6HIS FIRST EXPERIMENTS.
277A WRONG CONCEPTION OF SUCCESS.
7A NOVEL METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING.
278SLAVES OF WEALTH.
8HIS FIRST PATENT.
279A BOY’S CHANCE TO-DAY.
9POVERTY AS AN INCENTIVE TO EFFORT.
280INHERITED QUALITIES.
10NEVER DID ANYTHING WORTH WHILE BY CHANCE.
281LEAVING THE FARM.
11OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE INVENTORS.
282A MINING VENTURE.
12THE WIZARD AT HOME.
283HE ENTERS THE GRAIN MARKET.
13MRS. EDISON IS ALSO AN INVENTOR OF GOOD ABILITY.
284QUALITIES THAT BRING SUCCESS.
14RISES EARLY AND WORKS LONG.
285THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BENEVOLENCE.
15THE MAN WHOSE GUNS WILL CLEAR A JUNGLE.
286A BUSINESS KING.
16HIS BRAIN IS BUILT UP OF INVENTIVE CELLS.
287FOREARMED AGAINST PANIC.
17BITING OFF THE DOG’S TAIL.
288SOME SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
18PAT’S ANXIETY TO TRY “THE BOSS,” AND ITS RESULT.
289LET THE WORK SHOW.
19HOW THE MAINE “BACKWOODSMAN” CAPTURED A ROBBER.
290A MOTHER’S MIGHTY INFLUENCE.
20FROM GAS MACHINES TO INCANDESCENT LAMPS.
291PREPARE TO THE UTMOST: THEN DO YOUR BEST.
21THE GENESIS OF THE AUTOMATIC GUN.
292THE MAN IS THE IMPORTANT FACTOR.
22AUTOMATIC GUNS MADE SMOKELESS POWDER INDISPENSABLE.
293THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABILITY.
23HOW LI HUNG CHANG BECAME INTERESTED IN MAXIM.
294HE WOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED.
24HOW A FIRST-CLASS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED.
295THERE MUST BE NO PLAY, ONLY STUDY AND PRACTICE.
25IT IS HARDER NOW TO GET A START.
296“I WAS TRAVELING ON AIR.”
26MR. CARNEGIE’S FIRST WAGES.
297HER FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR.
27HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.
298“WHY DON’T YOU SING IN GRAND OPERA?”
28IT IS BEST TO BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM.
299THIS WAS HER CROWNING TRIUMPH.
29HE WAS AN EXPERT TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
300THE KINDNESS OF FRAU WAGNER.
30THE RIGHT MEN IN DEMAND.
301THE MUSICAL TALENT OF AMERICAN GIRLS.
31HOW TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.
302BOOK TWO MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE ACHIEVED EMINENCE
32CARNEGIE AND THE SLEEPING-CAR.
303Success Maxims
33THE MARK OF A MILLIONAIRE.
304BOOK THREE ENCYCLOPEDIC BIOGRAPHIES, OR THE ROMANCE OF REALITY.
34A FORTUNATE LAND PURCHASE.
305Success Maxims
35THE HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS.
306William Boyd Allison.
36A STRENGTHENING POLICY.
307Grover Cleveland.
37MR. CARNEGIE’S PHILANTHROPY.
308William Pierce Frye.
38CARNEGIE’S VIEWS ON THRIFT.
309John Hay.
39“THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING RICH MEN’S SONS.”
310George Frisbie Hoar.
40HOW HE BECAME MAYOR OF DETROIT.
311Henry Cabot Lodge.
41A GREAT CHANGE PROPHESIED.
312Richard Olney.
42HE WAS NOT A DEMAGOGUE.
313Elihu Root.
43GOVERNOR PINGREE’S LUXURIOUS HOME.
314E. G. Acheson.
44HIS PARENTS HELPED HIM.
315Charles Henry Cramp.
45ALWAYS INTERESTED IN COMMERCE.
316Charles Ranlett Flint.
46HIS PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS.
317Charles Melville Hays.
47PERSEVERANCE, MR. FIELD’S ESSENTIAL TRAIT.
318John B. Herreshoff.
48QUALITIES THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS.
319Lewis Nixon.
49A STANCH INHERITANCE.
320John H. Patterson.
50HE WAS ALWAYS PROMPT.
321Hugh Chisholm.
51STEP BY STEP UPWARD.
322Theodore Lowe De Vinne.
52“WAKING UP” A TOWN.
323William Louis Douglas.
53SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES.
324Charles Eastman.
54ECONOMICAL WAYS.
325Albert August Pope.
55CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPIST.
