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Show Waited Long tor Fortune. 1 ' J He might have been rich fifteen yenrs ago, but a Belgian who- pur- j chased a bond In 1903 hadn't applied for the list of numbers drawn n state lotteries In 1007. A poor man from the country happening to be i In Antwerp for the first time for, many years, entered the offices of tba J Calsse Communale to see if the bond , which he had taken but In the loan -of 1003 had won a prize In the yearly, 1 lottery. He thought that perhaps he f had won 110 francs , In . this year's draw. After waiting Impatiently while the cashier searched the records he was Informed that his number had ( been drawn In 1907, and that he waa : entitled to a bonus of 200,000 franca ($40,000 at normal eichanjje" rates). |