Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-13
A LOTTERY WRECK.

When saw him. he was sitting in tho
library at desk annarent,v onga,ed in a
iahorions mathematician calcn,at i,'" " "
He covered sheet after sheet with figures
ma occasiona,lv nansa1 tn e.za at he
work with intense interest.
The busy worker was neatly attired in
black. and his serene and intellectual face
bore not the SLIGHTEST trace of insanity.
The superintendent who accompanied
me picked up a sheet of paper and called
nav attention to it. On every line appeared
the figures N. IN.
"Eyery sheet is like that" he said.
"The old man does nothing else all day
long,
s'What do these figures mean?'' 1 asked
at the suggestion OF nv companion.
s4It Is the number Of nv lottery ticket,
was the ready answer. "No. N, IN in the
lottery has drawn the capital prize Of $780,
900. and the money will be here tomor-
row.
Then the moor fellow smiled, and a ioy-
full light came into his ewes.
SIT will make me the happiest man in
the world" he said. "Not that care for
It myself. but l have made q present of the
ticket to nv wife. and she needs the
money.
"You are yery fortunate, f" I replied, Gin
getting the ticket with the winning num-
ber.n
uyos and drnomed N . WAS tho ra.
snonsa s.Tha number came to me in NV
droo n,s 4b,eo successive NIGHTS and so I
bought Tho ticket Nv wife laughed AT
mo Int Il drew tho nrize and when Il
cones tomorrow am going TO give f. to
her in 10o Al 0oO hills !"
No bont oyer the table and beoan f1our-
Inc again in his slow and metbodical way,
"A strange delusion said to the SUI
nerintendent nHas II anv foundationpu
nIt Il varv sad story y renlied the
official aThe old man has been here 30
wars and during ali that time he has
tolLaa ~ nothing hut his nrixe and the
hann;ross q will hr,ng To his wife
KH;s mama 10 Coional = and he
90 10 fro,, ona ~ orr nnner copnt,es He
had q small estata and wife with verv
lor,o ;deas
Tina colona,,s house would have SIN.
,ortod tha two comfortably hut for the
fsct that his beautiful and HIGH snirited
vito was ALWAYS making extrayaoant de.
,,,ands Che sn,,onderod BIC n,onav forcad
him to morteaoa his nlantation and then
r,oda hin, Sorrou largo e,ns r;gbt and
iaft
WA+ lost tho oo,one, could borrow M
,orcar ana his croditors hagar IN nrass
Nm This ado his w;ra fur;on. and sha
s+o,,,,,od ond rerod AZ h,m and told him
tha+ bo r,ust nroy;de bar With funds
~Hor b,,shand bore n iii natientlv hut
ho ,ras drivo,, nearly crazv Nv his creditors
and his naoainc wife. One night he
dreamed that he had purchasd No. IN. 777
in the lottery and that it was the win
ming ticket. He had the same dream three
times that night. and the next day he
"His wife scolded him for his folly. and
in her angry mood she threatened to de-
strov the ticket. The colonel knew that
she was lust the woman to do such thing,
and he concealed the precious bit Of paper
and waited for the next monthly drawing,
"Matters grew worse. and the two were
hardly on speakino terms. One Saturday
fine colonel went to the postoffice and came
back at breakneck speed squirting his
horse all the way. He rushed into the
house and throwing his arms around his
wife,s neck told her that thew were saved
and that his ticket had drawn the prize.
uTbe woman turned male and easped for
breath Her husband showed her the off.
cial list of the drawing and shouted for ioy.
But not word came from his wife. A
homeless look Of despair came over her face
and for the first time she was afraid to
meet the ewes Of the man who stood bv her
side.
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