| Show GOOD LUCK dryden wab was not much of a believer ID in good inck lack ile he had an idea trat the tem teim was only a synonym and judgment ile he says Fort fortune unea a goddess js is to to roos foos alone th ise lse are always a masters asters of their own J 7 he lle was not master of his bis though thou gli and lher there are thousands like him in the world at present there is great preat deal deai of nonsense in the notion of good tood bood luck but there is aito alt albo alto o a great deal of truth A A belief in luck has the advantage of aboid n ng the believer many an excuse for idleness tor lor neglect of duty for a lack of enterprise enter pris x anti anil for an air indisposition to sit own iown and make careful ca culat ions ione aa as to the autu e the believer in luck juck is some pome times a aria A of the worst kind for if it convinced no effort of h a will vin win success hat it will come to him at any aily rate if he Is predest ed to enjoy it and tuat that it will not visit him do wi at he abay if lie he is ilot liot pre dee destined tined to be BO so fortu fortunate nate natt lie sits down and supinely waits like M bawner caw lier tier fo to something to turn up tip A belie in luck of that kind is juinchi to any man and he tie who indulges in it ma roal safely be set d virn wn as a incorrigibly lost to anything like a d decent e c e nt sense of self respect and anti manhood i one ohe may bel bet eve in good luck without acting the part of an indolent indo leist fatalist fortune I 1 h n e s sometimes 0 tumbles into a man s arms without ith fth I 1 t xiong giving him the th slightest notice of her hen he r intention arid without waiting f r him to make the slightest preparation tion for iler tier recep alln this is what is called good rood I 1 luck u ck and anti it offers materially mate male nally from the ov er a k ngot ng of fortune after a long ions ami anti deanson e pursuit ot of the capricious capra cious lady or the en trapping of ber her at last after a patient arra gement of plans plana and schemes by which she may ovay be inveigled into ed s such good luck Is a nothing to be reli relied ed upon it income or it I 1 may not riot we may beli bell believe ve in ili it as we believe 1 in ili a good apple season or a nood good crop rop ot of ir grain g I 1 eliut t our belief should not induce us to neglect gic t tb the e necessary means and exertions to secure e cu re jt it might come even if we did nothing 0 th i ig to invite it but i i is much more likely to visit us if we studiously make she ibe proper accommodations for its reception THE AMERICAN AND THE englishman the american though he d da like aa at Enz englishman lishman and aud eats ets roast beef mith with a of a ver vcr fork or sometimes ome times with wili a steel knife as does docs ar a eng ishmit is not like an engli encil hman in lis bis is mind in ili his ashira ions in his tastes or in his bis politics in his bis mind he be is quicker more uni uhl universally versatoy vers atly intelligent more ambitious of general knowledge knowl edze less indulgent of stu pi ity an and d i ignorance I 1 in others harder sharper brighter with the surface brightness of or steel than is the englishman en but lie he la is more moie in ore oie brittle less anduri r e laig I 1 is malleable and I 1 think leas lehs campble cap itile of impressions ini sessions res the mind of toe the englishman En has hag more but buk that of the american more incision the ame ican lean ai n a great observer ob server seiver but he b observes yes things mate lai lal rather than things social or ot picturesque pictures oue ile he is a coustant coi cor stant and ready speculator but all specula speculations tiong even those which come of or philosophy are with him more or less material in his bis is ast asi orations the american is more constant than an eng ii li hman or I 1 should rather say he is is mrle nine constant III in aspirin every citizen of the th united states intents intends to do something every one thinks himself c pa able ble bie of some effort b vt ut in his bis aspirations he is more limite limited d than an au englishman the ambitious ame american rican never soars roars aft 11 gh a as s the ambitious englishman be he does not even see to tip up so great a height and ohen when he has haa raised himself somewhat what above tha the crowd becomes sooner dizzy tizzy with his own a an american of mark hough always anxious to show abow hig bis mark ia is alway always 9 feard fearful ul of a fall fail ant anthony anlthony hony bony the th e new york regime regiment n known as the tiie ellsworth Ella worth aperges Ave igers recently recently numbered only 90 muskets it started 1040 but sickness fighting arad dalition daer daei tion hiat hals bais done their thein work olk oik |
