The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-11

the strength Who will tear from my heart env
hatred, avarice, aud all the train of bad passion
which have invaded IL?
al have not had the courage to set foot again
she workshops have kept away from il sind
Sunday.
''You will cay to me, perhaps, You have dor
wrong. You ought not to yield to such perniciol
temptations You ought not to abandon yourse
to such crazy dreams Of fortune. You ought not |
Yes, yes; ought not, and should not have yield
ed. Ihave done wrong to be tempted But til
lemptation-who offered it to me /? These sensele
dreams-who called them into existencel Is il
who invented this lottery? Is it who had the b
ingot cast? Is il | who exposed il in the mo-
crowded street OF Parish Did il not come and see
me out at my bench, with its perhdy, its insinu,
tons, its promises, and its lies, TO corrupt and d.
grade meme, an honest and hard working labo|
err, who had not thought Of the lottery-who q
not know that it existed-who only asked of Pr
violence to preserve my vigorous arms to gain n
daily bread? And this is the way we are taug
morality. by lotteries which steal our money; d
dreams of wealth which steal our peace of min
and our love of honest TOLL
GA WoRKMAS''
am sorry to say that there are still some half
dozen lotteries actively engaged in forcing The
scrip upon the public. The lesson taught by [
golden ingots seems to have been speedily lorgotte
for the new schemes are, like their great predcce
sor, authorized by the government. II was hop,
by many that the lingots dor would strik e deaf
blow at the whole system.
A singular trial of skill has just taken place.
hairdresser of the city offered two prizes in mous
to all his fellow BARRIERS who were willing TO CO
tend. Twenty presented themselves upon ii |
solemn OCCASION and commenced operations upd
twenty female heads. The offerer of the prizes nd
constituted himself both judge and jq35, and hid
the hardihood to declare one ofhis to = ccs.
his predecessor in his establishment Winners of al
.rs.xn n Al. Al.
protested, and, proceeding by the gradatons pee III
liar to such cases. ended in row. The ladies IN
in terror, and the melee became general rhe IA
lice interfered. aad soon put stop to THE most
teresting ceremony.
You are acquainted with the French superstitie
IN regard TO thirteen guests at a table and wild
the TACT that to guard against the necessity of
ing mat number at once, the profession Of s.Fou
teener" has been created in the principal cities
France. was present some days ago at dinne
party, a few miles from the city, where, spite d
the precautions of the hostess, that fatal numbe
was collected at the hour announced. Fifteen la
been invited, but two, for some unexplained rea
son, did not make their appearance. 1t was inn
possible to reduce the party to twelve, and at tina
distance from Paris it equally impossible
obtain the services Of fourteener The lady of tn
house sat down TO table with evident uneasiness
and throughout the meal seemed anxious and ds'
tressed. She declared that, never in her life had
such circumstance happened without being fol
lowed by immediate disaster. In the evening slid
accompanied the party, most of whom were from
Paris, to the railroad station. While awaiting tho
arrival of the train, lady, the intimate friend and
companion of our hostess, Inadvertently leaned
against badly fastened door, which gave way
and precipiteted her. down a flight of stone steps
leading to cellar. She was seriously though not
dangerously wounded. could not conscieu tiou7-
ly accuse her friend Of superstition of weakness
in finding coincidence between the thirteen n,
table and the accident, when / saw chance, or de-
sign, whatever it is that regulates our subluna
ryafairs, thus lending itself to the support of ia
ble and the Confederation of belief, however alb
surd it may appear. Ofcourse it s idle to attempt
to reason person out Of such doctrines, when tho
evidence is all on their side 1t is really probable
that these superatitons perpetuated by a
strange persistency, on the part Of hazard to
every dinner of the thirteen guests to be succeeded
by nose bleed, an overturn, or fall down stair
FRANCO.