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Show HIS HARD LUCK. A. Valuable Ico "Ico Tltat Ue, n Hoodoo In It Roniewhera. The man with tho negllgeo shirt was talking of hnrd luck, i ays tho lluffalo Express. "It'o just this way," Ire said: "When things get to going ngalnst jou there's no ntoppng them, Luck and hard luck run In streaks with every man, and when things got to coming your way there's no stopping them any more than thero Is when they got to going against you. "As an Illustration let me tell you of nn experience I hnd. About three years ago 1 began to have hard luck. I lost everything I hnd one way or another, an-other, and got Into all sorts of trouble. Finally I landed In Richmond, Vn , stono broke, without a friend to whom I could apply for aid and nothing ahead of mo but a turn on tho roads as a tramp. I could gut pothlng la do In Richmond, nnd I started out to tramp up north. "It was as hot as Tophet. I trampod long day after day, sleeping on the ground and steollng what I had to eat, which was not much, let mo assure you. One day 1 struck Stony creek, which Is in a wild part of the state, 1 followed up along the creek until I renokod Stone mountain, nnd there I made a discovery. 1 found an loo mlue. It was fully an aero In oxtcnt and the Ice was as clear as crystal. I realized what the find meant, and after taking my bearings carefully I made my way back to Richmond. "It didn't take mo long to got some coplUllsts Intetcsted In it, and w formed n stock conr ny with mo as president, to work the Ico the next summer. sum-mer. It looked as If I bad a fortuno In my grasp. "Early the next summer we started to work it, but my hnrd luok came toddling tod-dling nlong nnd did me up. There wasn't n month that summer when wo didn't have frost, and there wns abso lutely no uemanu tor ico. umi ten me stranded again and in worse shape than before." "1 don't seo why," put in the doubt- i lng Thomas, who woro n broad-brlmmod broad-brlmmod atraw hat. "Why dldntyou I watt und work It tho next summer?" "I told you I was In hard luuk, didn't I I?" said the man with tho negligee shirt, sovercly. "Woll, I wan. Although Al-though tho summer was cold tho winter win-ter was so warm that It melted avcry blamed bit of tho Ice "' ' 'aft nothing but n pool of water theio, which wasof no oarthly uso to anybody." |