Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — LOVE, LIGHT AND LUCK. [ARTICLE]

LOVE, LIGHT AND LUCK.

A Millionaire Senator Who Has Three Strong Pointe of Belief. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, ts a firm believer In luck. He told me a little while age, 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 ease of most successful men, you will find, whether they will admit it or set. ’{ have always found that luck was list ahead. I once wandered away trom my party in the mourgalns and ihe Intense cold threatened to finish ne before I joined it again. I got under the friendly side of a bowlder to escape tho Icy blasts that came roaring down the mountain and absut the .first thing I saw there was one solitary ’natch. 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 sputtered, burned, flickered, danced, winked and finally blazed, and in ten minutes 1 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 thau folly for a mau to become discouraged. Life la only a question of hanging on. Luek had as much to do with Napoleon’s success as ability. It surely was net 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, scone painters, soldiers and sailors a living. Even Shakspeare was lucky—to have been such a favorite of nature as to receive the moot royal gift she over bestowed upon mortal man—a brain of rubles. The three L*s are the greatest thing In the world— light, love, and luck."