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Show ONLY ONCE LUCKY. A. Millionaire Tells How He Lost 837 YThem a Boy and Found It Again. "What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you?" somebody asked of the millionaire. "Do you mean sheer, unadulterated i luck, something thr.t just happens with-I with-I out My seeking on your part?' ' replied j the millionaire, throwing away a half smoked perfecto and taking another out of his case. "Well, yes, let it gi at that. " "I am generally accounted a very lucky man by the thousand and one people peo-ple who know more aLout me than I do myself. But, on my honor, what I call a genuine piece of good luck happened to me only once in my life. It didn't amount to much, though it meant much to me at the time. It was when I was filling my first job that of an errand boy at $3 aveek and I tell you I have never since felt so rich as when I carried home my first $8. "I had been given a check to cash and a bill to pay. After paying the bill 1 had just $37 of my employer's money left. I had just crosscjijoadway when, happening to look baclt, I saw two men fighting in the street. I was enough of a boy then to take a keen interest in anything any-thing like a 'scrap. ' I retraced my steps to see what it was ail about To my amazement and surprise I discovered that the two men wers fighting about the $37 and the receipted bill, which in some mysterious fashion had dropped out of my pocket. A policeman happening happen-ing along at that moment, I was able to prove that I had a better right to the property in dispute tlan either of the two combatants and recovered it forthwith. forth-with. They had each grabbed for it at the same time, and eaih waa bound to get all or none luckilf for me. I have often speculated upon yhat might have happened if they hadi't quarreled. I should never have reco-red the money, and in consequence I iould certainly have lost my situation. That might have changed the whole current of my career, and instead of being a rich man I might today have been a poor devil, or I might have been twice as rich I am. Who knowsAjiyyjJsI.regoV' t? nlv . taablepiece of gciiTV ' Jlafc dVer befell be-fell me. But any Torf i)ick or Harry that you chance to meet will be able to tell you lots of luckier things that have happened to me some of them things that I had worked at for years. "New York Herald, |