Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-04-28
Fortune Often
Lies at Your
DUN Doorstep

n ID you ever read the fable OF
- the man who set out to hunt for
fortune? First he went to India, but
there he found that Ills quest lay in
China.
After many weary days of travelling
he landed in China and asked if they
had seen fortune. But the answer
came that fortune was not to be
found in that land, but in Africa.
Again he set out, and after the
most fatiguing travels he came to
Africa, where he repeated his ques-
ton about the whereabouts of for
tune.
But here again he met with dis
appointment, for in answer to his
question he was told that fortune
lived in New zealand.
But this time, instead of setting out
again on his travels, he gave up in
disgust and returned to his home.
When he at last reached his house
he was surprised to find a woman sit
ting On his doorstep.
WAiO are yOus hO oohCus
And the stranger answered: ~
am fortune, whom thou soughtest in
many lands, but have ever been on
thy doorstep, if thou hadst but open
ed thine eyes to the fact"
Can you not apply this old, old
fable to your case, little girl, who
is on pretty much the same hunt for
your life work?
But, strange to say, just as soon as
We have secured the coveted position
We think we see opportunity, which Is
sometimes but another name for for
tune, reckoning to US from some 9th
er place.
And the same thing with the girl
who is at home, whether from choice
or force of circumstances. She is
sure that fortune is to be secured in
any place but her home, and she
makes herself miserable reaching out
to grasp the opportunity which size
is sure lies in some other place.
But look carefully at your own
doorstep, little girl, and be quite sure
that fortune is not there, maybe in
the gloom Of some dark corner or
maybe out in the full light of the
sun. But you cannot see her be-
cause you do not recognize her.
Sift every opportunity and make
sure that it is good opportunity be-
fore going On wild goose chase for
fortune, for ten chances to one you will
find her right in your own line OF
work.
You yourself know for what you
are best fitted in this world. If
you have a talent for teaching school,
if you have an inclination toward a
business life, art, literature, it is you
who are the enc t decide, and who
knows whether You are fitted for it Or
not.
Decide, then, what you will do and
hunt fortune in that. But once you
have decided and made plans and
have trained for the life of art, do
not, then, suddenly decide that for.
tune is not to be found In art but
in business, for in all likelih God once
you are fairly embarked on the sea Of
business you will find that your OPP
portunity for success lies in the writ
ing of books.
There are cases, of course, where
when you think you are fitted for
a certain line of work you find you
can do something else better This
is not true in the majority of cases,
however.
Don't fit here and there, little girl.
thinking that tie next place will be
the best, but search well first in your
own work and look well at every op-
portunity offered in that work before
deciding TO hunt fortune on anothers
doorstep.
A Treatment for Potato Scab.
1t is true that as early as 1912 a
German Investigator suggested that
the trouble was caused by parasitic
organism, but later it was indefinitely
determined that the fungus, Sorospo-
was rot invariably the cause of the
trouble. It was not until 1890 that
Prof. Bolley definitely determined that
potato scab was caused by fungus
parasite. Until resistant strains could
be bred up it was necessary that some
temporary preventive be applied, says
Farm. Stock and Home. Treatment
of potato may be by the use of forma-
lin or corrosive sublimate (bichloride
Of mercury. The latter is perhaps
the most effective but it should be
handled with the greatest caution as
it is very powerful poison when TAX
en- internally. The solution is pre-
pared by dissolving two ounces Of
corrosive sublimate in two gallons of
hot water. When the poison is well
dissolved, add IL gallons of water IA
gallons in all. The potatoes. which
should be reasonably clean should be
put in a gunny sack and the whole
suspended in the solution for an hour
and half. Then empty them out on
a floor to dry thoroughly before cut
ting and planting.