Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 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, to a firm believer in luck. He told me a little while ag«t mje 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 es most successful men, you will find, whether they will admit it or eot, t have always found that luck waa Wst ahead. I once wandered away trem my party in the mountains and the intense cold threatmied to finish die before I joined it again. I got under the friendly side of a bowlder to escape the icy blasts that came roaj> Ing 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. ▲ little disheartened, I proceeded on my way, and hadn’t gone twenty paces before I saw another match, but it waa a wet one. I dried it on my hair and ; struck it It sputtered, burned, flickered, danced, winked and finally j blazed, and in ten minutes I was oook* , Ing before a roaring fire. My oom* I rades saw the smoke and in a little while joined me. , Ever since that time . I have always found a match just 1 ahead. It is worse than folly for a i man to become discouraged. Life is only a question of hanging on. Luck i had as much to do with Napoleon’s 1 success as ability. It surely was not , ibllity that made him, when 22, meet, j 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 df 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 rubies. The three L/s are the greatest thing in the world—light, love, and luck.”