Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — LOVE, LIGHT AND LOOK. [ARTICLE]

LOVE, LIGHT AND LOOK.

A Millionaire Senator Who Has Three Strong Points of Belief. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is a flrm believer in luck. He told me a little while ago, says a writer in the New York Telegram, that he deserved no credit at all for being a millionaire. “I am one of the comparatively few who were born under a lucky star,” he said. “Without luck as an aid I would never have been heard of. That’s the case of most successful men, you will find, whether they will admit it or not I have always found that luck was just ahead. I once wandered away from my party in the mountains and the Intense cold threatened to finish me before I joined it again. I got under the friendly side of a bowlder to escape the icy blasts that came roaring down the mountain and about the first thing I saw there was one solitary match. I gathered some brushwood, struck the match and it went out. A little disheartened, I proceeded on my way, and hadn’t gone twenty paces before I saw another match, but it was a wet one. I dried it on my hair and struck it It spattered, burned, flickered, danced, winked and finally blazed, and in ten minutes I was cooking before a roaring fire. My comrades saw the smoke and in a little while joined me. Ever since that time I have always found a match just ahead. It is worse than folly for a man to become discouraged. Life is only a question of hanging on. Luck had as much to do with Napoleon’s success as ability. It surely was not ability that made him, when 22, meet, when he was on his way to the river to commit suicide, in the dead of night, a friend who gave him a belt full of money. That friend, and not; Napoleon, changed the map of Europe and has given hundreds of thousands of printers, binders, writers, actors, scene painters, soldiers and sailors a living. Even Shakspeare was lucky—to have been such a favorite of nature as to. receive the most royal gift she ever bestowed upon mortal man—a brain of rubles. The three L’s are the greatest thing in the world—light, love, and luck.”