The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-21
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BORN UNLUCKY.
What He Has Suffered and What He
Thinks He Has to Fear.


Thinks He Has to Fear.
"Were you in the var." inquired +
the young hero worshiper of Sc
cret society guard in this city as the /
SCARED and gray haired veteran of
a long life painfully hobbled across /
the floor of the anteroom.
NO, :" he sighed. but l couldn't
have been more injured if | had
been, said he rubbing one of his
legs tenderly IS he spoke
'.What was the troubleI persist
ed the young man sympathizinsiy
''Troublel It's been nothing but
trouble since l came on earth, sad
ly replied the afflicted one. I was
born unlucky. l am living picture
of bad luck. and the more | think
of my misfortunes the more forclbIy
l am reminded of that passage IN the
good book which says that the sins
Of the father shall be visited upon
the children to the third and four
generation My father was a good
man, and so was his father, but |
am convinced that | must have had
a pirate for one of my ancestors and
that am visited with all his sins. 7
is il pOssible." commented the
young man.
Yes, my bad luck began when
was born, : for my mother died then.
When | was but weeks old, tho
house took fire and | was nearly
suffocated and cremated. Before |
was years old servant dropped
me to the sidewalk. and | had brain
fever as Il result; l fell down stairs
and broke my collar bone, and l
got lost and was found by police
man half persisted in an ash heap.
The victim of misfortune sighed
deeply over these incidents in his
career and rubbed his paraly2cd
hand. Continuing, he said:
4 was but years old when q
playmate cut off the ends Of three
of my fingers with an aX, and two
years later | had measles, WhOopln9
cough, chicken pox and scarlet fe-
yer. When | was {, ! fell from a
cherry tree and broke a leg, and as
soon as that got well was knocked
down and trampled over by run
away horse. That pt me in bed u
long time, and my nose has been
crooked ever since.
when l was 10 years old, | was
the only boy in school who got lick
ed and kicked by bigger boys every
day, and year later was the only
one in the town who had cholera
When l was -, / went to Il circus
and the tent blew down. ! was tn,
only person who was stepped upoI
or hurt, and the entire audicnc,
walked over me. 1t was thre'
months before recovered from tina
affair, and six months later | fel
through the ice while skating an'
was pulled out half drowned !
year later, while rabbit shooting,
friend shot me in the hip, and
have never fully recovered from ii
The next summer lightning strucl
a tree | was standing beneath, and
was picked up for dead. When | wa
25, again fell through the ice, an
the wetting gave me pneumonia an
left my lungs weak. Soon after
got well | caught cold, which nearl
resulted in consumption. The 70
lowing year rheumatism attacke
me, and at times l cannot use m
left arm and leg, and my last mi,
fortune was to receive a paralyti
stroke, which has rendered my rigl
side from the top of my head to m
foot absolutely useless, as you hav
observed when l hobble about
Il suppose, " he said, with worl
of pathos in his sad voice, "tha
some day I'll sit on a barrel of dy
Mantle which will explode, and the
my troubles will be ended. ''-Wasl
ington Post.