The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-01-05
THE MAN WHO WAS BOUND TO WIN
Failures Did Not Disturb Him and Argu-
ments Were III Vain.

melEs were Ill Vain.
"The man who has it in him to win
will generally win" said 4 New Yorker
in an uptown restaurant the other
day. Sometimes | think it best TO
| get all your bad luck in heap Pile
| it on, one bit after the other, and then
when the good luck comes YOU have a
clear way and are in good training for
a strong run.
Il was out west fifteen years ago
| when | met young fellow who inter-
ested me a great deal lie couldn't
! have been over 2S then, but he had
seen q good deal of life-that is, life
out there. | heard that he had been
| IN the sheep-raising business few
years before, but had lost his whole
! business-bad luck, every one said. |
| had taken out a few thousand dollars
with which | wanted and expected to
| make fortune within Il marvelously
! short time. As | knew nothing at all
about sheep and every one said that
| what he didn't know about sheep
wasn't worth knowing, | thought it
would be good idea to strike a bar
| gain with him. SO went to him.
He was working in railroad ma
| chine shop at the time, earning, I
| think it was, 1919 a day, for before he
came of age he had learned this trade
| just to fall back on, he explained.
And, he added, with a twinkle in his
| eye, I've fallen bacs, on it oftener than
| expected" says the n. Y. Tribune.
"When | explained to him my idea
about the sheep he told me about his
life. His mother had died and left
| him about 5000. When he came of
age he took this money and put it all
in sheep. He lost it. For a time he
fired on a locomotive and then went
back to his trade. He saved money
and invested it in a sawmill 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 to Wyom-
ing. lie 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 drug store in a little
town, running the business end of the
drug store while its owner, physi-
clan, looked after the drug part, which
was a trife compared with the fancy
goods naints. oils and yariors other
things. including coal, He established
his telegraph office in the druo store
aud ali went merrilr until he Lad
saved Sl.5)1. With that he went ont
and hunted up partner with the
same amount of capital. They went
to Utah. He bought sheep aud went
broke again,
Nov he said to me with pleas
ant laugh. YOU see that | haven't
made lust what Won miuht call = start
lino success out Of sheen. But | know
there is money in it. | know why
have failed before and NAV fail again.
But l have been saving SO a month to
60 lnto the business once more, and if
SIler what nave tod you You would
IKE 10 Try me, ! am your man. 30
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l .'ltI IL1 o'i'oe' me" nm at d S.9hce;
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yourself And then ne told ne in
modest way that he had built half