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possible undertakings and accentuate the princlpli on whicl all substantial success musl pecessarily pest. Respect the different qualities of human uatur and il dif ferent natures which come under your care. Dev< lopmonl is seldom along expected lines, li is the unexpected thai hap pens. Encourage the activities, physical, mental, and ID I, and give the unexpected a chance. Not so many years ago a hey, the son of a baker, was peddling cookies in the streets of New York. lie became inter. $ in stones; his interest became consuming; in one way and am her

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he made a collection, took it to the Philadelphia exposition and finally sold it for $300. the mosi money he had ever n.

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Now the greatest jewelry house in America pays him 810, a year for only so much of his time as is required to pass on their purchases of precious gems, and his name is familiar and his judgment honored in every quarter of the globe, I have a cherished friend who was horn in the most humble cii umstances. He might easily have remained in humble cir cumstances but he preferred to struggle. He grew stron through struggling. He saw but little of the schools. He got ^ >rk in an insurance office, and got so he wrote a good hand md developed aptness at figures. It gained him a clerkship in the tate d partment of insurance. We were married about tl ame time and were neighbors. I lived in quil as good form a he did. We served on the board of education together lor year He was thoughtful and just, affable ami juicy. 11 b< a etuary, and in time surprised every one bv boim uni i d puty superintended of insurance. We came to b < in il capitol ai the same time, lie as state superintendent i ii iirar and I as state superintendent <)( instructi i. Tl II he r < led the office of state superintendent o( insur an to ac< pi the presidency of the New York Life ai s;,0,0iH) a md ii; become a leading factor in the financial atVairs of 1 1 i meiic\ «d center of t he w orld. it is n edit i< thai IK lives in quite us good form as I do now.

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