St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-29

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Dose, Five Drops. Price (tvv
drachms), $3.50.
CHANGED TO JOY.
HOW A LOTTERY TICKET DIS.
PEELED DESPAIR.

Without Money or Friends John
Feilimann Lands in Chicago
Disheartened at His Luck, He
Learns That an Old Lottery
Ticket Issued by the Louisiana
State Lottery Company Had
a a PriZe-fn the July
Drawing He Gets $4,000.
Hanging ON the wall of the sample
room of John Fellmann, at 1888 Wells
street, is an ordinary envelope, t,rn and
crossed with marks and bearing names
and addresses in profusion. 1t is an
American Express company's envelope,
but could it talk an interesting story
might be CLEANED from its yellow, blue
and black surface. The patrons of the
place have wistful expression in their
eyes as they glance up at it, and the pro-
prletor smiles affably, and in broken
English tells the story of the envelope.
Along in 1888 JohuFellmann awakened
one morning in his narrow little room
in a Wyoming city and glanced out
upon the sun-bright streets with a sor-
row in his heart. His finances were loN
and his prospects in life seemed bleak
and drear. With many a sigh he donned
his clothing, packed his pitiably small
wardrobe in a little grip and started for
the depot. The night before he had be-
sieged his friends II a~cquaintauces,
but it was not until his last loved me-
mpnto was sacrificed that he had money
enough To pay his railroad fare TO Chi
cagO. SO hard had been his task of
raising money thar he even hypothe-
Gated a ticket on the old Louisiana State
Lottery.
Affairs looked doubly grim upon his
arrival in Chicago, and poor young Fell
mann was even more respondent than
he had been in Wyoming. One morn
ing as he idly paced the busy streets he
happened by the postoffice. Not with
any great expectations. but more to
stopped in and inquired for mail. TO
his surprise he found a letter awaiting
him. Careleesly he opened it. but as
soon as he glanced at the opening lines
his face lit up with eagerness. The let
ter was from the friend he had left the
lottery ticket with, and the news was
that Fellmann had captured a part of a
small prize.
The formalities were soon over, and
with a few hundred dollars of his own
Fellmann opened a little saloon. He
married a bright and charming Chicago
girl. Having once been saved so op-
%portunely from want. his faith became
pinned to the Louisiana State Lottery
company. and he regularly bought tick
cts. sometimes getting prizes of $40, $50
or 500, but always keeping ahead. He
was frugal and ambitious, and eventual
IV nnannd hiS nlann on WALLS ctr,nf
After the close Of the Louisiana State
Lottery, Fellmann invested in tickets In
its successor, The Honduras National
Lottery. At the July drawing Fellmann
held a one-fifth ticket of the number
that won the third prize. and the Amer
lean express envelope framed upon his
wall is the one that brought him his
prize of $4,000. The money Mr.. Fell
mann has put in his saloon, and when
a reporter called this morning the car
penters and cabinetmakers were busy
at work e%niarging and identifying the
place.
Sol Browarsky, a wholesale and retail
liquor dealer at 323 and 325 West Ran
dolph street, was another Chicagoan to
capture a goOdly share of the July
drawing of the Honduras National
Lottery Company, formerly Louis
So, S66. of which Mr.. BrOwarsky held
one-fifth, won the first capital prize, and
Mr.. Browarsky was paid SIS. 600 within a
week. He is a weil-to-do liquor dealer,
and is prominent OIL the West side. He
has frequently won smaller prizes, and
always devoteS part of the money so
easily gained to some deserving charity
or needy family.-Chicago Qll,) Dis
patch.