Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1903-02-09
YOUNG MEN
AND
Orison Sweet Marden, editor of the

AND Success magazine has written an ar
OPPORTUNITIES ticle advice to Young Men Seek
ing and Selling Success Chances,
which is of the most sensible things ever written on
that subject portion of it is follows: When Charles
NJ Schwab working day laborer for the Carnegie
Steel company he did not bemoan his hoard luck and cry
There is chance for poor day aborer in this great
concern" No. what said was, eff get chance mean
to be president of this day will show
my employer that anxious to promotion. l am
going than paid for-more than is expected
of me- He had faith in the theory that great combina
lions detrimental young mans future; but he
had faith in himself He felt that with determination hard
work and persisency that lets he could become
in the world Driving company other
laborers at 81 day would not much of chance to
most young men, yet in this Schwab saw his oppor-
tunty He had advantages of education or environ
ment no pull" to boost him. yet at 80 he was
president of United States Steel corporation with the
largest salary probably paid any man in the world
The opportunity IS in the far more than the place
surroundings Life pusates with chances for every one
of They not be great or dramatic but they are i'm
portan to him who would get in on the world and make
himself Every lesson in school college is
opportunity for the youth who is in earnest Every
ination is chance in life Every business transaction is
opporunyan opportunity to be polite opportunity
to be manly opportunity to be honest opportunity to
make friends Every proof confidence you great
opportunity Every responsibility thrust upon honor
strength priceless the privilege of eff
fort when that privilege is like opportuni
ties along the line your aptitude whatever it
may be, will come faster than you them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities Seize
make them great Every day is full OF
these Larger opportunities only to those who keep
their open for smaller that constantly
presenting themselves.
Some people opportunity anywhere. They
would pass through gold without noticing anything
precious worthy of their attention Others will find
portunes in the barren and outofthe way places,
Watt opportunity in old syringe used to inject
the arteries previous dissection Bunyan found
tuny Bedford Jail write the alegory of the
world the UNFINISHED paper that had been used cork
his bottles milk. Michael Angelo found piece of dis
carded Carara marble among the waste rubbish beside
in florence. which unskled workman had
hacked spoiled and thrown away No doubt many artists
had noticed the fine quality of the marble and regretted
that it should have been spoiled But Michael Angelo still
angel in the ruin. and With his chise and mallet
he called from of the finest pieces of statuary
in Italy his David An observing barber in Newark
N. j. thought he could make Improvement shears
cutting hair. invented clippers and became rich Maine
called in the field wash clothes for his
invalid wife. He had realized What
before. Finding the method SLOW and laborious he in
vented the washing machine and made fortune.
Opportunities? To the young With open eyes ami
who is alive to the possibilities the
fury, they everywhere. greater in number
wider in extent easier of then before existed
stand to the sober frugal energetic and able mechan
ic, to the educated youth the office boy and the
through which they reap greater successes than
before within the reach of these classes
tory of the world short time there only three
four recognized professions there fifty
trades, where there one, there a hundred
Bestir yourselves, young who cry mo chance
Wake up to opportunities, which everywhere All
doors of service open wide for you The world
looks to to be ready take the places
made the nineteenth century the
of all The east and the west the north and the
south call 70 In agriculture in mechanics in bust
aess In sctenecc in Inventions literature in art in