Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-21
Some Queer Vacations,

0OInc SucSF NOCdtIOuSs
At least seven men out of ten are
round pegs in square holes. They have
been pitchforked into some calling which
is not that for which they are best fitted.
They could make more money easily at
some other kind of work.
The writer once met a man who owned
eight acres of land in Georgia, and on it
grew peaches He had been at the work
for eight years. anG his average profits
up to date were not more than G60 a
year.
Quite by chance the man discovered
that he had a perfect nose for tobacco.
He obtained a position with q great
Wholesale tobacco firm in South Csro-
lima, and within three years was a buyer
at a salary of e6O0 and expenses. There
are plenty of openings as good as this
for men gifted with this talent
There are some trades and professions
at which a man may toll all his life, yet
never become an expert, however hard he
works.
A diamond-cutter, for instance is, they
say not made, but born; and a first
class cutter makes an income which
many professional men might envy
The same with glove-cutters. So diff
fcult is the art of cutting gloves that
most of the principal cutters are known
to the trade by name, and the peculiar
knives Which they use in the business
are so highly priced that they are hand
ed down from one generation to another
as heirlooms.
The art of cutting furs seems to be
another Unborn talent. Furs such as seal
and sea otter and silver fox are SO enor-
mously costly that not a square inch
| of them must be wasted, and they are
| only intl,,sted to the very tip-top men.
first-class fur cutter will earn G1 a
| day, and even woman fur sewer who
can safely be intrusted with seal makes
| better money than many a skilled male
| clerk.
Speaking of women, few hand workers
do better than corset makers. Tho skill
| is almost hereditary and wages are very
high.
| The making of a billiard ball requires
| qualities of eye and hand which are not
| to be acquired entirely by training. One
| Of the best billiard ball turner's rvEo ever
| lived began in wine merchants Office.
| Mention has been made of the peach
| grower who turned, greatly to his profit.
| tobacco buyer
| The wine faster. likewise, owes his
more than comfortable position to a very
| delicate sense of taste and smell. A
| thousand a year is no out-of-tne way
remuneration for the wine faster who is
employed by n great firm of importers.
| There are some people whom mos
| qutoes will never bite. Why. no one
knows; bur the fact is undoubted. Such
might venture with perfect safety into
| the fever stricken regions where the
dread insect murders the average man
| or woman with its subtly infected ma
| laria! poison.
And salaries are large in those dam
cerous parts of the tropical British en-
pire.
Others are immune from bee stings
There is always a good opening for
| these as bee tanners, to start upon
| which pursuit requires only a small cap
ital
Horse breaking is a natural gift. Some
men seem able to do anything they pie ase
| with a horse; and seeing the number OF
| badly broken. half trained animals which
are in use all over the country the really
clever horse breaker should never lack fol
good living.
Another mar has an equally wonder
fui way with dogs. Here again some
thing better than a mere living is ir
sight. Sporting dogs, such as settlers
and retrievers. need very careful break
ing. and an ordinary gamekeepeI
charges from ;e5 to f1o to break pup
py to field work. A breaker with a repu.
tation will ask and obtain double the
money.
There is a man in London who car
charm rats. He uses nothing hut 6
lamp. sort CT wand and a cage. His
secret seems to lie in the magic of his
} voice. for no sooner does he begin tc
call than rats scampcr toward him from
every direction. He cleared 800 rats out
of Nine. PATHS Welsh CASTLE and took 5N
in one warehouse in London in three
nights. At Cardiff he earned Cos in ter
days during a plague scare.
Some people. who. to save their lives
can't write, can yet tel! a story. There
| is an opening for such nowadays. An
English Girl makes a good income by
| telling fairy stories at children's parties
| The finest story teller in all Japan is an
| Englishman, who in Toxic. is more popu-
| lar than any of the native professionals.
A man may have no special Gualifca-
tions beyond good looks. CHEEKY manner
| and a pleasant voice. The writer knew
| one such who got ESQ month and all
| found by acting as entertainer in big
summer hotel. He simply met newcomers,
introduced suitable people. got up dances
J and picnics and other amusernents. A
pleasant way of making a good income. .
|
| The Vanishing Indian.
| We are accustomed too shed few
eminently proper crocodile tears over
the fate Of hte Indian: but the Indian