Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — How He Lost His Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

How He Lost His Opportunity.

How little the average person who is tiying to get oir realizes liow many things are occurring tn his experience which art?*trying to down him, and which are hindering his advance! A poor job, an unkind word, a stinging criticism, ingratitude for a favor, failure to give assistance when it was in his power, hard problems skipped way back in youth, a hasty act. an indiscretion of an unguarded moment. All things are likely to come up when fie least expects it and bar his progress. Many an able man with political ambitions has failed of election to Congress, or of appointment to some coveted office, because of some slip he has made, or of somebody, perhaps a private secretary, who has put in the word that checkmated the move for his advancement. Perhaps, it was a sarcastic remark about someone, who later was in a position to help him. that lost him the opportunity. Many a umn has lost his opportunity for advancement under the present administration by opposing and criticizing Theodore Roosevelt in his earlier career, wlien he did not dream that the former would ever oocnpy his present lofty position. You uever eau tell where a thrust of an unguarded moment will laud, or what effect a sarcastic remark may have on your future. lie is a fortunate man who guards hfs tongue, who tempers his acts with prudence and good judgment. —O. S. Mardeu iii jSuceeas Magazine.