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Show I HE FAILED AS A LAWYER. Hoke Smith, senator from Georgia, and former member of President Cleveland's cabinet, recalls that thirty years ago he was an ambitious lawyer law-yer laboring for a practice in Atlanta. He Bays he clearly remembers another an-other young man about his own age, pale, tall, studious, with a law office in a nearby building.. Mr. Smith and this young man started at about the t tame time; slowly as clients came to Mr Smith, they came even more slowly to his colleague Later this young man became President of the United States. Young Wood row Wilson Wil-son failed as a lawyer and that moved mov-ed him "along a course which made him President. The lesson to be drawn from this is that one failure should not discourage discour-age the young fellow starting out in life. The man who proves a gifted teacher may have had none of the necessary qualifications for success in the law; a highly skilled mechanic may fall in literature; a great musician musi-cian may be stupid In business. One must find his bent of mind and then try himself ouL There must be aptitude, ap-titude, if one is signally to succeed. |