St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-08-13
BOUND TO WIN.


Brought success.
''The man who has II in him 70 wi
; will generally win," said q New Yorke
in an uptown restaurant the other day
sometimes think it's best to get q
your bad luck in heap. Pile it on on
bit after the other, and then when tn
gool luck comes you have q clear wa
and arc in good training for . stron
run.
Il was ont west fifteen years az
when met . young fellow who inter
estcd me great deal. He couldn't hav
been over twenty-eight then. but h
had seen . good deal of life-that ID
life out there. ] heard that he ha.
been in the shcep-raising business
couple Of years before. but had los
his whole business-bad luck, everyon,
said.
Il had taken out few thousand dol
lars with which wanted and expected
to make . fortune in . marvelously
short time. As knew nothing ut al
about sheep, and everyone said tha
what he didn't know about sheep wa.
not worth knowing, I thought Il would
be good idea TO strike bargain with
him. So went to him.
HE was working in . railroad ma
chine shopat the time. earning, think
it was, three dollars and seventy-five
cents q day, for before he became of age
he had learned this trade just to fall
back on. he explained. And he added,
| with twinkle in his eye, I've fallen
back on il oftener than expected
when ! explained to him my idea
about the sheep he told me about his
life. His mother had died and left him
about three thousand dollars. When he
came Of age he took the money and put
it all in sheep. He lost it For time
he fired on locomotive, and then went
back to his trade.
He saved money, and invested il in
. saw-mill scheme with some others
The mill burned down-it hadn't made
money, anyway-and he went back to
his trade again. Then he worked his
way to Deadwood, made up his mind
there was nothing there for him, and
got back into Wyoming.
HE had in his life learned how to
telegraph. He had smart head and a
pleasing manner, and got two jobs at
once-telegraph operator and manager
OF the drug store in q little town, rum
ling the business end Of the drug store,
while its owner, . physician, looked
over the drug part, which was trifie
compared with the fancy goods. paints,
oils and various other things, including
coal.
He established his telegraph Office in
the drug store and all went merrily un-
til he had saved fifteen hundred dol
lara With that he went out and hunt
ed up partner with the same amount
Of capital. They went to Utah. He
bought sheep and went broke" again.
Now he said to me with pleas
ant laugh, you see that l haven't made
just what you might call . startling
success out Of sheep. But know there
is money in it know why I have
failed before. and may fail again.
"'But I have been saving seventy-five
dollars . month to 60 into business once
more, and il, after what have told you,
you would like to try me, l am your
man. So we tried il, and in due
course of time we went broke or prac-
tically SO.
81 had come to admire this man i'm
menscly. He was straightforward,
bright, witty and extremely able. and
! felt more sorry for him than I did for
myself
".A@,'I said when the game was
over, the trouble with you is sheep.
You'd make . fortune at anything else
in the world. because you have the
brains and the pertinaclty to do it; but |
IS long rs you stick to sheep you will be
) poor man. It's your fate. Come,
now, swear Of on sheep with me. lam
going back east and make my money
slowly
"'Just you wait he said, laughing |
"I'll hit it yet
"Well, the other day a big, full |
brown-bcartied man walked
INTO my Office. knew him at glance,
Ind was 20 glad to see him that l |
Jumped half way across the room.
"'How are you? cried. How have
vou been doing? Tell me all about
1ourself.' And then he told me in q
modest way that he had built half
own, and had come east to get some
deas on plumbing and water-works.
"'I'll get the contract for the water
works, he said, If can get hold Of a real
i've man here who will 60 ont with me.
We already complied with the iicler
or opening . plumbing shop l also
vant you to find me . smart, wide
wake young man who wants to be .
'ank cashier. Have got the bank. and
ve've got the president-I'm that fel-
we want . cashier"
"'Well, A. said, 4 told you that
on could do Il knew il was in you.
m glad You quit the sheep, finally
"'Sheep!" cried A., with . great
lugh. why, man, I have one of the
nest herds in the west, and the finest
liant without an exception anywhere.
you want TO see . sheep ranch that
eats the world, come out and see me.
heep! Man, IL was sheep that did all
he rest
"And them" added the New Yorker,
while congratulated him with all my
cart, felt little faintness TO think
hat might have had IL I had stuck Il
ut with him. Y. Tribune.
why He Didn't Like England.
igby-"what are you going 70 do this
ammer; going across the pond?'
I think I'll knock
round the continent . Bit - know" !.
igby-"And you won't stop In En-
landT Digby-"Naw, think not"
not?" Digbv-"weally,
saA-boy, I was ovah there lawst yeah,
and ne Amewiean acceAt
- % noticeable that there was weally
. pleasure in life Post
my friend.~ said the exnerieneed Z