1910.
"Luck": Short Story of a Young Man's Success
LORD MACAULAY
Kitfitand'n (ire a tent HNtorlnn, Said In The i:llnliirt Itevtow:
"When J uYvour the pt-tnant pnges of Alnswurth 1 am lost In
amazement Hint his wonderful historical novel have not an sbMing
place In every home. A dabblor in history myself, I ran fully appreciate
the charm which his romantic stylo lmvarts to an ofhen dry subject.
Ills close adherence to established facts woven together In such attrac
tive form lenOers his series of romances Indispensable In the family
circle. Ho tlwuys charms, but never misleads."
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE
y oakley state, an k VAELEY DIME D&KBL TjOTLDING- AI Q&ELET, IDAHO
r UY I.KONAIU) KOWLEn.
Special CommlsHluuer of The Hee.
His bunk li a ImsincHS of more than
11,000.000 pr .xt-.ir.
He situ behind a bis mahoRany roll-top
'lth "t.'aHhler" In shiny brass letters
tacked to the end.
Ho carries a . tb,W0 balasi e with the
Fli-at National at Omaha. (
His new bank building font $15,000 and
fjl 1A(tl fur
He cm sell his sheep on the Omaha
market for more than 30,000. He got the
bid for them while I waa talking with him.
His real extute, his quarry of purest
granite, his farm and city property total
to 115,000 ur fO.000.
His home Is the neatest, most comfort
Able In town; it cost to.OOO.
Hlawlfe Is one of the leaders In the
younger Bet of an old. old town.
His boy "Jack," not yet 2 yeara old, is
worth his weight In diamonds.
. But he Is only 27 years of age!
The west Is the place for the young
fellow. And Idaho Is the wonder state of
U th golden west. Here is J. B. Randall,
cashier of the Oakley State bank; secre
tary of Chapman & Handull, fluckniastei's,
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
.Xaitn, -confidence, and , to whom the best
. ..a biggest men in the town are so loyal
that there Is not a member of his board
-cf directors who Isn't years and years
older tha'.i hlmstlf.' He Is a typical out
growth of the west, the west that he culls
home, the west that he hives.
. "Homebody gave him his start," I can
almost hear you say. It Is the Invariable
excuse of the weakling when he contem
plates the success of another. Alwaya I
can hear that whine: "Home one left It
to him," or "his father was rich," or "he
was lucky." This time I .want you to
listen to what luck really is. This time I
want to chow you what "luck," real luck,
will do for a fellow. ,
Ho liooii of Work.
jThis Randall person was born on a farm
near OgUen, Utah, Jut. I twenty-seven years
ago. He went to the district echuul until
he was Id, working In the summer, on a
threshing machine, to help out at home,
suv lug meantime for the business college
course upon which he had set his hope.
Kvery summer he left home to go to the
Di-eat wheat fields of Washington and
Oiegon, where work was plenty and help
scarce. No "free board at home for him.
iut a Job in the open, where he had to
hustle and compete with strong men for
his dally wage. A clean cut battle with
. iH'Stlny was the sort of a scrap that Ran
dall put? up. The last ycur that he went
, to svliool, when he hud Just turned 1H, the
vlone of the threshing siusoti found him
furtlund, Ore. And opportunity was
there in the shape of a sir.ke of the Sea-
linens' union. The wage offered were
tempting high, and Kundull shipped before
Uie mast l'ul u three mouths' cruise on the
I'oluiubiu, the ill-titled ship that later weni
to pieces 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 the in Iters at
til eat Falls, Mont. More of the threshing
season In the great wheat fields of the
Treasure State, and the coveted sum he had
been saving for all this time waa his; in a
bank, ' rtiady to serve its. purpose, giving
to Itandali, thresher hand, roustabout,
smelter laborer, au education In modern
business science.
"1 knew this," he said, "that to excel
the other fellows I'd have to know as
jfcuiuch about their game as they did. There's
a practical way iu uo iiuugs aim a tnco
letlcal way, and the fellow ho only
knows ons way, . whichever one it is, U
Ucund to be Worse off than the fellow who
know both. 1 wanted to know boih.".
That was the way he reasoned it cut.
A nil Alien 1 asked him to have a cigar, he
repM.vd, with a' smile,' "1 don't kiutf tin.
ti it, of cither liquor or tobacco."
I.ut'k of Hard Ksilpir. '
Luck! Sure it was luck that made him
a V4uler of a big bank at 21. Nothing In
Ins world but luck. The kind of luck mat
bustle for sixteen hours a day; the kind
of luck that dues wlut its migtU what Us
hanus find to do; the sort of luck that
slip's clear of evil associations, of petty
exiravuguucies; that saves Us money; tna.
