The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-08
HE FOUND HIS TICKET.
And 1t Came In for a Prize Share In
 the Honduras Lottery.

From the Washington Post.
 First stroke of good luck that I've had since I was serving in Jo Shelby's cav airy corps and captured Q Yankee lieu tenant who, being a sure enough gentle man, presented me with the fine pair of boots he was wearing" said old Captain Jake, late of the Confederate army, happened to me short time before the compromise between the government and the Honduras lottery people put the pol icy dealers out of business.
 This Is how 1t happened" explained the grlzzled old veteran. "I not long ago bought a lottery ticket for 25 cents, as have been in the habit of doing whenever I had quart>r to spare, and put 1t in my pocketbook. There was nothing else in the pocketbook but the ticket, and two or three of my visiting cards. In fact, of recent years my pocketbooks have not been plethoric in any way. l lost this one, however, and regretted it very much because I had some small hopes that the lottery ticket might draw the capital prize, and I would be on easy street for a while.
 But there are number of good, hon. est men in Washington" said the veteran, land one of them found my purse, and hunting me up, restored it to me. Now it's the actual truth that the ticket I was holding came in for a share of an ap- proximate prize, and I cashed in S9 in the very last hours of lottery dealings in this section of the world, and that is what I call a downright piece of good luck. It didn't happen to be the capital prize. If it had been, l would have won big money, but it was welcome all the same.
 And now let me enlighten you fellows little bit on the subject of what we call the Honduras lottery, that has just been persuaded to shut up shop. It was no more a Honduras enterprise than my hat is. It was just the same old time honored Louisiana that our father and grandfathers patronized. The drawings never came off in Honduras any more than they did in Bladensburg, but were made on a barge In the Gulf of Mexico not very far from New Orleans, and most of the printing and what you call the office work was done In Wilmington, Del.
 People have no idea as to the folks right here in this town who made 1t regular business to buy lottery tickets. Of course, all the dealings between the minor agents of the concern and the regular buyers were conducted sub rosa, but at the same time 1t was carried on extensively and with much profit to the lottery company. I'll venture to say that the contributions to the cause in the Dis trct of Columbia footed up at least $50,- 900 per month.
 'Who dealt in them? Why I can't say exactly as to that but men, a great many of them of high standing in busi- hess and social circles here, were among the regulars, and bought a ticket every month Each man thought that some time he would secure the capital prize or at least a big share of it.
 Tn the different departments there were many clerks who purchased tickets everywhere from twenty-five cents to $2, and in some of them there were syn dcates formed with one trusted man to act as agent, and I happened to know that every once in a while some one of the tickets would draw a snug little sum that would be divided up between the members of the syndicate.
 But now" said Captain Jack, and he sighed as he said it, "the whole thing is busted up and some poor fellows have been put out of business. As for the buyers of the tickets, they will have just the same amount of money they paid for the little slips of paper to play on the horses, and that the majority of them will do so 1 see no reason to doubt"