Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-27
METROPOLITAN FEATURES.



NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-What is good and
what is bad luck is often very confusing. l
met man recently whom had missed from
the "strand' for q month or two. He was
hobbling painfully along with the aid OF a
cane. He told me he had fallen into a stone
pile in the Bowery and sprained his ankle
had been laid mp for month.
'That is certainly bad luck" said SYM
pathetically.
"I'm in luck that didn't break my neck, +"
he replied.
"But 1t must have come hard for you TO be
laid up during the exciting end of political
campaign" remarked. My friend Is some
thing of q political sport.
"It was. But I'm lucky there, too, for I'd
have bot on Harrison"
Which reminds me of the following news
paper paragraph following the cable intelli-
gence of street accident to Gladstone:
1.-THE Grand Old Man seems possessed of
charmed life. Within q tweIve-month he
has twice been knocked down by cab in
London, and then tossed by heifcr while
In his park at Hawarden, in Flintshire"
Very charming life, indeed. Is it good lnck
to be run over by cabs and tossed by heifers?
or is It merely good luck he was not MANNED
for life, or killed?
A Chicago friend once met me on State
street and introduced me to couple Of
gentlemen as the Quickest man alive"
"Why, this man." said he, surveying me at
arms length, "was shot three times In the
army; shot in every battle he was in; shot
since through the lungs, in fact gets shot
wherever there is any shooting going on,
and just look at him now! Well, never saw
a luckier man in my lffe!'
II have" said 1.-THE man who never gets
shot at ALL"
"Bu1 isn't 1t great luck you wasn't killed:
You might have been killed?"
was thinking of this the other day when
lodged across Park Row between the cars,
where poor Redpath met his ignomipious
end by being run over by horse car after
OF the ocean. of travel, Of pestilence and
other things when l suddenly confronted a
gentleman coming up from Hitchcock's
cellar. He had plainly been dining on pork
and" among the buns and boys. Seeing that
he was noticed he made u bold front OF It,.
"1m right down to hard pam" said he.
"Had to do 1t. Election just cleaned me out.
Worse-Iin cool 81, 900 in the hole. / put
up every cent had and all could borrow.
Lucky for me my credit wasn't very good,
don't you know, or I'd be in it deeper"
There was such an air of cheerfulness
about this man, whom ] had known as a
pretty high roller about the uptown cafes.
that couldn't condole with him. laughed
He laughed.
able to be around uptown again in about
three months. Meantime, it's lucky for me,
probably, that didn't win. Ia been warned
by medical friend that l was living too
kHO" L llh0 ROOu llfllS-dHu VI
have lived higher if I'd have scooped in that
81, 500 / stood to win. Doctor prescribed
simple diet. I'm taking doctors prescrip-
tion now. Only doctors prescription l ever
took. Pm living down about as low as they
get"
He looked down into the famous cellar
whence he had just emerged and where
scores OF men and boys sat with their hats
on at the bare tables. and laughed again.
Ibid you ever dine on cents? No? OF
course not; but it isn't half bad. For Is
cents you can get enough to eat tell you,
most of us don't know how simple O thing
living is. The more crowded parts of town
afford the best examples. l don't eat here
all the time-sometimes go up the Bowery.
The thing amuses me. have room with
4 friend-nice fellow-no charge. He is
nndor the impression that l still take a
dollar table d'hote at Muschenheim's, and
would go broke for me If he knew this"
! said that the change seemed to agree
with him. And he did look better than 1
had ever seen him before.
"Yes,"-he has u curious, musing way of
pulling on that "yes'-"it's the diet, you
Know. It's great luck to have circumstances
.Iide into each other, as 1t were. Ii Harri-
,on had been elected. I'd have been drink
ng champagne and eating Welsh rarebits
Ifter u O'clock, and the doctor said 1
nustn't. Now I'm not drinking anything
Ind eating--little. So everything comes in
ust right"
Aid went on my way up the crowded
Walk. believing a man of such Il philosophic
emperament certainly very lucky man.