Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-11-06


ment. Then he said: Il like those
drawings very much, but they are not
true. You have painted the legs of this
partridge nicely. except in one respect.
The scales are exact in shape and col
or. but you have not arranged them
correctly as to numbers. Now, upon
this upper ridge of the partridge's leg
there are just so many scales. You
have painted too many. Examine the
legs of thousand partridges, and you
will find the scales always the same in
number" Then Audubon said: Young
man, it is only when you become we'd
ded to your work-body, mind and soul
that you will make a success out of
it. You must be willing to work day
in and day out, week in and week out,
year in and year out, to investigate to
the minutest detail; otherwise you can
never master it. When you work for
science you must work entirely above
the idea of mercenary remuneration.
You must work for love-"
For Love of Science.
Did not John James Audubon prac-
tice his own teachings? For years and
years and years, with gun in one hand
and portfolio in the other hand, he
wandered through the western forests
seeking the haunts of the American
birds, to reproduce their likenesses in
his portfolios. After years of work he
went to Philadelphia with the results
of his labor. He was compelled to
leave the city for a few weeks, and
when he returned he found that the
rats had entirely destroyed the results
of a decade of labor. The precious
portfolios which contained the delinea-
tons of over a thousand rare birds
were forever ruined. His portfolios
were forever destroyed, as the manu-
script of 1.-The French Revolution of
Thomas Carlyle was burned by an ig-
norant servant, who threw it into the
fire as worthless paper when she was
sent into the study of the friend to
whom he had lent it to clean up. So
great was the shock in AudubOn's case
that at first he was flung upon bed of
sickness, where for weeks he lowered
| between life and death. Then he arose
and went back to the forest. He hunted
| three more long, weary years repro
| ducing what the rats had made nests
| of. And he did all this for the love of
| science, for during Audubon's lifetime
his printed books hardly paid for the
cost of the printing.
| What is true in reference to science
! and professional life is equally true in
| Tho who makes
| a success in business is the one who
makes his employers interests his own.
| 1t is not the young man who simply
does what he is told to who is promot-
ed in the store. 1t is not the young
man who works with his eyes upon the
| clock, ready to drop his tools at the
first stroke of the bell, who becomes
the foreman of the factory. 1t is the
| young man who is a perfect glutton
for work who finally sits in the glass
office. 1t is the young man who is will
ing to do what he is not asked to do,
and what other clerks are unwilling to
do, who finally gets the promotion. In
other words, the successful man in the
| mercantile world is the successful man
in the scientific or tue professional
world the man who for others is ready
to travel the twain mile.
Oh, the neglected opportunities of
business, to which some of us shut our
eyes! These neglected opportunities
are lying about, despised, everywhere
around us. The story is told that one
day a couple of humorists were wan
dering through the geological gardens
of London While there they saw the
carcass Of a huge lion being dragged
from it's cage. In a spirit of fun they
bought it and sent the dead lion as a
joke to their friend, Sir Edwin Land
seer. 1t arrived at the great artists
house early one morning. The servant,
in amazement, went and awoke his
master to ask him what he should do
with it. Landseer at once dressed and
went down to see it. He stood a mo-
ment and looked at the huge body.
Then he said, Bring it into my study"
They carried it in Then Landseer
took up his brush and commenced to
paint. He painted that dead lion in
the midst of great eXpanse of sand.
He called the picture ''The Desert" 1t
became his most famous masterpiece.
The model which his friends tossed
aside as joke he took and made out
of it a stepping stone to a throne So
in professional as we'll as in mercan-
tile life there are opportunities living
about US everywhere. If we CRASH
them in the love of work, if we sacri-
fee for them, even though at the time
they may seem to amount to naugbt.
, our dead lions will become Giving
lions" When a man works for love.
then man, like Sir Edwin Landseer.
, will make everything he touches re-
dound to his own success. IF in the
mercantile world thy employer compel
thee to 90 with him one mile, 60 with
him twain"
The Call of the Church.
But there is another authority that
has a right to subpoena your time and
your sacrifice. just as Caesars courier
had a right to compel the Hebrew to