Show I THE WORLDS WORK When the young men of the country look over the censusreturns they will doubtless be struck5 with the thought that they are to have rivals In every field that ns the population is increasIng Increas-ing the open doors will grow fewer and fewer and that the first essential Is equipment t and the second hard work A gentleman recently from Mexico told the writer that Americans are more and more taking up and carrying the great works of that country coun-try and it is so too in Central and South America I will bo seen that American talent has the right of way but It must be of 3 high order to win Our is the best place our country fronts on both oceans and we have the call over all the continent to the south There will be n great work to perform when the great railroad opens northern I Asia Never before was there such activity along all the Industrial linos I and never before were there so many opportunities for the brave and competent com-petent but c0nipetCfley Is the groat I i test and this should be impressed upon i 1 the educators or the country as never I before The world is growing small ihfe steamship and telegraph arc drawing all countries close together t orei is i move competition than ever before but there is ample room still In the upper I stories The struggle should be to so equip every youth that the world will need hIs work and with that done chances were never so numerous ap portunltloswere never so great before Man Is extending his dominion overtime over-time earth and its elements Thousands r and tens of thousands of men and women wo-men are now employed In industries that three score years ago were undreamed ago dreamed of Think of the thousands that the application of electricity gives employment to hear the click 01 the typewriters and the clatter of sewing machines Work is i mightily facilitated tated but the very accomplishments of machinery open the way for more work by competent hands only thc locomotive should be kept pushing into the worlds wilderness for men follow in its trail and occupy the space on both sides of It Our country is pretty well ribbed with roads but to time south the fields are almost limitless and a virgin land waits there for men to cultivate cul-tivate It virgin mines await exploration explora-tion and the thought with every young man should be I must fit myself to keep up with the procession |