, 1875-02-21

/ my sistaf's ticket saa understand :~ona c:1-
ci1ar i have seen that it hss drawn przo.
! Nj e. me have vtur tlciei.
lily friend produced his counon:: apd the man.
ager, aftef tooa!ns over sayen leayars, sad:
y fes, bare if IL. No. Lit AaY d1aa q tua sua
Of q, 200 yon hare twelfth ticket. and are d.
tlsd ta sieo: s,go this receipt and you siall
| handed him $97 aud tEo tickets.
"Seo here" said my friend, s'ho1 il this? +
| don't understand this. ] have only $97 and tvo
tickets; What are these tickets for7 don't
'.My friend" anavered the m9p4gsr,-spd hs
looked - though hs presently e4rscted 70 s.
TRANSLATED to tue highest haayen,-'sI pa,cef7s
| that you are unacquainted with these maftaIa
It is the custom. Ne invariably give tha two
tickets in cases Of this kind. When tAa pa1t
Oh, may be dead before the ne4t drawing:
can't wait for that. am going away TO-DAY
and will soon be in Wyomins and, besides Isc,
merely trustee for my sister in this matter, and
don't like to take anything but money, said ~
friend. -
The manager looked severe, and replied. ava
must have rule, q custom. aud We cannot d.
part from it, OF dev1ate. II, however,, YOU ara
gaing away He can give you . special drawing st
once ; We have authority to do 80 iu SUCH casas.1
Ny friend said ea would have special draw
iog, and be done With the matter; SO that hs
might go.
"Ricaines," cried the manager, ''placa tha
hazard CLOTH"
While R:cp1nga waa arranging The CLOTH, Ehsch
contained great many numbers upon it, the
gentlemen 5eatad around the tables commenced
converting together. and heard tho following:
"Hohart. yon had better so aud SEQ it tho
Bibles tIem u !, the Methodist Book Concern hs!s
$4,000 from tue Young Mems Christian s Assoc.
alton OF New York, for the eraa hopper sufferers
of tue West. By express to-day. Please LOOK
eve ought" said aaothar. ''to bare nors
Gentlemen" said one, rising. We ought to
ho at our duty. We ought to be out hy the high
ways and hedges doing somel thing good for Gods
poor. Let va TO our duty" anil four men ross
and left the room, Jus: at that moment heard
voice in an adjoining room lifted uD in tbs 4oF
loving antique hy inn:
There IL = fountain drled With blood,
prawn from Immanuel's reius;
AEd sinners plunged beneath that do14
Iosa III thett guilty etain1.
"Amon," said the manager, whom tho last
words of the verse had died away. Filled with
curiosity at hearing the sinzia:, asked the
angelic smile. ''these are tho rooms Of thx
Young Mems Chriatian Association OF this city,
and yon can hear singing and praying here s!efy
lA0 uA1RIu-ClUlu 1eIAE Ee4uys IuF A4oE0 N&1@
me aue Of tho tickets, saying: - Hars, Joa taxa
this and Try your luck. You might drag enough
money f. endoy ca!ls$e q university"
:. q! " " yia take h; it, said 'aua mako draw, i
.sThere ia no gambling about it." said tho
manager. '::The eqtire clergy OF Chicago p4t-
roaize this iostit1tlop. Only few DAYS ago Dr.
Swing vas in here snd drew $500, and immedi-
ately gaze it away in charity"
The manager dealt my friend fye cards. aud
counted tho spots on them ~ follows: .'Fivs
and three are eight and four Is tHe1Te, and three
is fifteen, and ai1 is twenrV-one; Nr. Adrids,
you are lucky. You havo drawn set OF china
valued at s72 which you will get OF our store 3D.
joining this, BY presenting this check"
He then dealt me five cards, sud counting tho
claimed: '.9ou too, hare been very lucky. You
have drawn S10p }n g1een5acks."
He laid down q hnadrel-dolIar bill and Was
about to pick it up, when he stopped me gently.
and said: ''No, no, not ret; BY the rules of
our Society you are compelled to deposit WITH ua;
that is you must advance to US that is Tqq must
ppt up $50 and draw again.. Ton must put up $59
against the S100 yo1 haTs& accumulated from
Dur organization. You zee you have drawn i pecu-
iar number; No. 80 is pee nIar, and by tho iaE of
ouf Society you are compelled to put up, asI
hage already stated, $40; the hazard ia , tbqn77
sand to one that you will aceamnqlate m by TIE Fe4t
iraught. - '
His wonders to perform.
Is You might accumulate enough money 10 found
) grant charitable Institution, Or build charch-s
''Ay friend" said I, II do not catch the en-
ire drift Of your discourse. cannot under
stand this matter in all it's bearings
md ramifcatons. I grope in the dark.
fou have me- at disadvantage. Ny
Eunda, unfortunately, are at ms hotel II yoa
:an Without violating tho rulea Of your Society,
aold this matter in abayanca until O'Clock,
Ei!l probe this ! thing to the bottom: Esnt te
.'0h, certainly, cortainlY, said the manager.
II have large discretion in this matter, and
!ill Of course hold the matter open until 1
o'clock"
With this understanding IN company with my
riend, left the establishment. When We got
.poa the street. I aakad my good
'uend i ha understood that putting
lp business. and he said il vas
lot perfectly clear to him. Ne aoou sep2rsted-
aext day 7 saw him Iounging around the hotel,
md said to him, halo, Aldrids, you didn'.
ret OF yasterday7'. He Haid INC, r and smiled
elckly suile. "Wel" said BY Way Of aqn-
;ee, when the Occidental Placer snd Quartz
dining Company get to work send me the fr1t
on Of gold O. O. d." and I left the cusa hunt
ug some other man to whom he might ahou his
luggeta. OF courae, / never went back to solys
ha putin Rutting-np business: HENRY V1aoE4r+
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