Show alth ji proper there Is right jel place for niche every man by MADISON C PETERS MERSON said the crowning fortune of a man is ia to be born ag with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment JL w and happiness the business which wo ire love id fa the ono one to which we go with delight no man can struggle victoriously against his hia own character and the man who tries to do anything else than that for which nature intended him will be worse than nothing many of the worlds most successful men have failed in several pursuits becote before they finally discovered the bent of their genius goldsmith failed ailed as aa a physician but became immortal in the deserted Vil village lige cromwell was a farmer fanner at forty and grant a tanner at thirty eight although the latter had fitted himself for his great life work by military education at vast point no man inan will ever do his best until lie fills his proper ni niche 1 che many an i ambitious parent forces a boy to become either a doctor a lawyer or a preacher and thus defeated disappointed and dispirited the boy who m might ig I 1 I 1 t have become a successful far farmer nier a good blacksmith or a merchant prince there alemany fathers fathera who think it weir th air divine right to dictate the boys calling in life handel the greit great composer was waa set aside for the law and his father a physician did all he could to destroy the boys fondness for music the parents of bach meanly denied the boy a candle so BO that he had bad to copy his music by moonlight galileo la lileo 4 discoverer of the pendulum inventor of both the tho microscope and the telescope was sot set apart by his hia parents for a physician but lie would hide diw his physiology and on the quiet work out the most difficult problems in mathematics lorraine the painter was apprenticed by his parents to a pastry cook while ark wrighta parents apprenticed him to a barber john jacob asters father intended to make a butcher of his son eon which determination caused the boy to run away from his home in germany and brought him to america there can be no greater mistake on the part of the parent than to seek to bend the boys design where his hia geneua does docs not incline the world does doea not demand that any man shall be a famous lawyer a skilful i historian an eloquent orator or a merchant prince but that with a noble purpose a high endeavor and a useful end in view you shall make yourself f master in your line I 1 theres Th ereis a place for everybody and when a man ii ia on the right track lie he will know it by the way tail thugs angs run if you have been boring away in the same hole for years without striking oil either your auger is too short or you are a rein re in the wrong hole when a man has found his true calling he be will not find nature putting any barriers in his path in the right pt plaice cc you will all be resourceful and happy you will expand eilind and grow and be at least comparatively successful |