Good Advice Promptly Taken

i Drake'3 Travelers Magazine. "YimDg man!" said a president o] one of the western roads to a candidato for einployment. "Young man, I can do nothing for you beyond giving you a little advico. Do as I did, and mako yourself a self maile man!" "But how did you do it?" inquired the job-hunter. "I started in Ufe as a switchman on this very road. I w.is poor but ambitious. In order to get my first start I married a girl, got ker life insumí, started her off on her wedding tour alone, derailed the train, collected the rwuranee, mulcted the corapany in $10,000, and bought a passender brakcm ii place." "Tbat was ingenieras, " commentcd the pplicant. "Then I married anotber woman, insurcd her Ufe, and one night when the train ttopped to cool a hot box I didn't flagtlie freight coming along behind. I colleuted tho insuranco ou lier, got another ten tlious., and purehased a conduotor's sit. Froni that riso was easy, and now 1 ovvn tho road. Do as I did. Eely on yourself, and ask no man for assistance." ¦¦Mach obliged," replied tho youth carek'ssly. "111 profit by your advice. I know where I cin get a job on a newspaper, and I don't know how I can make a better start than publishing yourexperience. Good morning." But the self-mado man oalIeJ him baek and now tho youth is treajurer of the wholo concern.