Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1910, Page 13

“"Luck”: Short Story of a Youn RY LEONARD FOWLER Special Commissioner of The Bee. His bank business of more than 81,000,060 per \eur. He sits behind with “Cashier" tacked to the end Ho carries a . $15,000 First National at Omaha His new bank building 18 paid for He can sell sheep on market for more than $30,00) bid for them while His real estate, granite, his farm 10 $15,000 or $20,000 His home 15 the neatest able In town; it cost §,000. His«wife Is one of the leaders younger set of an old, old town His boy ‘“Jack,” not yet 2 years old, worth his weight in diamonds. But he is only 27 years of age! The west the place for the young fellow. And Idaho Ix the wonder state of all the golden west. liere is J. B cashier of the Oakley State bank; secr tary of Chapman & Randall, flockmasters, and stockholder in the Burley State bank and In the Bank of Utah; the latter at Hiram, Utah. Thus are his activities scat- tered over two states. And he is only a boy. But a boy in whom every one has faith, confidence, and to whom the Best a biggest men in the town are so loyal that there Is not a member of his board of directors who Isn't yvedrs older than himself. He is a typical growth of the west, (he west that he home, the west that he loves. Somebody gave him his start,” I can almost hear you say. It 1s the invariable excuse of the weakling when he contem- plates the success of another. Always I can hear that whine: me one left it to him,” or “his father was rioh,” or “he was lucky.’ This time I.want you listen to what luck veally 1s. This time 1 want to rhow you what “luck,” real luck, will do for a fellow. Boyhood of Work. &7his Randall person was born on a farm near Ogden, Utah, Just twenty-seven years ago. He went to the district school he was 16, working in the summer, on a threshing machine, to help out at home, saving meantime for the business college course upon which he had set his hope. Lvery summer he left home 10 o to the sreat wheat flelds of Washinglon and Oregon, where work was plenty and help searce. No “free board at home for him. But a job In the open, where he had to hustle and compete with strong men Yor his daily wage. A clean cut bactle with Destiny was the sort of a serap that Ran- dall put up. The last year that he went 1o sebool, when he had just turned 16, the lgso of the threshing scason found him ‘. Portland, Ore. And opportunity was there in the shape of a strike of the Sea- mens’ anlon. The wages offcred were tempting high, and Randall shipped before \he mast for @ three months' cruise on the Columblu, the ill-tuted ship that later went to pleces of Mendocino. This was a fine experience, but the strike settled, the win- ter was almost over and early spring found him a common laborer in tne smelers at Great Falls, Mont. Aore of the threshing season In the great wheat fields of the Treasure Statg and the coveted sum he had a big in mahogany shiny roll-top brass letters balance with the cost $15,00 and his the Omaha He got the I was talking with him his quarry of purest and city property total most comfort- in the is out- been saving for all this time was his; in a | bank, ready to to Randal, thresher smelter laborer, an business sclence knew this,” he said, “that to excel the other fellows I'd have to know much about thelr game as they did, Ther & practical way to do things aud a theo tetieal way, and the fellow only knows one way, whichever beund o be worse off tham the koows both, 1 waated to know sl was the way he And when 1 asked him to have replicd, with &' smile, 1 don't st of efther liquor or Luck of Hard Endeayvor, that serve its. purpose, hand education siving in modern who one 1t fellow both i who reasoned it out a cigar, Kuow tobuceo Luck! Sure it was luek made & pasbler of a big bank at oth tag world but luck. The Kind of luck thac husties for sixteen hours a day; Kind of luck that does with its mighi what its hunus fiud to do; the sort of luck that sy clear of assoclations, of petcy extravagancies; that puves s money; tha, has @ definile aim; that knows what I ts and camps ‘on the trail until it gets %ll) that; nothing less Returning to Usden ltandall went business college. Not once, but twice, each ume to & different school. "1 wanted to get 1t all,” he sald o me, I found there was more to it than I had planned snd that it took a litdle longer lear L7 And so to two of them he went. And this was the only place he got a “lfi." While he was golng to school his father gave him a home free of charge; a home sixteen miles from the city, and the trip o make twice a day. Schoolfinished he looked ; around _for something to do. He bad gf¥e ub