The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-07-28
TRICKS OF FORTUNE.
THE TICKLE DAME HAS MANY
CAPRlCES.
Curious Happenings Among Those
Who Invest In Lottery Tickets
Large Fortunes Have Sometimes Re
suited from Small Investments.

Large Fortunes Have sometimes Re
suited from Small Investments.
Fortune is never 50 capriclous as
when she ia turning a lottery wheel,
and whole library might be written
Of the strange praDks she has played
with those who have woOed her IN this
guise. She was in a strangely capric-
lous mood when II pleased her to CON
vert Dublin shop assistant into
man of fortune and the founder Of
noble family.
Luke White, the founder Of the first
Lord Annaly, was poor Manxman
who had drfted to Dublin to serve
behind the counter Of a booksellers
shop. In the hope of adding to his
scanty earnings he bought a number
Of lottery tickets for sale, but found
himself unable TO dispose of them all.
At the last moment he decided to send
the unsold tickets to Belfast in the
hope Of finding Il better market there;
but when the coach had been a day on
It's journey he received letter inform
Ing him that the desplsed tickets had
won valuable prizes. Although news
came in the dead OF night, Luke White
got up Immediately, saddled horse,
md raced madly i'm chase of the coach.
He rode through the night and the
whole Of the following day, and over
took the coach within a few miles of
Belfast lie rescued the bundle Of
tickets and, returning home, eXchang-
ed them for prizes of the value of $780,
600.
An amusing story Is told of n wicked
trick which fortune played a short
husband, who were travelling, called mt
the shop of a country draper to make
n few purchases. They were about to
leave the shop when an attractive bon
net arrested the lady's attention and
she induced her husband to buy 1t for
her. When it came to payment, how
ever, the husband found to his dlsmay
that he had not sufficient money to pay
for It. In this dilemma he offered the
draper an eighth share ticket in n Ger
man lottery which he had in his purse,
and finally induced him to accept it in
part payment. A few days later the
lady learned to her disgust that the
lottery ticket had won an eighth of
$4,000, and that her darling bonnet"
had thus cost her the record price of
nearly $4,000
1t was happy inspiration that
tempted n young lieutenant on the
Italian battleship Lepanto to turn his
attention to the Spanish Christmas lot
terry couple of years ago. The ship
was cruising Off the coast of Spain,
and It occurred to the lieutenant to in
ducc all on board, from the captain to
cabin boy, to join in purchasing a lot
terry ticket The ticket was bought,
ana, to the delight of all, was fortunate
enough to win the first prize of $685.
900, which was divided among the
lucky owners on Christmas day.
A very curious piece of good fortune
fell last year to the lot of poor widow
who kept a small shop in suburb of
Berlin. One evening as she was serv-
ng n customer a working man stepped
nto the shop and begged permission to
light his pipe. Drawing piece of pa
per from his pocket, he twisted it up,
it 1t NJ the gas jet, and after lighting
ais pipe, threw down the spin and
walked out without a word of thanks.
When sweeping the floor the next
morning the widow took up the
charred paper out of idle curiosity,
and unfolding it, saw that it was a
lottery ticket, only a fraction of which
had been burnt. She folded it up put
Il away in her pocket, ana had almost
forgotten it when the result of a large
lottery drawing caught her eye in the
paper She then remembered the
crumpled ticket in her pocket, and on
producing it, found to her amazcment
and delight that the rejected ticket had
won a prize of $4,000. She claimed
he prize, and although she advertised
widely for its original owner, with the
intention of sharing 1t with him, she
las been left in undisturbed possession
Of her fortune.