Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-08-16
Numerous Occupations.

Numerous OcCupalioiS'
A Kansas gentleman sends to Inc
Companion a report of a conversa-
ton recently overhead in a shop
where a number of Western men were
comparing notes ON their different
kinds of work. 1t soou came out
that nearly everyone present had
been born in the State OF Vermont
and ''raised" on n farm. But after
going West they had all engaged IN
a variety OF occupations.
One man said: Il went into real es'
tate; then sold out and tried clerking
it on Mississippi steamboat; then
went into the cattle business, ana
tired of it; packed up my goods ana
settled on claim in Nebraska; quit
that, and went to Texas to do bust
ness in n feed store; from there | went
on to the road for u boot and shoe
firm, and Just now am in the livery
business.
That's nothing said another,
sIve been school teacher, u post
master, preacher, n lawyer, u black
smith, II notary public, store keep
er, sheriff, acounty superintendent
OF schools, u cigar manufacturer
and n farmer.
There was silence till another man
remarked that he had left the printed
list OF his accomplishments and oc-
equations al home, because 1t was
too bulky to carry around, but II he
remembered right the list began with
"a college president and ended with
member OF the Legislature.
At this point two or three men re-,
marked that it was getting rather
close in the store; they guessed they
would 90 home, and they went out
Another man edged up 10 the door
and said in a lazy tone that h
/ thought his experience would beat
tire lot tor variety. Some one asked
| him TO tell it, and he said
II began liteAsa baby From that
| grew into 4 boy While | was d
boy went to school, clerked it in q
drug store, worked on a farm. ha,
my arm broken in two places in q
saw mill, taught the district schUo
one term, and sung in the ylllag'
choir.
When | grew up served as mp
prentice to tuilor in Boston, but al
the end of six months | ran away /,
sea, and went round the world tire,
times. At the end of my last yoy
age, | bought ticket for Texas, nnl
went onto n ranch where | stage
two years. then had an offer I,
edit the Weekly Blizzard. and helt
that position just one week. when tn
government offered me place as In
dian agent.
After serving n year at that
went into the mining business in Col
orado, and made two hundred thou
sand dollars in six months. | wen
to San Francisco aud invested III,
fortune in real estate. The invest
ment was unfortunate, for in les
than a month lost every cent OF il
and was Obliged to seek work as
day laborer on ruilrond.
IL worked up from brakeman 1
engineer, and then in collision
broke my leg and had to 90 to
hospital. While there studied met
icine, and when got out | took t
practicing. and was quite successft
until | treated a smallpox patieu
for erysipelas. Then decided to z
to preaching, aud got on well ntit Ia
several months. But the pny wa
not very regular, and ] quit to z
into dentists office. and ="
1t was very quiet in the store, mn
the man who had had such a vnrie
experience said softly, Good nigh
gentlemen" and went out. He wa
the wug of the town, though u
strangers did not know it: but h
story was good comment on n
number Of occupations that son
Western men try.-Youth's Compal
ION.