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Day
12
Month
August
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Swarau of young men and woinen have just graduated from our public school and colleges, a gmt niajority of wliom must go to work atonceto earn a living. Many of them havo alreaily selected their vooatlona, Olheis have Dot made a decisión, umi bare nú outlook. Most of these young raduates we more or less anxious concerning their future. All of them desire to be of the happy uuiubcr who succeed in life. il It is a great thlng to suceaed. A fair sik - cess in business is worth al] it commonly costs of devotion and industfy. And there is, at least, one way by witten success may onlinarily be attained ; nnd that is learning howtodosomething that people want done; by dointf it well, and stiiving each day to do it bettcr. If you are a doctor, you should seek to be the best doctor of yourneighborhood. Even if you scll tish, you should be sure to deliver thtm f'resh, in nice order, at the most conven ient time, and for a fair price. Yours should be the neatest store, where the promptest attention is giveu to custonurs, and where the irreutest variety of tish solcl in your neigborhood can be found. If you are so unfortunate as to publish a paper, Mcver rest until you have made it the best of its kind in the world. You probably never will place it at the head, but you must ahvays seek for that result. If you do, your paper will be a 8IICCCSS. Sixty years ago, Peter Cooper, kept a little grocery store in the Bowery, New York, and within a few yards of the spot where the Cooper Institute now stands. A man carne into his store one day, and said, - " I built a glue factory for my son. He oan't make it go. Til sell it to 3rou for a,ooo." Upon Inquiry, Peter Cooper found that all the best glue canm fnun liussia, and brought a high price, white the rlue niadiin IN ew York was very poor stuff, and was sold at mite thatforbade all chance of profit. 11e said to himself, - "Why can't glue be made as good inqualitv in America as in Itussia? I think Itoaa be. I"U try." He l)uurht the factory. Thcn he commenced studying the procesa by which gu: is made. He tried endless experimenta ; superintended eveiy boülng himself; kept trylag tm mn, ahvays improving his product, until Petar Cooper's glue oommanildl the liighest priee. and literally rnled the market. What h! (liil witli ffhie, (illot did With )ens, Jonas Cblckering with the jiiano, l'airhanks willi scalcs; und, ii you iUCCed liiirly and liandsomely, you must do Italso with H'ilmlltiin]. The bedroom fürnitnre of Lord Beaoons (leid, which has jnsi been sold in hondón, was of a dantineas worthy of ïhackeray' fiicnd "Raphael Mendoza." It #éêcoTered with blue silk, haviüg roses in bloom epread rracefully over It, and the same delicate i'ablic was nscd as hanginn fdf the willis and forcurtalni to bÜ mihI Windows.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News