The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-28

which is hereby abrogated; and ail laws con. trary to the provisions oe this article are here> psny shail ale a written renunciation of all it's monopoly features in the oface oH she eco retary of state, within sixty days after tho ratification of this constitution.
 ''Of the additional sum raised by licences ea lotteries the hospital at Shreveport shall re cetve $l0.00o annually, and the remaining sum snail oe divided each year among the several ParisheA in the state for the benefit of their schools.
 "So. sir, you see why the Louisiana State Lottery is recognized factor in Louisiana commerce, and if you can 20 anywhere on earth and find a set of men whose commercial standing in the community in which they live IS ,ea any better than that of the lottery a!rec, and are to be congratulated"
 It was proposed that we visit the drawing Of the day following, and Col. Wilson ex- tended an invitation 10 sit with the commis. sioners on the stage and observe at close range the maner in which the drawing was done. said. from the fact that it was . grand draw ing. with the capital prize of $S1o.eoo in the wheel This is the way that 1 came 70 be Early hobbled along with the two cotton bags m ms hand One of these sacks contained the sS6 prihes-that Is. the tickets with the amounts printed thereon; the other contained the tickets the numbers of which drew the prizes at the last monthly drawing. Both these bags were filled a month ago. the necks tied with cord and bound with slips of paper. on the inside folds of which are the auto. graphs of Gen. Early and Eeauregard, and sealed with wax and stamped with a private signet. They have remained lockesl in a pri. vate vault in the lottery office till the hand of Gen. Early took them up once more and car rIed them across the street.
 Every one in New Orleans buys lottery tickets. The sale Is not connned as some peo. pie imagine to the low or the ignorant, but Is common to all classes. Portions of the same north and the "poor whites" of Mississippi; 1; by the most conservative creole families of New orleans and by the voodo negroes of upper st. Louie street. The company has it's agents in every town in the country; Mexico IS dotted with them. You can find the tickets on sale in Europe; you can buy them ID Alex andria and Tn Yokohama. But at New Or leans Is the headquarters of the whole scheme. In every cigar store and liquor suu tSe r ana @TSs store you easily as you can purchase a cigarette, glass of claret, pound of sugar. or quinine pill. At hundreds or points about the city you can see showcases containing the alluring tickets strung on wires and offered for sale. There are men who do nothing else but sell the chances, and you can see their signs, Lucky Chance Store" Number Agency, :" etc, enticing people to try their luck in the lot tery. Each agent keeps account of the prizes drawn on tickets sold by him, and lists of such numbers and prizes are seen, shown outside the window, as an advertisement and The day before the drawing the tickets are haw ked about the streets by peddlers, who call out: Heres your lottery tickets! Draw ing to tomorrow.
 People invest in the lottery as q matter of fact. For twenty nine and ont half days they iive in hope, eNhilarating, buoyaDt hope. For half day they are some what disappOinted - but pah! what have they lost? only dollar generally, and they try 1t again. Who knows but they will win next time. Did not Ambrose Patin, the locksmith on Toulouse street, win 5000? To be sure he lost it next week on a cotton exchange, but that was his own fault !; and there was Mime. Sophie Bois, who used to work in the artificial flower iuH Eue Royale. How could she have started that magnificent undertaking establishment on Magazine street If she had not won Sl,000 last July! And so another twentieth ticket Is bought and we live again in hope for another month. They say, 1t never need ruin a man dollar month is only two bits week. That means one pint less of St. Julian a month or a few less cigars. and then look at the possibil- ities, md fo! Who would hesitate? No one ever seems disheartened or downcast at hts monthly failure to win prize, though months may stretch into years of investment without returns. The people go to the drawing listen to hear which mum Der has won the prize, and when it is over tear mp their old ticket and start out to purchase one of the new issues.
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 expressively with a shrug of the shoulders.
 Marie meeting her friend Lucille. at span Congratulations, ma cherie. Your bon for tue still attends you, l sec" Lucille has been lucky and Canal street will soon see
 The tickets are spoken of as a staple article of food would be in other localities. They almost pass for legal tender. The negroes, regular buyers, mostly of the twentieth tickets. The porter, as he brushes your clothes, insinuates that he is saving all his tips to purchase his regular monthly ticket i; the bootblack shining your bootwear hints that he only lacks quarter to make up the sum necessary to buy his "lot'ry chance" the barber scrapfng your chin asks if you have bought your chance yet, and at last, wearied of the continual repetition and amazed at the lar in 1t just to discover where the power of the fascination lies-and you find out
 We followed the old onfederate leader int 70 the theatre down the middle aisle and up a of the drawing was to take place. There. walt ing him, sat General Beauregard and the as sistant commissioners. the recording clerk, the prizes and the tickets from the wheels To the right of the stage stood wheel" over four feet in diameter. 1t was more like a bass of a continuous strip of wood about eighteen inches wide the sides are of glass. It Is held up free from the floor by stout frame of iron and wood and kept in position by an iron axle, on each end of which was stout crank Two negroes dragged upon the stage pair of large boxes, out of mich they took eight large bags, bag was brought to General Early. who care fully examined it. especially the seal. and then cut the strings which bound the neck. Each bag had papers around the neck similar to those around the necks of the small bags brought in by General Early. The autographs on theee slips of paper were closely scru- tinized. As he finished the inspection of each bag it was lifted by the negroes and emptied into the large wheel through 8 door in the wooden rim. This operation was closely watched by the old men. When they were af1 emptied the wheel was just half full of tickets. These tickets are slips of stout pa per, four inches long by two inches wide, each one containing a mum Der from to 000oo. The figures are printed in large full face charac- ters which. when the ticket is held up. can be plainly distinguished by large part of the audience. Each ticket is tightly rolled and percha about the thickness of . lead pencil and about an inch and . half long. The last to be put in was those which had been drawn out against the prizes st the last drawing. and which had been preserved separately since that time. The little door was then shut and was vigorously turned both ways several times, the little black cylinders being thoron nhlv mixed fin the Onernfi0u The