Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.
Robert ]. Burdette to a graduating
class:-I wish l had as many dollars
as / believe in luck. | have seen SO
much of it that have come to believe
that luck just about shapes the course
and rules the destinies of men and
women. l believe that some people
are born to trouble as sparks fly up
ward, and others are born to prosper
ity as the water runs downward.
believe that some people are born
lucky and others unlucky. If young
man spends more money for neckties
and yellow shoes, then he does for
books, he is very apt to be unlucky in
his literary ventures If girl finds
her rhymes in the ceiling and counts
the measure of her lines on her finger
tips, she will be unlucky when she
tries to earn her living by writing
poetry. If young man endeavors,
steadily and persistently to support
himself by playing ping-pong and bill
lizards and wondering where he can
borrow SIS, he is liable to be unlucky
in business. If a girl learns to dance
by note, but is content to spell by ear,
she will have hard luck keeping
place as stenographer, even in place
that spells socks "s-o-X" and cigar
"s-e-e-g-a-r." If young man goes to
bed at midnight and breakfasts at 9
o'clock, know he will have bad luck
when he applies for cashier in the new
bank. If girl starts at 2:25 o'clock
to catch the $3.50 o'clock train l know
she will have bad luck keeping her en-
gagements. If man forgets to put a
stamp on his letter, he is gonig to have
bad luck with his correspondence. If
1t takes a woman half a minute to say
her prayers and an hour and a half
to dress she may be sumner on the
street, but she will be mighty poor
Christian. If young man buys his
clothes on credit all year, and has a
running account at every livery stable
and restaurant in town, he will be the
unluckiest man In California on Janu-
airy l. Ii woman walks into a new
building to see what the sign Danger,
Keep Out is put up for, she will be
Just unlucky enough to have hodful
OF mortar fall on her flower garden
hat. If young man ships cargo of
ice to the Klondike and a carload of
oranges to Riverside, he is handcuffed
by bad luck in his speculations. If a
girl with salary of $40 month
spends $40 for clothes, $25 for board,
So for amusements and the rest for in
cldentals, she will come crying to you
by and by to tell you she is the I'M
luckiest individual that ever lived. In
short, If you are lazy and shiftless and
foolish and stupid and empty headed,
you are born in bad luck, hard luck,
rough luck, the worst kind of luck.
An unlucky person is simply person
who cannot be trusted in religion, in
business, in politics. An unlucky per-
son is simply person who chooses to
do unlucky things. But, if you get to
the office a little before it is opened
aren't afraid to dust your own desk,
sweep out the store better than the
porter, wear old clothes until YOU can
pay Tor the new ones, know more
about the goods you are selling than
you do about the newest fad in vaude-
vile actresses, can't tell Bob Fitzsim-
mons from the new soubrette, If daily
you are finding out what you want to
do and how to do it, you are born to
good luck, and you can't help it. It
isn't SO very unlucky to be bitten by
a dog, but it's deadly bad luck to keen
dog that bites you every time he
sees you.
Senator Chauncey Depew:-I must
confess that I always like to brag on
the Fourth of July. 1t is the greatest
day in the American calendar. Nav
more, 1T gives perfume to the whole
air that encircles the globe. Every
man, woman or child who breathes If
no matter where he or she Is. feels the
better for it. There is not liberal
sentiment where civilization is known
that is not quickened on the Fourth of
July. 1t reaches the hut of the peas
ant, and it enters into the tent of the
conscript The one says: "There is
for me and for my children something
better than this hut" The other
says: "Why should l fight to uphold
thrones and cut the throat of my broth
er tomaintain the caste and privilege 90
The Fourth of July lifts thought. the
aspirations, the prayers of the people
of all countries to higher planes of iiy.
ing, thinking and dying. Why, it is a
university, a college, a high school, a
common school. 1t is a liberal educa.
ton in patriotism and manhood. The
Fourth of July immortalizes Cromwell
in Westminster Abbey, after Kings
have hung his bones on the gibbet. It
fills the proudest panel on the proudest
| legislative hall in the word-the house