Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-04
THE MIDDLE AGED MAN.

Ooesnit nsRtevo In Luck, Though Things
esssa. About Cautiously Sometimes.
~ don't, believe In pull said tho mi1.
dloaged mum, land don believe IL luck.
I r think that In the long run n man Is sure
tO,get whatever he IL entitled to. II his
recognition comes late, he gets 1t In bigge.
chunks. III averages up all right. II no
is$rcally entitled to anything, he is reason.
ably sure sooner or later, to get his due.
eat tho same time, while I do not be.
Neve In luck, things certainly do come
about sometimes In u curious why. 1t may
be laid down as general proposition that
things don't happen to q man at all unless
heis,arountF where things are happening.
For instance, u man who never went out
Of doors might never get run over, but he
never'd get anything else, either, while II
one ia out In tho fight, where things do
happen lie liz In the way Of meeting things;
sometimes things come his way from tho
most unexpected sources. struck very
nice little streak once through the boss Of
the barber shop where ! used to go to get
shaved. Our lines Of business were as far
apart IA tho business Of two men could be,
but; he wasat least ~ able and succcsaful
In his ash was in mine, and personally he
was atleastaas keen and alert, and the help
that he gave me came about In the most
natural way in tho world
"it was big barber shop, and, OF
course. n. sort of exchange All sorts of
business ami professional men mot there,
and you, saw more Of them there than you
would in restaurant, because when they
had, to watt In the barber shop they would
sit around ard read the newspa pers, and
you'd hear 'em tnlk, lnayse, If they were
men, that did talk, and SO you came to
know many of them by sight and to expect
to SEQ. the.n I'm tho 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
took; a special fancy to there was one who
talked; but little and never talked louddR
quiet. modest, pleasant gentleman who
WAS; very rich, who had made his fortune
within a few years, and In tho same busi-
ness as my own: While liked this man
first nahe,. at tho same time never dream
I'D; Of such thing as knowing him, but
one day, when / was sitting in the boss
barber's chair, the boss barber said to mo,
in his quiet wayne was a quiet man, too
that this other man wanted to yet 1neto
do something for him. 1t was something
that the other man wanted always -and
something that could do, and MIR. Car
ter introduced me to the other man, and
he, in just the quiet, kindly way that I
should havoexpected Of him, told inc what
he'd like to have, and that was tho very
simple beginning of a pleasant relation
ship of years.
II think of that experience often, and
always with pleasure It WAS the last place
where should have expected to find work
In my limo, but there found it.. The offer
of 1t to Inc by my friend the barbor wns
made out Of pure friendlncss, but he new
or would have put 1t In my wny at all If
he had not believed could fill tho bill
From whatever point Of view i look at tt,
1t Is pleasure to recall it.
tWe!l, now, here l am rambling all
over North Amoriou talking about myself,
but it all comes back to this: Don t trust
to luck, but trust to yourself and keep
everlastingly plugging at 1t, and sooner OF
later things will begin to come your way. !"
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