Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1888, Page 14

g e e e OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH i 0 1888,--SIXTEEN PAGES. ONE WEEK WITH “BEN-HUR. How General Lew Wallace Wrote His Famous Book. THE STORY TOLD BY A FRIEND. Mow the Imaginary Child Ben Hur Grew up—The Oonstruction of the Book—Literary Methods of its Author—His Home Life, Written for the Sunday Bee—Copyr ighted. In April. 1878, the writer was in the golden age “'when the years are allsum- mers.” Her happy lot it was tovisit Mrs, Lew Wallace in Crawfordsville. Ind..the home where the imaginary child Ben- Hur was growing up. The famous ‘‘chariot race was on''at that very time, and one might fancy it would have de- stroyed the family peace as thoroughly as the car of Juggernaut crashing through the house, but not so, for Gen- eral Wallace adds to his greatness the supreme grace of being amiable at home. 1t is a pleasure to remember that dur- ing the week spent sonear Ben-Hur and the “wife of his youth™ the sky was not darkened by one impatient word. The crack of that chariot whip is heard around the world in seven different lan- uages, but it never fell upon those of is own household. The book was dedi- cated to his lady-love, a royal offering. worn with every womanly grace befit- ting it. : General Wallace's manner was so courtly that the first half day the visitor trembled and wished him away, that she might enjoy the charming wife unop- pressed by his imperial presence. But the gulf was bridged by his own music. The next morning the house fairly quaked as he paced his study. to the tune of “good old Ortonville,” or some other bulwark of the Methodist hymn book, roared so lustily that it might have waked a mummy. At the break- fast table he said, with awful stateli- ness, “Did you hear sounds of mvlm]‘v from my room this morning?” ‘‘Yes,” gaid the bashful maiden, {who still had the earache) “*but I should call that bellow-dy.” The singer stared an in- stant, not being used to such very plain English, then burst into a laugh as merry as the Cheeryble brothers, The ice was broken, and behold the waters beneath were warm—the veriest foun- tain of life and good ‘cheer. The Ben-Hur study had but few re- quirements for this easily satistied man, 80 he had chosen a little nook as r from the hous¢hold sounds as possible and as barren of “*modern conveniences” as a monk’s cell. The children of his fancy needed 1o seats—they peopled the air—and he oceupied the oily chair in the room. All the rest of the furniture stood on the four legs of a table—pens and paper heaped confusedly on abig vlotter, the New Testament, Geikie's fe of Christ,” “Ivanhoe,” and a few books. The door was always shut for worlk, but opened readily for play, and the visitor usually knocked as ghe passed and always heard the cordial “Come in,” responsive to her interrup- tions. Then he would tilt b in his chair and pocket his hands, like all other men, and laugh and talk like pre- cious few other men. Often he would read aloud what he had just written, and ask if it would do in a way that would have flattered the very elect, and which gave rise to the visitor’s doubtful boast that she had helped write ‘‘Ben Hur”—that is, she hindered: but it was all the same, so the author had made her think. This was courtesy, pure and simple. and an example to less busy men. He wrote first on a slate to rub out easily then on soft paper with a pencil. His patience in going over and over the same ground till he had brought it up %0 his standard would have commanded the respect of an ant. The final copy of the book wag on large, unruled paper, in violet ink, so exquisitely done that the professional reader of the Franklin Square house pronounced it the finest manuscript ever offered him. I remember a little dispute between Ben-Hur and his wife over a word. He said that when he began the book he was two days scarching for an adjective with just the right color in it to deseribe a certain thing, and at last he found it in opalescent. Mrs. Wallece declared for opaline as being simpler, but, wife- like, she yielded to the strongerauthor- ity, and, no doubt, flourished opaline in her next publication. We find this jewel of a word in the march of the wise men—"By and by the moon came up, and as the three tall white figures sped with noiseless tread through