The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-04-29
SPEAKING OF CHANCE
By 3. Il. FERGUSON.


Not to me-"
well. isn't everything Q gamble.
business or sport!" asked Dewitt
YOU can't tell how you are coming
out, no matter how careful you arc
about going in. The chance that stocks
win 90 up or down 10 just the same
- the chance that the ball win fall IN
the red or the black on The roulette
wheel"
mot the same" rejoined Loomis.
for full knowledge Of the market and
the holdings enables the operator 70
forecast ordinary fluctuations. There
can b no forecast Of . happening
that 10 governed only b. chance"
may suggest" interposed the pro
lessor. that the analysis b destructive
OF both contentious. Mr.. Looms ~
sumes that there are happenings gov.
erned' BY chance. Perhaps Il he will
examine the phrase - Win discover
that II 10 paradoxical. 10 what hs calls
chance governed b. somethins!"
LOOMS hesitateA. and Dewitt
laughed. RI think The profsssoe agrees
With my view"
"0a the codtsaa.." sail The protes.
COT. Il believe tAsts b 10 saeh thing
% chance. Nors. IN willing - rest
my belief "a your sxpesisnce. Have
you ever known Of ~ oecusTenee that
ultimately provsa 70 b utterly pur-
poseless end ott q time3 Doat IN.
ever No too quickly. Let ne tell you
Of . strange -Series q what ny friend
Loomis calls chances. The story has
Just come 70 mo fairly complete
milne ysars ago two children, broth.
er and bister. were placed IN . char.
table institution In New York city.
Their mother had died and left them
unprovlded for, their father had dis.
appeared some time before. Tho boy
was ten years old. the girl seven.
After year In the institution the boy
ran away. and, strange to say. left
the city and followed the railroad
westward. It was In the summer and
he. made his way easily for fruit and
plentiful and sleeping out OF doors was
not Q hardship. lie had many nd.
ventures along the road. but none
worth mention until late in September.
when he found himself in little vii.
lage in southern Michigan. Ills cloth
ing had been worn to rags and no was
beginning to be shy OF town, fearing
arrest and possibly a forced return to
New York, But in Mattawan he saw
q kind-faced woman who not only
gave him a meal but complete suit
OF clothes, and who talked to him with
80 much interest that no told her
moro Of his story than he had con-
fidod to any other new acquaintance.
lie said that his parents were dead.
that he was going to California. where
The gold came from, and that he had
made his way alone from Rochester.
The woman tried to induce him to
stay for a time with her. but hc was
afraid and got away 10 quickly AZ he
could.
"IIe arrived in San Francisco Christ.
mas week. by that time we'll Injured to
hardship but still self.reliant. His first
meal in that city was earned the next
morning selling papers, for he found
no: only instruction but help among
the rewsboys. For . long time he
made no more thansa bare living. but
by the time Of the flre he had begun
to save. Three years ago. then fifteen
years old, he realized that he needed
an education more than anything else.
and he began to attend night school.
He kept bis place on the street selling
the morning papers, but In the after
noon gave II up to Others while he
went to bic studies. Last November
hs learned Of . place With an engineer.
ing arm here that would be open for
him II he could prepare for T. To
make Il he would require at least ok
months At the university. and Il seem
ed out Of HE reach. He needed 500
to sustsln him. for he would 30 oblis-
ed to give up his newspaper selling.
Every plan he could think OF present
ed the same necessity-More money
and he knew OF no way 10 get It Two
days later he picked up purse On the
walk where he had stood 80 many
mornings, and In the purse was 5000.
It seemed like . diyect answer to his
wishes, but he wanted to be honest.
The next morning he turned quickly
but tremblingly to the lost and found
advertisements. What he hoped not
to see was there. and two hours later
he was On his way to the address
given. To his knock the door open-
ed and there. not recognized for .
minute Of curious surprise and strus-
Cling recollection. stood his sister.
whom he had not seen for seven years.
"Her story was even nbre interesting
than his. She had been chosen from
among her many companions In the In
stifstion and adopted BY . childless
couple from Michigan. who had visited
New York with this purpose In mind.
A long time after she had become
wonted to her new homo she told her
foster mother Of her brother. who
had run away three years before.
With her description the kind-faced
woman recalled the boy she had fed
and clothed, and tob the sister OF the
incident and the boy's oppressed de-