The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-03
SENIOR GRAFTON.
Second of q Series Of Eight,
Which Will be Published in
the News-Herald, By Miss
Rella Boulware.
Gains, Brains, Luck and Industry
Ably Analysed and Com
pared--No Luck Only
in Labor.

Gains are to be desired and sought
after in every avenue or walk of life.
There is something inherent in man
which whets his appetite for gain
not only for financial gain but for So
cial and other gain. Perhaps this
truth is founded upon what is termed
the first law of nature, which is said
to read as follows: 'Self-preserva-
tion is the first law of nature"
But what connection has "gains"
with "brains" is asked? Is it not pos
sible for one to gain much of this
worlds goods and lack brains? Is the
possession of brains necessarily pre-
requisite to the attainment of gain :?
In some instances possibly not, but it
is my purpose to show that as rule
the two go hand in hand, and the lack
of brains retards, rather than assists
the accumulation of gains.
Lucky men are favorites of heaven
simply because they have been en-
dowed with that happy blindness
which keeps them from seeing when
they are whipped in the battle of life.
Suppose an illiterate man has by some
means saved or made as clear gain in
one day SO: his neighbor, man of
brains, has also made or gained 80
that day. Now is it not reasonable to
presume that the man of brains has a
greater sense of the value of the ten
dollar note than the other,
The man who lacks brains is gener-
ally like the braggart Pistol, who
thinks he has the world for his oyster
and expects to open that tough old
mollUsk with his rusty sword. The
man Of success sees each young helper
around him given better opportun-
tiles than be himself had to begin
with. His astonishment that mex
perienced young men should think
they have no chance is always notice
able. He half envies some STRIPPING
soldier in battle, who is yet a high
private in the rear rank. The high
private cannot understand how this
envy can be possible. If you study
the lucky man you will that, his luck
is more of a matter of course than an
extraordinary happening. Reverse
the thing and you can comprehend it.
Here is brakeman. He gets killed
by the cars. Was it not astonishing
Well, yes, it was; still, if anybody
were going to get killed, the brake
man would most likely be the victim
Go to the accident insurance Office
and observe how little anxious they
enormous premium they ask wher
they do take one. Here is man run
ming a powder factory. The insur
ance men will not touch him at all
Now our man of success is like the
brakeman. in a sense. He is alway
on the train, always between the cars
always standing in the fog. If an.
such thing as ''luck" is out, it mus
hit him or some other brakeman lik,
him. Certainly it will not touch tn,
man asleep in his house half mill
from the track.
You have a very small chance t.
draw money in lottery and it is
very foolish thing to throw none,
away buying tickets, yet of two fool
who expected to draw the prize, tn
one would be the greater who had n
tickets in the lottery. The man o
success wants something to strik
around his premises. He therefor
has conductors of the celestial fiui
on his house and barn. Everything
about his premises bristles with light
ming rods. Clap. comes the bolt. TIL
man of success is the one who has bee
hit, and those persons who do not ur
derstand it are astOnished at his luck
The man of success is a stone
There are a number of eggs who wan
to dance in the same cotillion wit
him: they think he has luck to las
through such music. The man of sue
cess is thoroughbred his sire wo
DERBY. All the dray horses believ
that when this lucky thoroughbre
runs the earth moves backward be
meath his feet to help him in ovel
coming distance. The man of success
is lightning calculator. The spec
tators all think him lucky fellow t
guess at-the sum of great blocks O
figures 80 quickly and always gues
right. They can never do it.
Who was the man that put tn
lightning rods about his premises
We answer, the man of brains. VIII
we're the people who considered hiu
lucky because his house was struc
Z ap4 yet not damaged or destroyed