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HOW TO GET STRONG

will kill you some day,' Ulysses replied: 'Well, I can die but once.'…

"Though, too good-tempered to be betrayed into a quarrel, it is told of him that when an undersized cadet he was compelled to take a beating from some larger cadet. He went into training and tried it again, with the same result. A third time he failed, but in his fourth fight with the same youth, some months later, he was the victor, and gave his antagonist an illustration of the maxim that perseverance conquers all things."

General Longstreet, one of his most persistent foes on the field of battle, says, in his Reminiscences: "General Grant had come to be known as an all-round fighter seldom if ever surpassed; but the biggest part of him was his heart."

So this unassuming hundred and thirty-five pound, five-foot-eight man was the most daring horseman and skilful horsebreaker of his class where all were trained men kept in fine condition all the time. If he was not an athlete, and an uncommonly good one—what would you call him? And that was the sort of body that stood him in such stead when he filled the great place where every one else had failed.

SIR ARCHIBALD L. SMITH

There is a cluster of British judges, who, while known here chiefly to our Bar through long and honorable careers upon the English Bench, dealing constantly with important questions, often of great magnitude, have names which are a household-word in England. Of one of these, Mr. Justice A. L. Smith, the Law Gazette, February 26, 1891, says: "His health has been as good as his law; and physical strength counts for much in the race for briefs. While at the Bar his industry was surprising. Whatever the number of the cases he had on hand; and sometimes they were more numerous than two ordinary barristers could have controlled; he always

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