the opalescent light, they ap- peared like spectres flying from hateful shadows.” General Wallace’s absent-mindedness is a proverb in his family, which brings down many a gibe on his head, and be- fore the luughter at his putting sugar in his soft-hoiled ege (two heaping spoon- fuls) had died down, he might be seen, just as deliberately, salting his coffee. Chis quality might be one of heredity, if certain wild legends pointing toward his maternal grandfather are true. He is peculiarly a man of reserved force. He livesin the background of himself, and the casual observer fails to sce the big heart buttoned up within, the laughter carried in his sleeve, and the inexhaustible industry in his pock- ets. Read the record of what he has nccomplished in the fields of battle, di- plomacy, art, and literature, and you gee how great his energy is, though every trace of it is suppressed, some- how, as he goes about his daily duties with less bluster and hurry skurry than the ordinary man takes to get his one talent buried 1n the groand. So he al- ways had time for household matters, and could and did minister to them as well as he could, and did minister plen- ipotentiate, His said one day, Wi the little bantain hen has hatched her family.” *‘Has she?” said he—"how many?” with as much interest as if they were American eagles. And when "she asked him to ‘‘go and take her off”” he went, and could be seen stooping down before the nest, handling the tiny hair-spring chickens tenderly enough to smt even the fussy bit of a mother, If those chicks knew who it was that set them up housekeeping they would have all grown up peaccks. Fancy Thomas Carlyle asked to stoop 80 low! I would have annihilated *‘all those [u‘ully chickens and their dam at one fell swoop,” and then grumbled for ;..wm»k because the hen had picked him, General Wallace 1s fond of writing out under the forest trees that surround his house, and the bantams used to set- tle on his shoulder and knee, and eat out of his hand as he sat there alone with his own ereations. Through all that visit fun carried the day and part of the night, too, for each evening brought a party in some friend’s house, and Ben-Hur was ruthlessly dragged from his chariotand careied off to every one of them. He went not “‘as & school boy toward his books,” more- over—nay, he flocked with the magpies and jay birds as if he ha ) of their featlier, and many a time (Myr, Beecher to the coutrary, notwithstanding) the eugle was hear\i to cackle, To be sure, he would often forget the sport, and we would see he was sailing the ether of eighteen hundred years agone, but somebody would bring him down with a jocular lneso, and he never failed to fall With hie smile on top. He carries but two signs of his years about him (he was born in Brookville, Ind., April 10, 1827). His hair has roached that uncompromising _spicy mixture called pepper and salt,and then the spectacles—he is a sad victim to them—they and he play at a perpetual ame of hide-and-seek! Of course he never remembers where he put them, nor what their favorite hiding- places are, and after overhauling everything within reach he ousts them from ambush on top of his head or in his other hand. They worry him quite out of his wite and I have scen him while in the mazes of his adnirable lecture on Turkey before a crowded house begin that pitifal search with his hands, feeling and reaching for them all over the lecture field. Heis s0 used to depending on his wife to sup- ply all his little personal needs that, in the epectacle case, which is the only one she cannot fill he finds himself en- tirely at sea. She is his secreta almanac and memorandum, and a w in the highest sense of that high word. One of her favorite sayings is, *‘To work for those 1 love is my chief joy.” She and four sisters were brought up by a Quaker mother to the wholesome old belief that *1t is wicked to be idle,” and and her well ordered home shows the precept in hourly practice. Inall their tastes Ben Hur and she are as one, and though fame has written his name in every language that has a literature he can never outgrow Mrs, Wallace. The golden calf of the family was an orange-colored pony, inherited from the forefathers, and held in joint possession by Mrs. Wallace and_her sister, Mre. Senator Lane. A drive behind this ancient was regarded asacred privilege. She