Boys, Heed This

Many people seena to fofget that Charactoï grows; that it is not something to put on ready-made with womac hoort or ïnanhood ; hut day by day, liere ;i lil.tle and there a little, grows with the growtli, and strengthens with the slrength, until good or bad, it becomes almost a coat of mail. Look at a man of business - prompt, reliable, oonacientious, jet cleai-headed aud energfltic. When do you suppose he developed all those admirable qualities? When lie wíis a boy? Let us seo how a boy of ten years gets up in the morning, works, plays, studies, and we will teil you just what kind of a man he will make. The boy that is too late at breakfast, late at school, stands a poor chauce to be a prompt man. The boy who neglects his duties, be they ever so smal!, and then excuses himself by sayiug, "I forgot: I didn't think!" will never be a reliable man; and the boy wlio lim'.s pieasure in the sufferiug of vvoak.or things, will never be a noble, geuerous, kind man- a gentleman.