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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1871

Beware.

In San Francisco, a young man in excellent circumstances, prosperously started in business, was tempted to take a ruinously large number of tickets in the Library drawing. He was so confident of his success that the reading of the list without any of his numbers therein, drove him stark mad. For days he wandered through the streets a gibbering idiot, telling of his luck in drawing the $100,000 prize. He is now in a lunatic asylum, where he sits, delightedly, day after day, counting over his imaginary gold.