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ST ATM ItoAKD <>K A< i IM( Ml I -Tl 1 1 IK. 



Final, Remember thai there is very often but a slighl difference between 

 •uccess 11 nd failure: only :i small margin. A race Is lost by a yard, i>,y 

 n Tool or even by ;i single Inch. One person may know but a vevy litth 

 more than his competitor ye1 thai little places him in advance of his rival. 

 ii is :i small margin bni ii brings success, iii all lines <>f activity it 

 is this small margin thai wins. Lei everything thai you undertake be 

 done ordinarily well, and then add a good margin and your efforts will be 

 crowned with success. Keep a sharp lookoul for ibis margin. By a 

 little extra effort, by a little more courage and self denial keep it always 



On yoiir side and veil will succeed. 



Remember also thai there is bul one road to success, and Dial is by 



honest, persistenl effort. Success does 111 > i always mean wealth or diH- 

 tlnction. Better have an approving conscience than high office or large 



possessions. 



" We live in iii •cii;, not years; In thouprhtB Qot breaths; 



I II foe ill":;, nut In li'Mirrs on a dial. Ill' UK it. I live:. 



Who thinks most, feels the noblest, nets the best." 



TIIK INI'UUlN'rK or BESSEMER. 



OOMMKNO1GM10NT A I » I »K e:SS l!Y KKANK V. WAIillKN. 



The inventor is the greaiteBl benefactor of the race. The greatesl in 



venlions are I hose which change most I he economic, political and social 



Hspecl of the world. Foremosl among the men who have exerted such a 

 wonderful power in changing society is sir l lenry Bessemer, I he perfector 



Of the process for making Steel which bears bis name, lie, perhaps, more 



than an) other man has aided ins nation and his race in its onward prog 

 ress in wealth, comfort, safety and general prosperity; furnishing the 

 material foundation upon which all moral ami Intellectual advances musi 



nil imalel v resl . 



Bessemer was an Inventor from bis youth, and the Dumber and diver 



Blty Of bis schemes show his work nol lo be mere accident, bul I be resull 



of a wonderfully power Inventive mind and a nature of untiring energy, 



The failure lo obtain I lie merited reward and fame from bis earlier umler- 

 taklngS Only increased in zeal. A1 the completion of each task be took 



up something new with a determination to master it, and bore with 



patient fortitude the prolonged interval which Separated liim from sue 

 cess. Having perfected a stamp which saved I be British ( !o\ erniuen t 



$500,000 annually, and for which he received nol a farthing, Bessemer 



lays Of himself, "S;id and dispirited and with a burning sense of injustice 



Overpowering all other feelings, l went my way from the stamp office, too 

 proud to ask as a favor thai which was indubitably my right, feeling thai 

 only Increased exertions could make up for the loss of time and ex- 

 penditure." Bul these early reverses only turned bis Inventive genius In 



new directions. While bis inventions of type, bronze powder, bii:b speed 



railway train, centrifugal pump, sugar separator, and plate glass polish 

 Ing machine, would ordinarily make a man famous, they only served to 

 prepare and educate Bessemer for bis greal master work, the making of 



steel. By seven years of constant studv and practical research, be de- 



