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I'm sure you have not read the list of prizes, have you?" "No, I have not," said Howard: "have you seen the list of blanks?" "Of blanks! No," said Oliver, with a changed countenance; "I never thought of the blanks." "And yet in most lotteries there are many more blanks than prizes, you know." "Are there? Well, but I hope I shall not have a blank," said Oliver.
In New York City we now have the spectacle of the Church operating a saloon and selling strong drink. In all country towns, religion, failing in being attractive, has, to keep churches alive, resorted to raffles, lotteries, concerts, chicken-pie socials, and lectures and exhortations by strange men in curious and unique garb, and singers of reputation.
"Ay," said Maurice, "you have trusted to your own sense and industry, and not to gaming and lotteries." "I am heartily rejoiced you have nothing more to do with them," said William Deane: "but all this time you forget that I am your debtor. You lent me five guineas at a season when I had nothing.
Few persons realize to what an extent American lotteries are patronized in this city, and in a great many other cities of the country.
The people lie down on patriotic beds and eat and drink from patriotic mugs and platters. Lotteries are abolished, regulations launched against the sale of indecent literature, drawings or paintings; the open following of the profession of Rahab prohibited; bull fights suppressed. Silver buckles are needed by the national war chest: shoes shall now be clasped by patriotic buckles of copper.
And to think that that vivid white thing, that saintly and swanlike being to think that... Why, she was like the sail of a ship, so white and so definite in her movements. And to think that she will never... Why, she will never do anything again. I can't believe it... Anyhow, we were chattering away about the morality of lotteries.
It was also proposed that the Government should share the profits; but neither of the projects was carried out. The people neglected their calling. The legitimate desire of money grew into a fierce and fatal spirit of avarice. The arts so common at a later day were had recourse to. Project begat project, copper was to be turned into brass. Fortunes were to be realized by lotteries.
"If," said a native resident of Matanzas to us, "these lotteries, all of which are presided over by the officials, are honestly conducted, they are the one honest thing in which this government is concerned. Venal in everything else, why should they be conscientious in this gambling game?"
It assembled on the 22nd of August, and ordered inquiry to be made of the Regent as to what had become of all the state notes that had been passed at the Chamber of justice; those which had been given for the lotteries that were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the Mint since the change in the specie.
"I tell you for the last time that I only threw lotteries out as a suggestion. There's many ways to come into a fortune besides lotteries. You can have it left to you by will, for instance " "Dear, dear! . . . But never mind: go on. How one lives and learns!" "And the other day the papers were full of a man who came into tens of thousands through what they call a Derby sweep.
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