Year: 1869

salvation of the young man or young
woman that otherwise, in imitation OF
Young America, would fall into tho vices
and extravaganza that lead to disgrace
and ruin.


What man is there who wanted trusty
boy to work for him, or attend to any
business, would not take the temperate
bootblack in preference to the nicely
dressed youth with his appetite for lager
beer and tobacco?


And is not the man, matured from
boyhood of trial and perplexities, better
prepared to surmount the obstacles which
are sure to be met in the business of life,
than the man who, in his youth, had life's
pathway made smooth before himf TX
perienee proves that a large majority OF
the successful business men of this coun-
try were poor in boyhood, and a very
large percentage of the worthless trash
that fiji our prisons could afford in their
youthful days to use tobacco and drink
intoxicating liquors Let boys beware of
both if they would become valuable mem
bers of society.


Postscript writing the foregoing
/ decided not to send it to the Herald,
for the reason that the readers thereof are
not Juveniles but on visiting this place
Ann Artor, Michigan,} / met one who
I knew years ago as poor, tatherless
school icy. His example should encour-
age others to persevers, an the hope that
it may do so induces me to give brief
history of his successful career. His father
died when he was ten years Of age. From
that time TAI. 20 vas seventeen he lived
mer then with another but too poor to
drink or smoke. 1t seventeen he was APP
prenticed to machinist in Springfield,
VT, for four years. where he faithfully
SorAed, and during the time attended the
district school nine months, and received
in all two hundred and twenty dollars
Out of this salary he honght his clothing,
and when he was twenty-one years Of age
he found himself III possession of good
trade. a machinist, but had no money.
He then attended school short time,
paying his way by working at his trade
night and morning.


Two things he determined upou-to GO
West and go through college.


With eight dollars and ten cents in his

pocket and a set Of Fullum's stencil tools,
he started. Eor time trade in stencil
was plates dull.


But there was uo alternative us must
sell his plates, for his stock of money was
being fast reduced. He made greater
effort. and when he at last reached the
end of his pedestrian tour at Ann Arbor,
he had about fifty dollars in his pocket.
As he caught 81. hit Of the college build
ing his heart leaped with joy, and he de
and Michigan University his Alma Mater
He Immediately arranged to attend the
college, and made "a contract with "a com
Pary v~ho rrare ran~ rA''fAet"ra.s nnrorIrvt"rf'



for them This be did for while by
hand, but afterward made a machine that
did the work quite as well and much
quicker With his income he was able
to pay all his bills. and in 1863 he gradu-
ated with college houors. He exeeiled in
mechanics and the mathematical depart
ments He Wa. Immediately solicited by
the government officials to assist in tie
Lake Coast Survey, In this he remained
three years From this position be was
called back to Ann Arbor to give iu.truc-
tion in mathematics and civil, IN nliueer-
ing, and now he ocenpies position thar
entities him 10 the name by which he j.
familiarly known, Professor Robinson.