Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-01-23
LUCK OR PLUCKi
TeMPERAMenT co.'s FAR TOWARD
DECIDING ONES FATE.

Birth--A Man Of Many AecIdeats--The
Reason why. 4
Without plUnging very deeply into She
metaphysics Of this subject, we will have a
few moments talk about fate and luck. We
speak OF a lucky fellow, meaning by that a
man who Is fortunate. and yet luck may be
good on in, the one quite as frequently as the
other. II we mean by luck. however, an oft
recurrence along the lire Of help or him
dranee, without special effort, work, thought,
exertion on the part of him TO whom the
luck good or evil, comes, why not believe In
itl some people 20 through life bathed In
sunshine pertetunlly, others walk forever in
a vale Of tears. and the shadow Of the high
mountain, impossible, ungetoverabie.
| Some men, sunny natured, easy tempered.
lazy, good for nothing fellows, 10 whom q
! thought would be IA novelty, and an exercise
/ a curiosity, find every door open ut their APP
proach, and banqnets spread with every
imaginable and conceivable delicacy, with
| nothing to interfere with the ongoing OF their
pleasure from the rising Of the sun 10 the
going down thereof, while other men, care
full, broDiiing, ever plodding earnestly, con- |
scientiously along first this road, then the |
other, meet a continuity of disappointment
and disaster, which absolutely enshrouds
them Ia a gloom that is never penetrated by
a my Of hope; confronted ever by disappoint-
ment until the closing scene wipes them
from the face of the earth into the bluckness
Of darkness impenetrable
IL will not lie gTayey argued that birth
has nothing to do with mans chances in life
/ remember, when began TO work in lss1,
thinking that OF all the men in the world
whose chances envied, there were but two
whose opportunities were seriously any better
than mine. They were Albert Edward,
Prince OF Wales whose progress through the
provinces and the states l was then chron-
telling for The New York Times, and young
Jim Bennett, whose father was then editor
and proprietor of the great journal with
: which his name was synonymous. Do you
} mean to tell me that young Bennett didn't
! have a better opportunity for professional
renown than any other young man about to
. embrace that noblest profession, journalism
, Did the Prince of Wales have no ampler
! scope than the other young men born In the
{ British doniinionf OF course, birth and social
posi- ion and pecuniary status have much Co
do with mans opportunities, but when
: discuss broad questions we must lcok with
wide vision; we must not confine our illus
? trations 10 extremes, but must take the aver
! age.
e The average man IL poor, the great major
q ity very poor. II il be fact and it unques-
2 tionably Is, that of every loo young men
!. who go into mercantile life ninety-nve fail
q before they are 30 years of age, aud Of the
= other Ave, three get on fairly we'll enc makes
!, a profound impression in his sphere and one
q alone becomes phenomenal, standing head
70 and shoulders above his fellows In all the
y world, where comes in the matter OF lucki
Where Is the exceptioni Isn't IL fact that
the great multitude toll and suffer through
the blasts Of winter and in the torridities oi
A..
u, from starving and to cover their nakednes'
- from the jibes and =:ieerings of the worIdf
no / tell you temperament decides almost
= everything. What would seem to on'
VI "a luck of the most grewsome nature appear
~ to another on n similar plane of life simpl,
- an unhappy incident, temporary in IL
~ nature, not lasting in its effect Some men
~ worth si0O,OO0. groan over the luck of thei
~ neighbor who is worth 81 900 600 while an
- other man who can honestly say II an
a.. ~ worth today 100000" is 50 overwhelIne
~ ~ with recognition pr his Independence, of tn
-, power in his nand TO do good among th
a 'as suffering and the sick and the tired and tn
Ia weary Of earth, that he can find no word
-. sufficiently rotund with which 10 express h
~ satisfaction, his content his delight.
=. Some people say, Whatever is TO be wi
~, he. II ann fatsl 10 be rich will hay
40 money, and IL am fated TO be poor won
nee have amy. A man who was born TO
an hanged will never be drowned, So whatev'
~ comes take il because have got to- didn
- | ask To come here Now that's silly. In q
ala first place don't know whether you asked
ne come here or not, Neither do you
ar. That two and two added together are fat,
! ', to ml(Sa four. yes, but are you fatedi
there Aay conipnlson that forces you 10 p
one two under another twof IL you sta
your Toe sou fall But why stub your 10
nav Ii YOU lack your Rager with knife, blo'
sap- will flow, but why kaeai your fingerl Y,
M may assume that ySu are fated 10 be rio
U.s. What difference does your assumption max
ave Ia order to be rich you must be industriol
saon saving, self sacrificing, methodical, indl
Mn trious .Tbo@e factors enter largely into I
IN problem OF success In life, and il those factc
does are properly grouped in your ease you W
tue be rich 1t is very rare combination, Il
y, honesty of purpose, this continuity Of
VINO siusiry this Intelligent direction, but IL y
NOT have them this result is certain, and if.y
not have them and do not use them the resi-
as then i equally certain You cannot ra
got figs ON a thistle tree thistles a fig tn
eoh- and you cannot bring disgrace upon hon
t'iat nor can you crown dishonesty with integri
lhan know a man who has lost an eye, who
orth broken an arm twice, who was shot throu
his right lung, and whenever anything b
pens To him, he says: lit is just my luc
cli- -, s,,,ral aad Ia ln,l
Iity, =. ,,on,Jn,t haye f.Ilen down the hatehw,
ior That he was shot through the right lung '
TOT 80, due TO bis presence upon the field Of bat
81; That he lost his eye is attributable 70 the {
Ioou that when he iiaslesl his little pile Of pow
i.lre he didn't shield his face, dfd yet he says
loh' accident after accident occurs, ut Is just
'"e luck"
e az II Is just his stupidity.
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Ially 800 s.,hs .,,a, 800 q, ,t,r;h,,,.s
my, the natural forcings OF perfectly well uns
,,.'.s derstood, but rarely possszsesl, elements
s''"" human nature-Joe Howard in Bos
Globe.