The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-08-31
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 81, 1867.


assume a confidence which she did not feel
"And have you made up your mind to buy
it?"
"Wcll, l think shall What do you think
about it."
"If you should ask my advice .Jamcs I
should fay, do not buy it. @
"But why so ~
"For many reasons returned the wife, in
trembling tone. She would not offend her hus-
band, aud she shrank from giving him advice
which he might not follow. I'm the first place,
think the whole scheme Of lotteries is bad
one; and then you have no money, to risk
"But just look at the prizes" said james
drawing ''schcmc' from his pocket. "IIcrc
is one prize of twenty. thousand dollars, anoth-
CT of ten Thousand, another of five thousand
and so on. Something tells me that if buy
a ticket shall draw large prize And then
just think, Hannah, how easily could pay al
up for my house; and perhaps have good
handsome sum left"
The young man poke with much car.est
ness and assurance. but he saw that there was
G cloud upon his wiic's brow
sit seems to me that tho chance Of drawing
prize is very doubtful. said Hannah as she
took the scheme Here are many thousand
tickets to be sold" The babe tried hard to
snatch the paper. and Hannah laid it aside
Il think shall run the risk" resumed
James glanci"g once more over the paper, and
resting with a nervous longing upon tSc figures
which represented the higher prizes There's
Barney. Ec drew eight hundred dollars about Il
year ago
'Ycs. know it," said Hannah. with more
warmth than she had bctor, manifested. land
what has become Of the mo"cy? You know
he has sluandcrcd it all away. And. James.
money is Of no use to our happiness unless we
come honestly by it."
"uoncstly?' - repeated the young man.
Surely, there is nothing dishonest in drawing
prize in Il lottery"
Il think there is" kindly, but cn,phatically
returned the wife. .:All games Of husu,l, where
money is at stake. are dishonest. We're YOU to
draw alri"coi twenty thousand dollars yn,, would
each rob thousand men Of twenty dollars
or at least. you would take from them mouey
Tor which you return no equivalent. Is It not
gambling i'll every sense Of the wolI?'
20, no; you look upon the matter in to,
strong light"
Perhaps do, but yet 50 it looks to me
What yva draw, some onc.clsc must loose and
perhaps it may DC some one who can afford the
loss no better than you Let us live on
the products Of onr honest gains and we Shall
be happier
James LanninS was uucasy JIc had no
answer iur his wiic's argumcut; ut least no
answer that could spring from His moral con-
victions, aud he let the matter drop. But the
young man could not drive the syren from his
heart. All the next day his head was full Of
prizes, and while he was at his work, he kent
muttcrng over to himself, Twenty thousand
dollars Ten thousand dollars" Five thou
sand dollars" and SO on.
When he wcnt home the next night, he was
almost unhappy ::::h the nervous anxiety into
which he had ,...,wn himself The tcmptcr
had graspca him firmly, anu whenever he
thought Of the lottery, he saw nothing bur
piles of gold and silycr. In short. James Ian
ming had made up his mind that he would buy
the ticket. lie went to the little box where
he had already hundred and twenty dollars
laid up towards paying off the mortgage from
his house The lock clicked with startling
sound, and when he threw back the cover, he
hcsitatcd lie looked at his wife and saw that
she was saL
90, In sure | shall draw Il prizc." he said
with faint, fading smile
lie took four half-caslc> from the box and
put them III his pocket. lis wife said moth
ing. She played with her babe to hide her
sadness, for she did not wish to say more on
the subject. She had seen the little pile of
gold accommodating. and both she and her h,,s
band had been happy in anticipating the day
when The pretty cottage would be all their own
But when she saw those four pieces of gold
taken away from the store, she felt fore
shadowing of evil. She might have spoken
again against the movement. but She SAW that
her husband was sorcly tender on tho subject,
and she let the affair 60 {, tho hands of fate.
4 wcck c)arsod from the time that Jomcs