, 1872-12-29
THEY SAW A GREAT LIGHT.
A Christmas Story, by e. e. Hale.
CHAPTER /,
ANOTHER GENERATION.
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gave the results Of the drawing Of the great
Massachusetts State Lottery of the Eastern
Lands in the Waldo Patent.
Hi. Cults, the elder, took the Gazette, and
less but even he showed the eager anxiety
which they all felt. as he tore OF the wrapper aud
unfo1ded the fatal sheet. 4 Letter from London"
"Letter from PHILADELPHIA g Child with Two
Heads, thus he ran down tho columns Of the
little page, uncasily. ''uero it is! hero it is!
Drawing Of the Great State Lottery. in tho
presence of the Honorable Treasurer OF tho
Commonwealth, and Of their Honors the Com
misaione1s Of the Honorable Council, WAS drawn
yesterday, at tho State House, the first dstrlbu-
Third, 59l-6. Fourth, 59i-1. Fifth and
here Mr.. Cults started off his feet" Fifth,
2197-' sybil, my darling! it is SO! 21o-7.
think it should come ao!''
And he fairly sat down, and buried Ills head in
his hands, and cried.
The others for tull minute did not daro
break in on excitement so intense and were
client; but in 8 minute more, Ct COURSE little
Simeon, the youngest Of the tribes who wero
represented there, gained courage to pick up tho
paper, and to spell out again the same words
which his father had read with SO much ono
ton; and, with his sister Sally. who came to
help him, to add to the store of information, as
to what priZo number r5-219-7-mlght bring.
For this WAS q lottery in which there were no
blanks. The old Commonwealth Of Massachu-
fetts, having terrible war debts to pay after tho
Revolution, had nothing but lands in Maine to
ray them with. Now lands in Maine we're not
very salabe, and If the simple and ordinary
process Of sale had been followed, the lands
might not have been sold till this day. So they
time seemed gigantic. Every ticket-holder had
some piece of land awarded to him, I think
but the most, fear, the lands wcro hardly
worth the hunting up, to settle upon. But, to
induce as many to buy as might, there 'were
prizes. No, l, I think, even had - stately man
zion" on the land, according to the adyortiso-
ment. No. 2 had some special water-power fa-
cilities. No. 5, which Ar. Cutts' ticket had
drawn, was two thousand acres on Tripp's Cove,
described in the programme as that we'll
known harbor Of refuge, where Fifty Linc-of-
Battle Ship could lie in safety" To this covo
the two thousand acres so adjoined that
the programme represented them as the site
Of the great "Ncrcantlo Metropolis Of the Fu-
ture."
Samuel Cults was too old man, and had al
ready tested too critically his own powers in what
the world calls s'business," by cad satire, to
give great deal Of faith to the promises Of tho
prospectus as to the commercial prosperity Of
1rpp's Cove. He had come out of the Revolu-
ton a Brigadier General, with Gu honor
able record Of service; with rheumatism
which would never be cured, with q good deal
of paper money which would never be redeemed,
which the Continent and the Commonwealth had
paid him for his sevon years, and without that
place in the world OF peace which he had had
when these years began. The very severest
trial OF the Revolution was to be found in the
condition in which the officers Of the army was
left after twas over. There wero men who had
distinguished themselves in their profession,
and WHO had done their very best to make that
profession unnecessary in the future. To so
back to their old ca1ings was hard. Other men
we're il their places, and there did not seem to
70 toulo ~, NY. onuef ti .nu n5eseu poutica, sa
vas no such rapid spring OF the material a1l;1
R1espe.1ty OF tne c94ntry Us snou!o
nnd 1or them nav ne1os IN nc" -, enter
PIhe ieaee ald anytnng oq5 leaa IN flentf. ett1
Gov bafofa sbe could be- tempted WITH % her nretty 1
ienoer t. tpos 70 press ,ne s'upple hnu tno ashe
!e1t ny ne havoc OF war ana thus II was that
lehefA Cutts had returned q 70 nus ola & love w9ons
~ nsa a511ea n ieaSe .. npseaco laSt oeio.s
bsp ~ d at tune
any man who had spent seven years j in learning
no" % 90 "e Wal Vha tr ner1a ~ ps m
IN qok Ma mas ~ ~ roor ~ t o,,
tatoes ano lnuan meaA enough e 99E OF ~:a worn, 5
Uut 1a11a ~ Aeep osg..' .e "it1' i';,I1au 49,
@ ther growing 1amuy OF +w;os enloaen .aaeo
nllVe. He hao' once OF t"iee' gohIe
up TO Boston 70 uno "hae cIauGes Mleue
be I tor hm to hsr9 zen ba cs
he had joined bome old boon companions, "hc
had gore out to the Western heservo!n Northnrn q,
UMo, TO see "nat opening mig1t Dc tnefo. pn1
me OUTLOOK seemoa no; an1asofanlo i;ot tor cariS
aag so 1aI; o'erlana, aencate woman e,1
and sl3 little GhhoIen INTO "Aaer.
Less: II ne conlq nave sc,apeo to5etnel
q nttle money, ne eala' he "outa pu1
Z share in one OF tue sMps ne saw rottng II
Eoston or Salem, and try some foreign aaven'
ture. But, alas! the ships would not have beer
Iottlng had It been easy Tor any man to scrapt
together little money to BUY them. and SO
year in and year out, Samuel Cults and bus wift
dressed the children more and more PLAINLY
bought less sugar and moro molnsses
brought down the family diet more
etrictly to pork and beans, pea-soup
hasty-puddlng, and r5e-and- Indian and sam
uel Cults. looked more and more sadly on tn
prospect before these ooys anu girls, ano IL
life fof which ho Was training them
10 not think he WAS a P, onlgate my oea
coueln Eunlce, because he had bought lottery
ticket. T1case to Observe that to buy lottery
tickets was represented to- bo as mucl
the duty Of ell good citizens,
it Was proved to bo, eleven years ago. you
duty to make Havelocks and to knit stockings
Samuel Cults. in the outset, had bought his lot
tery-ticket only "to encourage tho others" an
to do his honorable share in paying the va