had but one dangerous habit, that of walking in her sleep. One eye had ‘gone out”? and failed to come back, like the raven that went out the win- dow of the ark (no doubt pony’s grand- mother remembered the incident) but the one that remained was so penetrat- ing that no man could make a lateh or bolt that could baflle it. It was virtue, not the combination lock, that kept that intelligent creature from robbing the bank. The dainty basket wagon that followed her showed her off in_ridicul- contrast, but she never rebelled at it— she was too sleepy to care. When we were ready to take up the dead maveh, Ben-Hur would marshal us as far as the gate to open it (pony never would do it in harness), and then he would charge us, aswe dragged past him behind our measuring worm, with mocking voice and twinkling eyes. “*not togo too fast,” ‘mot to hurry back,” and. “above all things, beware of a run- away,” “should he send o relief if we were not_in by dark?’ ete., ina way that would have cost him his life at the hecls of any other horse than this somnambulist. Finally she opened death’s door easily. as she did all other and went in, but when she tarned to come out---ah. pony, no lock or knob on the inside of that door! and so her place knew her no more. Among the other family portraits is one of pony, done in pencil by the hand of Ben-Hur. In appearance General Wallace but these ante-mortem inguests should draw the line at this point. If the sub- ject is not handsome, it is embarassing, if not dangerous to say so,and if he is, it wouid turn the head of the noblest Roman of them all. His father, Gove nor Wallace, was called the handsome man in Indiana. His mother died in her childhood, but her name lives in Esther, the daughter of Simonides. ‘We will never have a true biography of him. Whoever might undertake it should be a Garfield in arms, an Irv- ing in scholarship,a Dufferin in diplom- acy, a Walter Scott in romance, and _as no one but himself has such versatility of talents, the biography ought to be an autobiography, as Longfellow’s epigram has it. The book **Ben-Hur” in its brief life of seven years has had an excep- tional sale, being now in the two hun- dred and twenty-five thousandth. This is the surface index of its future. It must needs always remain a popular book: Itshould be rvead one year for its sacred history, the next for its thril- ling narratives, the next for its delinea- tion of characters and their eloquence of speech, the next for revealing filial and maternal love, then for its pictures of tragedy, deseriptions of sky, sea and land,then for its philosophics, and every year for 1ts marvellous setting forth of the dual character of our Lord the Christ. This is the great heart of the book,and it will beat in every Christian land.and declare its author & man of un- matehed genius, who, under an inspire tion beyond our comprehension, has pictured the only divine Hero that ever dwelt among men. EyiLy MeIGs RIPLEY. ——— MISS FELLOWS LOVES THE S10UX Something About the Woman Who is to Marry One of Her Indian Pupils. Pierre, Dak., Special to the New York World: The sensation of the hour at the Cheyenne agency is the ap- ln'nm'hilu: nuptials of Shaska,. a Sioux ndian, to Miss Belle C. Fellows, an Anglo-Saxon maiden who teaches an Indian school in Swift Bird’s camp, on the Sioux reservation. Miss Fellows came to the agency from Washington, D. C. Her father, Homer Fellows, oceupies a responsible position there in the pension office, and her sister is also 1>||1])‘03'&7tl in one of the departments. Miss fellows is a lady of fine education, although somewhat uncertain in her ideas. She is tall and well formed,with a pleasing face, and is over thirty years of age. The object of her strange infatuation in fan Indian, with a not enviuble rep- utation at the agency, and there is nothing of an Othello about him to make a Desdemona of Miss Fellows, Shaska goes by the Lnglish name of Sam Campbell, is about twenty-five years old and is not handsome. It was at Miss Fellows’ school that he learned to conjugate the Enghsh verb to love. The ceremony will take place at the Swift Bird’s camp and_the agency min- ister will officiate. The wedding will largely attended and has caused a in the upper circles of the agency’s W —~——— An Original Note of Hand. Harper’s Magazine: Where Nebraska elbows Kansas