Show Tho Ficakislinrss of Chance Chance Is a queer word and chance is a queer thing Chance cannot ever be counted on and the chances are that those who take chances miss the great chances of life which is one of the queer things about it As a further evidence of the peculiarities of chance a western paper narrates a singular instance A wagon oaoea with gunpowder this paper says moving on a perfectly level road near Wenachee Wash exploded last week while in the same week another wagon loaded with dynamite drawn by a four horse team went over the grade not iar from the same spot and rolled 100 feet without doing u bit of damage The freakishness of chance was nevermore never-more fully illustrated than by this episode epi-sode It is one of those things which defy explanation but which point a moral The moral is Dont take chances |