Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-09-10
tFrom the savanpah Republican,
A shrewd CoIored Man.


We have heard good story OF colored
voter named John, who resides az place
mi onIte thousand miles from savannah.
Jobn has boss who is fond oil the excite
ment of playing at the game known as LOT
terv Policy,'' but he does not like 10 be seen
in such offices, and so he furnishes John
with The numbers and money TO play upon
them.
yery fond of reading newspapers, and some
seven or eight months ago he read a story
about lady who was in the haDlt OF Dream
ing about numbers and eivlnE her husDano
husband nut her money in a box and did not
purchase any policy ticket, but took home a
eony of the drawing every night and paid
her nil the prizes she drew, and how on
New Years day he told her she had at last
s'hit'' the lottery and drawn a handsome
little prize, and gave her the money which
remained in the box, after paying all the
prizes she had drawn during the year.
Upon reading this story, orlgnt loea
made It's way through johns wool; he
reckoned up the amount OF money us boss
amount of prizes drawn, and found that the
former largely exceeded the latter. From
these premises John reasoned.
So John procured small tin box, in which
he deposited all the money MS "oossr gave
him with which 10 purchase Lottery Policy
Tickets, " but bought no tickets
He continued, however, TO take the mum
bers and the money from bis "boss," 10
furnish him with copy OF the drawing
every day, and to pay him from the ooS al
the prizes which his boss wouiu naVs
Jrawn upon the numbers furnished if he had
nurcbascd tickets, and at the end oil SIX
months John counted the money in the box
found that after paying all the prizes drawn
bv the numbers furnished by his "boss, II
| contained the handsome little sum OF Two
hundred dollars.
AT first John was very much elated with
his SUCCESS in winning money from MS
"boss, - but after awhile he began to ieel un-
easy about the 5000 in tue box, and pegan
to reason with himself thusly MY hoss
pays me good wages, he gives me plenty
Of good yictuals 10 eat and nice bed to
sleep In, and he don't require me to work
hard, and now have got 5000 OF his money
in that little box, which did not cost me .
cent. and don't feel light about it, so !
don't, Something tells me that ought 20
give him the money and tell him how badly
he has been fooled. But suppose had pur,
chased the tickets as he told me to do, would
not the lottery man have had this money,
and would he now think OF paying II pack
why, then, shoulu NOT keepH Ht ~. pa's ~, -,
the prizes drawn, just as the lsitery man
would have done, dn fact was the lottery
mani and therefore 1 have fairly won the
two hundred dollars, and have just the sam!
right 10 keep it as the lottery man would
have had If had purchased the tickets from
him and had paid the prizes as DO"
John had never heard of logielan or
professor of ethics, but he looked at thu
money in the box, and somehow or other he
could not help thinking that 1t belonged tt
his "boss,'' and that 1t was not right Tor hin
10 keen il. and SO he went 10 him and toll
him all about how he had obtained tn
money, and proposed to return It.
, His "boss, !" however, told John that HI
, had learned him lesson worth more than
,, thousand dollars, and therefore he begget
him 10 accept the money as present. Bot
/ John and his "boss' have come to the con
= cusion that the game of "Lottery Policy
was made TO win, and that the man VIII
plays against it is simply fool.