Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-03
Alistellaneuus 8eading.
LOST OPPORTUNITIES.
The Aggressive Man Lectures His
Threadbare Friend.

The Aggressive Man Lectures His
Threadbare Friend.
The rather threadbare man smiled
sadly. II haven't any particular COM
plaint to make" he said. Il think
have done pretty well, considering my
opportunities. I've a large family, you
know, and that makes a difference"
The aggressive looking man with
the massive gold watch chain, said,
"Pooh!" explosively. Opportunity"
he growled. What are you talking
about? You've had as much oppor-
ty as I have and more too. I've
got a family haven't 1? Certainly l
have. No, my friend, that isn't the
trouble. The trouble is that you have
mt taken advantage Of your oppor-
tunities. When opportunity came
knocking at your door you didn't hear
her. You thought she would come
with a club and pound, or Jimmy her
way through the window and hunt
you up and sit on your knee. Well,
she doesn't do that. She's too much Of
lady. If you want to embrace her
that's all right, but she isn't going to
do the embracing herself. Whenever
she's been around to see me I've been
watching at the keyhOle and I've had
her yanked inside before she got a
chance to see whether she'd got the
right number"
"It seems to me that's rather ar
dent, behavior isn't it?'
"Not a bit of it said the aggressive
looking man. IT'S the way she likes to
be treated. Make the most Of her and
be sure to tell her to call again. Talk
about opportunity! Wasn't Bondson
living within half a mile Of you
when you were a young man, and
didn't he have a girl who was good
enough for anybody? I remember
your telling me about her. She got a
million and half under the old man $
will when he died last year. There
was your opportunity but you did not
see it, did you?"
well. no. admitted the threadbare
man. 81 can't say that did. I didn't
know her, you know. l suppose
might have sent in my card and pro-
posed"
"You could have worked it all right,
just the same" said the aggressive
looking man. You knew her brother
and you were a pretty good looking
boy-and you dressed we'll in those
days. All you needed was nerve. If
I'd have been the ladies' man you
were I'd have tried it, I know that.
There's that suburb you're living in.
When you bought your lot why didn't
you buy three or four acres?
You'd have been independent today
If you had"
"I hadn't the money to begin with,
said the threadbare man.
That's no excuse. You could have
got some options any way"
81 suppose I could
"And when I wanted you to take
that appointment on the board or
works you wouldn't do 1t. 1T wasn't
great deal, but you could have got
stand-in with some of the big guns
and got a good thing sooner or later.
Politics Is all right when you know
the game and get on the inside. You
had a good chance there. The man
who took that job I wanted you to
take is drawing his $1,000 a year
right along now, to say nothing Of
what he makes on the side"
"I've had others. If I could think
Of them." said the threadbare man.
'If I had bought wheat at the right
time and sold at the right time i
might have been rich a dozen times
over. I've had opportunities of that
kind every day I might have work.
ed my way out to Alaska and got in
before the big rush if my foresight
had been as good as your hindsight
is I had an opportunity to help you
out of q hole once, if you recollect,
and I've been wanting an opportun-
ity to see you for week. Now If
you could"
Excuse me-" said the aggressive
looking man, there's a fellow in the
car ahead I want to talk to minute.
See you later. r."-Chicago News.