Show presidential LIGHTNING annl a ioanis law to iet mill ho won the lightning caused me to bet on alie presidential election in a wall street man and I 1 won im not more superstitious than tho average individual continued mail although my act would indicate ho contrary I 1 was a young man in a law office n a kentucky tonii my preceptor and pasted over his desk c poster containing the portraits 0 all of the candidates lincoln and and lane douglas and johnson and rall binl everatt the poster contained alic plat fonna ot the verlous parties there was some uncertainty in eliat campaign my preceptor was an enthusiastic douglas man and wanted to bet all he had on alfi candidate it was my elret experience in a presidential campaign and 1 and a fool notion that csoll and would be elected I 1 had never made a money bet but I 1 was aching to take up my Blackst onlan preceptor although I 1 lacked nerve one day was a thunderstorm the loosened a of things in the town the in I 1 was a law student being one in one of its pranks the lightning cut in the wall on which that political poster was posted the result was that the upper part of the poster haug down froin the vail covering up all the ann cnn save lincoln and despite my sympathies for bell and ever att ctt I 1 imagined I 1 saw in this condition of the poster the result of that election and a few days later when the douglas enthusiast talked on bis upper notes and offered to bet 25 even on his man I 1 took him up he was very much astonished to think I 1 would bet on lincoln and lie said I 1 was a young ass and other things and that he would bet with roe to teach me a lesson after the election be asked me how I 1 came to take the chance for there wore few lincoln votes in the town when I 1 told him the source of my tip lie grew serious you have won your first bet on a presidential election he said but remember young man lightning never strikes in the pame place twice but it did in this case lincoln ans elected reelected re new york sun |