Show SUCCESS IN opportunities for the young men of today to day 1 alia proper coarse to if they would succeed in Basl nea p the growth of large Conc crot small several of mills and factories of the world nd some of the largest stores had ginning in a small way when their owners had scarcely any capital othe than skill industry and probity little by money was gathered for an extension of the works the gains be money could be invested to cheapen processes or extend trade relations of business value were established and so the business kept on expanding until acres of buildings took the place ot one small shop and the income began to be counted by millions instead of hundreds there ara many great establishments of which aisa general outline history sometimes varied by an opportune invention or circumstance helping to a more rapid growel but when a young man is of these big workshops with thousands of employed emp loyes and every laborsaving device he is very likely to say that there are no such opportunities now abonce existed to thus build up a great business from almost nothing that the age of machinery has come and that one can not hope to compete with established factories except by the use of large capital at the very beginning there is a little truth in this because ono could hardly expect to succeed in building locomotives for example by handwork hand work in competition with established works using machine tools but it is altogether overshadowed by tho larger truth that now as heretofore thero is room at the top for the young man of probity industry zeal and intelligence li gence capital can bo obtained when the proper time comes by the man who h as these qualities and great enterprises be established by those who start in life at the bottom round of the ladder thirty years no says the baltimore sun the simo objection was made with apparently the same force yet within choso thirty years instances can be found of poor boy 9 rising to become tho great merchants and manufacturers ot the country if they had considered that tho opportunities to rise had passed away with the first half ot the century they might havo remained behind the counter or at the workbench work bench but they were industrious faithful skillful and above all self confident and determined to succeed and opportunities came to them as they may come to any boy of tho present generation who prepares himself to take advantage of a change in tho tide of fortune one of the famous assayers of the country started in a very small way extracting tha gold and silver from the sweepings of jewelry manufactories manu factories ic required some years of honest dealing before he could firmly establish a reputation for probity and skill that brought him largo consign ments then his little laboratory began to grow ho invented new processes to help him in his work his good name became known in distant states and toward the close of his life more gold and silver passed through his assay office in a year than through the united states mint at philadelphia nis great business success was due in part to his i knowledge and skill in part to his in bat also in large part to his high character strangers consigned to his assay office thousand 9 of dollars worth of ore no ono savo the assayer could say how touch silver and gold he extracted hut men learned to trust him and on the strength of his reputation millions of dollars worth of material wore in trusted to him as to a government mint can the young man of today to day repeat that history possibly not in that particular line of work but the same qualities liay bo depended upon to bear dimitar fruit in any business undertaking der taking the impatience of young men u atten a bar to their success they want to make amonoy rapidly and establish a great house of in a few years there are exceptional circumstances cum stances under which this may be done but the general rule is that several years are required to fully establish a business reputation that can command a large trade quite recently in one of the large cities an old mercantile firm that bad been established for over half a century and was at ono time at the head of all the wholesale establishments was bought out stock good will and axt arcs by a young man who had started a small store when this firm was at the height ot its power and business influence lie did not dream at that time of competing with his great neighbor lie was content to do tho small trade that fell to his lot he attended strictly to business and exerted himself to please bis customers slowly but steadily his business expanded before many years he becaro a rival of the older firm and then ane unexpected though natural thing happened the younger man was more enterprising and energetic than his neighbor who tiring of the struggle after accumulating a large fortune retired from the field in the business world as in nature there is the period of growth and decay great business houses may have fresh blood infused into them and descending from father to aon may po on growing beyond r the lifetime of their founder corporations give a still longer time to the period of growth but decay comes to all of them and younger enterprises displace them even the corporations though of such long lifo suffer from tho competition of young rivals that ent erthe field appliances fresh ideas and the vigor and zeal of youth because the field to be occupied is no reason why the young man of today to day should give way to despair or lose in the slightest degree confidence in his own power to succeed but ho must look forward the necessity of toiling for a time to earn the good reputation which combined with skill and industry shall t give him high place among hia fellow |