The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-07-23
TEE GREENVILLE TIMES
SATURDAY, JULY 90, 1898
THs MIDDLE AGED MAN.
pu.nS Bsiisvs In Luck, Though Thing
Come About CuTiously Sometimes

Eu..nS Bsiisvs In Luck, Though Things
Come About Ouriously Sometimes
at don't believe In pull, - said the mid
sIo aged man, land don Z believe IN luck,
I think that In the long run man Is sure
"a uet whatever no is entitled to, Ii ms
recognition comes late, he gets II IN Digger
chunks. II averages up all right II no
"a really entitled to anything, he Is reason
ably sure sooner or later, TO get ms uuS,
iAt the same time, whilo l do not De-
lsys in luck things certainly DO ooiho
about sometimes in curious way. IL iL"y
be laid down as a general proposition thav
things don Z happen TO a man at all unless
he is around where things are happening.
For instance, man who never Went ous
~ doors might never get run over, but ne
peyer'd yet anything else, either whiie II
one is out In the eight, where things 90
happen, he is in the way Of meeting things
konetimes things come his way from the
most unexpected sources. / struck very
nice little streak once through the boss o.
the barber shop where / used to 50 10 geo
shaved. Our lines Of business were as Iar
apart as the business Of two men could De,
lint he was at least as able and successful
In his as was in mine, and personally be
was at least as keen and alert, and the help
that he gave me came about in the most
natural way In the world.
TT was big barber shop, and, of
course, sort Of exchange. All sorts oil
business and professional men met there,
and you saw more of them there than you
would in O restaurant, because when they
had TO wait IN The barber shop they would
sit around and read the newspapers and
you'd hear EN- talk, maybe, If they were
men that did talk, and so you came to
know many Of them by sight and to expect
% 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
took a special fancy to there was one who
talked but little and never talked londr
quiet, modest, pleasant gentleman who
was very rich, who had made his fortune
within a few years, and in the same bust
ness as my own. While I liked this man
first rate, at the same time never dream
ed of such a thing rs knowing him, but
one day when I was sitting in the boss
barber 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 Mr.. Car
ter introduced me to the other man, and
he, In Just the quiet, kindly way that I
should have expected Of him, told me what
he'd like to have, and that was the very
simple beginning Of a pleasant relation
ship Of years
az think Of that experience often, and
always with pleasure 1t was the last place
where I 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 oil If
he had not believed could fill the bill. |
From whatever point Of view look at it,
n is o pleasure to recall 1t.
well, now, here am rambling all |
over North America talking about myself, |
but it all comes back to this Don't trust |
20 luck, but trust to yourself and keep |
everlsstingly plugging at 1t, and sooner or
later things viii begin to come your way. "
New York Sun.