The Life Race

-If the reader ever witnessed a horse race lie knows what importance the jockeys attach to a good start. None of the drivers want to be even a neck behind in goingover the scratch. And if the horses arenot wel] together in coming up to the scratch, the judges cali the driver back and oblige them to tiy igain, till they all get off together, without any one having the advantage. Now human lile, as f ar as the great worldly aim is concerned, is nothing hut a race. As fast aa we get old enough to "go it alone" we enter the race for the great prize of wealth - that is, the means of securing comfort, happiness, enjoyinent and freedom from the treadmill of toil. In that case success depemls as mach upon a good start as in ihe case of a horse race. I i' a young toan begins his career by a course of industry, frugal i ty and correct habita generally, lie is sure to win an independence. By following this course from the first lie soon aceumulates a little money, and this accumulation helps him along. Money that he puts into the savings bank draws interest and swells his fund. After a while his accounts become large eiiough toallow his Btarting a a little business for his son, or else to buy ;i home in the suburbs where HHhy teiiemert houses and extortionate landlords are unknown. Thus he gcea to independence, surrounds himself witli luxurie, and passes his after years in ease and contentment. Hut how small a portion of young men start right in the race of lile. Walk out in the evening and you will find knots of young uien on every corner of the business avenues. Go into the rum shops, beer saloons and places of ill-repute, and you will ünd thera there. Their money goes more foolishly than it would if they threw it into the river. They contract bad habits ; they get into bad company; and, in niaking this mistake they get a bad start in the life race. ï"oung men who start thus are not likely to ever reacli an independent position. Ilabits fornied in the period when plastic youtli is changing into the solid iron of manhood are but ran - ly altered. Bear in mind, young man, that your status in Ufe dependa upon your conduct now. You cannot win the race without a good start. About the tirst thing a savage does after being converted by missionaries is to buifa a better house and buy locks for his doors.