The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-11
THE MIDDLE AGED MAN.
Doesn't Believe In Luck, Though Things
Come About Curiously Sometimes.


Doesn't Believe In Luck, Though Things
Come About Curiousiy Sometimes. 2
II don't believe in pull, said the mid
die aged man, "and don't believe In luck.
think that in the long run a man is sure
TO get whatever he is entitled to. If his
recognition comes late, he gets it In bigger
chunks. 1t averages up all right. If he
Is really entitled TO anything, he Is reason
ably sure, sooner or later, to get his due
Sat the same time, while l do not be-
, lieve in luck, things certainly do como
about sometimes in u curious way. 1t may
be laid down as a general proposition that
things don't happen to man at all unless
he is around where things are happening
For instance, a man who never went out
Of doors might never get run over, but he
never'd get anything else, either, while If
one is out In the fight, where things do
happen, he is In the way of meeting things;
sometimes things come his way from the
most unexpected sources. struck very
nice little streak once through the boss of
the barber shop where i used to go to get
shaved. Our lines of business were as far
apart as the business Of two men could be,
but he was at least as able and successful
In his as was in mine, and personally he
that he gave me came about In the most
natural way in the world.
"It was a big barber shop, and, of
course, q sort of exchange. All sorts OF
business and professional men met there,
and you saw more of them there than you
would in restaurant, because when they
had to wait In the barber shop they would
sit around and read the newspapers, and
fall Ip
men that did talk, and SO you came to
know many of them by sight and to expect
to see them in the shop, and the boss knew
them all, and they all knew the boss, and
they all held him in friendly esteem.
among the regular customers that i
took IA special fancy to there was one who
talked but little and never talked loud, a
quiet, modest, pleasant gentleman who
was very rich, who had made his fortune
within few years, and in the same bust.
ness as my own. While / liked this man
first rate, at the same time never dream
ed of such thing AS knowing him, but
one day, when was sitting in the boss
barber's chair, the boss barber said to me
In his quiet way-he was quiet man, too
that this other man wanted to get me to
do something for him. 1t was something
that the other man wanted always and
something that could do, and Mr.. Car
ter introduced me to the other man, and
he, in just the quiet, kindly way that /
should have expected of him, told me what
he'd like to have, and that was the very
simple beginning of pleasant relation
ship of years.
~~'I think of that experience often, and
always with pleasure. 1t was the last place
where l should have expected to find work
in my line, hut there / found it. The offer
of it to me by my friend the barber was
made out of pure friendliness, but he new.
er would have put it in my way at all il
he had not believed / could fill the bill.
From whatever point of view look at it,
it is pleasure to recall it.
"Well, now, here / am rambling all
over North America talking about myself,
but it all comes back to this: Don't trust
to luck, but trust TO yourself and keer
eyerlastingly plugging at it, and sooner OF
later things will begin to come your way. v
New York Sun.