Ability,seeSuccess Qualities.Accommodating,seeSuccess Qualities.Achievements:Acme Sucker Rod,Jones,498American Federation of Labor,Gompers,168Appliances for oil production,Jones,503Automatic gun,Maxim,43Battle-ships,Maxim,47“Ben Hur,”Wallace,303Blue shadows,Remington,331Books,Burroughs,412“Broncho Buster,”Remington,331Business king,Armour,523Busts,Ruckstuhl,364Canadian Pacific R. R.,Van Horne,490Employees over ten thousand,Lipton,113Flying machines,Maxim,47First iron bridge across Ohio,Carnegie,63Gas machines,Maxim,42Guns,Maxim,47Homestead Steel Works,Carnegie,64Inventions, six hundred,Edison,30Laws,Gompers,169Mayoralty of Detroit,Pingree,75Metropolitan Street Railway System,Vreeland,163Minneapolis Tribune,Conwell,428Mr. Dinkelspiel,Opper,353My life,Burroughs,411Operas and Marches,Sousa,386Partnership,Field,85Poems,Wilcox,274Poems,Markham,270Political honors,Depew,215“Puck,”Opper,357Rapid-fire gun,Maxim,36Scholarship,Schurman,248Smokeless powder,Maxim,46Statue,Remington,331Statues,Ruckstuhl,364Statue,Ruckstuhl,360Statues,Shrady,369Steam motors,Maxim,43Steel works,Carnegie,63Stores,Lipton,112Submarine cable device,Edison,24“Suburban Resident,”Opper,357Telegraphic recorder,Edison,23“The Fair God,”Wallace,302Titles,Maxim,36U. S. Express Co.,Platt,225U. S. Express Co.,Platt,230Vanderbilt system, head of,Depew,213Victories,Miles,189Acme Sucker Rod,seeAchievements.Actors, biographies of,seeCareers.Actresses, biographies of,seeCareers.Adaptability,seeSuccess Qualities.Advantage:Early,Choate,199Good advice and personal popularity,Choate,199Money, opportunity, friends,Choate,198Ambition,seeSuccess Qualities.America, opportunity in,seeOpportunity.America, women singers in,seeOpportunity.American Federation of Labor,seeAchievements.American stock,seeHeredity.Amusement,seeCareers.Anecdotes:A Little Story,Borden,453A Father’s Warning,Wallace,299American Marshall,Wilder,377Armour and the Panic,Armour,526Borrowing a Postage Stamp,Jones,502Borrowing Five Cents,Lipton,110Broken “Holt,”Burroughs,407Burroughs and Gould,Burroughs,406Captured by Mosby’s Men,Pingree,73Carnegie and the Sleeping Car,Carnegie,60Chances for Young Men,Dolliver,222Chartered Train,Sousa,389Chinese Medal,Maxim,48Colonel Anderson’s Library,Carnegie,53Confidence Man,Maxim,41Congressman’s Fame,Dolliver,221Dangerous Crossing,Blair,478De Mores Incident,Roosevelt,185Dog’s Tail,Maxim,38Dowe Scheme,Maxim,49Dutchman’s Oath,Wilder,376Elected to the Presidency,Vreeland,160Emersonian Essays,Burroughs,409First Patent,Edison,25First Speech in Congress,Johnson,240First Trip West,Platt,229Founding of Armour Institute,Armour,521Funny Little Man,Wilder,371How He Became Deaf,Edison,20How He Learned Telegraphy,Edison,21How He Joined the Marine Band,Sousa,385“I’ll be President,”Vreeland,156Important Mission,Vreeland,158Joe Jefferson’s Life,Wilder,374Knighted by the Queen,Van Horne,491Life Prisoner,Wilder,378London Physician,Van Horne,495Lord Wolseley and Smokeless Powder,Maxim,45Never Mind the Gas,Wilder,376Nordica’s First Engagement,Nordica,547Origin of Smokeless Powder,Maxim,45Rapid-fire Gun in Switzerland,Maxim,46Richard and the Crown Prince,Mansfield,383“Salting” a “Hayseed,”Edison,24Save Me a Spare-rib,Wilder,375School-boy Compositions,Burroughs,406Terrific Storm,Lipton,112Trying the Boss,Maxim,40Two Small Boys,Sousa,388Vampire,Choate,200Volunteer German Friend,Johnson,239“Your Eyre,”Harrison,309Application,seeSuccess Qualities.Apprentice,seeMethods.Arbitration,seeMethods.