and Colorado a smart town has sprung up, whose inhabitants bave the usual frontier fondness for get- ting at the root of things, and dispens- ing with the absurd formalities of law. A prominent resident of that town was Joshua Mendenhal, Among his other talents he counted that of well-digging. Having sunk a shaft for one William Pugh and duly presented his bill, William informed him that he could not pay cash, but would settle by note of h:Hu‘. with security on a ‘*‘broncho Joshua agreed to this proposition, and that he might be certain that no legal tricks or verbiage should obscure the main facts of the transaction, he drew up & uote upon the letter- head, which, when signed by Pugh, read as follows: BENKELMAN,——, 188—, —-Value recd Mr Bill Pugh promist 'to pay 2s dols; if he dou't pay it the herse is mine. Mi. Buw Pues. [ INVESTMENTS ON CHANCE. How Are Authorized Lotteries Drawn? THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, Closely Watching Its Drawing. Correspondence of the Hartford Times. New ORLEANS, LA, Dec. 14, 1667, 1 have witnessed one of the drawings of the Louistana State Lottery. Itoccurred yesterday, in the Academy of Music in this city. Further, 1 have been through the company's office, which occuples a good share of its own handsome granite building on St. Charles street. At your request 1 have given the subject of lottery draw- ing & thorough investigation. 1 sent to the Times what I myself know to be an accurate ac+ count of everything having to do With the transaction of the business of the company and the drawings, Were I ever convinced of abso lute fairness in any scheme, I am in this case; for 1 labored diligently to sce and know all the detalls, Below are my observations, which will auite likely interest the reader as they did me There is not a city, nor a town, nor scarcely & hamiet inthe United States that does not contain patrons of the Lonisiana State Lottery. The lot- fery Is chartored by the staté of Loulsiana, and s s logitimate asany other {nstitution in'that stale. Now, this has much to do toward beget. tinz confidence in the lottery, and it is still further aided therein by the “fact of Geueral Leauregard and Generai Early giving their rict altention to the drawings. Falrermen than thay are not to be foun yne years agothe New York World sent a rep to attend one of these drawings, with instructions to write up the whole business strictly according to the facts, The Chicago Times' Jater did the same thing. Sodid the Chitonicle of 8an Fraheisco. Even “Petroloumn V. Nasby,” of the Toledo Blade, quit the Cross Roads long enough to write up this lottery. “All of them fafled togive an accurats iden of the mode of drawing. 1 will supply that omission One fact we have all been obliged to ac- knowledge—ihatall the ticket holders STAND THE SAME CIANCE of winning in these strictly impartial drawings. Tie drawing itselt 18 of great interest toevery ticket-holder, whether he be present or a thou- sand miles distant, The manner of determin- ing who shall receive the prizes is alone worthy of detailed explanation, and 1 have mude it one of the principal parts of mwy article, The dra ing of Dec. 1 was what is” known 'as an extr: ordinary one, the price of the tickets, and the amount of the prizes, being twice those in the regular drawings. About 10 o'clock that fore- noon I went into the Academy of Music, which 18 situated on St. Charlesstreet, not far from the office of the Loitery company.' T _accompanied General Eary thither, and upon entering the academy hie ivited me'to a seat_on_the stage, where I might observe the modus operandi of drawing in every detail, and as closely as L night des he drawing was to begiu at 11 olclock, Preparations for it began about ' three-quarters of - an__ hour be. fore that hour, Genersl ~ Farly and General ~ Beauregard both being present Under their direction assistants placed at one side of the stage and close by the footlights, the wheel for the tickets. This is a large concern and resemnbles a bassdram in its shape, its woodwork being similar, bat the leads are ot glass instead of sheepskin, 1t is five or six feet in Qiameter and some two fest thick. THE WHEEL STANDS UP on its stde, and through its center runs an axle which restsat each end ina socketof a frame built upon a large wooden base easily rolls clear of every obstruction. At each end of the axlo Is attached a large iron crank, by mern~ of which two ussistants “roll.” that' is, turn the wheel rapidly for about two minutes, thus mixing up the tickets thoroughly. In the woodwork on_the side 1s a door a foot or so square. 