Iius a definite ami; thai knows what It
ijunis and camps on the trail until It gets
. Wt lly thut; ' nothing less.
lutuinlng to Ogden Uandull went to
business college. Not once, but twice, each
lime to a different school. "1 wanted to
get It all," tie said to me. "I found that
there was more to it than I had planned
and that It took a little longer to learn
It.'' And so to two of Hum he wenu And
thla was the only place he got a "lift."
While he was going to school his father
Kave him a home free of charge; a home
sixteen miles from the city, and the trip
lo make twice a day. School finished h
looked .around Jur something to do. He
bad his mind thai the banking
busii Yi.y offered a pla.'e and an opportunity
to Iff-' young fellow ready to lake life as
o found it, and to make the beat of every
lkiuj li eiUiubkU wm . Out morning
found him at the cashier's desk of the 1
Oden State bank at Ogden, asking for
"something to do." ,
It was the president who sat at that desk
that morning; the cashier was Out, and
Handall frankly and plainly ' asked for
"something to do." The president was ac
customed to being asked for almost any
and every place In the bank, but "some
thing to do" waa a new one on him. Not
necessary to detail what Itandali answered
to the qeustions fired at him. He got
his Job, which paid (25 per month. And for
four months Randall worked for that
princely stipend, riding every single day
sixteen miles to work and riding sixteen
miles back when the bank was closed. He
stayed with it; was the first at the bank
atid the last to leae it. He was "on the'
Jvb" all day long and all the time. When
he took his first month's pay homo his
family 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 tnan pay me
JlfiO a month before I leave that bank."
" And he did.
Of course it was Luck; Just pure luck.
It was the sort of Luck 'that Is waiting
outtlde the barn door at 5 o'clock in the
morning; the Lupk that waits, Just, ..outside
the door to greet the first fellow down to
business, the Luck that helps a. man. de
termined to get across anyway, over the
hard plucea of life. Oh, it was Luck, all
right, nothing but Luck. ' (
All the Way Is, .
After about four months lie quit carrying
the little red bag of the bank collector
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 cashier. Then
the Ogden banks wanted a secretary for
the clearing house. And Randall was se
lected for that Job. It was never an easy
one, "but when the panic came ' ho was
there, at the desk, night and day, ready
for any and every emergency. Did they
take Randall out and put in an older man?
Not on your life; they dirt not. Randall
was there, as wise as any of the oldor
ones; with youth and strength to stand
the strain. He had been everything In a
bank; knew the whole routine, and he
stuck to the Job; nailed to the mast, lib
was on deck. And, well, you know how
Ogden, Utah, came through the panic.
Girl and the Hunk.
All this time Randall had a sweetheart.
A serious little woman who is his sweet
heart yet. Her folks lived at Hiram, Utah,
and ono day, when the panicky times had
quieted down, Randall had a leave of ab
sence. He went to see his "girl." She
lived 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. They
answered, "About S.000." "Why don't you
havo a bank?" "Have been trying to get
one, bdt there's no one lo organize It."
Randall didn't go back to Uyileii that
night, nor the next, nor the next. And
when he did go back Hiram had a bank
et least it was organized und Randall had
the papers and applications In his pocket.
Promptly these were filed and his resig
nation went to the clearing house of the
associated banks at Ogden.
Soiur I tah a ill t allsts.
In the First National bank at Ogden is a
man named i'avid Kccles. That man Is
worth fiu.ouu.ooo In his oun name and right.
Also there Is M. S. .Browning, whose In
come Is in excess of $500,000 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 to automobiles. This man Brown
ing is many trmes a millionaire. David
Eccies Is the head of the sugar beet In
terests of the Intel -mountain countty) he
Is the head of the lumber interests of east
ern Oregon, ifiownlng Is associated with
til m. neii thut resignation of Randall's
came to these men there wu a consulta
tion. Randall's Aoit of man Is hard lo
I get hold of; that threshing machine-dock
luborer-smelterman-baiik-collector-clearing-
house-sreretary experience that Randall
mid was worth money and ccles and
hi owning could afford to puy. - The resig
nation was not acted upon. lUndall.it
flutied again. And one morning Browning
came Into his office and usked Itandali Jo
go "up the country" for a few days, itan
dali thought It was a hunting trip; fishing,
or something like that. And so Browning,
niulti-millionalie, ' and Itandali, the bank
cleik, left for Oakley, a Mormon settleincnt
in Idaho. 10 years old, with one bank In
Hl.lch Eccles and Browning had a' large
Interest.
Handall Hmiem m Bank.
