The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-06-04

man, slowly, 81 want you to listen to me.
You talk about luck, and |, an old man,
who has seen seventy odd years Of life, |
tell you there is no such thing as luck
The thread Of your destiny was never pat
into the hands of the blink goddess, Fate,
to be twisted and tangled at her will. |
believe in a Divine Providence that over
rules all thing, but ! believe that every
man makes his own track through life, and
is responsible in great measure for its
roughness. a".s' .s
"Then You would throw all the blame
of mans misfortunes upon himself. That
seems rather hard.' q.
, "lt is great thing for man to learn
to distinguish between those things which
are the results of his own unwise action,
aud those that spring from causes beyond
his control" #""-# W."
Il admit this, but I am sure / have al
ways tried to act according to my best
| judgment, and a man can do no more
than that" as# t@"'
elf you viii not be angry with me,
John, | would like to talk to you little
about your best Judgment
"Oh, there is no fear of that, uncle
William, you know always take your
advice kindly, although I cannot quite
agree with You in your ways of think
ing" d..
"Peoplc that take advice so kindly are
not sure to make much use of it, but no
matter When / came in this morning
found you in great rage over your bad
luck in losing that job or work which |
suppose went to Jones, as his shop is nl-
ways open. Pray, who was to blame Tor
that but yourself, for neglecting your en-
gaseaent to meet the AGENT And viii
the evil results stop with the loss of this
| one job Those men, as you We! know,
have occasion for thousand Of dollars Of
work in your line every year. and viii it
not be natural that in deciding where to
look in future, they should distnst man
who faiied to meet an appointment in
which his interests were involved All,
John. / see more bad luck In store for
you there,
81 intended to keep the ongayement,
bat the disappointment about ny land
put il all out of my mind"
"That land business again now look
at that and see how much luck had to do
with it, Which was the wiser, ZONES,
who paid competent person for making
sure his claim, or you who trusted to
luck, and the honesty Of speeulator, aud
so lost the whole !"
"Well, may have erred In judgment
in some eases, but after al, | am firm
believer in the wisdom of tie old proverb,
which teaches that some people are born
with silver spoons in their mouths, and
some with wooden ones"
every likely, John, very likely; bat
the birth is nothing. and the wooden
/ spoon, if rightly handled, will carry more
meat to the month than the silver one.
All depend on the management
The old man took up his cane and
went out Of the shop saying, pleasantly,
"lou must learn to carry your spoon
more steadily, friend John, or you'll new
er find it Of much use, be it silver or
wooden"
Justlike uncle William" said John
Eastman to himself AZ he locked up his
shop and turned toward home, "he is al
ways laying the blame of my misforsunes
on M own shoulders, and yet no one can
get angry with him. IIeigho, this has
been an unlucky day to me. | would
snot care so much about the land if i,
were not for Mary, she will be dreadful
ly disappointed that tire money is gone. "
As he opened the door to enter bis
home his wife looked up from her sew
ing, with a happier expression on her
pale face than he had seen there for q
long time, as she eagerly asked, "Have
you seen Mr.. Ward since morning,
John ?" f......a+.s5
|. "No--why do you ask 2" replied he
with an involuntary sinking of his feel.
ings as he half guessed the reason.
He was here Just after YOU went to the
shop this morning, and told me to tel
you, in case he should not see you, that
he had decided to sell the house aud lo'
about which you spoke last summer, and
il you wished still to purchase he would
make easy terms with you. You might
paw three or four hundred down, and the
rest as you were able. am so glal
John that you have at laA chance for {
home that place, you know, is exactly
what VIC want, and the terms are 50 res
souable.'
"But, Mary began her husband, will
the air Of a man who does not know wha
he is saying Il have about decided no
to buy this year, my bnsin S."
ooh, John, do not 60 to objeeting- =
You have always been going to buy ncr
year ever since We were married. Their,
is nothing now in the wsy--the none,
you have in the Bank is just enough 70
the FIRST payment"
"Well, Mary, you may as we'll know
: first as last that | invested nearly all tina
money a few months ago in western lands
} / did not say anything to You about it
for knew it would worry you, and ha
no doubt Of being able to replace tn
I money four fold before we should want il
7 and 50 | should, but for my wretche
luck" vaa
, In spite Of his efforts, John Eastma
looked ashamed, and felt very much as
he had been robbing somebody, and i
4 truth he had robbed his wife and chi
dren Of pleasant home to crafty h
propensity to try experiments in maxim
$ haste to be rich. No wonder he felt th
Q when he looked at bis wife, as she san
7 back in her chair, and gave utterance
8 despairing sigh. In the ten years |
d her married life sho had learned son
Z hard lessons, and it not was often now ths
Q she looked forward to tho future yer
!, hopefully, but all this morning her hea
4 had been dwelling on the sunshiny pi