Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-23
From New Orleans, Our Southern
Capital"

The Louisiana lottery being lessiize6.
tickets are openly displayed IN the shop
windows, and are sold on the sidewalks
by men, women and children. One
store ior the sale of these ties cts bears
such legend as this on Its sign: This
IS lucky Numher Eleven. More winning
tckets sold here than anywhere else in
Town.
There was a drawing while was in
the ty, and knowing that the lottery
company WAS not TO ak for renewal of
Its privileges, | availed myself OF the OBJ
portunity to witness its chief public
operation and the historic characters
who have been induced by large salaries
o figure for 1t. The drawing took place
n thedter called 1.-THE Academy OF
Music" at eleven O'Clock III the morn
ing. The yellow gas jets battled feetly
with the dayl ght III the lobby into
which the people were press ng without
ct or qua 'tiaation, The theater was
wo-thirds full at last On the stage, set
with par or scene, was knot Of men
between ,wo wheels. The wheel on the
right was band of silver, with sides of
glass and with door in the metal rim,
A bushel of little black gutta-percha en-.
velopes the size of domiuoes had been
poured into this wheel, and white ooy,
blindfolded with a handkerchief, stood
at the handle tf the crank by which the
wheel was turned. He had one arm IN
tire door of the wheei and with the hand
Of the other arm was offering tiny en-
velope to Gen. Beauregard-tke last
s irviving general who served on either
side in our late war. A fine, most gen
tlemauly-i yoklng man he is, with the
features II a French court.er, with snowy
halr, white mustache, a little goatee,
ard the pinkest skin baby ever knew.
He was lau tlessly dressed. Across the
stage, beside a very much larger wheel,
OF parti c0lored boards, sat Major Gen
eral Jubai A. Early-a perfect type of
the conventional figure of Father Time
tall portly, stoop- -shouldered, partly bald
and with long, heavy, white beard.
He was dressed all in the color of the
uniform he distinguished by his valor as
a soldier.
By each general stood blindfolded
boy, taking numbers out of the wheels,
and handing them to the generals.
From the big wheel to Major. General
Early came the numbers OF the tickets;
from the little wheel to General Beau,
regard came the numbers OF dollars that
formed the prizs each ticket had won.
By each general stood a Crier. Early
read out, "Twenty-one thousand one
hundred and tifty-two )" and Beauregard,
having shelled the gu Ia percha case eff
billet, read out, 1.-Two hundred dol
lars" Then the criers took the b.llets
and cried the numhe 8. Twenty one
thousand one hundred and fity-two "
from one Two hundred dollars" from
the other, who, by the way, called out
two hundred dollars at least two hun
d.ed times. But all the prizes were not
of that amount. chanced to hear the
capital prize read out.
" Twenty-eight thousand Our hundred
and thirty-nine," said Early. Three
hum red thousand dollars" said Deau-
regard. n,..
The effect was startling; indeed the
startled senses refused to grasp the
meaning of the words. The crlers re-
peated the figures. The people in the
theater craned forward, hundred pen
ellis shot over pads or bits Of paper in
mems and women's laps. Tnen a muir
muir OF voicesseunded all over the house
The routine on the stage was hated, fol
tile crlers took the two bits of paper
to some clerks who sat at tables in the
arther part oil the stsge, to al ow them
t verify thu important fgures. Then
The routine began in4w-By Juhun
Ralph in Harper's Magazine for Feb.
ruary.