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fresh from the country and teaches you city people how to do business 

 in the city? The most successful men in the city have been country- 

 boys. How do most of the men alluded to here, as successful, manage 

 to meet with such satisftictory success ? They do it on other folks' 

 brains ; do you wish to teach these young men to work on other folka' 

 brains ? 



Mr. "Wm. Lawton. — Tlffi most sensible and most successful men in 

 ever}- community are those who know how to use the brains of 

 other men. 



Mr. Adrian Bergen suggested that there was plenty of land on 

 Long' Island. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — The State of Kew Jersey or jS'ew York are 

 just as good a place as any in the world for young men, if they will 

 only live according to their income. I have been in a position to Avant 

 young men ; I am in want of tliem to-day. I never could get them, 

 decent, intelligent laborers, near the city of iS^ew York. A young 

 man will go out with me and stay one summer, and by the time 

 autumn has come he will say, " I rather guess I have learned enough 

 of this business to run this thing myself." They come to work for 

 me, and on Saturday afternoon want to put their kid gloves on and 

 start for N^ew York, and want ten dollars to spend while there. 

 When they go out west they don't expect it. A young man gets 

 married and goes to ]!^ew Jersey ; just as good a place as he can find 

 in the world, to make money. Directly his wife must want a nice 

 carpet and handsome chairs, and they must be had, and it will take 

 $1,000 or $2,000 to do it. Out west a shanty or log-house and a pine 

 table are good enough for the best. They will sit down there and 

 cultivate the land without indulging in any unnecessary luxuries, and 

 in ten or fifteen years they have good farms and a valuable property. 

 That is my experience. I was married in a log cabin, and lived in it, 

 -which I never could have done near the city of New York. If it was 

 not for that one thing, the pride of people, I would say to young 

 men, stop in New Fork ; but it is no use. I say, go west ; be one of 

 them. Start with the rest and come home with the rest, and then 

 you can come back and live here, and indulge in all the luxuries 

 you want. 



Mr. Greenleaf. — Tliere are three thousand young men about the 

 age of thirty, honest and true and energetic, without five dollars to 

 a dozen of them, who would like to know just where they could go 

 .and by work and diligence, and observation and labor, and not by 