“Aristocracy,”seeSuccess Ideals.Art,seeCareers.Artist,seeCareers.Association, with able men,Borden,451Attention,seeSuccess Qualities.Authors, biographies of,seeCareers.Automatic gun,seeAchievements.Bad habits,seeDangers.Banking,seeCareers.Bar,seeCareers.Battle-ships,seeAchievements.Beginning at the bottom,seeStart in Life.“Ben Hur,”seeAchievements.Bent:Art must be inborn,Gibson,343Boyhood sketches,Opper,354Leaning toward business,Field,82Fitted for railroading,Vanderbilt,141Inclination for mechanics,Vanderbilt,139Invention born in a man,Edison,27Mechanics, natural to,Clowry,146Natural bent for singing,Nordica,543School-boy sketches,Remington,328Talent must be cultivated,Shrady,370Best,seeMethods.Blacksmith,seeCareers.Blindness,seeObstacles.Books,seeReading.Bottom of the ladder,seeStart in life.British Government,seeFame.“Broncho Buster,”seeAchievements.Busts,seeAchievements.Business ability,seeSuccess Qualities.Canada, opportunity in,seeOpportunity.Canadian Pacific R. R.,seeAchievements.Canadians, biographies of,seeCareers.Canniness,seeSuccess Qualities.Careers:Actors, biographies of,677Actresses, biographies of,681Amusements,Wilder,373Art,Ruckstuhl,364Artist,Opper,354Authors, biographies of,702Banking,Gage,133,135Bar, called to,Borden,450Blacksmith,Collyer,442Canadians, biographies of,687,700,716Cartoonists, biographies of,691Choice of,Abbey,314,315Choosing a career,Herreshoff,534Commerce,Field,83Commercial, mechanical or scientific pursuits in Canada,London,483Could succeed at anything,Maxim,38Decorators, biographies of,690Divines, biographies of,714Editors, biographies of,660Educators, biographies of,656Explorers, biographies of,652Farm,Van Horne,496Farmer in politics, simplicity, sense,Borden,452Father was a farmer,Burroughs,405Farmers, scientific,Loudon,484Finance,Burroughs,408Financiers, biographies of,638“Finding one’s self,”Shrady,366Humorists, biographies of,693Illustrators, biographies of,690Illustrating for girls,Stephens,323,324Industrial leaders, biographies of,620Inventors, biographies of,633Journalism,Conwell,429Journalists, biographies of,695Jurists, biographies of,644Law, keep out of,Platt,232Law,Borden,451Law,Dolliver,220Law office politics,Parent,464Lawyers, biographies of,644Lawyer, orator,Gunsaulus,433Lecturing,Conwell,431Lecturers, biographies of,683Literature,Riley,258,259,260Manufacturers, biographies of,624Mechanics and R. R. finance,Vanderbilt,139,140,141Merchants, biographies of,636Ministry,Gunsaulus,434Music as a vocation,Nordica,543Musicians, biographies of,670Novelists, biographies of,704Orators, biographies of,668Oratory,Depew,217Organizers, biographies of,683Painting,Shrady,366Philanthropists, biographies of,712Poets, biographies of,697Political field,Depew,214Political leaders, biographies of,641Political life in Canada,Blair,477Politics,Depew,211Politics,Dolliver,221Politics,Jones,508Politics, public utilities,Jones,509Politics, young men in,Roosevelt,174Practice of law,Conwell,428Preacher, merchant, lawyer, politician, doctor,Gunsaulus,433Preparation,Depew,210Preparation,Howells,286Private secretary,Gould,417Publishers, biographies of,663Railroad business,Van Horne,493Railroad official,Depew,212Reformers, biographies of,708Sailors, biographies of,648Sculptor, poet, artist,Ruckstuhl,358Sculptors, biographies of,690Singers, biographies of,674Soldiers, biographies of,648Statesmen, biographies of,617Stick to your