Show FAILURES AND SUCCESSES THE T liE EDITOn of shat shatters shatters an ati ancient theory theor and at the i same Ume pays pas a strong tribute to American pluck and anti energy when he says that it is 6 not lOt true tru that 90 to per percent percent cent of the tIle men who s set et t up UI a n business bu rin for themselves lve fan fall The proportion cording according a to this thin writer riler is 16 not nol as us great Il b SO or or 78 70 or even cen CO 60 per cent Willie While bile it is true that 84 names were welt blot blotted blotted blotted ted out of the business register le lster in lit VMS l names were added Bradstreets man nina believes that that men inca vho who failed in other enterprises s were responsible for a large larte proportion of the new ones It is perhaps true that 90 DO 4 per pel cent of 9 business men make fail failures ures ines at some time during their lives But they do not remain bankrupt They seek out some sonic new line Hue of em employment employment and perhaps fail again a lin But they the try tr again a and again and finally they find the work they thc were ere intended to do and antt they succeed We Ye have had doctors who became farmers farmers farmer who became doctors rs merchants who became professional men professional men who became merchants A storekeeper who is so IO slow at disposing of his stock that his creditors finally n lly step in III and dispose of Or OrI ic It I for or him may JUay become a ft first class life liCe insurance agent An And so changes in ill occupation are continually occurring One failure or a dozen need not tand against a mans thans record if IC he keeps on trying It is 11 only the man who bar hax lu luIn barlag ii In lag PT failed in one thing thinS pend the re ie remainder remaInder of or his hl hi life mourning over o r his losses io ates fOl forgetting e ting that he lie might re retrieve trieve them if it Jie be would Hould President U S Grant started in busi bual business ness as a 8 tanner tannel And ARd he lie made mu e a at mighty poor tanner The war came along and changed 1 the bankrupt tan tanner tannel tanner ner nel into a great general and finally into a n president Jr ident of or tire the United States Abraham Lincoln was a first class rail splitter but bu t he knew he could do other O things thins besides split pMt rails and he lie did theta them th m so well that he lie too because became chief magistrate of f the nation Andrew was well along in hl inthe inthe the thirties tc before beCore he quit a tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph operator and engaged in itt the iron hon and steel business There are examples all about you of men who have litre hll failed In an one thing and made a n success JAI in an i But lint the U ie c story stor is worth telling tailing I often for fOl the benefit of the discouraged dle our aged sea j |