Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-18

abob hhS" hJhh'hb W.
Iow, worth more than zen shilliugs and four pence
think. But didn't smoke cigars, young man.
IND | say, Mr.. Anderson, It's o thousand pitcs
'ou Sun, Ike. 1 wouldn't if I were you"
Our narrative, however, must now take n leap
,ver a long range of years. Twenty summers and
Winters have passed since that rainy day on London
bringing with them their checkered range
# Joys and sorrows, successes and r%everses. The
lcene now shifts to a commercial room in the Eagle
md Crown, at a market town some fifty miles from
The metropolis. There sat a party of commercial
at supper, discussing. while they did
Justice to the good fare, as is their wont, the credit
and resources of various houses in the different
Of business with which they were connected.
"What a lucky fellow, by the way" said one Of
the party, after the merits Of a great Manchester
warehouse man had been canvassed, "that Mark
has been oil his life." "a very lucky
fellow" rejoiued another and q third re-echoed
the remark. a'r
DO you think so, gentleman 7" asked a fourth
an elderly man, who had hitherto borne no part in
the rather free and easy" conversation of that
evening,
lneTe eau DC no uOuDt VI ~ u w q, Il bnOulu
think" replied the first speaker. -- 7.s
"Not a doubt of it," said the second likewise,
sit was luck, depend upon it," @ as
"He began with n~othing-nothing to speak off,"
continued the former-''but old Cameron took o
fancy to bin, and now you see the old gentleman
retires from the firm, and leaves Mark Anderson
at the head of it," .ftr
"Aud," rejoined the third commercial, ''all be-
gan. as I've been told, by young Anderson hap
pening to have an umbrella, and saving Mr.. G.
from getting a wetting one evening. A lucky
thing, that. l think 1 shall take to carrying an
umbrella fine days as we'll as wet ones"
THAT wasn't all, l believe" responded num-
Der one, 'he came over the old gent BY Ginning in
with his humors, and finding out the length of his
foot. A clever fellow Mark Anderson is l fancy.
But there was a bit of s~neaking about him. That
and good luck did it ALL"
A | heard that Cameron cottoued to the
young fellow at first, because of his name. it has
a Scotch sort of a sound, you know; and Ander-
sons father, or grandfather, was a ScotchmaD.
So it was 'IIighlanders shoulder to shoulder you
know. A lucky thing to have a fine sounding
uame sometimes. Poor Jack Smith might have
told his nam fifty times, and nobody would have
anything about it." .r
"a lucky thing for Mr.. Anderson to leave off
smoking as he did. lie took his cue there famous
y. That was what nailed Cameron, 1 suspect.
A lucky thought thatw
"Well, gentlemen" said Mr.. w, when there
was o slight break in the conversation, you have
rad your say about Mr.. Anderson, and you all
,oap~ tn kpnp pnora or 1oss of ba hisforu, b,,k unrI
ire wrong in a~scribing his prosperity 20 what you
,all luck. There is more than that in it, l think"
"Of course, Mr.. w." replied one of the former
speakers, 1--WE don't mean that Mr.. Anderson isn't
clever and shrewd, and all that sort Of thing that
helps q 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" OBJ
served another of the company.
"No, | don't" said Mr.. W. "Luck is a heath
enish word, and the idea it generally conveys is a
heathenish idea. But we need not dispute about
words. What I 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.. Andersen, perhaps~
Eyes, rath err intimately, and I'll tell you what
| know of his rise in this world, if you like. A
few words will do it."
"By all means, Mr.. "" said one of the other
speakers.
TN the first place then, what first attracted Mr..
Cameron's notice in young Anderson was his good
temper and readiness to oblige a stranger who had
behaved to him ~crustily and selfshly. Their first
meeting was on the top of the stage coach"
"Yes, | have heard of that"
"Well; then you will admit that had Anderson
given bis fellow passenger as good as he had sent,
to use a common expression, their acquaintance
would probably have ended where it began. So
I should say that good temper rather than luck,
was the first step towards Mr.. Anderson's pros
p%erity."
There's something in that to be sure, Mr.. W."
"Then there was a degree of kindness, some
what selfdenying in the offer of the umbrella
when Cameron and Anderson came in each others
way the second time. 1t is not every young man
that would have gone out Of his way to ob,ipe a
common acquaintance, and not many, perbaps.
would have thought of offering the shelter of an
umbrella to such a crusty old fellow as Mr.. Came
ron had seemed to be-. Some, / fancy, would have
chuckled over the poor mans distress, and said it
6"' youu& mhn nau o WaV
of his own, and a principle of his own, too that
principle was Every man for his neighbour and
he actei upon it. So, instead of luck, we NAV set
down thoughtlulness and disinterested kindness
for every man for his neighbour is q Christian
motto as another STEP" q.
very true. Mr.. W., SO far"
Then again, Mr.. Cameron was pleased with
the young mans conversation, and in consequence
OF that invited him to his house. Here was an
other step with which luck has nothing to do. Tn
the course of further acquaintance, Mr.. Cameron
discovered that his young protege, as | NAV call
him, was a good son, Observation-Disclosures his
unfortunate p~enchant for cigars-did a good deal
with very limited means, for the comfort of his
widowed mother. Luck had nothing to do with
that ! think"
Nothing, certainly, Mr.. W.
swell, to 20 on with my" q.
Lecture" suggested one of the pent,srs, If
the comnlarcial roarn o;tL =.