Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-26
His Hard Luck.
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the nOpeless ipph VI 'ho " "hon
the world has proved naught bu
an empty show. He entered Che
office of one OF our daily paper
lstless, melancholy way
Heard about .tp' he asked thu
reporter on guard
Heard WHAT" asked the re.
porter
lawful accident. :"
"Where2"
Cup town"
what was i'll"
Safe fell down and killed three
men crushed them all over the
sidewalk. just my hard luck"
"How?"
II didn't SEQ the safe fall
Passed right by where it was be-
ing hoisted only five minutes be-
fore tho accident, and did not
lineer to look at it First time
in my life that l ever came across
afe.hoisting without loafne
about for an hour or 30 in hope :
that it would fall"
For mercy's sake, man !" said
the reporter, you don't mean to
say that it would give you any
pleasure to SEQ fellow-b beings
hurled into eternity"
Eyes, sir, it would" answered
the other. "Bnt the fault is that
my fellow beings positively refuse
to hurl while am around. l am
of morbid nature. like the
horrible A murder trial is per.
feet pic mic to me, and if l could
only get in to see hanging l
would feel perfectly happy. But
l can't even get upon coroner s
jury. If 1 did, the corpse would
come to life, or something. Tell
you, my life has been full of hard
luck. Went to Chicago. Stopped
at u hotel a friend of mine asked
me to come and spend week at
his house. l went. Hotel burned
down that very night. I forget
how many were cremated.
"In st. Louis I was passing
along the street when I saw n
couple quarreling ; young Teller
and young girl. l went right
ahead and didn't stop. Read it
all in the paper the next day
They were lovers; quarreled.
Young girl cut young Teller all to
pieces with razor-gashed him
all up; and me- but few blocks
away
81 got detained in a little town
in Arkansas. Accidently met an
old school mate there. He wanted
me to stay over week; declined.
Could have stayed just as we'll as
not. During that week there was
a riot. three suicides, sixteen
shooting afr ,ys, AMI three lynch
ings. And my friend was into
them But, though, if l had
stayed the liveliest thing that
would have occurred would have
been pic mic. 1 break up all
the fun in every place l go to.
Give You an example down in
Texas. Fell in with mob who
were going to hang six horse
thieves. SiG; think of it! l was
ecstatic. At last I was to behold
u scene of suffering. l whooped
along with the mob My luck!
Mob got soft-hearted let horse,
thieves go. Only instance in the
history of the State of Texas
where they let horse thief go.
cover in Brooklyn, but few
days ago, | entered n saloon;
three men sat playing cards at a
table; | knew the bar keeper
WAIT second, Tom he re-
quested, as | was about to 60.
got something to tell you Didn't
wait. Left. General result! Bet
that | had not got around the cor
ner before the three men playing
cards got into fight, and cut
each other"
The speaker sighed and wiped
away tear, Just then a district
telegraph boy came flying breath
lessly in "Steam-pipe blowed
uputcorner of Fulton an Nassau;
nine people an stage killsdl"
yelled he.
"When did it occur2" asked
the young man.
"Three o'clock.
The young man pressed his
hand to his forehead he reeled
against a counter: "My usual
luck again!" he gasped; 81 had
an appointment with man at the
corner of Fulton and Nassau at
three precisely. Had l not
dropped in here I would have
been there in time. What have
l done that Fate should pursue
me sop'
And he staggered through the
door, an epitome of dispair, while
the reporter sympathetically re-
marked to the district telegraph
boy who was changing the ode
layed five minutes" on the back
of the slip to delayed fifty min
utes." He has had bad luck! =
The Judge.
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