The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-18

SHuEo huESell l-OWSi leilS I'D Ahab
every man is born with his business
or profession in him." while Sydney
Smith long ago said BE what ma
ture intended you for and you will
succeed, but be anything else and you
will be a thousand times worse than
nothing" There can be no greater
mistake than to bend your design
where your genius does not incline.
Emerson wisely says that the crown
ing fortune of man is to be born
with bias to some pursuit which
finds him In employment and happi-
ness. while Shakespeare asserts:
TO business that we love, we rise
betlmes.
And 20 TO 1t with delight"
No man can struggle VIGOROUSLY
against his own character, and one Of
the first lessons Of life is to learn
what groove we are intended 70 fill.
Evidences of ones right calling will
manifest Themselves early in lie. Han
. del, the famous composer, whose father
was a physician, was intended for the
profession OF law, and the father did
all he could to discourage the boys
fondness for music, but he got an old
spinet and practiced ON it secretly in
hayloft; he produced an opera be-
fore he was fifteen Beethoven COM
posed at thirteen, while Mozart gave
concerts at six.
Victor Hugo presented a poem to
the Academy at fifteen, Goethe wrote
. at ten, Pope al fourteen, at sixteen
{ Bacon had successfully pointed out
the errors in Aristotle's philosophy,
while Pascal at the same age wrote a
treatise on the Comic Sections Bach
used 10 copy whole books Of music by
moonlight when he was denieda can
die Napoleon was at the head Of
armies at ten years of age. AT this
time, when student at Brienne, writ
ing TO his mother he said; With
Homer in my pocket and my sword at
my side hope TO fight my way
through the world
Murillo, the famous Spanish artist,
allied the margins of his school books
with drawings. Miehelangelo whose
parents punished him for covering the
walls with sketches, declaring he was
no SON of theirs should he become an
artist spent whole nights copying
drawings BY moonlight, which he dared
not bring home
Calico, who discovered the princi-
pie of the pendulum at eighteen and
invented both the microscope and the
telescope was set apart by his parents
for a physician, but when compelled 10
study physiology. he would hide his
Euclid and secretly work. out difficult
problems. Lorraine. the painter was
apprenticed by his parents to a pastry
cook Arllwright's parents appren-
ticed him to a barber ltris aaserious
mistake for parents to wish their sons
10 be reproductions of themselves
John Jacob Astors father wanted TO
make a butcher OF his boy, but the
commercial instinct was strong enough
in him 70 make him ruin away from
home and come TO America
Fathers. don't try to make that boy
another you-ope of you will do.
The father OF Daniel Webster deter
mined that Daniel should become a
farmer: he took the boyout into the
field and showed him how to cut hay,
but no matter how the father fixed the
scythe, it didn't hang to suit Daniel;
until the old man in despair and dis
gust exclamed Get out Of the field
and hang that scythe TO suit yourself"
Daniel hung the scythe on a tree and
said: Father there, il hangs TO suit
me-
Many of the worlds most successful
men have failed in one or more pur-
suits before they finally got upon the
right track. Barnum failed in four
teen different occupations before he
discovered he was a born Snowman.
Goldsmith failed as a physician; but
who else could have written The De-
serted yilhge?9 Cromwell was a
farmer at forty and Grant a tanner at
thirty-eight, Moody. an indifferent
shoe salesman, became after middle
life the worlds greatest evangelist
No man will ever do his. best until he
fills his proper niche, One of the most
mischievous notions that ever have OBJ
tained Judgement in the popular mind
n the belief that a man to be respect
ed must BE a doctor lawyer or a
preacher-an idea which has spoiled
many good carpenters, done injustice
to the anvil aud committed fraud upon
the potato patch would rather my
boV became shoemaker and put gem
JUS in his shoes than become preach
or preacning sermons that nobody