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Show .: NOT LUCK, BUSINESS. .. ,-. " One of the winners of a large prize which h newspaper had given for guessing guess-ing the vote cast at the election, when congratulated on his luck, replied: "Tt wasn't luck: It was calculation. rt And he went on to show how he had carefully care-fully studied the vote of previous, year, and analyzed the present conditipns 6f politics and conferred with all manner of casual acquaintances, and thus became be-came convinced that there was a great deal of apathy regarding the campaign and that a light vote might naturally be expected. Perhaps there is considerable truth in his- reply. Too many persons believe be-lieve in luck, and not in calculation, much less in management or work. It is not natural for a man, who has been a, failure, to confess that, it was his own want of energy of lack of capacity. capac-ity. He just settles down to the conviction con-viction that it was just his luck. Gambling gets Its hold upon people just because they believe in luck and they imagine that the winnings and losings are entirely controlled by the element of chance. In conversation one day on a train with a gambler who ran an establishment, the writer inquired how much luck figured in the various games he conducted, and his answer was that it was hardly to be taken into account. Every game was devised, ho went on to say, to give a certain percentage to those running the games. This percentage was fixed and certain, and the winnings at the end of a year followed this law as certainly as ariy mathematical . result. He )a'd eleven chances to the players' ten. or eighteen to their sixteen, and he was certain to have just this share of the amount staked. Pity more of the poor victims don't realize what little chance' they have to w in. for if they keep at it long-enough long-enough everything they have will pass lover llhat green table just as certain as water runs down hill. BIBLE WRITTEN IN 73. The phenomena of the figure 7 and its multiples, occurring in the New Testament, have been touched upon by I T mi P:nin. a Russian sto'V" of Bible", who for a number of years has made his nome at G ration, Alass. 'i.i.s significance of the "seven" group v. til not be lost even upon the superstitious who are outside, the pale of scriptural points, and. as Air. Panin has shown them, their relations of their groupings to the first .eleven verses of the New-Testament New-Testament must suggest that they w ere scarcely chance. f. For instance, in these first eleven verses of Ala t the w. the vocabulary consists-of forty-nine words, or s-even sevens, which begin with consonants. "This distribution of sevens between vowel words and consonant words justly just-ly might have been deemed accidental but for the fact that of the forty-nine woras lorty-two or them are nouns-six nouns-six sevens and seven are not nouns" is the comment of the writer. "Of the forty-two nouns there are thirty-five proper nouns. . or five sevens, while seven are common nouns. Of the thirty-five proper names four sevens are male ancesors of Jesus and seven are not such. Not only then is the distribution dis-tribution of the forty-nine words of the vocabulary by sevens as between vowel words and . consonant words. but also as letw;eeu the parts of speech." As a further and absolute proof that these phenomena of the sevens are not accidental.' Air. Paniji points toutMhat the forty-nine words of the vocabulary -show fourteen words that are not used ut 01j.ee, while thirty-five of them, pr five sevens, are used more than opce His conclusions after an exhaustive arrangement ar-rangement of the "seven" features are that "nol cvrn the. choice of the 'language's 'lan-guage's in which- Uie-r scriptures uert. ' written was made without marked nu-. nu-. merical design at the threshold of the subject." |
