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Show . . i HE HAD HALF-LUCK. Good and Bad Fortune About Balanced With Him. "There Is such a thing as luck and tbero la nu ll a thing as half lack," , said a flrosldo philosopher. "Many men are heard tu complain beeaasa they don't have luck, but I'm fairly i well satisfied, for 1 havo bad haK luck all my dnys. "When I wns a little shaver ahoat a yeais old my mother sent me oa horse-hack horse-hack from our farm lo the oouatry store at tha crossroads, to exchange, or 'trade,' as wo then said, sig eggs (or aomo brown sugar. 1 carefully placed the eggs three In one Jacket pocket and three In the oilier. My mother wanted mo to csiry them la a i lilt lo basket or a bag, but I had my ' own notions and wouldn't do It Well, in trying tu muse our old horse Dolly, run at a circus gait after I gl out ot sight of the house 1 was turvwn oft aud broke tliren of tha eggs. "When I reached home with a small quantity of sugar and au eg spattered Jacket 1 received tho two doughnuta which had been promised me for going after tho sugar also a lively switeJi- t ing from my mother for breaking tha rggu. That's what 1 menu by half- j luck. I had broken unly halt tha eggs r and was both rewarded aud puuletivd. I "Tliia half luck has presided over t tny lllo throughout," coutluued Use 1 philosopher, according to tba Detroit I Kroo I'ress. "I've inado money and t lost some of It; good health la mlna I about half Ilia timo; uuu ot my sons , I Is Industrious tho other Is nut! ona , rlttuglitor'i married well and the ottier Uld not. of my two wives, oue ruled me and the other one 1 could lullueuco. l 6a It has gone-hall luck all tho way , along; but I'm not complaining; no, & Indeed. I'd be alrald lo complain for fear of worse." j |
