Not To Be Balked

A comparison made by an oíd ca penter twenty years ago may be aponed in a much wider sense than he aad in mind. He was speaking of two boys, brothers, who had been sent to bim to learn the trade. They were bright boys, and their father, in telling the carpenter of 'his pleasure at their progress in their work, said he could not see but one had done just as well as the other. "Um-m!" said the carpenter. "I presume to say their work looks about of a piece, but I'H teil you the difference betwixt those two boys. You give Ed just the right tools, and he'll do a real good job; but Cy, if 'he hasn't got what he needs, he'll malee his own tools, and say nothíng about it. If I was casted on a desert island and wanted a box opene""., I should know there'd be no use asking Ed to do it, without I could point him out a hammer. But Cy!" added the oíd carpenter. with a snap of his fingers. "The lack of a hammer wouldn't stunip that boy! He'd have something rigged up and the box apened, if there was any open to it! I expect Cy's going to march ahead of Ed all his life." Twenty years have proved the truth of the words, for while the boy who "made his own tools" is rich, his brother is still an ordinary workman.