LUCK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1905, 30 July 1888, Page 3

LUCK.

One of tho uo luckiest men we have , over known was oven conscious of his illluik, and declared that, fcomebow or another, the ofl>charc3 always hit him. It was partly tiue, but the intimate friends who knew ard lovod him understood well thi»t there was m him this awkwardneee, this redundancy of angles presented to fate, m a very high degree, that, being at once a good man, a thoughtful man, and a highly cultivated one, ho always m critical momonts contrived to do precisely iho wrong thing; This capability of being incapable is by no nieaas unueua l , and the first Rohschtld was probably right when he eaid that be never would employ an unlucky man. On the other hand, the lucky man is usually the man who fits his fortunes, who, whother apparently able or stupid, can do }U6t what his especial cir. cumstances require him to do. Very stupid men are often leady men, srmad with a *e»dineßa as if doga when they twist from under a cart wheel unhurt. The *.' fool who makes a fortune" is usually a man wlthjast tho foreiiight, or the judgment, or the Intuitive peroeption ot the way things are going— a faculty like long sight or keen hearing and Independent of Intellectual power~ requialte to make large profits qaiokly. In faot the fortunate man la usually the man who, m consequence of some hidden quality m his nature, deserves fortune. Nevertheless there is a residom of true personal good or ill-luck to men to whom things happen so unusual, and so little explicable by their actß or anything that either is or can be m themselves, that the world, despairing of interpretation, considers them either the favorites or the vlotlms of fortune.—" Spectator."