Show c r b Cleric in Real Estate TOO many people wobble about in this world working at the thing nearest their hands hating bating it perhaps doing it badly in ill many cases and yet clinging like grim death to it because of their fear of striking out in other directions If they had this courage and were not rebuffed by three or four discoveries that they hadn't yet arrived arrived ar ar- arrived ar- ar rived at the work which best fitted their hands p the right thing might turn up Or they might have t the 6 good luck of W. W B. B Snell of Climax Michigan in his very ery first real estate deal And yet when the tale is told it is wrong to credit to Snell success to accidental circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- entirely out of himself It was his hisS promptitude his resourcefulness his knowledge of S human nature which won out put Such Snell used to be a minister He is one yet asfar asfar as asfar far as his to baptize and is power marry many bury con con- But he lie does not exhort He saves his bis voice his Ilia pleasing and his pleading ways to lead men to invest in material mansions instead of seeking one on the other side of Jordan In lu a word he has turned real estate dealer as ns he was starving in the pulpit The other day he offered a farm to Samuel Watts who was much taken with its possibilities but hesitated on account of his bachelorhood Id buy that farm if I had bad a wife Watts told Snell To sell it under such conditions was easy The former minister had an engaging way with him He Ie knew womankind from all the educative angles angle the associations of ministry afford and so it was no trouble for him to find a sweetheart for Watts to urge the merits of each upon the other and to bring about their speedy engagement And then he stepped back int into his clericals long enough to marry them himself It is not pot told whether he henske asked the customary feo fee but one so sharp would not overlook such a financial transaction Snell has found his vocation just as many another another another an an- other man could if he took the step The Tho world is full of opportunities to the fellow who can cnn see sec them It doesn't require such wonderful vision either To be on the spot counts much 2 2 L a 3 7 I |