Merely changing the names to protect his pride, let us tell his story in his own words.

He had written to the Institute asking for information about the Modern Business Course and Service; and our representative found him in his "office"-a box-like structure eight feet square attached to a ramshackle building which was the "works."

"A

LEXANDER Hamilton Institute!" he exclaimed with a pathetic smile, "Will it be any use I wonder, now that the funeral is over?"

He paused a moment and then went on

"Six years ago I clipped a coupon to send to the Institute, but-I didn't send it. I put it off... just put it off. I was thirtynine then, with a flourishing businessand considerable property besides. Now I am forty-five and all I own is the tools out there in the shop. . . . . Last week I sent in a coupon-six years late. . . . .

....

"You know where the Emerson Store was, don't you?" he asked. "Well, I'm it. I'm the bankrupt."

"Lack of experience?" the Institute man ventured. "On the contrary I've had a pretty broad experience. I've made money as a retailer, as a salesman and a jobber. And I know the heating and sheetmetal business as well as any man in this country

"But I didn't know enough

"The National Homes Company built a hundred homes here during the War. I got the contract for the heating and roofing work. It was my big opportunity. But I'd never been thoroly grounded in the fundamentals of business; I didn't understand all the underlying currents that can carry a man forward or hurl him on the rocks.

"Rising material and labor costs got me. . . . The business and $18,000 is gone. . . . And so you see me here today... with one man, and my tools-all that is left after twenty years' work. At home it's pretty tough."

He stopped and lighted his pipe, then his slightly stooped shoulders straightened.

"But it's not too late to begin again," he declared. "And this time I'm going to start right. That's why I sent in the coupon and asked you to call. . . . But what a world of difference it would have made to me,' he concluded, "if I had acted on my impulse six years ago, instead of putting it off!". . .

Opportunity can either make
or destroy

Some day, you say to yourself, your opportunity will come. And it will. It comes sooner or later to almost every man, giving him the chance to do bigger things and make larger profits than ever before.

Some men are ready. They seize their chances and establish themselves for life. Countless other men also seize their chances-men who know enough to handle smaller things but lack absolute knowledge of

one or more vital departments of business. So the opportunities that should lift them overwhelm and destroy them instead.

We save years of men's lives

The Alexander Hamilton Institute was established to teach business as a profession, as law schools teach law or medical schools teach medicine.

With the help of leaders in the various departments of business-sales, accounting, factory and office management, costs, merchandising, advertising, transportation, corporation finance-its Course was prepared. The Institute has had the privilege of helping thousands of men to reach a higher place at a younger age; to save the years that most men lose in dull routine, or in energy misapplied.

You may put it off but

The Institute urges no man to accept its training; it wants no man who needs to be urged to consult his own best interests. It seeks only the opportunity to lay the full facts of its Modern Business Course and Service before you, leaving you to decide. The facts are contained in a 116-page book entitled "Forging Ahead in Business." It was this book that the man whose story is told above meant to send for six years ago. It will be sent without obligation.

Alexander Hamilton Institute 965 Astor Place New York City

Canadian Address, C. P. R. Bldg.,

Toronto

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HIS SUBTLE PRINCIPLE in my hands, without education, without capital, without training, without experience, and without study or waste of time and without health, vitality or will power has given me the power to earn more than a million dollars without selling merchandise, stocks, bonds, books, drugs, appliances, or any material thing of any character.

This subtle and basic principle of success requires no will power, no exercise, no strength, no energy, no study, no writing, no dieting, no concentration, and no conscious deep breathing. There is nothing to practice, nothing to study, and nothing to sell.

This subtle and basic principle of success does not require that you practice economy or keep records, or memorize, or read, or learn, or force yourself into any action or invest in any stocks, bonds, books, or merchandise.

The subtle principle must not be confused with Metaphysics, Psychology, New Thought, Christian Science, arbitrary optimism, inspiration or faith.

No one has yet succeeded in gaining success without it.

No one has ever succeeded in failing with it.

It is absolutely the master key to success, prosperity and supremacy.

My True and Actual Experience

When I was eighteen years of age, it looked to me as though I had absolutely no chance to succeed. Fifteen months altogether in common public school was the extent of my education. I had no money. When my father died, he left me twenty dollars and fifty cents, and I was earning hardly enough to keep myself alive. I had no friends for I was negative and of no advantage to any one. I had no plan of life to help me solve any problem. In fact, I did not know enough to know that life is and was a real problem, even though I had an "acute problem of life" on my hands. I was blue and despondent and thoughts of eternal misery arose in my mind constantly. I was a living and walking worry machine.

I was tired, nervous, restless. I could not sleep. I could not digest without distress. I had no power of application. Nothing appealed to me. Nothing appeared worth doing from the fear that I could not do anything because of my poor equip

ment of mind and body. I felt that I was shut out of the world of success and I lived in a world of failure.

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I was such a pauper in spirit that I blindly depended on drugs and doctors for my health, as my father before me. I was a "floater" and depended on luck for success. result of this attitude on my part was greater weakness, sickness, failure, and misery as is always the case under similar conditions.

Gradually my condition became worse. I reached a degree of misery that seemed intolerable. I reached a crisis in my realization of my failure and adverse condition.

Out of this misery and failure and pauperism of spirit-out of this distress -arose within me a desperate reaction -"a final effort to live"-and through this reaction, arose within me, the discovery of the laws and principles of life, evolution, personality, mind, health, success and supremacy. Also out of this misery arose within me, the discovery of the inevitable laws and principles of failure and sickness and inferiority.

When I discovered that I had unconsciously been employing the principles of failure and sickness, I immediately began to use the principles of success and supremacy. My life underwent an almost immediate change. I overcame illness through health, weakness through power, inferior evolution by superior evolution, failure by success, and converted pauperism into supremacy.

I discovered a principle which I observed that all successful personalities employ, either consciously or unconsciously. I had but one disease -failure, and therefore there was but one curesuccess, and I began to use this principle and out of its use arose my ambition, my powers, my education, my health, my success, and my supremacy, etc., etc.

You may also use this principle of success deliberately, purposefully, consciously, and profitably.