1t 18 closed when' the tickets are “roll- ed,” and then opened for the boys to draw the mimbers. No person lays a finger to this door save General Early, This lavge wheel having heen placed properly in position the tickets were prepared to be emptied intc The tickets were in canvas bacs were 100,000 of them. Ten bags about 10,000, were used taken out of two great box brought on to the stage, the 1id of each being unserewed. The ten were placed together in the center of the stage at_the front, awaiting personal services by General Early and General Beauregard. By tins time there were fully 600 spectators 1 the house, und they looked on at the prepa with evident satisfaction. First, Gene rly took up a bag, broke the wax Seal, cut the string which held the neck of the bag tightly, and before emptying the tickets into the wheel,' seruitinized a folded strip of manifa paper, which he had unwound from the neck of the big also. This picce of paper he then handed to General Beauregard, and the contents of tho bag were therenpon emptied intothe great wheel. The manila strips were Iaid together on & table clo he storv of the first bag is the story of all tie others. While this work was p: noticed that on the inner side of cach paper were the autographs of both General Early and General Benuregard, and on looking closely at an unopened bag I CLEAKLY SAW TIE WAX SEAL to bear the letters “B. & K.” and also to perfect- Iy seal the strmg and folded strip of paper. When the bag has been emptied into the wheel, d for holes through which evena v ticket might be lost. For y slightest tampering or accident has o the bags, and this too, with twelve drawings every year. Andyet this result could not be but natural when one considers the safeguards thrown around th co poc Deing sealed after the drawing they are tak into the company's together until removed for the next drawing give, perhaps, unusual space to this mat tickets, but I judge that nothing in the machinery of the lottery can be of greater inter est to the reader than the method of preparing and handling the tickets: and the great care ex- ercised for every one of the 100,000 numbers is surely of great consequence to those who 1| out their money for them, The whole numbe: of tickets are actually counted once a year b assistants who are under the special supirvision of Generals Early and Beauregard. By their sys- tem above roferred to, and_the return_at eich drawing of the numbers drawn the previous month, these gentlemen are sire of the entire numberbeing in the big wheel, whenever a drawing occurs, But to returnto the drawing of Dec 13. As the tick re being loaded in by the half ishel | looked at them through one of ti wsssides, The ticket is about four iuches g by two i width, The number is printed in heavy, black, condensed figures. THE TICKET I8 ROLLED tightly and inserted within an India rubber tube an inch and a half lone, thus showing a quarter of an inch of the roll of paper at ench end. The tube {8 of the diameter of o lead pencil, The natural spring in the rolled ticket prevents it from ever coming out of the tube save when pulled out by Goneryl Karly. o fuall" thom ‘rom noon until midnight would not disarrange the tickets in the tubes, even to a hair's breadth, By the time the 100,000 tickets were all in_and Jeneral Early had closed the small door of th wheel, it lacked abont half an hour of 110 the hour for the drawing to begin. There nearly L00) perse n in the house, the par- t eing well fi Inthe frontrow of the dress circle Tnoticed” three well-drexsed ladies sitting together, The day before, 1 saw same trio in the lottery company's office, where the handsomest of them connted out §160 and boughit that amount of twentieth tickets. The wheel containing the prizes, situated op- posite the big one, wasnext prepared by Gener- als Barly and Beauregard, joitly,as in the other cgse. They filled the tubes with' rolled paper bearing the amounts of the prizes, the papers and thetubes being similar 11 size to those in the tickot whel, Anis process s performed be fore the day of the drawing, and they