326C. W. Post.
56HIS ADVICE TO YOUNG MERCHANTS.
327John Wilson Wheeler.
57CONDITIONS THEN AND NOW.
328George F. Baer.
58THE VALUE OF “PUSH.”
329August Belmont.
59SIR THOMAS WAS WON.
330Alexander Johnston Cassatt.
60WHEN HE BORROWED FIVE CENTS.
331George Henry Daniels.
61AMERICAN BUSINESS METHODS GAVE HIM HIS START.
332George Jay Gould.
62HE OWNS NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED STORES.
333Clement Acton Griscom.
63CHANCES FOR YOUNG MEN TO-DAY.
334James J. Hill.
64“THRIFT IS THE TRUE SECRET OF SUCCESS.”
335Melville Ezra Ingalls.
65AN AGE OF OPPORTUNITIES.
336Alexander Graham Bell.
66THE FIRST HUNDRED DOLLARS.
337Charles Francis Brush.
67TRAITS OF INFLUENTIAL MEN.
338Santos Dumont.
68SOME SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
339Peter Cooper Hewitt.
69THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER.
340John P. Holland.
70A WORD ABOUT CHEAP HOTELS.
341William Marconi.
71HE BEGAN AS A GROCERY CLERK.
342George Westinghouse.
72NO LUCK IN HIS ACHIEVEMENT.
343Edward Cooper.
73STRICT HONESTY IS NECESSARY.
344Robert Curtis Ogden.
74WHEN YOU START IN LIFE IN A STRANGE CITY, DO NOT EXPECT “SOFT SNAPS.”
345Henry Siegel.
75THE PUBLIC WOULD RATHER INVEST ITS MONEY IN MEN THAN IN FINE BUILDINGS.
346Frank W. Woolworth.
76FROM THE FOUNDATION UP.
347William Waldorf Astor.
77WISE DEVELOPMENT OF INHERITED TENDENCIES.
348Henry Clews.
78HE WILL MASTER EVERY DETAIL.
349Mrs. Hetty Green.
79WORKING AS A MACHINIST.
350John Pierpont Morgan.
80HE WAS SO POOR HE HAD TO DO HIS OWN COOKING.
351John Davison Rockefeller.
81IT IS WELL TO KNOW WHAT MEN HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
352Charles Tyson Yerkes.
82HE TRIED TO DO MORE THAN HE WAS PAID TO DO.
353Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich.
83THERE ARE AS GOOD CHANCES IN THE WORLD TO-DAY.
354William Jennings Bryan.
84HE INHERITED A TASTE FOR HARD WORK.
355Arthur Pue Gorman.
85HE LOVED HIS WORK.
356Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
86A NICKNAME THAT BECAME A REAL TITLE.
357Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.
87AN IMPORTANT MISSION WELL PERFORMED.
358Joseph Wingate Folk.
88HOW HE WAS ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY OF HIS COMPANY.
359Frank Swett Black.
89HIGH-PRICED MEN ARE IN DEMAND.
360Frederick René Coudert.
90LOOKS LIKE EDWIN FORREST.
361James Brooks Dill.
91HE WORKED IN A FACTORY AT TEN.
362Melville Weston Fuller.
92THE LATER ARISTOCRACY.
363John William Griggs.
93THE NEED OF ORGANIZED LABOR.
364Oliver Wendell Holmes.
94HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATION.
365William Travers Jerome.
95FOR THE EIGHT-HOUR WORKDAY.
366Joseph McKenna.
96STRIKES AS A LAST RESORT.
367Alton Brooks Parker.
97YOUNG MEN IN POLITICS.
368Adna Romanza Chaffee.
98OPPORTUNITIES AND TALENTS.
369George Dewey.
99THE CITIZENSHIP THAT COUNTS.
370Robley Dunglison Evans.
100THE BOYHOOD OF ROOSEVELT.
371Fred Funston.
101WHERE HE GAINED STRENUOSITY.
372Richmond Pearson Hobson.
102HE DASHED INTO THE VORTEX OF THE CHASE.
373Winfield Scott Schley.
103HE SHOWED PIONEERS HOW TO WINTER CATTLE.
374William Rufus Shafter.
104HE CIVILIZED MANY “BAD MEN” BY HIS INFLUENCE.
375Joseph Wheeler.
105“GAMENESS” WAS NEEDED; ROOSEVELT HAD PLENTY.
376Evelyn Briggs Baldwin.
106HIS FRONTIER LIFE WAS AMPLY WORTH THE WHILE.
377Frederick Albert Cook.
