Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-22
From "Nem Orleans Our Southern
Capital.o
By Julian Ralph in Hdrper's Moodzine 70
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The Louisiana lottery beiug legal zed
tickets are openly displayed in tue shoi
windows, and are sold on the sidewalks
by men, women and children. On,
stove for tie sac of these tickets beaii
such a leg nd ds tLis on It's sign: Thii
is lucky Number Eleven. More win
ming tickets sold here than any wher,
else in town.
There was drawing while l was II
the city, and knowing that the lotter.
CON pany was not to ask for renewal o
Its privileges. 1 avaIled myself of tn,
opportunity 10 witness its chief public
operation ard the Historic characteli
who have been induced by la ge salarie
to figure for it. The drawing tool
place in a the. called the "Academl
OF Music" az eleven O'Clock in tn,
morning. Tue yellow gas-jets battleC
Into which the people were pressing
without let or qualification. The Thea
ire was two-thIrds full at last. On tht
stage, set with parlor scene, was &
knot of men between two wheels. The
wheel On the right was q band Of silver
with sides Of glass and with a door IL
the metal rim. A bushel of little black
gutta-percha envelopes the size of dom.
inoes lad been poured into this wheel
and a white boy, blindfolded with 9
handkerchief, stood at the handle OF
the crank by which the wheel wai
turned. He had one arm In the door oil
the wheel, and with the hand of the
other arm was Offering tiny envelope
to Gen. Bsauregard-the last surviving
general who served on either side Ill
our late war. A fine most gentle anly.
oklng man he Is, with the features of
a French couTtieI, with snowy hair, a
white moustache, a little goatee, and
the pinkest skin a haby ever knew. He
was faultlessly dressed. Across the
stage, beside very much larger wheel OF
parti-colored boards, sat Major General
Jubal 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 col I
If the uniform he distinguished by his
valor as soldier.
BY each general stood a blindfoldeu
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;
II. N the little wheel to General
Beauregard came the numbers of dol
lars that formed the prize each ticket
had won. BY each general stood a
crier. Early read out, Twenty. one
thousand ne hundred and fifty-two;''
and Beauregard, having steled the
gutta- -percha case of billet, read out,
Two hunded dollars" Then tile
criers took the bIllets and cried the
numbers. "Tw, nty-One thousand one
hundred and ffty-'wo" from one;
"Tew hundred dolldrs' from the other,
WHO, by-the-way, called out tew hun
dred dollars at least tew hundred times.
But all the prizes were not of that
amount. / CHANGED to hear the capital
pgIZa read out
"Twenty-eight thousand four hun
dred and thirty-niue" said Early.
Three hundred thousand dollars, "
said BssuTegard.
The effect was startling; indeed the
startled senses refused to graep the
meaning of the words. The cIi rs re-
peated the figures. The people in the
theatre craned forward, a hundred
pencils shot over pads or bits of paper
in mems and wOmen's laps. Then a
tnurmur OF voices sounded all over the
house. 7 he routine ON the stage was
halted, for the cTierS took The two bit2
of paper 10 some clerks who sat at
tables III the farther part of the Stage,
to allow them to verify the importa
figures. Then he routine began anew.