also are emptied info the small wheel from a°sealed can- vas bag, ‘The prize wheel & a minfature modcl of the Dig one, glass and all; but thetubes con- taing prizes bear about the 'proportion to those holding the tickets as four quarts doto five or six hushels. The door of the little wheel being secured, it was stated to be 11 o'clock, and there were fully 1,500 PERSONS IN THE HOUSE. General Early took a seat on the left front of the stage, close by the ticket wheel. neral Beaurogard seated himself alongside the wheel of prizes at the right front of the stage. Four small boys from a New Orleans orphan asylum filled a sofa at the rear of the stage, and as everything was announced to be ready two of these lads came forward and were blindfolded. One stood between General Early and his wheel, the other between General Beauregard and theé 836 prizes. The two wheels having been thoroughly *ralled,” the doors are opelied. One hoy reaches in, take's a single tube and hands it 10 General Edrly; the other picks out a prize from his wheel ud glves it to General Beauregard. The num- wr of the ticket {5 read by General Early, and the amount won i announced by General Beau- rogard. A assistant standing close by General Early takes the ticket from him and ke, to states its number; another gentleman near G al Beauregard takes the prize from bim and peats the amount won. Kach of these assist ants then hands his plece of toa young n sitting between them at the center front of thie stuge, facing the rear. Before hin 15 4 lar Lox of cowpartments, one for each denomina tion of prizgs to be woh. He takes from thie two assiatunts 1he ticket and the prize corresponding to it, rolls_both together closely, and places tho roll in its proper compartment.” By this method the particulur prize won by any ticket can be ascertained lator 10 an absolute certainiy; and in case there might be an error in the recording of numbers and prizes, done by an experienced clerk in the rear of the wheels, this folding to- ether of the Lwo pleces of papel I8 sure to shiow it. For, the next day the list as made out by the clerk 13 VERIFIED BY GENEKAL EARLY from this compa 1 winning & prize goes on the list as sent oul to patrons When The wheel and_ there twenty m each by the Both wheels we od forward snd backward, v thoroughly wixing up the tuhes in guch. 'Again the doors are opened, and the same process is ropeated for the Bext twealy prizes and num bers. Then comes another “roll." When the next to the last number of the third twenty is called, the checker calls out: “Roll, and change boys. ;. Whild the wheelw are being rolled for the third time, two other boya step forward in place of the first two, and {wo_othier gentiemen relieve the two assiktants to Generals Early and Beau- regard. 8o it goes, “rolling'’ the Wwheels every twenty numbers, and changing the boys and as: sistants every sixty numbers, until the 836 actual prizes in the wheel are digposed of. In other Words, ‘of thie &6 tickets drawn, each Wiis & rize, P'one thin & person a was noticeable at this drawing. Not all connected with the lottery com- resent. either on the stage or in the e Arawings ave under the sole charge and sapervision of Generals Heaurezard and Early, the autnorized commissioners. At no time, nor under any elrcumstances, nor in any sense, docs the company iave the slightest con nection with the drawing or any of the detall of its preparation, Thelr business {s that of gelling tickets to their patrons, and they confine themselves strictly to that, They DO NOT CARE A PICAYUNR which numbers are successful, OF the K38 prizes in the wheel, 800 were for 300 each, 20 were for #300 each,and 100 were for #500 'each—in ail, ). The' remaining prizes were one of £300,000, one of £100,0.9, one of 70,000, one of #25,000, two of £10,000 e , five of £,000 each, and ‘25 of §1.00) ench. Niturally $2), £300, and $500 piizes were often announced, In fact. they came sosteadily as to be somewhat monotonous, inasmuch as everybody in the noise Was i1l An excited frame of mind await g theanaouncement of (he three higher prizes, wiifch had an_exasperating way of remaining untourhed, For instance, the Airst $10,000 ap- peared in the Airst hundred,’ the next in the sec- ond hndred. Just before 300 had been_ drawn, the §25,000 prize was won by No. 67,22, This wade the crowd of spectators