{"id":8129,"date":"2022-04-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2022-04-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:00:00","slug":"luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, April 27, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people say it wasn\u2019t luck that made \u2018em rich and proud;
They claim \u2019twas wisdom, work and pluck that raised \u2018em from the crowd.
I don\u2019t deny that there\u2019s a pile of truth in what they say,
And yit it always makes me smile to hear \u2018em talk that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fer instance, there was Henry Wood\u2014taught school here years ago;
His teachin\u2019 wasn\u2019t any good\u2014we had to tell him so;
He tried to get another school, but couldn\u2019t anywhere;
Directors thought he was a fool and said so plain and fair.
    So havin\u2019 nothin\u2019 else to do, he wrote a silly book or two;
    Most mushy stuff I ever read, but I have lately heard it said
        That Henry was a millionaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there was John Tate\u2019s oldest son, a lazy, worthless chap;
When there was hard work to be done he never helped his pap;
The old man drove him off at last\u2014just told him plain and flat
That all the monkeyin\u2019 was past\u2014what happened after that?
    They say he\u2019s saltin\u2019 money down and keeps six servants up in town;
    He sells some kind of medicine he guarantees to keep \u2018em thin
        When women think they\u2019re gettin\u2019 fat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take them two fellers\u2014was it pluck with which they were endowed?
Or was it just a bit of luck that made \u2018em rich and proud?
Take notice, that I don\u2019t deny that work and wisdom win,
But when you say that ends it, why\u2014excuse me if I grin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, April 27, 1914. By Henry Howland. Some people say it wasn\u2019t luck that made \u2018em rich and proud;They claim \u2019twas wisdom, work and pluck that raised \u2018em from the crowd.I don\u2019t deny that there\u2019s a pile of truth in what they say,And yit it always makes me smile to hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}