14 The Acorn the girls' arms. She arose and said, "Don't you touch us again, you are wicked men trying to lead us away." Then she took Grace's hand and they both ran down the road. "These men felt the pure noble spirit of these girls and did not move but watched the girls out of sight. "The girls wandered on and on finally coming to a little cabin where an old gentleman lived. He said he had heard of the parents and would take them safely home. He told them that these men belonged to a crowd of men who were living wicked lives and said the girls saved only by an unseen power. "It was about nine o'clock at night when the girls got home and found father and we boys just about ready to start to hunt for them. Mother, Aunt Lucy, and the neighbors also arrived home about the same time for they had been out looking for the girls. I think we were that night about the happiest family in the world. And we have tried since then to keep in harmony with our Father in Heaven so that we would always merit his blessings." Josephine Burton '10 LITTLE ACTS Little acts are snowflakes That seem no help to give Yet serve to waken kindness And cause faint hearts to live. F. P. The Acorn 15 Secrets of Success The first thing to consider is, the meaning of success. Every rich man is not truly successful; nor is every poor man unsuccessful. Success is the gaining of a living, or a competence, or wealth, without paying too dearly for it. You may buy gold too dearly. If you give health for it, you make a poor bargain; if you sell your faculties for it, and think of nothing but gaining wealth, you give pearls for a bubble; if you give your soul for it, your self respect, your character, your conscience, your peace, or any one of them, what will you think of the exchange when you come to feel what it means? True success is when a fair share of this world does not cost either moral, or intelluctual, or physical health, or life. Now that we have a definition of success, let us find the rocks of danger which threaten boys and young men in business at the present day. Here is a group of rocks upon which many are already drifting; they are, club-rooms," "evil companions," "low theatres," "Sabbath-breaking," "bad literature," "cigarettes," "intemperance." If your ship of life gets to beating about among these rocks, there will be very little busi- ness success, or any other kind of success for you. You may think that it is nobody's business how you spend your Sundays, whether in riding and boating and sleeping or in church-going. Perhaps this is so, but one rich man has said: "The religious observance of the Sabbath I consider a very important element in the success of young men, not only morally, but intelluctu-ally, physically, and financially. The use of the Sabbath as a day of amusement and recreation, does not command the respect or confidence of those who hold the purse strings, and whose good opinions are valuable to give credit and a good reputation." There are two virtues which often make a boy successful and they are politeness and self-denial. Some people are habite only on certain ocassions and at different times, while others cultivate politeness so much that it becomes a part of them this is true politeness. Self-denial is that quality which makes the old suit of clothes do for another winter, if a new suit cannot be well afforded; it puts up with a Waterbury watch when the boy wants a hundred-dollar Hunter; it gets him out at six in the morning, when he wants to lie un-