In plain words, the affairs of the bank at
Oakley were "In bad shape." A former
cashier had over-loaned on one acount un
til there wa A.0GO "out" to an Implement
house at Tnln Kails, forty miles aaay; a
sum almost twice as great as one bank la
permitted to make to any one customer,
in Ibe slate of Idaho, where the capital
Is no greater thaa was the case In the
Instance of the Oakley state bank. Ran
dall's own story of how he ran the bank
until 4 o'clock In the afternoon; mounted
his hor.'e and rode to Twin Falls; ran
the implement - house all nfxtdy and
ouiuuled, that same pinto yo&y u gel back
to Oakley, ro as to run the bank next day,
has that Sheridan thing left at the post.
All the same, those moon-lit rides over the
eweet-smelling sage brush plains of south
ern Idaho must have been good for him.
He wound up the affalrs'of the Implement
house, got all the bank's money and col
lected every cent of the interest, all save
(250, and ran the bank at the same time
so 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 so then, and Ran
dall showed up at Ogden, Browning's big
desk in the First National, with his third
resignation. s
Hack to II 1 Bank
That morning Browning was deaf. Ran
dall, obdurate, Browning Insistent, and fin
ally Randall told of the girl, tfhe Hiram
bank, and all the rest of his ambitions.
Picking up a check for $60,000 that laid
on his desk. Browning said, 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 back;
stick wlbh that bank, get everytholng In
shape, and be one of us. I'll stay behind
that Oakley bank for every cent I've got
Mr. Kccles will stay with me. Ton want
to co back? Don't you?- Go on up to
Hiram, get the girl and go. back to Oak
ley. "We need men like you. We are wil
ling to pay. Now, don't-you think that
Oakley is the place tor you?". .So spake
Browning.- '
Into HU j,lle,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 16 per cent net on the
Investment and give the bank its corner
quarters, on the main street of the town
free of cost. In the man while he has gone
into the sheep business with E. Chapman
a widely known flockmaster 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 Randall's expression. In the mean
time, too, he finished the organization of
the bank at Hiram; he and Browning and
Eccles have taken over the, Burley State
bank; a home has been built. and "Baby
Jack" Is here on the scene, wailing
night for "daddy" to come home,' and a
little woman makes a fairy land of a brick
cottage which is Just big enough for three.
The Kuhns, 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 ln
s de tips, and has, a bunch of real estate
on the old town site, within a block of
where the Kuhns are to erect a $70,000
hotel; ho gets all the loose money he wants
from the First National bank at Ogden,
or from the Flint National at Omaha,
and, well. Just reread that first paragraph,
If you want to know what Randall has go;
and who he Is.
. Just "Luck."
Luck! Why, of course, it was luck. The
sort of luck that will "hand you the name
package," If you get down early 'enough
In the morning, before luck is tred tramp
ing around looking for some one to take
lis burden; the same Identical luck that
will Invest your cigar money In sheep;
the luck that attracts the "right kind of
a girl" and keeps her waiting for five
years while you "get the start." That was
Rundall's sort of luck. And, believe me,
it's the only luck you'll ever1 get.
FROM ARMY LINE TO PULFNT
Boy Hero of IV k I it geeks Trrr
from Lieutenant to (bigi
l-ln.
Lieutenant Calvin P. Vitus. - Fourtrentn
United states infantry, the soldier to wnom
a medal of honor was voted by congress
ior being the first American to scale the
Malls of Pricing In the campaign for the
'"ef uf the legations during tha Boxer out-
menu, aim u no anerwara received an ap
pointment to West Point as a further
lecognltiou of that achievement, wants 14
be an army chaplain. For more than a
ear the young officer has been trying to
get transferred to the religious branch of
the service, and several times It has looked
as If his ambition would be realised, but
something always happened to frustrate his
plans. .
Lkuienant Titus" lecord is one of the
best In the army, and he is among the very
ftw who may wear the congressional medal
of honor, the highest distinction that can
come to an officer of the Un.ied ritatet
army.
At the time cf the lioxer outbreaks Titus
was an enlisted man of the Fourteenth In
fantry, nd was In the detachment sent to
Cnlna under command of Lieutenant Gen
eial Adna R. Chaffee to represent, the
Vnlted 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
llrst American to. scale the wall and stand
Id the forbidden city.
His feat was brought to the attention of
congress and President McKlnley. and the
latuy; looked up hi record, gad, fitidUij that
at that time he was omy 19 years old
elded to send him to West Point.
Titus entered the academy In July,' 1401,
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 thenvto 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 soon 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 thef 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
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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
Tart became president. Secretary of War
Dickinson agreed with General Wright, and
so 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 qualify for the position.
Under the law no man can be a chap
lain In the army unless he Is ordained
minister of some religious denomination in
good standing, with recommendation from
some eccleslastlcul 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
ious 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
qualify.
In the meantime Titus -remains 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.
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