The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-07-27
DO NOT BE SECOND CLASS
Do Not Half Do Anything-Try so be n
Master in Everything You Do-Haye
an Individuality OF Your Own.

S141 ta3al Danfst webster made
| tl.c best chowdcr in hls state on the
pr-fciple that he Would rot b. second
| class in anything This is : good reso-
luton. with which 10 star out /, your
career Resolve never n ha ~@~ons- :
class IN anything No matter what you
do try to be king in IT, Have nothing
to do with the inferior. Do your best
IN everything: deal with the best,
choose the best; live up 10 your beS--
oae or the eaTrnakrs OF Z boy uith =
i0t0Fe - tnat he i particular abou:
everything He Is not satisfied In do
any lhtAs pretty we'll, Or Ia leave things
hai1 finished Nothing but completion
to perfection will satisfy the demand
In him for the best. Il = those who
have this Unsuitable demand IN their
natures, and who will accept nothing
short of This. that hold the banners OF
progress that set the standards. the
ideals, for oth-rs
one Of the earmarks Of q boy with a
know stamped his individuality upon
everybody who knew him bv this con-
>tant desire Tor the highest and the
best In everything No one could in
duce him TO half do thing. or u ac-
cept an inferior article when a better
vas WItnla his reach. Whether i vas
the qualltySand the style of his cloth
ing. Or Of anything h bought he
would allow nothing about him which
Was not the best obtainable Even
when poor and trying u g-r start
for hInSelf when others patronized
cheap restaurants and obtained rooms
IL cheap localities. he W-utd have none
II these things.
= EsFfi i -.
ed largely upon following high ideals.
upon his making good impression,
ana he would not have anything 10 do
with cheap OF shoddy things. He
shrank from inferiority. and avoided II
as he would poison. believing that il
would talnt his ideals. s,uirch his am
bition, and lower his standards. No
cheap education as for him; no cheap
books: no cheap shoddy clothing. or
cheap manners. He had 10 have the
best or nothing.
HIS acquaintanCes thought that il
was foolish and ruinous for him, when
trying TO get a start for himself, TO
spend his entire income in keeping UP
appearances or trying to keep in touch
with the best people. He always con-
sidered that It was worth much to be
thrown with people OF culture and re-
finement and people of means, because
he expected they would be his Gus
toners later in life. This young man
believed that social success was imper
atiTe to his professional success, and
he regarded, his acquaintance among
the better classes as of inestim3 nir
value. His subsequent career certainly
seemed to Vindicate his methods. Al
though he had a hard struggle al first,
he has attained great distinction. and
has beel q marvel 70 his schoolmates
anH those who knew him j.. early life
asa poor boy, and VINO laugh u at the
lofty standard which he set cor him
self.
But the main value OF this mans ca
reer is its suggestion that we should
allow nothing to enter the life that viii
deteriOrate our ideals or lower our
standard quality. 1t teaches that keep
ing with the best, doing our best, in
sisting upon the best everywhere and
always, will have a marked influence
In elevdting the life to the standard
adopted.
II there is tha- ii YOU mature " hiC h
demands the best and Will take nothing
less, and you do not demoraliZe this
standard by the habit Of deterioration
in everything you do, YOU Will achieve
distinction in some line if you have the
persistence and d determination /, fol-
low your ideal.
But f you are satisfied with the
cheap and shoddy, tn bHtcned and
slovenly. if you are not particular
about quality in your work. or il your
personal habits. then you must expect
to take second place. to fall mack into
the rear Of the procession.
People who have accomplish 4 work
worth while have had a very ,'ch
sense of the way to do things. 1nty
have not been content with mediGcr4ty.
They have not confined themselves to
beaten tracks: they have never kecn
satisfied to do things just as others do
them. but always little D9ttar. They
always pushed things that Cane to
their hands little higher up. litle
farther on. It IS this little higher Up.
this little farther on. that counts in
the quality of life's work. Il is the
onstant effort to be first .laSs n very
thing one attempts that cOnqUers the
heights Of eXcellence.-SuCcess