Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-05-11
A KEY TO SUCCESS.

The Fret Condition Is the Wise Nholce
OF Calling.
The youth who would get on in the
world must choose pursuit which will
enable him To follow the natural bent
Of his mind-to exercise and crafty his
predominant faculty, his ruling pas
sion. II you have a strong original in
clination or fondness for certain pur-
suit, you will not have TO force your
self to di scharge even its difficult du-
ties; that natural bias will insure the
intensest application to il as matter
Of course. Biography teens with
proofs of this. The men who have
made their mark in the world have diff
fered from those who have lived and
died in obscurity not more in mental
power than in their early self-knowl-
edge and PERCEPTION of their Unborn
aptitudes See the boy Murillo filing
the margins Of his school books with
drawings. the little Handel stealing
midnight interviews with a smuggled
clayichord in secret attic; the young
Faraday making an electric light ma
chine out Of bottle. Chantrey, the
predestined sculptor, carving in his
boyhood the head of cold Fox, his
school-master, in hit Of pine wood,
We're not the greatness Of John Hum
ter, the celebrated anatomist and sur
eeon. and the choice Of his calling shad-
owed forth ia youth by his observations
on the incubatcd egg? We're not the
great painting of West the natural out
come Of the tlvso NATURAL eounterfeited
hy him on sheet Of paper when a hoy2
Who is that boy, who, in spite OF whip
pings upon whippings, keeps his lonely
vigis in the steepIe of the parish
church, watching the stars in their
courses through the skye II is the
a bbe Ia CASTLE, destined to be the
first astronomer Of his time. Daniel
Webster was but eight when he saw Ia
country shop a cotton handkerchief
with the constitution Of the United
States printed both sides of it. and
{ piled his pockets ~ his boarded
on the kitchen floor before the
roaring chimney Ere, ne alb
sorbed It's contents into his
brain and blood and from that hour
was The prede~tjned great expounder"
and deicndcrof that instrument against
IS misiuiewreters yo.ators ana
fae-
Wal vou ~aF taa these bows were al}
projl-lcs hof~ rare aua exceptional
genius liz that d enet9-nJug 1u' at
heudt8 voutts ihe beut ef taeir
,aigat- & far less distinctly u,arsed2
~ duuht but though less decided, Ii
stil III most boys exists. and everyone
should study himself he learns four
what eating nature has designed him
So many Young men TODAY drift hclp-
ieSSlv and hopeles~ly nto their life pur-
suits th, the word vocation or "eall-
ing ha almost become misnomer
md aut early therefore what ma
tnre designed YOU to be- whether
lawyer doctor, preacher. trader. or
mechanic-aud strive assiduouslv to
qualify yourself for the discharge Of
She duties Of your calling Bc careful
not to mistake a hasty impulse shall
low temporary liking for real bent
or deep love for vocation. and, on
the other hand. when YOU have pur-
sued any business for some wears. and
found that it has many difficulties,
trials and perplexities Of which Won
had not dreamed do not hastily
abandon 1t for another thus throwing
away most OF the knowledge and ex-
perience acquired with the eXpecta-
ton Of finding your pathway Ia the
latter strewn with roses without any
thorns. All callings that arc worth
pursuing are alike in this-that not
one of them Is easy. Only
after repeated failures following
the most earnest and persist
ent efforts - succeed should
n change DC made Remember. too.
that those kinds Of business which pay
best in the long-run are the slowest in
the beginning to yield a return sue
cess in them is like tho growth Of the
aloe for long time slow and imper-
eeptbIc For Years von perceive no
change, then all at once when the
1.mr comes, thee is q crisis. and ii
shoots op stalk ten 81 Fifteen feet
eh MnE vith nnumerahle flowers.
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