Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-26
Advice to q Young Man.

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 Do I believe in luck my son? Indeed do, in bad luck. I think there is no such thing as good luck. do not be- heve that lazy, ne'er-do-weel sort of a man ever stumbles into a fortune or climbs into fame by mere good luck; for, if he does, be doesn't hold his good for tune any longer than he is getting it. No man is born lucky. But believe some men are born unlueky, and I will tell you why, my son. 1 have often ob- served:
 IT a young man spends more money on neckties than he does on books, he IS pretty apt to be unlucky in his literary ventures.
 If young man attempts to make a living by sucking the head of his cane and playing billiards, he Is liable to be unlucky iu his business ventures.
 If young man habitually breakfasts at ten o'clock, he is usually unlucky in his effort to obtain the position of cash Ter in the new bank.
 If a man takes half minute to his prayers and an hour and half to dress, be is unlucky in spiritual life.
 If B man goes to his father every time he wants dollar, he develops into an unlucky merchant, with more assignees than salesmen.
 fla young man on the road plays bill lizards all night and swings cocktails all morning, he IS unlucky when he tries to sell goods in the afternoon.
 If a man buys his clothes on credit and has little bill at every furnishing store and restaurant and livery stable in town, he is a very unlucky man on the first of January.
 If a young man studies art exclusively at the variety theater, he Is a very un- lucky artist.
 If he drinks Tom and Jerry all New Years day "to swear off'' on, be is 8 very unlucky reformer.
 If he goes to college with three Greek books and five ponies, he IS n very un- lucky student.
 If he scoots out of town because a note is falling due; if he will not SOW because the wind blows, nor reap be- cause the sun is hot; if he fishes on fair | days and sits on a cracker box at the l corner grocery and smokes on all the rainy ones; If he complains because the world sights him and stands with his hands ID his pockets and waits for quail on toast to drop into his mouth; If he | spends more money for street car fare | than for walking shoes; If he works while be eats and rests while he works; | if he is the last man at the store or office in the morning and the first to leave 1t | in the evening; if he rigidly insists on every one of his holidays and kicks against every minute of Overwork; If ! his boys do all the chores and his wife builds the fires; if he is lazy and selfish and shittless, then, my boy, he IS an un- lucky man. Bet every cent you can raise, and offer big odds, that Bad Luck with big B will haunt that unlucky man all the days of his life.
 But;
 Hsman riseth up in the morning | with the "passel tree and harp" If be spends more time in the bstht1b than be does on green and yellow necktie, il he can talk at the breakfast table about what be has already seen in the morning l paper, if he gets to the office the first man after the porter,if he wesreth c coat with | glossy elbows until he can buy new one, if be knoweth more about the petl' tion be is drawing up or the goods he IS selling, than he does about trottlng horse, if he can sweep out the store as well as the porter, If he can run up a column of figures as fast as the book. keeper, if be knows every lawyer and merchant in town, and never saw Tug Wilson or Sullivan ID all his life, if hf knows what he wants to be, and bends every energy of mind and body to at taining his point, who works more than he sleep and reads more than he plays billiards, that man, my boy, IS born tc Good Luck, as the sparks to fly upward And go to work, my son, and work ss though you believe in luck, and had go' into a secret of the stars, and knew how to shape the destiny of st least one lucky man in the world.-R J. Bur dette.