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, C?sar, 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 Run High Enough--The Freaks of Figures--Correct Your Spelling--Learn to Avoid Foolish Exaggeration--Force of Habit--"A Man of Good Habits" Is a Man Who Would Be Positively Uncomfortable and Unhappy if He Attempted to Become Dissolute. Page 119.
Success.
Hard-Pan Reason Why Nothing Succeeds So Well as Success--Your Good Fortune in Living on American Soil--Missing Battles
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