepid--You Must Gain the Battle by
Taking Sudden Advantages--You Must Hurl 10,000 Men Against 2,000
Before Your Enemy Can Be Reinforced--Story of a Young Man Who
Broke Through the Enemy's Lines at Chicago--His Low Wages--His
Bad Prospects--Reading the Bible and Plutarch--Studying French--The
Attempt to Become an Actor--Dismal Failure--Difficulty of
Conquering Wounded Pride--The Return to "Hard
Work"--Progress--Triumph--Reason of the Victory--Hope a Quality
Closely Akin to Courage--Courage, However, the Grand Motor that

Moves the World--Courage Builds the Great Bridges and Hope Rides
on a Free Pass over Them. Page 95.
Hope.
Hope is a Gold-Leaf Which Can Be Beaten with the Hammer of
Adversity to Exceeding Thinness--The Medicine of the
Miserable--Hope Should Deposit Probabilities with Experience, His
Banker--Story of a Young Man Whose Hope Carried him Across a Bad
Place in Life--Making Garden--Sandpapering Window-Frames in a
Cellar--Selling "Milton Gold Jewelry"--Working in a "gang," on a
Farm, after the English Fashion--A Situation Found on the Very Day of
the Great Fire, Just Without the Bounds of the
Conflagration--Map-Making--Success--Hope Is the Cork to the
Net--We Will Part With Our Money, but we will Never Sell Our Hope
at any Price--The Celebrated Shield--Hope Unjustly Defamed. Page
107.
Be Correct.
God's Exactitude--One at a Time is the Way Rats Get into a
Granary--The First Rat Eats Out the Hole--Story of Sag Bridge--The
Collision--The Horror--The Cause--Imitate the Detectives--Story of a
Cashier Who Left Off a "Simple Cipher," which Stood for a Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Cash to His Employers--How to Mail a
Letter--"We Never Make Mistakes --The Way People Are Convinced
That Care Is Necessary--How a Careless Clerk Can Drive Away
Custom--The Lightning Calculator--He Is Simply a Hard Worker--Our
Multiplication-Table Does Not