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Show Romance of a Glasgow Boy. Fortune, as are told, only knocks at n man's door once In a lifetime, and if refused admittance passes by, never to return again. Tho saying is belled, however, by tho career of George Mc-Culloch, Mc-Culloch, n Glasgow boy, who arrived In Australia Just CO years ago, with less than $25 in his pocket, and who died the other day. a millionaire. This Is how Mr. McCulloch threw away his first chance of acquiring a fortune: One night, sitting In a tiny shanty nt the foot of the Uroken HllWmlnc, soon after Its discovery, he played a game of eucher with a companion, his stake being tho fourteenth share of the mine Itself. Ho lost, and the share which thus passed out of his hands wjis, six years later, worth no less than JG,250,000. |