Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-18
LUCK OR NO LUCK

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Relation Of Success to Fate and Ae-
complishmsnt.
In the first place, there isn't any.
The slant-eyed goddess has long since
translated the word into a phrase
known to most successful men as the
psychological moment And 1t is vast
ly encouraging to hear these same sue
cessful men, owners Of the great for
tunes Of the universe, assert that the
psyche moment comes at least once to
every man.
How does 1t come? In various ways,
but never the same way twice. II you're
mapping at the juncture when the psy-
cho moment chooses to descend with
Its bright, glittering promises of swift
coming wealth and fame, you have only
yourself to blame. You must have the
quick eye and the ready brain always
on tap; the first to perceive, the Sec
ond to act, says the New York Sun.
Quite while ago there was young
Scotchman who was earning $40 a
month and saving IS a week out of It.
His salary had just been raised and It
seemed munificent, for he was a tele-
graph operator In the employ Of the
Pennsylvania railroad company, and II
had heretofore been up to him to make
$25 a month cover everything. He was
sitting at his instrument one afternoon
when another young man entered and
came over to Andy-Andy Carnegie as
he was then. He had tiny model Of a
sleeping car wrapped up in cloth un-
der his arm, and he unwrapped 1t to
show 1t to the interested operator.
why" said Andy the proud on $40
a month. We're going to need those
some day In our business"
He mentioned the model to the rail-
road people with the result that cou-
pie were ordered for trial. Later the
young inventor whose name was Wood
ruff, came back to see the telegraph
operator who had taken an interest in
his model He was elated over his
success, and remarked
Il think you're a pretty good sort,
Carnegie. believe I'll let you in on
this"
Andy was delighted. He didn't have
the few hundred dollars necessary, but
the railroad was willing to help it's ef-
fcient telegrapher along, and so loan
ed 1t to him. 1t wasn't long before $10.-
900 came rolling his way, and from that
on 1t was easy. But he knew when his
physco moment had arrived for its SIM
ply screamed at him to buy that stock
at any cost. He has had good many
since then, and It isn't on record that
he has missed one yet
Frederick Weyerhaeuser found his In
the wilds Of an Illinois forest. He was
cutting and hauling logs in the employ
of lumber null which failed soon af-
ter and left him stranded with nothing
but the idle saws and moss-covered
walls to look at and ponder. He took
walk down by the Mississippi river
one morning and noticed the jam Of
logs and lumber laden rafts humping
against the shore.
He hadn't any money, but he decid-
ed that he would ask the creditors of
his old company to rent him the mill
for a week and try to cut enough lum-
Der to start little sawmill Of his own
In town few miles away. The cred
itors were willing and the saws began
humming. The first log that slipped
down the river from that little mill
pointed the way to fortune in later
days of $2oo,0oO.0Oo.
But Weyerhaeuser, the lumber king
Of the northwest" didn't really know
his psyche moment when he saw It. He
just plodded along In his somewhat
slow German painstaking fashion until
he found the first few hundred dollars
coming in, and, like Carnegie, 1t isn't
on record that he has missed any since
then, either.
A railroad accident occurring to the
train which carried George westing-
house, then an alert young fellow with
the inventors brain and large powers
Of observation. started him to think
ing how such accidents could be avert
ed. Once on the problem 1t fascinated
him. There had been big smashup,
and as he watched the crews struggling
with the handbrakes the idea flashed
into his mind:
IF there were only some way by
which the engineer could brake the
rain!"
He thought on the question for
months with all the force and concen-
tration Of his nature, but solution was
still distant when one hot day as he
was sitting at his desk in the noon
hour a little girl entered and timidly
approached with a request to subscribe
to a magazine. Young Westinghouse,
busy and absorbed, but incapable Of
speaking shortly to child, hurTiedly
purchased copy and turned back to
his work.
But the psyche moment had arrived,
for in that magazine at his elbow lay
the phrase which was to solve the
problem of the airbrake. The model
had been completed, but the motive
power was unsatisfactory. In idly
turning over the page Westinghouse
saw an account Of a tunnel building
where the motive power was COM
pressed air. Presto. In a fash he
knew he had found the solution.
Chance, accident, fate-what you
will-had sent child into his life to
point out the way to a great name and
still greater wealth. The airbrake Is
in use on three continents, and al
though young Westinghouse realized
his psyche moment and tried hard to
find the little book agent and raise her
above want he never saw her again.
Her work was done
Andrew Carnegie loves to pass on the
psyche moment. He passed 1t on to
Charles M. Schwab because that young
clerk in the Thompson Steel Works at
$50 a month could play and sing in
fashion that appealed to the canny Car
negie soul: He heard him first at one
of thoso clerk social organizations of