Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-24
From NEW orleans. oar southern

Capital"
The Louisiana lottery being localized.
tickets are openly displayed In the shop
windows, aud are eoId on the sidewalks
by men, women and children. One
store Tor the sale OF these tickets bears
such legend ae this on its sign: This
Is lucky Number Eleven. More winning
tickets sold here than anywhere else in
Town.
There WAS drawing while | was in
the city, and knowing that the lottery
company was not 10 ask for renewal Of
its privileges, awaited myself OF the Oh
poTtunity to witness its chief public
operation and the historic characters
who have been induced by large salaries
TO figure for IL. The drawing took place
in . theater called 1.-THE Academy OF
Music, At eleven o'clock in this morning.
rhe yellow gas jets battied ieebly with
the daylight in the lobby into which
the people were pressing without let or
qualification. The theater was two
thirds full at last. On the stage. set
with q parlor scene, was knot OF men
between two wheels. The wheel on the
right was band of silver, with sides OF
glass and with q door in the metal rim.
A bushel OF little black gutta- percha en-
velopes the size Of dominoes had been
CURED into this wheel, and white boy
blindfolded with a handkerchief, stood
at the handle OF the crank by which the
wheel Was turned. He had one arm In
the door OF the wheel, and with the
hand OF the other arm was Offering tiny
envelope to Gen. Beauregard-lhe last
surviving general who served on either
side in our late war. A fine, most gen.
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features OF French courtier, with snowy
hair, white mustache, q little goatee,
and the pinkest skin baby ever knew.
He was iaultiessly dressed. Across the
stage, beside very much larger wheel
OF parti-colored boards, sat Maior-Gen-
eral Jubal A. Eariy-a perfect ty pc of the
conventional figure of Father Time; tall,
portly, stoop shoulder, rarity laid,
and with a long, heavy, white beard.
He was dressed all in the color of the
uniform he distinguished by his valor al
. soldier.
By each general stood blindfolded
boy, taxing numbers out Of the wheels
and handing them to the generals
From the big wheel to Major. Genera
Early came the numbers of the tickets
from the little wheel to General Beau
regard came the number OF dollars that
formed the prize each ticket had won
By each general stood crier. Early
read out, ''Twenty-one thousand one
hundred and fifty two" and Beauregard
having shelled the gutta- percha CAGE of
billet. read out, Two hundred dol
lars" Then the criers took the Billet
and cried the numbers. 'Tsenty-ont
thousand one hundred and fifty two
from one; Two hundred dollars" fion
the other, who, blythe way, called ou
two hundred dollars at least two hundred
times. But all the prizes were not O
that amount. 1 CHANGED to hear tn,
capital prize read cut.
'Twenty-eight thousand four hundret
and thirty nine," said Early. ''Three
hundred thousand dollars" said Beau
regard.
The effect was startling; indeed tn,
startled senses refused to. grasp tn
meaning of the words. The criers re
peated the figures. The people in tn,
theater craned forward, a hundred pen
ellis shot over pads or bits of paper il
mems and women'a laps. Then muir
muir of voices sounded all over the house
The routine on the stage was halted
for the criers took the two bits OF pape
to some clerks who sat at tables in tn
farther part of the stage, to allow then
to verify the important figures. Thel
the routine began anew.-By Jullal
Ralph in Harper's Magazine for Feb
ruary.