doorkeeper and asked him to call at his hotel that evening.

That stranger was Collis P. Huntington, who was a great railroad
official in those days.

When the doorkeeper called upon him that night, Mr. Huntington offered
him a position at nearly twice the salary he was then receiving. He
accepted the new position and was rapidly promoted from that time on.

The lesson I would have you learn from this is that you never know when
a good deed is going to return to you. I don't mean that you should be
courteous, expecting that you are going to be paid for it each time, for
the greatest pay for kindness is just the feeling that you have helped
someone. As the old saying goes, "Civility costs nothing," and on the
other hand, you never gain anything by getting the ill-will of anybody
or anything, even of a dog. Be courteous: it is the mark of a gentleman,
of a lady, and it is often the passport to success.




LITTLE FOXES


In far-off Syria, a country lying northeast of Palestine, the land in
which Jesus was born, the farmers who keep vineyards are very much
troubled with foxes and bears, which destroy their crops at night. And
so, to protect their vineyards, they build high stone-walls about them,
and put broken bottles on the top to keep these animals out, much as
some people in this country who have orchards do, in order to keep out