The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-03-17
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history; but you will excuse me for
you are wrong in ascribing his
prosperity to what you call luck. There
is more in it than that, I think"
"Of course, Mr.. w. ;" replied one Of
the former speakers, "we don't mean
that Mr. Anderson isn't clever and
and all that sort of thing that
helps man on in the world; it was his
first start, mind you, that We said was
so lucky"
"Mr W. does not believe in luck,
perhaps" observed another of the COM.
pany.
"No, I DON'T" said Mr.. w. "Luck
is heathenish idea, But we need not
dispute about words. What mean is
that Mr.. Anderson's first start, as you
call it, was owing to something with
which luck had nothing to do"
"You know Mr.. Anderson, per-
.haps? p
"Yes, rather intimately and I'll tell
you what know of his rise in the world
if you like. A few words will do it."
"By all means, Mr.. w." said one Of
the other speakers.
"I In the first place, then, what first
attracted Mr.. Cameron's notice in young
Anderson, was his good temper and
readiness to obligc a stranger who had
behaved to him both crustily and sell
6shly. The first meeting was on tho
top of a stage coach"
/" Yes, have heard Of that"
"Well, then you will admit that had
Anderson given his fellow passenger
as good as he SENT to use common
expression, their acquaintance would
probably have ended where it began.
So should say that good temper, rather
than luck, was the first step toward Mr..
Anderson's prosperity"
There's something in that, to be
sure, Mr.. W."
Then there was degree of kind
ness, somewhat self-dcnying, in the offer
of an umbrella when Cameron and An
derson came in each others way the
second time. 1t is not every young man
would have gone out of his way to oblige
even common acquaintance and not
many perhaps would have thought of
offering the shelter of an umbrella to
such crusty old fellow as Mr. Cameron
had seemed to be. Some, fancy would
have chuckled over the old gentleman's
evident distress, and said it served him
right. But the young man had way
of his own, and principle of his own,
too that principle was, Every man
for. his neighbor, and he acted upon it.
So, instead of luck, we may set down
thoughtfulness and disinterested kind
ness, and l may say Christian kindness
for Every man for his neighbor' is .
Christian motto-as another STEP"
Very true, Mr.. W., so far"
"Tben, " again, MIR. Cameron was
pleased with the young mans CONVERSE
ton, and in consequence of that invited
him to his house Here was another
step with which luck had nothing to do.
In the course of further acquaintance,
Mr.. Cameron discovered that his young
protege, as l may call him, was good
son, and notwithstanding an unfortun-
ate pcnchant for cigars-did good deal
with very limited means, for the COM
tort of a widowed mother. Luck had
nothing to do with that, l think"
Nothing, certainly, Mr.. W."
"Well, to 60 on with my" ,
"Lecture," suggested one Of the gen.
tlemen of the commercial room, with
wink to the rest.
eyes," continued Mr.. /: 6" to 90 on
with my lecture-there was the leaving
off smoking, which Mr.. G. calls lucky
thought. Now, 1 can tell you how that
came about. One day, after Mr..
Cameron and young Anderson had be-
come pretty familiar, as they were riding
on the same coach where they
had first met, believe the old gentle
man began to attack the young fellow
about his nasty habit, as he called IL,
and asked him what he would do If he
should get wife who didn't like it %
Leave it of, directly" sad Ander-
son.
You wouldn't be able," said Mr..
Cameron.
"I think should, replied the other,
and to prove it, sir, l won't smoke
lgain for the next three months."
Well, gentlemen, young Anderson
,ept his word; and be ore the timo was
zone BY, he happened to fall in with
Door scholar--a German--half starved,
ind learnt his history, which was very
sd one. To have the means Of refiev.
ug him, Anderson made up bis ni,d