107SIX YEARS OF INDIAN FIGHTING.
378Sven Anders Hedin.
108HIS RECORD IN THE CIVIL WAR.
379E. Burton Holmes.
109A LOYAL, DAUNTLESS LEADER.
380A. H. Savage Landor.
110A YOUNG MAN’S CHANCES IN THE ARMY.
381Fridtjof Nansen.
111CHARACTER THE FOUNDATION OF TRUE COURAGE.
382Robert Edwin Peary.
112COURAGE NATURAL TO AMERICANS.
383Henry Morton Stanley.
113A YOUNG LAWYER’S CHANCES THEN AND NOW.
384Walter Wellman.
114ARE SPECIAL ADVANTAGES NECESSARY?
385Elisha Benjamin Andrews.
115WHAT SUCCESS MEANS.
386Nicholas Murray Butler.
116THE GOOD LUCK OF BEING PREPARED.
387Charles William Eliot.
117TURNING OBSTACLES INTO AIDS.
388William Herbert Perry Faunce.
118DOES LACK OF OPPORTUNITY JUSTIFY.
389Arthur Twining Hadley.
119MR. CHOATE’S ANTECEDENTS.
390William Torrey Harris.
120DOES SUCCESS BRING CONTENT AND HAPPINESS.
391Henry Mitchell McCracken.
121THE DELUSION OF LUXURY AND EASE.
392Woodrow Wilson.
122MR. CHOATE’S SHARE OF NEW YORK’S LAW BUSINESS.
393Henry Mills Alden.
123HE HAD TO EARN HIS OWN WAY.
394Edward William Bok.
124HE ENTERED YALE AT EIGHTEEN.
395James Monroe Buckley.
125HIS BEGINNING AS AN ORATOR.
396Richard Watson Gilder.
126A SALARY OF .5,000 A YEAR.
397George Burton McClellan Harvey.
127OPPORTUNITIES OF TO-DAY.
398George Howard Lorimer.
128THERE IS MORE THAN ONE KIND OF SUCCESS.
399Whitelaw Reid.
129A SCHOOL TEACHER AT EIGHTEEN.
400Albert Shaw.
130THE STRANGE RESULT OF A LECTURE.
401Henry Watterson.
131HIS IDEA OF GENUINE SUCCESS.
402Frank Nelson Doubleday.
132HIS START AS A BOY.
403Isaac Kauffman Funk.
133ALWAYS FOND OF READING.
404William Randolph Hearst.
134A TASTE OF MINING LIFE
405Edward Everett Higgins.
135THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.
406Louis Klopsch.
136ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
407Samuel Sidney McClure.
137MR. PLATT’S CHARACTERISTICS.
408Frank Andrew Munsey.
138HIS FIRST SPECULATION.
409Joseph Pulitzer.
139AT WORK IN A ROLLING MILL.
410John Brisben Walker.
140A FORTUNATE MISFORTUNE.
411Albert J. Beveridge.
141“PROGRESS AND POVERTY” CHANGED HIS WHOLE LIFE.
412Champ Clark.
142HIS VOLUNTEER GERMAN FRIEND.
413William Bourke Cockran.
143HIS FIRST SPEECH IN CONGRESS.
414John Warwick Daniels.
144TOM REED LISTENED.
415Carl Schurz.
145A PEN PICTURE OF TOM JOHNSON.
416Walter Johannes Damrosch.
146HE ALWAYS SUPPORTED HIMSELF.
417Henry Lewis Reginald De Koven.
147THE TURNING POINT OF HIS LIFE.
418Maurice Grau.
148A SPLENDID COLLEGE RECORD.
419Victor Herbert.
149COLLEGE-BRED MEN ARE IN DEMAND
420Leonora Jackson.
150THROWN ON HIS OWN RESOURCES.
421Franz Kneisel.
151WHY HE LONGED TO BE A BAKER.
422Maud Powell.
152THE SUPERSTRUCTURE DEPENDS ON THE FOUNDATION.
423Theodore Thomas.
153A LITERARY LIFE MEANS WORK.
424David Scull Bispham.
154A COLLEGE EDUCATION IS AN ADVANTAGE.
425Emma Calvé.
155THE MAN WITH THE HOE.
426Zelie de Lussan.
156ONE OF THE GREAT POEMS OF THE CENTURY.
427Edouard de Reszke.
157HIS MOTHER WAS BOTH PRACTICAL AND POETIC.
428Jean de Reszke.
158HE GAINED VALUABLE DISCIPLINE ON A FARM.
429Emma Eames.
159BYRON’S POEMS INSPIRED HIM.
