Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-08-04
LUCK MAY LIE IN A PIN.

ly at certain times of the year, others only
one single day-yes there even people who
only see luck once in their lifetime, but all
of US do not see her.
1 suppose that l need not tell you that
when our Lord sends little child:here, he
lays in a mothers lap. This may happen in
rich man castle, or in working man
nicely ordered room. But then it may hap
pen, instead, in an open market place, where
the cold wind blows.
But what not every one of you does know,
and yet is really true, is that our Lord when
he places child here, also sends along with
it its good luck, which, however, is never
placed near by, but is hidden in some spot
in our globe, where we look for it least
yet it is always found at last, and that is
comfort.
Luck was once placed in an apple; that
was for man whose name was Newton
The apple tell, and thus he found his luck
If you do not know that story, ask some one
to tell it to you We have another story to
tell-a story about pear.
There once lived poor man, who was
born poor, and was poor when he married
He was a turner by trade, and used to turn
umbrella handles and umbrella rings, but he
only earned enough money by this to live
from hand to mouth.
Il shall never find my luck, said he.
Now, this is a true story which really
happened. | could tell the country and the
place where the man lived, but that is of
no consequence. The rel and sour noun
tain ash berries blossomed around his house
and in his garden as if they were the choic-
est fruit, and in the garden also stood the
pear tree, but it never had borne pear, and
yet their luck was placed in an invisible
pear.
One night the wind blew terribly. In
Avize men said the great Dilling boulder
was lifted up from the side of the road, and
thrown down like a lump of clay, and so it
was not at all wonderful that big branch
should have been broken from the pear tree.
rhe branch was taken into the workshop,
and the man turned out of it, just for fun,
big pear, and then several very small
pears.
The tree shall bear pears once at least,
he said, and gave them to his children to
play with.
There are some things that are necessi-
ties i'll life, and among these, most certainly
in wet countries. are umbrellas. Now the
whole family had only one for general use
When the wind blew very hard, the umbrel-
la would turn over; but the man quickly
mended it again-that was in his trade.
With the button and string that kept the
umbrella together, it went worse, it would
ing the umbrella up.
One day, when the button had broken
again, and the man hunted in vain for it on
the floor, he happened to get hold of one of
the smallest pears which he had turned, and
had given to the children to play with.
Il cannot find the button" said the man,
''but this little thing will answer" He
pulled small cord through it, nd the little
pear filed the place of the broken button
beautifully; it was exactly right, and form
ed the best of fasteners. The next time that
he had to send UMBRELLA handles and rings
to the capital, he added to the numbe few
of the small wooden pears that he had turn
ed. They were fastened to few umbrellas
which were sent with thousand others to
America. The have a quick underst anding
there OF what is of use. The little pear was
soon found to hold best, and the umbrella
merchant that all the umbrellas to be sent
to him after that should be fastened with
the little pear. Large orders were to be
supplied, thousands of pears to be made;
wooden pears on all umbrellas, and our man
was kept busy at work. He turned and
turned the whole pear tree was used up
for little wooded pears, which brought
shillings that grew into dollars.
''In that pear tree my luck was placed
said the man; and soon after he had great
workshop and plenty OF men and boys to
help him. Now he was all the time in good
humor, and often used to say, Luck may
lie in a pin.
SO also says he who tells the story and
you should know that 1t is true: and is
proverb in Denmark, that if you put white
pin in your mouth, you will be invisible,
but it must be the right sort of pin-one
given by our Lord. | have had one of them
and whenever come to America, the land
of the New World, which is so far of, yet
SO near me, | shall always carry that pin with
me- | can send my greeting over in few
minutes; the ocean rolls over to its shores,
there the wind blows; any day | can be
there when my stories are read, and perhaps
see the glittering gold; receive the ringing
gold the gold-the gold that is the best of
all, which shines in the eyes of children, and
somes ringing from the lips of their parents
| am in the very room with my friend-and
yet am invisible. [ have the white pin
In my mouth.
Yes, luck may lie in pin.
Every young man is eagerly asking the
best way of getting on in life. The Bible
gives very brief answer to the question:
''Walk in the way of good men, and keep