his mind that the banking vush P ottered a place and an opportunity to 1 young fellow ready to take life as B found-it, and to make the best of every- ing be stumbled evedy - Que morules him T e evil 0 to Randall, | and years | calls | to| until | roustabout, | he that | OM 5. B RANDALL-CASHIER OAKLEY STATE BANK found him at the cashier's Ogden State bank at Ogden, “something to do."” It was the president who sat at that desk that morning; the cashier was and Randall frankly and plainly asked for “something to do.”” The president was ac- | customed to belng asked for almost any |and every place in the bank, but “some- thing to do" was a new one on him. Not necessary to detall what Randall answered to the qeustions fired at him. He got his job, which pald $25 per month. And for four months Randall worked for that princely stipend, riding every single day sixteen miles to work and riding miles back when the bank was closed. He stayed with it; was the first at the bank | and the last to leave it. He was “on the |4eb" all day long and all the time. When ‘hv took his first month's pay home | tamily looked at it with the laconic re- mark, ‘‘Better come back to the farm, it pays better. “You watch me,” replied Randall, “I'll make that old man pay me | 3150 a month before I leave that bank.” And he did. Of course it was Luck; just p luck. It was the sort of Luck thal is waiting outelde the barn doer at 5 ¢'clock in the morning; the Lugk that waits, just, ougsid the door to greet the first fellow down to buginess, the Luck that lelps a man. de- termined to get across anyway, over the | hard places of life. Oh, it was Luck, ali | right, nothing but Luck. | All the Way Up. After about four months he quit carrying little red bag of around the down town streets, and by degrees he worked In every single de partment of the bank up and including the paying teller's cage, which, . you must | know, is next to assistant cashler. Then the Ogden banks wanted a secretary for the clearing house. And Randall lected for that job., It never an easy “but when the panic came he was at the desk, night and day, ready any and every emergency. Did the: | take Rundall out and put in an older man Not on life; they did not. Randall was there, as wise as any of the older |ones; with youth apd strength to sand | the strain. He had been cverything in a bank; knew the whole and he stuck to the job; nalled to the mast, he was on deck. And, well, you know how Ogden, Utah, came through the panic. G and the Bank. All this time Randall A serlous little woman who is his sweet’ heart yet. Her folks lived at Hiram, Utah, and one day, when the panicky times had | auleted down, Randall had a leave of ab- sence. He went to see his “girl” She livéd at Hiram with her relatives, and Randall the night he wanted to come away found that he couldn’t cash a check. *How | many people in this town?" he asked. The answered, “About 3000 “Why don't you have a bank?’ “Have been (rylng to get one, but there's no one Lo organize it Randall didn't back to Ogden that night, the nor the next. And when he did go back Hiram had a bank— at least it was organized—and Randall had | the papers und applications in his pocket Promptly these were filed and his resig- nation went to the clearing house of the associated banks at Ogden. Some Utah Capltalist desk of the asking for out, | the was se was one t for your routine, had a sweetheart nor next, to | In the First National bank at Ogden is a man named David kccles. That man Is worth §10,00,000 in his own name and right Also there is M. S. Browning, whose in- vome is In excess of $600,00 per year Browning is the inventor of the automatic principle in all the Colt's fire-arms. He makes lots of money. It's like the Selden patent This man Brown- ing iy many thmes a millionaire. David Eccles is the head of the sugar beet in- terests of the Inter-mountain countiy; ne 18 the head of the lumber interests of easl- Oregon. Browning is assoclated with Waen that resignation of Kandail's came to these men there wus a cofsulta | tion. Randal's dort of man is hard to get hold of; that threshing machine-dock- | laborer-smelterman-bank-collector-clearing- ho cretary experience that Randall wd was worth and kecles and Browning could afford to puy, ~The resig- was not acted upon. Randall, re- | slgned again. A morning Browning | came into his office and dsked Randall jo | %0 “up the country” for a few Quys. Ran | dall thought it was & hunting trip; fishing or something like that. And so Browning, multi-millionaire, and Randall, the cleik, left for Oakley, a Mormon settlement i idaho, 3 years old, with one bank In which Eccles and Browning had u large | interest to