calling,Vreeland,162Teacher, instructor,Borden,450Telegraphy,Carnegie,54,55,57Telegraphy,Edison,21,23,24Telegraphy, learning,Clowry,145,146,147Train despatcher,Van Horne,487Transportation, leaders, biographies of,629Travellers, biographies of,652Treasury,Burroughs,408United States Army,Miles,193Writing for children,Keller,393Writers, biographies of,695Writers, suggestions to,Wilcox,276,281Cartoonists, biographies of,seeCareers.Change,seeRecreation.Character,seeSuccess Ideals.Character,seeSuccess Qualities.Chinese Medal,seeAnecdotes.Civil service,seeCareers.Civil War,Conwell,427Clerking,seeStart in life.Colleges,seeEducation.Common school,seeEducation.Commerce,seeCareers.Common sense,seeSuccess Qualities.Compositor,seeStart in life.Conceit,seeDangers.Concentration,seeSuccess Qualities.Concentration of business,seeDangers.Conservatism,seeSuccess Qualities.Consistency,seeSuccess Qualities.Content,seeSuccess Ideals.Contentment,seeSuccess Ideals.Convictions,seeSuccess Qualities.Copying records,seeStart in life.Cordiality,seeSuccess Qualities.Corresponding with papers,seeStart in life.Country school teacher,seeStart in life.Courage,seeSuccess Qualities.Crippled,seeObstacles.Cuba, opportunity in,seeOpportunity.Culture,seeSuccess Ideals.Dangers:Conceit,Davenport,339Concentration of business,Jones,508Content in idleness,Choate,204Expensive habits, smoking,Mills,120Hurry, haste,Loudon,481Idleness,Gould,417Idleness,Mills,117Indulgence,Herreshoff,534Inexperience, lack of tact,Mills,123Luxuries, wealth, power,Burroughs,410Over-estimate of ability, inaction,Choate,202Overwork,Markham,269Ruts,Strauss,423Salary,Van Horne,493Weak points,Herreshoff,538Dauntlessness,seeSuccess Qualities.Deafness,seeObstacle.Decision,seeTurning Point.Decision,seeSuccess Qualities.Deliberation,seeSuccess Qualities.Determination,seeSuccess Qualities.Devotion,seeSuccess Qualities.Dignity,seeSuccess Qualities.Discipline,seeSuccess Qualities.Discipline,seeMethods.Discouragement,seeFailure.Dispatcher,seeCareers.Divines, biographies of,seeCareers.Doctor,seeCareers.Doing good,seeSuccess Ideals.Drink,seeHealth.Drug-store, retail,seeStart in life.Dutch parentage,seeHeredity.Early poverty,seeStart in life.Early rising,seeMethods.Early training,seeMethods.Earnestness,seeSuccess Qualities.Earning his way,seeStart in life.Economy,seeSuccess Qualities.Economy,seeMethods.Editors, biographies of,seeCareers.Educators, biographies of,seeCareers.Education,seeSuccess Ideals.Education, contentment,Keller,401Education:A careless student,Wallace,297Advantage of,Platt,227Advice how to obtain,Conwell,430College an advantage,Riley,260College discipline inadequate,Herreshoff,535College not necessary,Field,90College men in demand,Schurman,250College not necessary,Gompers,167College profitable,Platt,227College practical,Roosevelt,175Collegevs.home,Gage,135Common school sufficient,Clowry,151Cut short,Armour,514Education for women,H. Gould,417Effects of,Keller,398Elementary education,Schurman,245High school sufficient,Field,82Home study in art,Opper,355Of artists,Abbey,319Of the blind and deaf,Keller,397Necessary for soldiers,Miles,192Reading my college course,Collyer,443Self-culture, example of,Howells,283Self-culture in art,Gibson,344Self-culture in art,Shrady,367Student life in Paris,Ruckstuhl,361Teaching of drawing,Gibson,345Training in music,Nordica,545Value of,Gage,136Village school,Opper,354Effort,seeSuccess Qualities.Eight-hour work day,seeWork.Energy,seeSuccess Qualities.Enterprise,seeSuccess Qualities.Enthusiasm,