ABOUT luca henry ward beecher in are a re cent lecture I 1 may here us 19 well weil as any where impart the secret of what is called rood good lunk lurk and bail bad luck hick there are men who supposing providence to have an all implacable faite dinst them bemoan it in poverty e aly and a wretched 01 oid eld A I 1 ane age the misfortunes of their it lne ine e luck forever un ran against them and anti for others one wit it a good probes ion lon lost his hii ilch luck tick in the river where lie he idled away liis his time fishing when he should have hare been beet in the office another with a good rood trade perpetually burnt up his mck lick by his hot temper which provoked all his employers to leave him another with lucrative acra business lost hig his luck by amanz n diligence at everything but his own bu busine bustnes sines sinea 3 another who steadily followed bis his trade as steadily as his bottle another Ar wilier who was honest and constant at lits his work erred by perpetual be lacked laa ed discretion hundreds loose luck aticy by sa sanguine ng it i n e peculations speculations ti lations by trusting fraudulent meni mend men and a nil nii by diec dishonest pain gain A mail inan never has boid od luck who has a bad wife I 1 never knew rising hard bard working pi alent man careful cf of his earnings and s ricely br bainet inet luet who complained of 0 bad luck A good character good habits habis and in 11 bistry hi stry are impregnable impre to the as auH of all the he ill luck that fools ever dreamed of bit but whon when I 1 see sec a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late lafe in the forenoon with his hands stuck inlo hll ills pockets the rim of hw hk hat bat turned up tip anti and the lle ile lie crown crotin knocked in I 1 know he lias I 1 las had bad luck hick for the file worst of all lick luck tick is to be a slug sluggard a ard a knave or a tippler 1 ex