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THE
MUJIC TIRADE
VOL. L. No. 2.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, January 8, 1910
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OW to succeed! That's a subject which interests every man in every walk of life.
It interests the business man—the industrial leader—the salesman and the humble worker,
and there are many views as to what constitutes success.
The successful man is not always the one who parades the highway accompanied by a
brass band and oratorical pyrotechnics.
No!
Along the humblest footpaths away from the blare of trumpets we often find happiness which
is ideal, and that after all is the acme of success.
He who measures a man only by his honestly or dishonestly acquired wealth has not learned the
true meaning of the word success. But there are those who always spell success with dollar marks.
Still, view it as we may, whether interpreting it as meaning dollars, fame or flamboyancy, most of
us crave the success that is the reward of personal achievement. The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you do well and doing well whatever you do.
The business man craves dollars—accomplishments—position.
He loves to be the winner in the great game of business competition.
The literary man loves fame.
The painter loves art for art's sake and cares but little for dollars.
No one knows or cares whether Rembrandt or Holbein died in poverty or in affluence, but all con-
cede that through their incomparable art their fame is established forever.
Frederic Remington, whose sad taking away has recently been reported, was a modern art
genius whose place on Fame's scroll is secure.
Remington visited the West in the early clays when the frontier existed and his artist's eye saw
that there was an opportunity to portray scenes which were rapidly vanishing and in his work he de-
picted chapters in American life which are now closed forever.
He painted life in the West with a faithfulness and accuracy which astonished "all, and those of us
who were on the plains in the early days when Remington was there had no difficulty in recognizing his
genius in the creation of a new school of art distinctly American in coloring—in originality—in por-
trayal.
.
He was an indefatigable worker—cared nothing about money—but loved his profession—and just
when his friends believed the most useful years of his life lay before him he was stricken down.
But his fame is secure and his name will be linked with the great artists of our day, the first, per-
haps, of a distinctly American school.
He had won success, but maybe not fortune.
Now, we may not all be able to win high positions in the world. We may be only fitted to play
minor parts, but surely the man who has ideals and holds to them will achieve success.
He may fail in his accomplishments at times and defeat may seem to overwhelm him, but if he
sticks he will win out, for it is really astonishing what concentration may accomplish in any trade or pro-
fession.
A man must have faith in himself—in his ability to succeed—and the business man, the salesman
selling pianos, must have faith in that which he offers in order to make a success out of himself and
therebv secure the advance for which he craves.