=Advantage:= Early, _Choate_, 199 Good advice and personal popularity, _Choate_, 199 Money, opportunity, friends, _Choate_, 198 Ambition, _see Success Qualities_. America, opportunity in, _see Opportunity_. America, women singers in, _see Opportunity_. American Federation of Labor, _see Achievements_. American stock, _see Heredity_. Amusement, _see Careers_. =Anecdotes:= A Little Story, _Borden_, 453 A Father’s Warning, _Wallace_, 299 American Marshall, _Wilder_, 377 Armour and the Panic, _Armour_, 526 Borrowing a Postage Stamp, _Jones_, 502 Borrowing Five Cents, _Lipton_, 110 Broken “Holt,” _Burroughs_, 407 Burroughs and Gould, _Burroughs_, 406 Captured by Mosby’s Men, _Pingree_, 73 Carnegie and the Sleeping Car, _Carnegie_, 60 Chances for Young Men, _Dolliver_, 222 Chartered Train, _Sousa_, 389 Chinese Medal, _Maxim_, 48 Colonel Anderson’s Library, _Carnegie_, 53 Confidence Man, _Maxim_, 41 Congressman’s Fame, _Dolliver_, 221 Dangerous Crossing, _Blair_, 478 De Mores Incident, _Roosevelt_, 185 Dog’s Tail, _Maxim_, 38 Dowe Scheme, _Maxim_, 49 Dutchman’s Oath, _Wilder_, 376 Elected to the Presidency, _Vreeland_, 160 Emersonian Essays, _Burroughs_, 409 First Patent, _Edison_, 25 First Speech in Congress, _Johnson_, 240 First Trip West, _Platt_, 229 Founding of Armour Institute, _Armour_, 521 Funny Little Man, _Wilder_, 371 How He Became Deaf, _Edison_, 20 How He Learned Telegraphy, _Edison_, 21 How He Joined the Marine Band, _Sousa_, 385 “I’ll be President,” _Vreeland_, 156 Important Mission, _Vreeland_, 158 Joe Jefferson’s Life, _Wilder_, 374 Knighted by the Queen, _Van Horne_, 491 Life Prisoner, _Wilder_, 378 London Physician, _Van Horne_, 495 Lord Wolseley and Smokeless Powder, _Maxim_, 45 Never Mind the Gas, _Wilder_, 376 Nordica’s First Engagement, _Nordica_, 547 Origin of Smokeless Powder, _Maxim_, 45 Rapid-fire Gun in Switzerland, _Maxim_, 46 Richard and the Crown Prince, _Mansfield_, 383 “Salting” a “Hayseed,” _Edison_, 24 Save Me a Spare-rib, _Wilder_, 375 School-boy Compositions, _Burroughs_, 406 Terrific Storm, _Lipton_, 112 Trying the Boss, _Maxim_, 40 Two Small Boys, _Sousa_, 388 Vampire, _Choate_, 200 Volunteer German Friend, _Johnson_, 239 “Your Eyre,” _Harrison_, 309 Application, _see Success Qualities_. Apprentice, _see Methods_. Arbitration, _see Methods_. “Aristocracy,” _see Success Ideals_. Art, _see Careers_. Artist, _see Careers_. Association, with able men, _Borden_, 451 Attention, _see Success Qualities_. Authors, biographies of, _see Careers_. Automatic gun, _see Achievements_. Bad habits, _see Dangers_. Banking, _see Careers_. Bar, _see Careers_. Battle-ships, _see Achievements_. Beginning at the bottom, _see Start in Life_.