The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-06

Now I'm going to tell . story about
Luck. All of "a are acquainted with
Luck there are those that see her all tho
time, some only at certain times of the
year, others only one single day-yes,
there are people who only see Luck once
in their life time but ali of us do see her.
Isuppoee need not tell you that when
our Lord sends . little child here, He lays
it In its mothers lap; this may happen in
Q rich mans castle, or in q workingman's
nicely ordered room; but then it may
happen instead in an open market place,
where the cold wind blows. But what
every one of you does not know, and yet
is really true, is that our Lord, when He
places child here, also sends along with
it good Luck, which, however, is never
placed near by, but is hidden in some spot
on our globe where we look for it least !;
and it is always found at last, and that is
comfort.
Luck once was placed in an apple that
was for man whose name was Newton.
The apple fell, and thus he found his
Luck. If you do not know the story, ask
some one to tell it to you. We have an
other story to tell-a story about pear.
There once lived poor man, who was
born poor, and had grown up poor, and
was poor when he married. He was q
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. fss 1855
81 shall never find my Luck" said he
Now this is true story, which really
happened. l could tell the name of the
country and the place where the man lived,
but that Is of no consequence. The red
and sour mountain ash berries blossomed
and ripened around his house and in his
garden, as If they were the choicest fruit,
and in the garden stood slso pear tree,
but it never had borne q pear, yet there
Luck was placed in an invisible pear.
One night the wind blew terribly. In
Ayize, men said the great Dillig boulder
had been lifted from the side of the road,
and thrown down like lump of clay, and
20 it was not ct all wonderful that big
branch should have been broken from the
pear tree. The branch was taken into the
Workshop, and the man turned out of it,
just for fun, q big pear, and another big
pear, then smaller pear, and then several
very small pears.
"The tree shall bear pears once at least"
he said, and gave them to the children to
play with.
There are some things that are pecessa-
ries in life, and among these, most certain
ly in wet countries, are UMBRELLA Now
the whole family had only one for general
use. When the wind blew very hard, the
umbrella would turn over, and sometimes
it would break; but the man quickly
mended it agSin-that was his trade.
With the button and string that kept the
umbrella together, it went worse it would
always break too soon, just as one was
folding 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 hadsgiyen to the children to
play with.
~ cannot find the button," said the man,
"but this little thing will answer" He
pulled small cord through it, and the
little pear filed the place of the broken
button beautifully It was exactly right,
and formed the best of fasteners. The next
time he had to send umbrella handles and
rings to the capital, he added to the num-
Der few of the small wooden pears
which he had turned. They were fastened
to few new umbrellas, which were sent
with a thousand others to America. They
have q quick understanding there of
what is of use. The little pear was found
to hold best, and the umbrella
merchant gave orders that all the umbrel
las to be sent to him after that should be
fastened with the little wooden pear.
Large orders were to be supplied, thou
sands 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 for little wooden
pears, which brought shillings that grew
into dollars.
"In that pear tree my Luck was placed"
said the man; and soon after he had q
great workshop, with plenty of women
and boys to help him. Now he was all the
time in good humor, and often used to say,
Luck may lie in pin"
So also says he who tells the story, and
you should know that it is true, and is q
proverb in Denmark, that if you put q
white pin in your mouth you will be invis-
ible: but it must be the right sort Of pin
one given by our Lord. l have had one
of them, and whenever come to Ameri-
ca, the land of the New World, which is
so far off 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 gilt
tering gold receive the ringing gold-the
gold that is best of all, which shines in the
eyes of children and comes ringing from
their lips, and the lips of their parents.
am in the very room with my friends
and yet am invisible. I have the white
pin N my mouth.