Give him a little practice and he is a captain. With energy and ambition
failure never comes if you only know the difficulties. "Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread" is as good in business as in poetry. In the
great cities there are long streets lined with retail store-rooms of
every quality of location. They rent at from twenty-five to a hundred
dollars a month. Many a store-room has not had an occupant in it for ten
years who did not grow poorer. No good business man could be induced to
enter into a business at such a point. But