📒 Published in 1895 Major Calhoon gives practical down to earth advice. Calhoon covers such topics as: the importance of character, home influences, courage and effort. He gives further advice on marriage, selecting a calling and helping ourselves. The final chapters cover: public life, Labor's compensations, cultivating observation and judgment. Calhoon concludes by saying that a successful man is self made and unselfish in his helpfulness.