Eureka Reporter | 1905-02-17 | Page 3 | Threw Away Large Sum

THREW AWAY LARGE SUM smoke cost poor german workman a small fortune not lot many months ago in berlin a workingman stepped into the shop ot of a poor v and asked pe mission to I 1 his pipe drawing a piece ot of paper from his pocket he made a spill of it lit his pipe and throwing down the charred paper walked away with a word of thanks on the fol lowing morning the widow w while bile sweeping her shop floor picked up the discarded and partly burnt paper and nd recognizing it as a lottery ticket put it in her pod poet et she had almost forgotten the inci inel dent m when hen she chanced to see a list of the winning numbers in a gibat lot tery drawing then it flashed on her that she had somewhere pait of a ticket which might possibly be en titled to a prize she discovered the crumpled paper and to her amaze ment found that it bore the number to which the first prize of 50 had been awarded what the feel of the workman must have been it if ever 1 he discovered how much tl at pipe had coat coa him may be left to the tion