automobiles ern i, money nation d one Handall Saves & Bank. | In plain words, the affairs of the bank at | Oukley were “in bad ship A former | cashler had over-loaned on one account un | til there was §0.000 “out” to an Implement house at Twin Falls, forty miles away; a | sum almost twice as great as one bank is | permitted to make to any one customer, In the state of ldaho, where the capital 1s no greater than was the case In the instance of the Oakley state bank. Ran- dall's own story of how le ran the bank until 4 o'clock In the afternoon; mounted his horse and rode to Twin Falls; ran the Implement -house all next.day and mounted that same pinto pony 10 get buck sixteen | his | the bank collector | bank | (%) to Oakley, #0 as to run the bank next day. has that Sheridan thing left at the post. All the same, those moon-lit rides over the weet-smelling sage brush plains of south- ern Idaho must have been good for h m‘ He wound up the affairs of the implement | | house, got all the bank’s money and col-| | lectea every cent of the Interest, all sav 250, and ran the bank at the same time| 50 that its deposits increased from $70,000| to $120,000. He straightened the whole thing| out; balanced his books to a cent and went back to Ogden. That girl of his preys on his mind even yet; more o then, and Ran- dall showed up at Ogden, Browning's big desk in the First National, with his third | resignation Baek His Bank. That ing Browning was deaf. Ran-| dall, obdurate, Browning Insistent, and fin-| ally Randdll told of the girl, the Hiram| | bank, and all the rest of his ambltluns" | Picking up a check for $60,000 that laid on - his desk, Browning sald, very slowly and very impressively: “Here Is a check |that has just come from the Colts. It's| good. Now, don't you want to go | stick with that bank; get everythoing in shupe, and be one of us. I'll stay behind | m back; | AHA SUNDAY BEE: at that time he was oniy 19 years old, de- cided to send him to West Point Titus entered the academy in July and immediately he was a marked man The cadets had heard all about him, and as a “plebe” one of the things required of him was to show up in unexpected places at unexpected times and then\to solemnly announce to whoever happened to be around: “I am the hero of Peking; I am the fellow who first scaled the walls of the forbidden city."” Titus was game, however, He took his medicine and s0on became one of the most popular men in the academy. While a cadet Titus was one of the most active workers In the Young Men's Christian as- sociation, and was the president of the organization when he graduated in - 1905, When he received his commission he was ordered back to the Fourteenth, the regi- ment in which he made his record as an enlisted man, When he joined the Fourteenth as an officer Titus became intensely interested in the religious welfare of the men and was thé leader in much of the evangelical work that was done in the command. The year following his commission in 1906 the Fourteenth was ordered to Manila, and on its arrival there Titus became interested in the work of the Salvation Army and identified himself with its work among the soldiers. He was married about that time, and his wife became and is still his associate in his efforts for the spiritual and moral uplift of the American soldier. Last year Titus announced his intention 1901, that Qakley bank for every cent I've got; Mr. Eccles will stay with me. You want to go back? Don’'t you?. Go on up to Hiram, get the girl and go back to Oak- ley. ‘We need men lke you. We are wil- ling to pay. Now, don't you think that Onkley is the place for you?' . So spake Browning. . Into Mis Life Work. Well, Randall Is here at Oakley; the bank has .deposits in excess of $200,000;° it has | just finished its building, a handsome one |of lava rock and pressed brick, modern | throughout, with a steam heating plant; | complete, thorough, with enough rooms rented In it to clear 15 per cent net on the investment and give the bank its | | | | | er quarters, on the main street of the town | free of cost. In the manwhile he has gone | into the sheep business with E. Chiapman, | | widely known flockimaster of this section. | The winter has been kind to these sheep, | and the increase, the wool and the lambs | | in value today “just about tot up $32,000, | to use Randail's expression. In the mean- | time, too, he finished the organization of the bank at Hiram; he and Browning and Eccles have taken the, Burley State bank; a home has been bullt and *“Baby Jack" is here on the scene, waiting al night for “daddy” to come home, and a little woman makes a fairy land of a brick cottage which is just big cnough for three The