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Show II v QUESTION OF LUCK. I Citation Thut Clinelio.l tho Other Bltlti or m tho Arifiimoiit. S "I hate to hear people wiy tlwreV no ft auch fhlug sa luck," lvmurked tb f ' mehincholy Mr. Dolittle. j "I don't Hco ..'," his wife rejoined. n "Uecuuau it isn't true," ho returneJ, with asperity. "A man can go on trying try-ing and trying, and never get along. Awl some other perron will go ahead and tumlAc into good things without making any effort whatever." ' L "Hiram, no great man has succcecl- i I ed withdut hard work." I "That' the kind of tnik you always t lieur. Hut nine timet! out of ten it is ) " all owiug'lo the opjwrtunity that pre- hentel iUwlf. Forfune just m.muih to lie f in wait to kidnap some men. Look at . v, tiir Isaac Newton. His name is htind- ) ed down from generation to generation. ' And why? Sinqjy lweaiiHe lie waa sit- . ling under a tiree and an nj)ple hap- pciUMl to lrop on him. Yati e;un't pretend pre-tend tint a man in in a position to claim superior merit xiirply because, through y no action or preference of lii own, ho gets hit iu the head with a.n applu, cn ; you?" ",Vo, TIlraTiu" 1 "Then don't tell me aljout therr nok .1 btihig auy such Uiiug as luck." 1 "It ewnw to me that you've ehosen a !' ' poor example in support of your u.rgu- juunt. The case of Isaac Newton goes m ' t show tluit the diffetenee is hi the ll prople. If it had been some men that II I know of instead of Newton tlie tlrat 19 thing they would have done after the l apple fell would have been to go into MsH the house nr.il inotui for the arnjea hot- KM tie; tlteu they would have nent. two &l or three hours of precious time talking If I about their bad luk." Washington 111 fltnr. , ( t'l HI M |