El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-08
Industry Better Than Luck
A Happy hit May Make a Fortune
By Madison C. Peters

M HERE are such things as happy
accidents" AIahOmet, flying from
l. his enemies Was saved by a spiders
,ea Franklin always ascribed his turn
of thought and conduct through lie to
the finding of a tatteTed copy OF Cotton
Nather's Essays to Do Good
Then too. there are unhappy accidents.
The Scottish hero. Bruce, after passing
through a series of perlls greater than
auv ever conceived BY the most daring
romance writer. died from fall IN help
ing woman downstairs after dinner.
a village druggist CHANGED to visit the
state apartments at the pavilion, when
George ~ was seized WIth.a ut. lie bled
him. brought him back to consciousness.
and By his genial humor made the king
laugh. Taking a fancy to I'm, George
made him his physician and made his
fortune.
A Roman cardinal said: "There Is no.
BODY whom fortune does not visit once in
his life; but when he finds he Is not
ready to receive her, she goes IN the
door and out through the window
Opportunity Named Coy.
Opportunity is GOV. She must be de-
tected on the wing. Robert Burns wrote
trUthfully:
TO catch dame Fortunes golden smile
AssiduOus wait upon her"
Why does one man fail where another
succeeds One takes opportunity. which
has hair in front. by the fOfelOck. well
knowing that, bald behind, once it turns
its back he viii never get a chance of
gripping it again. while the other. wait
ing TO hear a football from luck, lets
opportunity pass the door, and thus
many man fritters away his time and
his life.
The one has. the alertness and enter
prise to embark at the oppOrtune mo-
ment and is carried swiftly to success,
the other with equal facilities for reach
in" that desired haven, failed to embrace
the opportunity and with arms akimb0
set, waiting for occasion to tell him
what to do. explains his past failures
with the bOgeV tiff this or that had
not happened he would now be rich in
stead of poor. he Would now be carried
on the crested wave OF a popular en-
thuslasm instead of grOaning in the dark
alley of misfortune.
Belief IN luck retards progress. dulls
the intellect. deadens the wits. debases
the body and keeps its Yotaries ever be
hind in the race of life. The man who
believes that his luck Is against him
good lUck-has cast over himself an in
sldlOus spell, and soon he Will feel that
it Is useless to knock at the treasure
room of fame and fortune. that a deaf
ear will be turned to him. because he
comes to believe that door to be open
only to its favored children.
When Shrewd Men Fail.
I know full well that many shrewd
men with lndefatigable industry and
closest economy fail, while many a man
with apparently none of the winning
forces blunders INTO profitable specuIa-
lions and Midas-like turns everything
he touches into gold; yet I fancy that |
these same men are only apparently /
lacking the qualities that insure sue
cess.
Young men are heard complaining that 1
they are worthy OF higher positions and /
long for better opportunities, they want \
to be given lift. shot up in an elevator 4
or carried UP IN an airship, so that thew I
NAV avoid the arduous struggles of those 4
who have been successful.
MANY man loses his opportunity bv /
his work. Don't worry about !
your salary, increase your skill. Strive J