The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-10

 adelphia, was raised and it's peal of bells secured.
 These Christ Church bells are al- most as we'll known and historical in the Quaker City as are "Bow bells" in London; the whole peal weigh over nine thousand pounds, and are very harmonious-literally "music by the pound." They were cast in London and brought over with great care and large expense to Philadelphia. The lottery the funds of which procured these bells was regarded by the good men and women at the time as pub- lie benefit.
 In New England lottery was orig mated for the purpose of raising funds to supply sailors and strangers with Bibles, and succeeded largely in &C., complaining its object. Thus a lot tery became a Bible society. Vari- ous Episcopal and Congregational churches at Newport and elsewhere have been built with funds raised by lotteries.
 Two of the most noted preachers in this country, Increase and Cotton Mather, lived and died in houses built by lotteries, and the Rev. Dr. Elipha- let Mott, of Union College, has writ ten the best, because most truthful, defense of the lottery system. Rev. Dr. Mott was 8 historical character, the grandfather of the present Bishop Henry Goldman Potter, of New York, and the inventor of the celebrated Mott stove. The defense of the lottery system was before the New York Leg islature.
 The first Episcopal church in Brook lyn, St. Ann's on the Heights, was erected largely by means of lottery, under the personal direction of the Rev. Dr. Page.
 The famous charity hospital of New Orleans, one of the historic institu- tions of the country, has for many years been partly supported by over quarter of a million of dollars re- ceived for it during that period from the Louisiana State Lottery.
 Christ Church, in Louisiana, the first Protestant church in that state, was erected on site purchased by lottery funds, and various similar in- stances could be cited.
 Colleges and schools in America, almost without number, have from time to time been indebted to lotteries for their erection or completion. Dartmouth College, Harvard College, Leicester Academy, Rhode Island Col lege, Williamstown Free School, some dozen of educational institutions in New York State and Pennsylvania and scores of institutions through the south and west might be enumerated. Roads have been constructed by lot tery funds, also bridges, canals and manufactories. In addition to the Union Canal, already mentioned, the Amoskeag Canal and the Wilton Ca nal may be cited, while Hatfield Bridge, River Park Bridge, Kennebec Bridge, the Milton Paper Mill, the Connecticut Manufactory, all owe their very existence to the lottery system.
 To this system Rhode Island owes to-day it's free schools, Connecticut it's orphan and insane asylums. Even that once proud boast of New York State, in it's days "the greatest water way in the world," the Erie Canal, was indebted for it's early progress to the lottery. Delaware owes to its schools and Masonic Institute, Mary land numberless public charities, Vir- ginia it's university and public roads, the Father of our Country personally managing lottery for the latter pur- pose. The Carolinas and other south. ern states have been signally aided and largely benefited by this means, as have nearly all the western states, the public library of Louisville, the Fire Department and Charity Hos. pital of St. Louis being prominent cases in point.
 It may, in fact, be stated without exaggeration, that the original settle ment of large portion of the United States was due to the liberal lottery grant given to "the Virginia Com pany" by James the First, while no less patriot than Thomas Jefferson was strongly in favor of raising funds to carry out the ideas of the first "Continental Congress" in 1776, by means ot public lottery, under the management of the infant government.
 One thing is certa;n-during what are now called "the good old times" and are regarded as 'the best days of the republic," lotteries flourished under government sanction. During the first half century of the United States existence as nation, seventy three lottery grants were licensed, over eighty-five per cent of the funds of which were devoted to public pur- poses and benefits.
 But times have changed. There is fashion in lotteries, as in everything else, and for awhile at least, lotteries