430Lillian Nordica.
160ANSWERING HIS CRITICS.
431Adelina Patti.
161SEED SOWN LONG AGO.
432Marcella Stengel Sembrich.
162HOW HER BEST POEMS WERE WRITTEN.
433William H. Crane.
163THE CREED.
434John Drew.
164SHE IS A PRONOUNCED OPTIMIST.
435William Hooker Gillette.
165DO NOT FEAR CRITICISM.
436Nathaniel C. Goodwin.
166MERIT IS NOT ALWAYS DISCOVERED QUICKLY.
437James Keteltas Hackett.
167EDITORS ARE ANXIOUS FOR GOOD ARTICLES.
438Sir Henry Brodribb Irving.
168PERSEVERANCE COUNTS IN AUTHORSHIP.
439Joseph Jefferson.
169WILL-POWER
440Edward H. Sothern.
170EARLY IDEALS.
441Maude Adams.
171ACQUIRING A LITERARY STYLE.
442Viola Allen.
172HIS POEMS ALWAYS WERE REJECTED.
443Ethel Barrymore.
173HIS FIRST EDITORIAL POSITION.
444Mrs. Leslie Carter.
174AN EXPERIENCE IN COLLABORATION.
445Eleanora Duse.
175THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE.
446May Irwin.
176WHAT TRUE HAPPINESS IS.
447Virginia Harned.
177HE WAS A CARELESS STUDENT.
448Mrs. Lillie Langtry.
178HE LOVED TO READ.
449Julia Marlowe.
179A FATHER’S FRUITFUL WARNING.
450Cynthia May Westover Alden.
180HIS FIRST LITERARY EFFORT.
451Clara Barton.
181THE ORIGIN OF “BEN HUR.”
452Francis Edward Clark.
182CONVERTED WHILE WRITING HIS OWN BOOK.
453Mary Lowe Dickinson.
183HER FIRST NOVEL.
454Thomas Dixon, Jr.
184BOOKS SHE ENJOYED.
455Herbert Hungerford.
185HER CHARACTERS ARE FROM LIFE.
456John Mitchell.
186IN LOVE WITH HER WORK.
457Ernest Thompson-Seton.
187SHE IS A GENTLE, FORCEFUL WOMAN.
458Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
188A MOST INTERESTING STUDIO.
459Lord Strathcona.
189HE WAS NOT A PRECOCIOUS BOY.
460William de Leftwich Dodge.
190HIS WORK WAS ENCOURAGED.
461Charles Mente.
191HE ALWAYS TAKES PAINS.
462Thure de Thulstrup.
192PERSISTENCE AND HARD WORK COUNT.
463T. S. Allen.
193ART IGNORES NOISE.
464Charles G. Bush.
194GIRLS’ CHANCES AS ILLUSTRATORS.
465Louis Dalrymple.
195HOW SHE BEGAN.
466Sydney B. Griffin.
196REMINGTON’S SCHOOLBOY EFFECTS.
467R. F. Outcault.
197REMINGTON’S ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
468Carl E. Schultze.
198HOW HIS WAR PICTURES ARE MADE.
469Eugene Zimmerman.
199COLOR OF THE PLAINS.
470George Ade.
200HIS FIRST SKETCH.
471John Kendrick Bangs.
201DAVENPORT’S UNIQUE STUDIO.
472Samuel Langhorn Clemens.
202HE DREW CARTOONS IN SCHOOL.
473Finley Peter Dunne.
203HIS FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT.
474Simeon Ford.
204AT TEN DOLLARS A WEEK.
475Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer.
205HE WAS DISCHARGED IN CHICAGO.
476George V. Hobart.
206IN CLOVER AT LAST.
477Melvin De Lancy Landon.
207A NATURAL ARTIST WILL NEVER REQUIRE AN INSTRUCTOR.
478Stephen Bonsal.
208IF YOU DO NOT SEE YOUR MISTAKES, NO ONE ELSE CAN.
479Richard Harding Davis.
209THE VALUE OF ARTISTIC INDIVIDUALITY.
480Hamlin Garland.
210STUDIES OUT HIS IDEAS.
481David G. Phillips.
211A PRINTER’S DEVIL.
482Charles George Douglas Roberts.
212GOOD USE OF LEISURE TIME.
483William Thomas Stead.
213HIS CONNECTION WITH “PUCK.”
484Vance Thompson.
214THE “SUBURBAN RESIDENT.”
485Stewart Edward White.
215MADE HIS FIRST SKETCH AT TWENTY-FIVE.
486Owen Wister.
216HE GAVE UP A LARGE SALARY TO PURSUE ART.
487Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
217THE INSPIRATION THAT COUNTS.
488Bliss Carman.
218A PET DOG HIS FIRST PAINTING.
489Richard Le Gallienne.
219A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT WITH A HORSE.
490Robert Mackay.
220NATURE’S LAW OF COMPENSATION.
491Cincinnatus Heine Miller.
221HOW HE TOOK JOSEPH JEFFERSON’S LIFE.
492Henry Van Dyke.
222HOW TO FIND SUCCESS.
493Dr. William Osler.
223HE BEGAN AS A DRY GOODS CLERK.
494Sir George A. Drummond.
224HE GIVES INFINITE ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
495James Lane Allen.
225IN THE MARINE BAND.
496George Washington Cable.
226HIS FIRST SUCCESSFUL WORK.
497Winston Churchill.
227A MAN WHO NEVER RESTS.
498Francis Marion Crawford.
228HOW SOUSA WORKS.
499Rudyard Kipling.
229HELEN KELLER AT HOME.
500Thomas Nelson Page.
230HER AMBITION.
501Charles Major.
231HEREDITY AND CHILDHOOD.
502Gertrude Franklin Atherton.
232HELEN’S FIRST TEACHER.
503Amelia Edith Barr.
233PREPARING FOR COLLEGE.
504Frances Hodgson Burnett.
234HER IDEAL OF A SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
505Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie.
235DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING SUCCESSFUL.
506Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman.
236A WORTHY AIM IN LIFE.
507Anna Katherine Greene.
237JAY GOULD WAS HIS CHUM.
508Sarah Orne Jewett.
238HE BEGAN WRITING AT SIXTEEN.
509Constance Cary Harrison.
239WHAT NATURE STUDY REALLY MEANS.
510Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
240WHY HE IS RICH WITHOUT MONEY.
511George Thorndike Angell.
241A FACE FULL OF CHARACTER.
512Susan Brownell Anthony.
242HER AMBITIONS AND AIMS.
513Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker.
243A MOST CHARMING CHARITY.
514Anthony Comstock.
244UNHERALDED BENEFACTIONS.
515Wilbur Fiske Crafts.
245HER MEANS OF EDUCATION.
516Elbridge Thomas Gerry.
246THE EVIL OF IDLENESS.
517William Reuben George.
247PRACTICAL BENEFICENCE NOT MERE CHARITY.
518Charles Henry Parkhurst.
248HE DOES NOT WOUND THEIR SELF-RESPECT.
519Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
249HE IS A KEEN, ENERGETIC MANAGER.
520Mrs. Phoebe Appersin Hearst.
250ONWARD, EVER; UPWARD, ALWAYS.
521Daniel Kimball Pearsons.
251HE ENLISTED AT EIGHTEEN.
522Mrs. Henry Codman Potter.
252HOUSEKEEPING IN TWO SMALL ROOMS.
523Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
253HOW HE ENTERED THE MINISTRY.
524Mrs. Russell Sage.
254HE IS ALWAYS STUDYING SOMETHING.
525Mrs. Leland Stanford.
255CAN A PREACHER BE A POWER?
526Anson Phelps Stokes, Sr.
256MEN WHO INFLUENCED HIM.
527Lyman Abbott.
257HE DID NOT PRETEND TO PIETY.
528Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.
258ARE THE DICE OF LIFE LOADED?
529Edward Everett Hale.
259A MINISTER’S TRUE IDEAL.
530Benjamin Fay Mills.
260HIS WORK IN CHICAGO.
531Henry Codman Potter.
261HOW TO MEET GREAT EMERGENCIES.
532William Taylor.
262THE LIGHT THAT LED OVER THE SEA.
533John Heyl Vincent.
263GENIUS IS DEVOTION AND APPLICATION.
534William Peterson.
264XLVII Canada’s Leading Conservative Extols “the Country of the Twentieth Century.”
535George A. Cox.
265XLVIII An Eminent Scholar Advocates the Union of Canada and the United States.
536Timothy Eaton.
266XLIX After Failure as a Grocer, He Becomes the Ablest Administrator Quebec Has Ever Had.
537Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy.
267L Canada’s Leading Economist Tells Her Sons To Seek Fortune in Her Own Domain.
538William S. Fielding.
268LI A Distinguished Educator has Found Contentment in the Simple Life.
539Charles Fitzpatrick.
269LII Beginning as Telegraph Operator He Built the Canadian Pacific.
540George William Ross.
270LOVED BY HIS EMPLOYEES.
541Lord Mount Stephen.
271BORN IN A HUMBLE HOME.
