Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-08
PHILIPS LOTTERY TICKET.
BY LITTLE HOME popY.

by LITTLE HOME BODY,
The following little sts. contains good advice
Juvenile readers chronological JourndR1
PHILIP and had been playmates from
infancy. Our mothers had been girls to.
gether, and our fathers had wooed and
won their wives in the same town, and
led them to the altar the same day. Both
couples started for the far West-which
was then anywhere west of the Hudson
River, for my story begins when we were
children, and l am man now fifty years
old.
Our parents moved into a town partly
cleared up. My father designed to be
farmer, while Philips father was a me.
chanic. had five sisters, all younger
than myself, and Philip had three brothers
and one sister, the latter the youngest of
the family. | do not know how it hap.
pened, but we were each named after our
fathers, with the addition of our mothers
maiden name. My father pore the name
of Solomon Fish, and my mother name
before her marriage being Miles, | was
christened Solomon Miles Fish, and my
playmate, Philip Powers Goldwood
We were the best of friends until we
were twelve years DID, when Mr.. Gold
wood received some advertisements
through the post-oftice that told of won.
derful lottery that was to come off some
where in Maryland. Philip and l were
the only ones that saw our ships coming
into port well laden by this enterprise,
and we set about contriving means TO
purchase some tickets. My father had
not paid for his farm, but he kept steadily
at work, and to encourage me had given
me penny bushel for husking corn in
the fall. Philip had helped his father
about the houses he built, and had also
little money laid up for-we shall see
The tickets were five dollars apiece and
if lucky would give the owner two hun
dred and fifty dollars for his five. Neither
of us possessed as much money, and
how to get it we studied a long time
1t was thirty days before the draw
ing, but we could see no way to earn
anything more. / had three dollars
and enough to pay the postage, and Phil
ip had only two. One of us proposed
putting the money together, but we final
ly hit upon another method for means.
Philip said he would borrow of his
younger brothers, but | had no brothers
to borrow from.
"What pity you have no brothers and
SO many sisters" said Philip; "they
could earn something if they were boys,
but girls never have any money; they are
perfectly useless.
"My sisters have got money" return
ed, quickly, for l was proud of my sisters
and could not bear to hear them spoken
of as useless.
"Have they; how did they get it?"
"Their uncle in Boston sent them a
gold dollar apiece for keepsake" l re-
turned.
won't they lend it to you9" asked
Philip. "You can tell them to keep it
secret, and you will pay them double
when you get your prize"
l had no trouble in obtaining the money
from my sisters, for they reioiced at
learning anything that would bring US a
little more of that article that would add
comforts to our family, for my father had
hard times some years to make his pay
ments and keep his family well provided
for. We posted our letters, paying the
postage, which was twenty-five cents in
those days for carrying a letter so far,
and Philip said he would pay his part
when he got his prize
"When you get your prize! What if we
both should draw blank?" asked.
90! we shall not. Now, SOL what
will you do with your money when you
get lt?" asked Philip.
"Pay back my sisters and then buy
mother black silk dress, and" but
Philip stopped me.
Come easy, go easyP I've heard faith
er say; but it will rot be so with me Pm
going to be merchant. I'll hang on to
every cent l get and be rich. Let me
see," continued he, 81 shall want part
ner-Ill take you. How do you think
Goldwood 81 Fish would do for sign? ?
80! ha! ha" laughed he, "gold, wood,
and fish were never made to go together.
say, We'll bave it Philip Goldwood &
Co. No, p. p. Goldwood & Co. That
would look nice in gold letters. l never
thought what nice name l had until
now, and how strange yours was; Solo
mon Miles Fish, and mine Philip Powers
Goldwood. o! I'm bound to be some,
body, know!" While my companion
went off into another train of adventures,
sat thinking and wondering if there was
really fate in name.
In due time two letters appeared at the
village post-office, My sister stood by me
and whispered, "Have you got the prizeg'
l took out two or three papers containing
advertisements similar to the ones father
had received, and thick ki1d of paper
on which was printed, mo. s, 3,462, blank, ,
and a printed letter in which it was stated
that the owner would probably be more
fortunate next time. Well | do moi
know which felt the worst, my sisters ol
myself. What would father and mother
say when they came to know it, | asked
myself. And those beautiful gold dol
lars gone, how could | ever pay then
back
My oldest sister, Alice, was the mos
inconsolable, but little Ella looked up anC
said:
"When we get big we won't care, will
wep" and that proved to be the best thinl
IN Arxr toor nd fa IN 10,
could not keep the secret, and the whole
household soon knew it, Neither my
father nor mother blamed me much, only
my mother put her gentle hand on my
head and said, "Why didn't you confdt
in mother ?"
Perhaps If l had should have beer
more lucky, came to my mind, and mayb,
what fate there was in a name might b,
overruled by my mothers advice, for il
all the country round no one was though
more of than my mother, Mrs. Solomon
Fish.
Half an hour after, Philip came in will
his face glowing with smiles, and told us
in breath, of his good luck. His nun
ber was 463, and had drawn two hun
dred and fifty dollars.
"Father is going to invest it for me,
said Philip, "and when am twenty ont
| shall have pile to begin life with.
would not be discouraged, Sol bette
luck next time. Here is the quarter TO
my postage father gave it to me to pa,
you" and Philip handed me the change
4" wish Solomon had been as lucky a
our Philip" SAID Mr.. Goldwood to m.
father, not long after.
"I do not" returned my father, 81 on
glad his ticket drew a blank"
"Why SO =" asked Mr.. Galdwood
"Don't you think you need the nancy ?
Yes, ] need the money, but ] need