The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01
WON OUT BY HIS HONESTY
ADAM BACH GOULD HAVE MADE
$4,000 ON A PINT OF WHISKY.
A Hobo Gave Him "a Lottery Ticket
lie Had StOIen-Bach Looked 1t Uo
and Found That II Was Big Win
ming Numbcr-Hc Refused to Take
Advantage of the Tramp.

and Found That 1t Was Big Win
ming Numbcr-Hc Refused to Take
Advantage of the Tramp.
From the New York sun.
Washington.-"The most honest man I
ever knew" said John Boyd the Arizona
irrigation engineer, who was in Washing
ton recently, was a Dutchman named
Adam Bach, who kept a beer saloon in
Little Rock back in the early SOS. In
Baeh's case honesty has proved TO he
the best policy, for he's now got ranch
and big bunch of cattle about hun
dred miles southwest of Wichita, Kan.
and he's pretty rich. The game of honesty
that a few of us down in Little Rock hap
pened TO see him put up on the occasion
I'm going TO talk about was an entirely
unnecessary bit of work on his part, aud
no man ever had a better chance to just
find S75, 600 than Adam did. He turned
down the chance simply because it was in
him 20 be on the level, and you can gam
BILE that his stock in Little Rock and,
in fact, throughout the state of Arkan-
sas, went up a thousand points when tie
story got around Of the square deal he
put up in connection with a greasy lottery
ticket
you remember when the Louisiana
state lottery was doing a wide-open bust
ness-advertising and paying off big prizes,
and at the same time coping quarterly
dividends of about % per cent for the
lucky holders of stock in the outfit?
don't know how the lottery game fastened
at that time back here in the East. but
know that it had the whole West going
Every man that knew ont in the West
/ a1sT1 try at 10 too
month, If only for a one-tenth dollar
ticket, at lottery number and even the
Eoboes that got pinched for vags out that
way were often found, upon being search
ed to be possessed Of one or more greasy
tickets for the monthly drawing in the
big Southern lottery. Il was a craze that
lasted for several years. and would no
doubt be running yet had not the national
authorities gone cunning for the lottery
cutht and closed 1t up; that is, so far as
its public operations were concerned The
lottery company had its agents scattered
throughout all parts of the country. and
whenever some obscure Woodworking
duck captured one of the big lottery prizes
these agents would see to ii that the story
Of the lucky mans wln-out from poverf5,
10 wealth got written about to a finish
in the local papers. This reminds me. by
the way, that | never vet knew of a man
winning a considerable l4ize in the lottery
that got any good out Of his money. ana
I've met with quite a number of chaps
who happened to stumble onto a winning
number Most of EN- have cashed il with
the q. is in less than a year after get
ting hold of the dust.
bach, the honest Dutchman 7 started
10 tell about. had been running his little
beer garden for a couple of wears In Lii
ne Rock, not cleaning up very much a
uay after paying expenses, in spite of The
good beers and The good Dutch dishes he
handed ont Beer wasn't much of a tjppla
out in Little Rock in those davs no,, is
II now; the hard stuff is deemed good
CROUCH winter and summer Every
month, however, Bach dropped $40 of his
profits in an investment in fun ticket
IN the Louisiana lottery Nobody In 1.-the
Rock had ever got a dollar out Of tbs
lottery, although about four-hftbs of The
men in the town invested in the tickets
regularly every month, but Bach read the
papers and the accounts Of the cbans
who won money out of the lottery used
to put a glisten in has eyes
"One afternoon, carly in September 1874
three or tour of US were drinking some
beer out in Bach's little garden under the
trees talking about how near All Of nc bod
come 10 The winning numbers in the lot
terry, announcement of which had been
made in two or three-column ad in mo
morning papers. While we were talking
as dirty, rummy-looking a hobo as ever
saw walked in the front door of the So
bar. 'ii0
6 Hey boss, said the hobo, chow is II
give me a job sweepin' out an scrub
bin fur a few drinks. l got a FIRST DAT
reaches from here l. de territory
want no schveep-ouds, do ~ renNed
Bach. You out Of here get or l fails on
YOU WHAT ''i
The hobo didn't Took worried h,,t be
leaned on the bar and spoke again 10 tho
Rotund Dutchman.
:" Hey Chake,' he said, I les nood 10
rum, homes l do Give me a chanst = do
yer house cleanin' an III ack on de sonare
wild you
=" Go ouid.' answered Bach. turning to
his work. 4 got no rum for heboes notp
THE tramp studied for awhile. and tben
he drew greasy slip of paper out of his
pocket
Hey, Cha1e, he said.
" Chake noddings,' answered Adam
testify. Then his eye caught sight OF he
slip of paper in the hobo's hand. He rec
ognized the ornate printing on the same.
II was a lottery ticket.
3" Vat you got. heinz said Adam. inter-
est in his eyes
Well, Z Civ t yer straight. Cha<e >
said the hobo, twiddling the piece Of ma
per between his fingers. I swiped dis out
o de kick o pal O mine two or three
hundred miles up de road. He foun' il in
a sleepin' car hows dat-in sleepin' car
widoud no varnish on IT,
&C. pack number ! kess. huh? said
Adam, his interested look subsldng.
=" I pass it up said the hobo Me early
ejukashun was neglected an readin, amt
me hard graft
" Led me see, Well? said Adam, and he
put on his spectacles and taking the
grimy ticket from the tramp's paw, look
ed IL over
IDS an Augusd dicket, alretty,' said
Adam, finally.
" De hell you sayr replied the hobo.
All / knowed was dat it's lorry ticket.
An a billion to one chanst at dat. Of
course. Well, chakey. I'm not playin' dat
kind o. odds jes' now. Now, here's de
gaff You gives me quart fur de ticket,
an it's your'n, see? You kin afford L take
a chanst, an l can't. How's dat, so soon.
You vait, answered Adam, and he
| came back TO where we We're sitting ana