| Show uncommon am a beuse U john blake D bell syndicate service alike I 1 like the story of 0 the scotch lad who said to his mother one day aither I 1 think self I 1 hae a call for the confidence ministry ah ali jamie said his mother are ye sure it was no some ither no se ye I 1 card A great many oung young men fancy they have calls for one occupation or other knowing nothing of the requirements and the duties that they entail there are probably a million or more boys and girls in this country today who have a call for the movies if they ever get as far as hollywood they soon learn that it was some other noise that they heard the sooner a boy finds out thal vanity Is not self confidence the better it will be for him if you want to do one particular thing more than you do anything else in the world and are willing to work hard without thinking drudgery Is a chore you are probably on the rl right ht road but being on the right road and keeping on it Is not so easy as mo tourists discover when they get out into the country after the spring thaws have filled the roads with ruts go back over the biographies of the men and women who I 1 ave won success and you will discover that each one of them was willing to spend any amount of time at his chosen calling and devote extremely little time to dream ea ing education is becoming more mor wide spread competition tor for good j jobs 3 Is keener leaving out genius which is 1 al at ways scarce life Is a hard struggle and overconfidence Is fatal don t pick out your job because you think it will get you into the lime light pick it out because you would rather do that particular thing cpr little pay than anything else for big pay then you will at least hive the right start get rid of ol cockiness and self sell esteem dont don t wonder why other people have good jobs while you have none try to find out the reason they are more successful than you believe in yourself but don dont t think that if you only had the chance you could have the world at your feet you have a long hard row to go with the right stuff in you you can win the newspapers recently printed a dispatch from tahiti which will ably scatter thrills pirate his big and little all over the iuspa gold per reading world A report not yet confirmed an bounces that pirate gold possibly forty million dollars in value has been dis covered on a lonely south sea island the french government which owns the island and which Is always inter ested in gold Is to taking steps but I 1 have no doubt that already boys and men in every part of the world are thinking about that treas ure tire and how to get some if not all of it it very likely dozens of them are now making ready to embark on expeditions being too much m a hurry to figure out that if the french own that gold it is going to be pretty difficult to get any of it away from them I 1 suppose that more gold has been I 1 spent in gold hunting expeditions than has ever eier been got out of the ground certainly the words pirate gold have a thrill that few other words possess I 1 was as living in portland ore when gold was struck in the Is klondike and later found in the sands of cape nome vessels of every sort and kind half of them wholly were put into commission and stilted tor for the far north of these few ever got beyond van couver island two river boats under construction for service in the columbia river were reinforced for heavy weather and started on their way may to ply up and down the yukon I 1 saw them the day aft after er they left the mouth of the columbia river they had encountered a big pacific storm just outside and there was hardly a sound timber left in either of them and such Is the make up of the human mind that it if the alaskan gold had been pirate gold instead of just gold there would probably have been ten times as many would be ar argonauts knauts on their way to the polar waters it seems seem s too bad that there is no such fascination about the hard intensive work which coupled with brains will gain the equivalent of gold sold but there Is no romance in labor save sane to men and women who have vision luckily the island where this pirate gold Is said to have been found Is so far away that few people in the united states will be able to make a start in search of it but as I 1 said a while ago it will bring a thrill into many a household and awaken discontent in the breast of many a person who has for years dreamed that he some day might find an old map or chart that gave the loca tion of loot planted away by a buc bue cancer and has been waiting long tor for some ome adventurous spirit to dig it up |
