Milford chronicle., 1892-12-16
FINDING CONSOLATION.
A Lucky Bfan who Is Able TO Always 10
on the Bright Side of fsFa

A Lucky Ran Who Is Able 70 Always K.ooh
on the Bright Side Of Life.
A Chicago friend once met me on stats
street and introduced me to a couple 81
/ gentlemen ~ the 'luckiest man alive.n
Why this man. said he, surveying me
at arms length, was shot three times in
the army-sh0t in every battle he was ever
ln-shot since through the lungs-in fact
! gets shot wherever there is any shooting
going on--and just look at him nowl Well
! never saw luckier man fin my hferi
Il have" said 1.-the man who never
gets shot at all"
But isn't it great luck you wasn't
hileds You might have been killed.
! was thinking Of this the other dav
when dcdged across Park row between
the cars where poor Redpath met his ~
nominious end by being run over by a horse
car after having survived the million dan
gers Of war, Of the ocean, Of travel, Of
thence and other things when I sud5
confronted a gentleman coming upf
liitohcock's cellar. He had plainlyA~~---
dining on pork andn among the buml
boys. Seeing that he was noticed, be made
q bold front Of IL.
I'm right down to hard pan, "said he.
Had to do it. Election just cleahed me
out WoFse-l'n a cool thousandAin the
hole. put up every cent had and an
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 up town cafes.
that lcouldnitcondole with him. laughed
He laughed
Yes, got stuck pretty badly, but Pu /
be able to be around up town again in 4
about three months. Meantime its luelv
for me probably that / didn't win. I'd 1
eeen warned by q medical friend that +
was living too high-you know like good
iving-and I'd have lived higher Il Pd
nave scooped in that s., 500 ] stood to win.
Doctor prescribed simple diet. Pm taking
ioetor's prescription now Only doctors
| ever took I'm living down
.bout as low as they get"
de looked down into the famous cellar
whence he had just emerged. and where
cores Of men and boys sat with their hats
N az the bare tables, and laughed again.
Did you ever dinc on seven cents9 No;
)f course not, but 10 isn't half bad For
.iteeu cents you can get enough to eat.
ell you most Of us don't know how simpIe
thing living is. The more crowded parts
I town afford the best examples. don't
nc here all the time-sonetimes 20 M the
owery. The thing amuses me. / have n
pom with a afriend-nice fellow-no charge
Ie is under the impression that still take
dollar table d'hote at Observation-Disclosures and
ould go broke FOR me If he knew this,
! siiid that the change seemed 10 apree y
ith him. And he did look better than
nd ever seen him before.
Yes he has a curious. musing way Of c
lliing on that 'yes"-''it's the diet. vou c
now It's great luck to have circum-
ances glide into each other, as it were.
Harrison had been elected I'd have been G
linking champagne and eating Welsh q
rebits after l2 O'clock, and the doctor a
id 1 mustn't. Now Pm not drinking o
ything and eating little. So everything
mes in just right"
And went on my way up the crowded
ak believing a man Of such aphiIosophic y
certainly a very lucky man.
New York Herald Il