Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-20
CHAPTER "


One morning, few DAYS later. Joshua
was walking moodily up the village road
with his hands in his pockets He was
renectlng, IN spirit of great discomfort,
on the hardships of his situation.
Here am l." he said to himself. "eigh-
teen years old, and father treats me like
boy of ten. I'm most a man, and all
he gives me for pocket money is twenty
five cents a week. There's Dick Storrs,
whose father isn't a quarter as rich es
mine, gets a dollar a week. He's only
sixteen, too
One important difference between him
self and Dick Storrs did not occur to
Joshua. Dick worked in shoeshop, and
it was out of his own wages that his faith
e" allowed him a dollar a week. Joshua
earned nothing at ALL
Its mean - reflected Joshua. There
amt boy of my age in Stapleton that's
so meanly treated, and yet my fathers
the richest man in town. l wish knew
what to do to get little money"
At this moment he saw Sam Crawford
approaching him. Sam was perhaps a
year younger than Joshua. he had for
merly lived in the village, but was now
in a situation in New York, and was
only in Stapleton for a few days.
How are you, Joshua?" said Sam.
I'm going round to the ice cream saloon.
Won't you come with me?"
Eyes, if you'll treat. 1 haven't got any
money"
'You ought to have. The old mans
got plenty"
That's so. But he's getting meaner
every day."
Look here' said Sam, suddenly; Il
have an idea. Did you ever buy a lottery
ticket?"
NO" answered Joshua.
"There's a fellow | know in New York
that drew a prize of a thousand dollars,
and how much do you think he paid for
ticket?'
81 don't know"
How long ago is that?' asked Joshua,
becoming Interested
only two months ago"
"Do you know him."
Eyes, I know him as we'll as | know
you He is clerk in a store just opposite
ours. When he got the money he gave
half a dozen of us a big dinner. We mad
jolly time
"a thousand dollars for five " repeat
ed Joshua. He was awfully lucky
1.-The fellow | was speaking of gets
lottery papers regularly. I'll ask him
foi one, and send it to you as soon as |
get back to the city"
81 wish you would" said Joshua.
'Wouldn't it be something great if I
could draw a prize of thousand dol
larsW
"I'll bet it would. 1t would make you
independent of the old man. You wouldn't
care much for his twenty-five cents a
week then"
Joshua and Sam went into the ice
cream saloon. which was kept open dur
ing the summer only, in a small candy
store. by a maiden lady who made a
scanty income from such limited patron
ape as the village could afford. Joshua
plied his companion with further quas-
tions. to all of which he readily replied,
though it is doubtful if all the answers
were quite correct. But Sam, having
heen in the city a few months, wished
70 be thought to have a very extensive
acquaintance with it, and was unwilling
to admit ignorance on any point
EARLY the next week Sam returned to
his duties in the city, and Joshua await
ell impatiently the promised lottery pa
ners. Sam did not forget his promise.
IN the third day after his departure a
naner came to the village postoffice, di-
rected:
Joshua Drummond, Esq,
'Stapleton."
This was promptly taken from the Of
foe bv Joshua who had called on an av-
nroro twice a day for this very paper. 1t
,,,oyed to be printed on yellow paper
and fairly bristled with figures, indicat-
mo the large sums which were weekly
dis+rihuted all over the country by the
benevolent managers of the lottery. Here
was scheme in which the principal prize
mas hut thousand dollars. However,
the tickets we're but a dollar each, &nd
thousand dollars for one was certainly
handsome return for a small outlay.
There were others, however, IN which the
principal prize was five thousand ooliaiS
end the tickets were, in due proportlon
five dollars each.
The more Joshua thought 1t over tue
more convinced he was that a large sum
Of money was likely to come to MIN
through the lottery if he could only man
zoe TO raise money enough 10 puy
ticket. But the problem of how to get
the necessary FIVE dollars he was as tar
as ever from solving
While in this state of mind ne nap
ncned one day to be in the store at noon
- o1one Nichols, the head clerk, wish
oil TO 90 to dinner, and was only waiting
for walter to get back from an errand.
81 wish Walter would hurry up he
crumbled. MY dinner will get cold.
8 IN take your place till he gets back
Mr. Nichols" said Joshua with extra
ordinary kindness for him:
Much obliged joshua h 60 s ION another
1 liisr. don't think you'll have long to
Wa" No sooner had he gone than joshua