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tElje (Dglala Htgljt. is so easy for the poor little fellows to waste their glorious possibili ties and spoil their lives. If you wish to invest your kindness and your care where they will bring great returns and develop great possibilities, invest them in the receptive mind and docile heart of a boy. If you wish to befriend some one to whom your friendship will mean unutterable things and who will repay your kindness with a lifelong gratitude, befriend a boy. when you find some young lad in need of aid, to set him right from some wrong start which he has made in the world, to rub out the cyphers which he has begun to write on the fair check of his life, and write in some figures of worthy merit, sieze that opportunity. Think of the days when you yourself were a boy, and estimate, if you can, what a mighty change it would have made in your life and your fortune if some one had befriended you when you were but a lad, full of glorious possibilities, a blank check, newly urawn by the hand of God. You cannot any longer erase from your heart and soul those lines which your boyish hand has written there. But all about you are young lives, young fortunes, which you can help and aid as no one helped or aided you. If you miss the opportunity, if you let the chance go by, these boys when they are old, will have occasion to look back upon your dealings with them, with sorrow and perhaps with anger. Do not do as you, perhaps, have been done by, but do by these lads what you would wish that some kind friend had done by you. Help and cheer, advise, encourage the boys. There is no policy like politness." 19.