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avoidable drudgery, instead of as a great 

 man builder, a great life university for the 

 development of manhood and womanhood. 

 They do not see the divinity in the spur 

 of necessity which compels man to de- 

 velop the best thing in him, to unfold his 

 possibilities by his struggle to attain his 

 ambition, to conquer the enemies of his 

 prosperity and his happiness. They can- 

 not see the curse in the unearned dollar, 

 which takes the spur out of the motive. 

 Work to them is sheer drudgery an un- 

 mitigated evil. They cannot understand 

 why the Creator did not put bread ready- 

 made on trees. They cannot see that the 

 best thing in man has ever been developed 

 by the necessity of labor. They do not 

 see the stamina, the grit, the nobility, and 

 the manhood in be-ing forced to conquer 

 what they get. No one can make a real 

 success of his life when he is all the time 

 grumbling or apologizing for what he is 

 doing. It is a confession of weakness. 



What a pitiable sight to see one of 

 God's noblemen, made to hold up his head 

 and to be a king, to be cheerful and happy. 

 and to radiate power, going about whin- 

 ing and complaining of his work, apologiz- 

 ing for what he is doing, and deploring 

 the fact that he should have to work at 

 all ! 



It is demoralizing to allow yourself to 

 do a thing which does not get your ap- 

 proval, if you do it in a half-hearted, 

 grudging manner. 



There is a great adaptive power in hu- 

 man nature. The mind is wonderfully 

 adjustive to different conditions; but you 

 will not get the best results until your 

 mind is settled, until you are resolved not 

 only to like your work, but also to do it in 

 the spirit of a master and not in that of a 

 slave. Resolve that, whatever you do, 

 you will like it: that you will bring the 

 whole man to it: that you will fling the 

 whole weight of your being into it: and 

 that you will do it in the spirit of a con- 

 queror, and so get the lesson and power 

 out of it which come only to the conqueror. 



Put the right spirit into your work. 

 Treat your calling as divine — as a call 

 from principle. If the thing itself be not 

 important, the spirit in which you take 

 hold of it makes all the difference in the 

 world to you. It can make or mar the 

 man. You cannot afford grumbling serv- 

 ice or botched work in your life's record. 

 You cannot afford to form a habit of half 

 doing things, or of doing them in the 

 spirit of a drudge, for this will drag its 

 slimy trail through all your subsequent 

 career, always humiliating you at the 

 most unexpected times. Let other people 

 do the poor jobs, the botched work, if 



they will. Keep your standards up, your 

 ideals high. 



The attitude with which a man ap- 

 proaches his task has everything to do 

 with the quality and efficiency of his 

 work, and with its influence upon his 

 character. What a man does is a part 

 of himself. It is the self-expression of 

 what he stands for. Our life-work is an 

 outpicturing of our ambition, our ideals, 

 our real selves. If you see a man's work 

 you see the man. 



The foregoing is only about one-third 

 of the article, and I wish you could read 

 the whole of it, but lack of room prevents 

 my giving more. Yes, I wish you could 

 read Success month after month. 



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OF DIFFERENT KINDS 



If you have any to dispose of, or if you in- 

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We are always in the market for WAX at 

 at the highest market price. 



L. 



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265-267 Greenwich St New York. 



Bee-keepers, we can furnish you with the best 



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