The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-05
srron the Baltimore Americans
I xroo,r Far tho FO0a-CafcRcf.

rrror, the Baltimore Americans
Tror,s for tho Foos-Catchcr.
Yt;s not likely that the ,fool.catcher VIII
sn;ov sinecurc on this side oil judgment
s,ay He has had tolerably active employ
y"c,,, Of late years-so active, indeed, that ne
wight he excused Tor wishing that he couia
find deputies OF Sufficient discrimination ana
energy to relieve him. OF a portion OIL us
onerous aud incessan, duties, or tbat iha.Ihs
with one OF his kind might produce rsco
of similar officials. The social ldaot' '.ie W.
nestle zauy, and the public c'o"n; letiu
iuce their species necessarily, anu uiuausn
his field Of action. but we nave u'" one
institution lately created that NUS , nav.
.a,'sea hfrn 10 desp.ir Of his own esncrncy
&c : CORRECTIVE of the tendency OF men
% s,snlay and magnify their folly. "hea
no roads in the newspapers the sedec-
rive announcements Of the managers ef
The Scrubtown Library LOTTERY Assoc'a-
ton or the Metropolitan Exposition
Companv. promising the return 70 inc
investor OF surls varying from 'qaartcf
nf million 10 hundred dollars, the guam
ti,v SependSng upou aalotmeRts made by the:
soddess Fortune through tte medium OF
rpyolying wheel, he must inevitably cor
cnsde that his brisk slaughter has in no way
decimated the vast congregation OF zoos.
Enr no Knows that a numerous muit!ture
viii snan nj the bait; that their dollars will
be offered NJ on the unceturniDg altar 9:
supposirio1,s chance; that, although cooler.
hnadcd neople have demonstrated 10 them
by nathenaticaI certanty THAI they hac oet-
tc. tsEe stock in an enterT1se 10 oc!iu
bridge to the moon, or an exploring eNpedl-
ton to Sinbad's Valley Of diamonds, they
will stu rush in to sacriicefheir money to the
kbayes whose presenting sbrewdness upon
the weakness OF human nature eHempts
them from bis handcutfs, while he sadly ga
Tiers in their victims with a conviction that
he never gathered more thorousG culprits
TO his harvest.
Here. now. for instance. is the same Scrub
town Library Lottery Association appealing
TO the fools with its 'teUpting prospectus oil
The cli:eripg wealth that perhaps lays in the
n1rcbase Of a single ticket in The scheme OF
building a public khrary for the thriving
community on the banks o. the ONO.
.Wbat." says the Association, "will you
let the te,l-doilar gTecnback cloder in your
pocket wien you D2ay make An Investment
Of il that has in it the possibilities OF Win
mig our magnificent prize q two hundred
anG fifty thousand? Will yea neglect this
opportunity to make yourself rich in mo-
ments" And SO the pool, easy, credulo@s
man ra!ls.n prey 10 the inldious temptatsou,
and his money passes away into those
Golfers from which no sree.t5ackS ever re-
turn. OR, perhaps, it: IS the Metropoft''n
Company HAT ipyeigles 'hir with induce
aneptS to an investment IN luna upon
which interest is 10 be distributed by some
curious ard mysterious process OF chance
that paJs one man i cooper cent. and the
other nothing. 1t matters little through
which route the fool .rushes in, the result is
sure to be the same; and when that sanfe
reaper of his species calls around TO summon
him he may possibly awake to conception
of the full measure of his folly. The e COL
Catcher might say to him, My dear si7, |
cannot possibly leave you behind. u sou had
fought The tiger, epgases in tusseI with the
little ioker, or bet that Grant would beelect.
ed to a third term; l might excuse sou. In
any such ventures VOC might have perhaps
hat some chance Of not being totally de-
frauded, or you might have been pardcned
of ANYTHING worse than lamentable lack OF
Judgment. BIT really, when you wentinto
gambling, with all the chances OF mi!!lon
to one against yorh and had the sad expert
ence of other idiots to warn you away, why
you positively can't be let off. In OFT jul.
risprudenee there is no possible escape for
the man who buys tickets in the ScrltBtoWn
or the Metropolitan. It has been decided
long ago that the possession Of their paper
through the medium of purchase is:1sima
Hacte evidence OF, your being fool, and the
testimony is so convincing that 60 appeal is
allowed. So, march elong, sir; but If you
choose you can leave behind you warning
to your posterity to beware Of the Scrub.
town and Metropolitan"
AS We observe that most of these :estima-
bic iustitutiOns.are .inst now dropping their
lines for the hooking Of the guIliole, and
that the .unsnspecting rural press Of Mary
land are paying no attention 10 the statute
which inllihits them from helping 'to>eatch
domestic mu!ets, it Is j ust as well to give
notice that the I oOkCalc has iIis 'eyeGpon
the investors in the ScCubtown Library and
the Metropolitan Exposition. AS he is l1ex-
.orable in hi, judgments and keea'in his per-
ceptions, we have -yens,lred to hint te our
friends in thecouItEy districts that they
should pass over unheelugly that interest.
ing item which turus upweekly in the county
paper concerning the benefits of the:purchase
of Scrubtown and Metropolitan tickets. BOT
Though the publisher sarge them ever so
strongly shonld they forget that awful.y ision
of the Fool.Catcher which impends.ever be.
fore him who is sedueed'Dy either If they
have any spare money to;ni>k let them put it
into some venture that. msy not he absolute.
ly wicked and treacheroM. In either case
they are about equally sure never TO scent
again, but still the Fool-Caecher mag pardon
anything but being rictlmjzod by the Scrub
town or metropolitan. .UFon that point,
however, he is imp!acable.. We hope the
ruraiists will take notice in time to avoid the
<lopble it'll al being swindled and thea cap
tured by the Fool Catcher.
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