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Show C. M. SCHWAB FAILED ONCE He Tried to Be a Horseshoer, but the Horse Objected and He Quit, "Even a great man has to choose his trade. Ho can't succeed at any old thing," n horseshcor told an outsider at tho rccont Philadelphia convention of tho trade. "A genius In tho Iron trado onco tried mine and gave It up after cne attempt. ."You've heard of Charles M. Schwab, tho stool magnnto who Is building a palaco for himsolf in New York with a fow of his millions. Well, ho tried to shoo a horso onco nnd couldn't do It. "It was when ho was a young man Just about old enough to earn his own living. Ho used to tako his father's horso to tho shop of Pat Moran, tho horseshoer In Lorotto village, to bo shod. "Tlmo and vlmo ngaln ho askpd Pat to let him nail on a shoo. Ho seomed to llko tho business. '"Ah, g'wnn,' Pat would toll him. 'Yer can't shoe yersolf. Yer daddy has to do It for yor.' "But young Schwab stuck to It and finally ono day tho smith let him try It. And ho bungled it so that after a whllo tho patient horse landed out with his foot and away went the youngster to tho other side of tho smithy. " 'I guess I can nover learn horso-shoeing,' horso-shoeing,' ho said when ho picked himsolf him-solf up. "Ho novcr tiled again, but took up n trado ot which ho could mako him-olf him-olf tho master. "Ho calls to soo Moran whenever no goes homo to Lorotto now, and they talk about how a promising recruit re-cruit to tho trado gavo It up. " 'Well, ho couldn't shoo a horse, whatevor else he's able to do,' the blacksmith says when he hears about another of Mr. Schwab's successes." |