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Show Lives of Lave Ones. Thf? subject of tbln sketch began lit os a day lAborer In ti mine and nlnce then he lias bfn. amons olhcr things, a canal boatman capitalist, grocery man. hot-ikeeivr, brl.-k mnk-r llvoryman, theatrical manaRfr. ranchman, ranch-man, turfman, speculator, prospector, breeder promoter pauper, millionaire odd character, Derby winner. The foregoing are only a few of tho ibliiK-f that "Lucky ' Hal. twin has had happen to him. He hu.i had what might tH called a vnr!.-. cai . r H- Is called lucky I.--chii"" he hoe had all kinds of luck. Including the tough brand Last week ho was pinched because he couldn't do what he wanted to on his own hrather. and lf th"r' Is anything "laieky" objects to It la being disturbed Ht Ids own game. lie Is only 77 vears ot ape. hut Inputs that bis own interpretation of the lv within a flve-mlle radius ..f his own fireside Is n IthCJ unr. asunablo nor far-f.-trh.-.t Ver few people know that 'i.ucky's" first name ! Kllas and that Jack BOD la his second. He waa named Klin.' because Ella Howa had Just atarted the sewing machine whan hi ir born, oral he drew Jackson for the middle cognomen because 'Old Hickory" was Ju?t starting to raise u little trouble us President of th. United States t "I.ucky" bas been worth all the wav froiu nothing to Wl.isXi.mvi f..r the last llftv-llv. r sixty years, hut hlu money never tiel.i any hcneflts for hlni. At one lime th y sold he held California in the paint id- hand; at another he was plctur.-d hitting the f r. . lunch to stall OfT the WOlvea Me has been al death'! door something like' forts times, but savs r.a was nover stele u day ih. his life. Once he mode J.'j.rr.ivwi n twenty minutes nr.d the next day h. owed $1 l.iV,iv.j Th" newspapers have usrd more ciphers on 'Lucky" than th y ever did about .tchn i. Rockefeller. Be got his real slun In hf. n.-sir S..ulh Bend. Itid . but lived It tV.wn. U- knocked a'round the West for ft while, and at the age . f ' U yean, blew toward Chicago with a rod Maltese cross and a horse numid Volant who waa fast enough to win the American ieit. He camo along later with another horse named Silver (inud. Hef..r,. ho was fV) ' i.uck'v 1- -came a monotonous winner of tho American Derby. tvery time an.. the,- tbr. yen not owned by 'I.ucky" the Multo.. crou he began t,, bic-d .1 g.. lame Th. 1 teal: In OCai racing disturbed " Lucky " Before racing rlinel he wan broke, nnd never got bis stride again so far Bt th Ot cornel. Ho Is now surrounded by about l:..v) n r.s or i.in.i which no one bos ever been ublo to separate him from and If there s unvtblng In a name ),,. ,,,,,, fin,, (l r , Derby bf "' 1 ' "'"I If.'. 1 bleagi. H.c.r.-H. raid. |