Kuhn: multi-millionaires, of Pitts. |burg, the men who have conquered the deserts of more than half of Idaho, are operating here; Randall has had some in- sde tips, and has,a bunch of real estate on the old town site, within a block o where the Kuhns are to erect a 370,000 hotel; he gets all the loose money he wants from the First National bank at Ogden, from the First National at Omaha, and, well, just reread that first paragraph, If you want to know what Randall has go. and who he s, Just “Luck,"” Luck! Why, of caurse, it was luck. sort of luck that will “hand you the same package,” It you get down early 'enough In the morning, before luck is t-red tramp- | Ing around looking for some one to take {1ts burden; the same identical luck that will invest your clgar money in sheep; the luck that attracts the “right kind of a girl and keeps her waliting for five years while you “get the start.” That was | ndall's of luck. And, believe me, Is the only luck you'll ever: get | ‘FROM ARMY LINE TO PULPT of over {or The sort Boy Hero tr. eking Seeks ! Calvin P. ates Infantry ¢ honor Lieutenant United » a medal Vitus, Fourteenti the soldler to wnom voted by was congress | ransfer | Lieutenant to Chap- | ior being the first American to scale the | walls of Peking in the campaign for the jrelief of the legatlons during the Boxer out- break, and who afterward received an ap- | pointment to- West Point as a further | recognition of that achlevement, wants to |be an army chaplain. For more than a |year the young officer has been trying to | ket transterred to the religlous branch of | the service, and several times it has looked as it his ambition would be realized, but | somethung always happened to frustrate mu[ plans Licutenant Titus' record is one of the best in the army, and he is among the very few who may wear the congressional medal of honor, the highest disiinetion that come to officer of army At the time of the Boxer outbreaks Titus was an enlisted man of the Fourteenth In- fantry, and was in the detachmeni sent to Caina under command of Licutenan: ¢ eral Adna R. Cheffee to represent. the United States in the international demon | stration against the Chinese capital. The | Fourteenth led the American advance in the attack on Peking, and Titus was the | | tirst American to scale the wall and stand | In the torbiaden city | His feat was brought to the attention of gongress and President McKinley, and the | latigr looked up his record, and, tinding that | an the United States There isnt any slavery but ignorance. |of resigning his commission to enter the | | ministry, but General Luke E. Wright, who-| | had known him in the Philippines and who was then the secretary of war, knew of his record and decided he was too good a man to be allowed to leave the service. When Taft became president Secretary of War Dickinson agreed with General Wright, and #0 it was that Lieutenant Titus was asked to remain in the army, with the promise | that he would be made a chaplain as soon | as he could quality for the position | Under the law no man can be a chap- lain in the ar unless he is ordained | minister of some religious denomination in good standing, with recommendation from some ecclesiastical body of five accredited ministers from some denomination. Lieu- tenant Titus thereupon decided to be or- dained. A few months ago he was made a minister of the United Brethren, a relig- jous body Incorporated under the laws of Colorado. Last week Titus took his examination and the report of the examining board is now in the hands of Secretary Dickinson. | The board is certain he will make a fine | chaplain, but reported that, owing to the fact that the young officer has as yet had no personal experience, he could not quality. In the meantime Titus-remalns an offi- cer in the line, and while attending to his military duties will find a way to get the pastoral experience that will make him eligible for the black broadcloth uniform of an army chaplain.—New York Times. You are kept with your nose to the grind-stone because you do not know of the opportunity that would burst the 'shackles of your unproductive routine. ! You never saw a clerk saw a human brain reduced each day of life, that was p! Get out of the rut man! who was proud of his job. You never to the meckanics’ all-ordered tasks for roud of the job. Do something! Join the army of men who are developing the great, wide, waste spaces of the west. You can do it, and if you do not know how, we can show, ccess, and that bucking jackass of a job e will point the way to suc ou. you are riding will turn to the easy glide of life's automobile way. Get busy! 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