The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
BURIED WITH
 LUCKY TICKET And Relatives Dug Him Up From His Grave
WINNER WHEN DEAD
Had Lucky Number in Lottery, But It Was Learned That Ticket Had Been Buried
 With Body

From the Chicago Inter Ocedh.
 That the age of lottery romance IS DIV no means over is proved by singular story which has just come to us rom Brussels. For some time no claimant ap- peared for the principal prize in the brus- sells exhibition lottery of the value ol
 esO0o. and as weeks passed it became more and more doubtful whether the owner of the winning ticket would ever be traced until a week or so ago ne was discovered in a dramatic fashion'
 A few days before the result of the iot- tery drawing was announced young Belgian miner had been tragically Killed bv A stone falling on his head while at work: and, according to custom, he hau been buried in his best suit of clothes' The man had been some time under ground when his relations recalled that he had purchased a ticket for the great lottery and that it had probably been buried with him. A petition was lnaoe to the public authorities for permlssloh 10 exhume the body, and in walstcoat poclet was found the missing tekee which. had he lived, would have maae him a rich man. =,
 The recent history of lotteries is iuil of stories of similar romance, most ol which are practically unknown 10 the public at large. Rouge ct Nor' TOT iii- stance, recalls how "a few years dso l was at Frankfort on the eve of the lotterS heinz drawn. At hotel l met several gentlemen one of whom regretted having spent two florins on a ticket as he never had any luck; and other gentlemen or fered him two florins for it, which ofler was accepted. On the following day the ticket won 10,000 fiorins."
 He also tells another story of a trades man who had bought four tickets, pear ing consecutive numbers, in big lottery. Thinking it foolish to have so many tlck- cts so close together he took one of them back to the office and had it exchanged for another. His disgust can be better imagined thaih described when the ticket thus exchanged won prize of 920,O0o.
 A more fortunate experience was that of a French widow, one Mime. HoSer, Wno was passing rich" on few francs a day earned as canteen maid to regiment of dragons. One day madame decided to invest her very small savings in three tickets for a forthcoming lottery, the chief prizes in which were of dazzling richness. She was offered tickets num- bered consecutively 2171, PIP, 217S. The last of the trio she point blank refused to accept, as it contained her unlucky num- Der, ''3" Ticket No. 2174 was willingly substituted, and it was this very ticket, so quixotically chosen which won for her the first prize of 940,0oo
 A few years ago, as the data for the drawing of the annual Christmas lottery at Madrid was approaching, a poor me- chanic of Corunna was awakened three consecutive nights by the number 125,S69, apparently spoken in his ear. So im- pressed was he by the repetition of the incident that he wrote down the number and jocularly said to his wife: That number will win the first prize in the great lottery" Then why don't you buy the ticket?" his wife answered jokingly, as she looked at the figures. "Why if you add them together they just come my age. l shall be 31 on Christmas day"
 The ticket, after much trouble, was found Git had been rejected a few min utes earlier by a wealthy citizen of Co., runna) and bought and before many days had passed the mechanic and his wife were made jubilant by the news that the ticket had won the first prize of 2200,O0o
 Of the same Spanish lottery another re- markable story is told. A Madrid cross ing sweeper was plying his brush one morning when he saw an old lady slip and fall on stepping off the pavement, He rushed to her assistance and raised her to her feet, expecting at the most to receive a copper for his gallantry. T have no money with me-" said the old lady, but here''-and she fumbled in her handbag and produced a crushed piece Of paper-"take this, and may it bring you luck" The piece of paper was a tenth share ticket in the Christmas lottery, which few weeks later made the cross ing sweeper rich beyond the dreams or aHarlce,' his share of the third prize amounting to eS000.
 Equally romantic was the experience of poor shopkeeper a widow in a Berlin suburb. One~day a shabbily dressed man entered her store and, begging permis- sion to light his pipe. produced a piece or paper which he twisted into a spill. After securing a light he threw the charred spill on the floor and with a
 Thank you" walked away.
 On the following morning, when sweep ing the shop the widow picked up the discarded spill and finding that it was tcket for coming lottery, the number or which was untouched by fire. she rut It Tn her purse, saying laughingly to her daughter. There is a fortune in this piece Of paper, my dear" Weeks passed and the incident and the ticket were al- most forgotten, when she chanced to sec | the winning number of the lottery in s
 newspaper.
 Then it flashed on her that she. 4oo
 mad ticket, and producing the charred | crumpled piece of paper from her purse | she found, to her amazement and delight
 that the number on it had won e10,0o0