The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-15
IHs MIDDLE AGED MAN.
Doesn't Believe In Luck. Though Things
Come About Cautiously Sometimes.

Il don't believe i'm pull said the mid
| die aged man, land don { believe In luck.
| think that i'm the long run a man is sure
| {, get whatever he is entitled 20. III his
recognition comes late, he gets 10 i'm bigger
chunks. lt averages mp all right. Ii he
is really entitled to anything nc is reason
ably sure, sooner or later, 10 get his due.
AT the same time, while | do not he
! lieve in luck, things certainly do come
| about sometimes In "A curious way IL may
be laid down as general proposition that
things don { happen 10 "A 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
neverd get anything else either, while If
one Is out In the fight, where things do
happen, he is i'm the way of meeting things;
sometimes things come his way from the
most unexpected sources. l 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 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
was ut least as keen and alert, and the help
that he gave me came about in the most
natural way in the world
lit was big barber shop, and, of
course, "A 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 10 wait in the barber shop they would
sit around and read the newspapers, and
you'd hear 'em talk, maybe, if they were
men that did talk and so you came 10
know many of them by sight and TO expect
to see them I'm 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
took "A special fancy TO there was one who
talked hut little and never talked loud,
quiet, modest, pleasant gentleman who
was very rich who had made his fortune
within n few years, and i'm 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
BARRIERS chair the boss barber said to me
in his quiet wayne 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 Mir. Car
ter introduced me Co the other man. ard
he, in just the quiet kindly way that |
SHuNiu HdNt'NIttt,u pi MN, lOlu mo Wndb
he'd like 10 have, and that was the very
simple beginning of pleasant relation
ship of years.
II think of that experience often, and
always with pleasure 1t WAS the last place
where | should have expected to find work
in my line, but 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 if
he had not believed could Ill the bill
From whatever point of view l look at it,
it Is n pleasure tn recall it.
We'll, now, here | am rambling all
over North America talking about myself,
but it all comes back 10 this: Don't trust
to luck, but trust 10 yourself and keep
evcrlastingly plugging at it, and sooner or
later things will begin to come your way"
New York sun.