Which is an immense consideration in regard to his sovereign will and him! He was prompt with his rattan, in urgent cases; had his gallows also, prompt enough, where needful.

Let him see that no mistakes happen, as certainly he means that none shall! Yearly he made his country richer; and this not in money alone (which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all, and even less), but in frugality, diligence, punctuality, veracity,--the grand fountains from which money, and all real values and valors spring for men.

To Friedrich Wilhelm in his rustio simplicity, money had no lack of value; rather the reverse.

To the homespun man it was a success of most excellent quality, and the chief symbol of success in all kinds.

Yearly he made his own revenues, and his people's along with them and as the source of them, larger: and in all states of his revenue, he had contrived to make his expenditure less than it; and yearly saved masses of coin, and "reposited them in barrels in the cellars of his Schloss,"-- where they proved very useful, one day.