Only Once Lucky

"What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to yon?' ' soruebody asked of tho inillionaire. "Do you mean sheer, unadulterated Itick, somethiug that just happens without aiiy seeking on your part?" replied the millionaire, throwing away a half smoked perfecto and taking another out of his case. "Well, yes, let it go at that. " "I am generally accounted a very lucky man by the thousand and one people who know more about me than I do myself. But, on my honor, what I cali a genuino piece of good luck happened to me only once in my liie. It didn't amount to much, though it meaut much to me at the time. It was when I was filling my first job - that of an errand boy at $3 a week - and I teil you I have never since feit so rich as when I carried home my first $3. t ' 'I had been given a check to cash and a bilí to pay. Af ter paying the bilí I had just 37 of my employer's money lef t. I had just crossed Broadway when, happening to look back, I saw two men fighting in the street. I was enough of a boy then to take a keen interest in anything like a 'scrap. ' I retraced my steps to seo what it was all about. To my amazement and surprise I discovered that the two men were fighting about the $37 an Lhe rec,o.ipted bill, which in sorïïe fnysterious fashion had droppeü out of my pocket. A policeman happèiiing along at that moment, I was able to prove that I had a better right to the property in dispute thau either of the two combatants and recovered it forthwith. They had each gi'abbed f or it at the same time, and each was bound to get all or none- luckily for me. I have often specul:ited upon what might have happened if they hadn't quarreled. I should never have recovered the money, and in consequence I should certainly have lost mv situation. That might have chauged the whole current of my career, and instead of being a rich man I might today have been a pqpr devil, or I might have been twice as'rich ás I ain. Who knows? Anyway I regard it as the only pïece of downright, simon pure, umnistakable piece of good luck that ever bëfell me. But any Torn, Diek or Harry that you chance to meet will be able to teil you lots of luckier things that have happened to me - some of thein things