Good Advice from Mr. Depew.

Notwithstanding the excitement of a political campaign, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew found time recently to deliver an address to the graduating class of the Syracuse Medical College. The speech was full of wholesome common sense and bristled with keen sallies of with and humor. The following is an extract of the address:-

"The vocation chosen by a young man is governed oftener by accident than inclination. But the manner in which it is pursued is controlled neither by luck nor chance. The liberal professions are crowded with incompetents. I know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when you have discovered your mistake, to drop your tools and start again. But if the all the doctors, lawyers and ministers who can never get on in their professions would get out and find other fields of labor it would be infinitely better for themselves and the country. A living stream of new applicants for public favor and support pours through the portals of the schools of medicine, law, and theology. It is estimated that doctors are thus manufactured in such large numbers that they form one to every three hundred inhabitants. At first view this seems very discouraging, but the situation has many compensations. So many are unwholly unfit or badly prepared that while they increase the miseries of mankind they add to the business and profits of those who are capable. The competitions of modern life have become so keen that there are no opportunities for the lame and lazy. The first must find their proper pursuits, and the second must work or go to the wall."