El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-03


4" HE many misfits in business and
professional life. 'the square
men in round noles and the
round men in square holes remind
one OF Lessing's sarcasm:
"Tompkins fersakes his last and awl
for literary squabbIes;
Styles himself poet; but his trade
Remains the same-he cObblesP
Dean Swift says. 1T is an uncon-
trovertable truth that no man ever
made an i'll figure who understood his
own talents. nor made good one
who mistOCk them, while Emerson
tells us that the browning fortune
Of a man is TO be born with a bias to
some pursuit which finds him in en-
plovment and happiness
Faithfully follow your prediction
for a pursuit Your original bias is
yOur call II is impossible to improve
land probably by forcing its natural
character, as by bringing sand to clay
and clay to sand. The thing to DO is
To adapt the cultivation to the nature
OF the soil-sO we must follow the
bent of our genius and learn what
grooves we are intended by nature to
Respect the Boys Wishes.
Your boys wishes are the PRESENT.
ments Of his capabilities, or. as Dry
what the child admired,
The youth endeavored and the man
acquired"
No man can struggle VIGOROUSLY
against his own character. Better a
Napoleon of bOOtblacks than a bishop
preaching sermons nobody wants to
hear. Better an Alexander among
clerks than briefless lawyer, who.
like necessity, knows no law" or a
doctor who pOurs drugs, of which he
knows little. into bodies, Of which he
knows less, till his incapacity is dis
covered, when he starves.
lon nN# Ind nG M
bilious parents forced them into pro-
fcssiOns for which they had no talent,
who might have become firstclass me
chanics; while men are selling dry
goods whose skill in hair splitting,
whose adrOitness at parry and thrust
and fertility of resource in every eXig-
ency plainly show that nature de-
signed them for the platform or the
bar. It is estimated that only 1G
percent OF the lawyers and doctors
make a competence in their profess
sicns. The average country preacher
earns mean, gets-less than $500
year. The average city preacher about
$1,000 Some practical philanthropists
in Philadelphia have taught the school
boys, in vacation time, how to culti-
vate the vacant lots On plots 10 by
10 the boys raised stuff they sold for
S5-6o-thats $4,000 an acre, which beats
preaching, law and medicine, on the
average. When viii we learn that the
coming profession is agriculture and
the new discovery the riches of the
soil
All Useful CaHings Honorable.
All callings in life are alike hon
orable II they are useful. I would
like to put Pope's lines on the walls
OF every schOOlhOUse in the land:
Honor and shame from no condi-
Act Wen thy part, there all the
The world does not demand that you
shan be a famous lawyer, a skilled
physician, a high salaried preacher
apostle to the genteels, or a merchant
prince, but that with a noble purpose,
a high endeavor and a useful end in
view you shall make yourself mas
ter in your line.
A man may know that he has found
his place when his work is a pleasure
10 him. II you long for the time to
quit you are on the wrong job. If you
go to your work with no more de-
light than you left ii your job be-
longs to some other man. When you
nave found your true calling you will
not find nature putting any barriers
IN your path of progress.
BORING in the Same Hole.
II you have been boring in the
same hole for years without striking
OIL you have either got too short an
augur or you are in the wrong hole.
II you are sure you are in the wrong
sphere, get on the right track. II you
are on the right track you will not
be wondering whether the rails are
the way things run
In the right place you will be re-
soureeful, happy and contented; you
viii expand and grow. You may not
make big money in a congenial occu-
patton. Money-making is not success
Capital is not what a man has, but
what he is.
As rule, few men change their oc-
eupa tions late in life to advantage, yet
1 advise every man to have the courage
To change his occupation and keep on
changing until he finds the right
place. for there is a right place for
everybody. a rolling stone gathers
no moss, but "a change of pasture !
makes fat calves"
A little girl saw a picture Of Miss I
Willard and Lady Somerset She was 1
Interested in her mothers story. OF /
these two famous temperance women,
and few days later was eXpatiating (
on their character. but could not re-
member their names. Mamma" she I
exclaimed, mamma, this is Miss Will |
ard but is the other Lady Turnover |