Two MEN stood at the same table in a large factory, at the same trade. Having an hour for their nooning every day, each undertook to use it in accomplishing a definite purpose; each persevered for about the same number of months, and each won success at last. One of these two mechanics used his daily leisure hour in working out his invention of a machine for sawing a block of wood in almost any desired shape. When he completed his invention, he sold the patent for a fortune. The other man—what did he do?—Well, he spent an hour each day during the most of a year in the very difficult undertaking of teaching a little dog to stand on his hind feet and dance a jig. At last accounts he was working ten hours a day at the same trade and at his old wages, finding fault with the fate that made his fellow-workman rich while leaving him poor. Leisure moments may bring golden grain to the mind as well as to the purse, if one harvests wheat instead of chaff.—Wide Awake.