St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-08-12
ALL A MISTAKE.
NJ. QUAD WASN'T EXACTLY BuNKoED
I'M CHICAGO.

iN CF1jCAGO.
1t Is Always a Very Bad Thing to BE Mis-
judged, and Quad Feels Very Much Pain
ed and HumiIiated-The Facts In tn,
Case.
Copyright, 1883, by Charles B. Lewisl
have been considerably panied and hu
inflated over the fact that an item is goins
the rounds of the press to the effect that
was bunkoed out of $500 at the World.
fair. Some of the editors extend theil
heartfelt sympathies; others advise me tt
apply to the courts for guardian. Had il
been an item charging me with sheer
stealing. bigamy, arson or jail breaking
should have laid back on my dignity and
never let on that I was worried AS it is ]
feel that it is due my character to make an
explanation
| was taking a stroll on the Midway
plalsance when stranger tapped me on
the shoulder and joyfully exclaimed:
Hello, old man! but who'd have thought
OF meeting you herer'
We shook hands. I didn't exactly re-
member whether his name was Jones or
i
Sullivan-Corbett prize fight or at the open
Ing OF new cemetery up the Hudson l
am no hand to go into all these little de-
tails.
How are all the boys on Newspaper
row." he asked as he offered me cigar.
All well and content, . I replied as bit
the Ssd off.
And my friend the mayor"
tATalerably fair Y heliayp
And the boys down in Wall street keep
busy, see?"
"Yesn
well, old man, I'm a heap glad met
you. just does my eyes good to look at a
man from New Yorki Remember our lit
tie trip to Long Island last summera"
II do"
I humbly acknowledge that didn't re-
member anything of the kind, but didn't
want to hurt the mans feelings
And our excursion to Long Branchs"
"Yes."
| humbly acknowledge again that /
prevaricated, but what was | to dor You
can't hurt q man more than to forget you
went on an excursion with him.
By George but this is lucky" he feel
ingly exclaimed as he patted me on the
shoulder. you've got a family Bible in
the house, of course?"
sI-I-yes.
"But you've no objection to new one
something in Turkey--morocco- -gilt-edged
q 600 illustrations-worth S25S"
NO.
Then come with me- Big publishing
house down here failed the other day, and
bought 100 Bibles for song. Have given
away all but five to my friends. just lit
tie token of remembrance, you know
something to keep my memory green.''
Gould suspect such man as that of
having evil designs? Had the slightest
reason for taking him for a bunko mans
It's all right enough to say / ought to
have known better than to 60 with him,
but put yourself in my place. Does it |
seem possible that a bad man would want
to present you with gilt edged Bible
worth S25? We walked side by side for a
good many squares and finally turned into |
a doorway and ascended a flight of stairs |
and entered d small room. There were five |
Bibles piled up on a counter-just such |
Bibles as my friend had described He or |
dered a narrow minded young man to put |
one of them in a box and address it to me, |
charges prepaid. | was expressing my
thanks in a broken voice when sad faced |
young man called our attention to the fact |
that he was an agent for a Cuban lottery, |
and that he would be rejoiced to see us hit |
the corporation for about $50, 900. / thought
it real kind of him to express himself in |
that way, and frankly told him So That I
seemed to please him, and after that
think he gave me his full confidence
The dear friend who had brought me to
the Bible house didn't seem to take any in
terest in hitting $4,000 in that lottery
that is, he didn't for the first few minutes.
Il was only after the sad faced young man
had explained how much good we could ac-
complish in the name of charity with such
4 sum of money that he threw off his
mantle of Indifference and took me aside
for private talk He said we had struck
= soft snap and that it would be almost
criminal on our part not to take advan-
5age of it. His half of what we struck
would be turned over to a Chicago hospital,
while might do as / liked with mine,
though / would probably remember the
orphans of New York in liberal manner.
/ believe we bought S10Qwerth of tickets
think the idea was to hit all the prizes in
5he lottery at once and bankrupt the whole
sland of Cuba. Then we put up $3.50 apiece
20 prove to the sad faced young man that
we were financially responsible for some
hing or other. My friend seemed to know
ust what to do, and let him manage the
business. There was drawing. 1t was q
lrawing without any great amount of cere-
nony connected with it. We didn't hit
The manager was sorry for us
md suggested another trial. We somehow
missed it again by hairbreadth, and we
ried it again. We came within just one
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