wakeful. = Soon after 360 numbers had been read, General Early read, 818, und General Beauregard replied: +Ohe hundred thousand!” Tt seomed as it every person in the andience sighed deeply, for the sound that reached the stage was strongly suggestive of bitterness of soul. Surely there were no holders of 8 18 pros: ent. Nothing of particular interest occurred thereafter, until 620 tickets had been drawn, when 2Ll took the 80000 prize, Evidently thut was ot Leld in New Orleaus. The capital prize o 300,000 WAS EXPECTED at every number from thence onward, Yet there came “Roll” aud “Roll" and change boys,” time afer time, with nothing but small shot—&x0, §300, and 500 —varied now and then by . stray £1,000and_$5,000. Finally 700 prizes had been drawn. No capital. Then it was 760, and no capital. Soon the drawn prizes Only thirty-six more pri in th V] Scott, where was ity General Early arose and walked over to the little wheel. He looked through the glass and saw the pint or o of prizes, Then he resumed his seat. Colonel Dan A. Wilson, who sat by me, also went over and looked at the handful of' valuable tubes Then le sat down with a_smile and we compared numbers on our tickets, The spectators were dreadfully uneasy, and many were in intense excitement. At last ¥25 numbers Bad been drawn, and the big 800,000 prize was missing, Nearly everybody in tho buflding was then at fever heat, with onfy elev 7 drawn! To iy mind, tnis w 1 AL purity te very ce of chance! And it was all the nore agcgra: ause of the manner of Gyneral Beauregard's announ.e mentof the F30° prizes. No matter what the amount might he, the general pronounced it in slow and measured tones, and each time ho said Three hun-dr. pody in the house expected to hear " follow. he 626th number drawn was 53,450, As Geneal n as usual ureard read the prize, he wich *I'hree houn d r-e-d,” and 1ike a flash that housand” went out at that body of ators like s EHOT FIOM A CANNON. The straln on their nervous systems ceased prisingly quick, and they soon dispersea. “The drawing begin promptly at 11 o'clock,and was comploted at | Tue tickets were again pliced in the bags, sealed and tied as described ahove, hoxed and' fastened, and taken to the compiny’s vaults at once. . Of course I hadadesire to learn wherejthe lghtning had_ struck—that is where the two tickets winning together $100,000, bad been sold. By reason of the marvellously perfect system of (ransacting it8 business the company was able inless than anhonr after the drawing to locate the buyers of these tickets as well as tiose of otherk, With reference. to 53,459 which tured the 830,000 prize, [ was shown the let- of a man in Chiestertown, Kent county, Md. dated somewhere about Dec. 1, enclosing 860 for quarter tickets mongthe ten sent to Wits one quarte 59, entitling him to § 000. 1 saw his signatu too, it it is a rule of the compuny not to make publie u winner's name except by his congent. No. 8180 which ook the $100,000 prize was sold in fractions in ten ditfe: ent cities. ew York, New Orleans, Boston, Si Loufs, lKansas' City, ' Henecia, Call, Lancaster, Penn., Memphis, Vicksburg, and Biloxi, Miss. And the books showed the nimo of every pur- chaser of fractions of that ticket. A system of record books which is indecd PERFECTION 1TSE! The same rapid tracing of winnersof other rizes brought to light their names and rest- ences, The plan of the lottery is simple and ensfly ex- piained. This drawing WAs an extraordina one, with 100,000 tickets at $20 cach and prizes amounting to 81,084,000 An ordinary drawing s Where the price f tickets s #10, and the amount of prizes i« §53,000, There are twelve drawings A& year, onee a ‘month, Heretofore tne grand drawings have occurred semi-annusliy; but in 188 there will be four of them —one every third month, The tickets are €old in fractions to suit the patron, but {t Is absolutely impossible to send out anly particular number, on account of the great amount, of 1abor necessary to find it, ana‘aleo hecause the company put These frac: tional tickets into thoroughly assorted pack- ages of twenty and upwards, Which are never sent broken to large customers, Besides the &6 prizes drawn on Tuesday, there were 2,300 prizes dependent on the first, second, And third capital prizes, viz: Each one of ffty numbers on either side of 155,450, which drew the §00,000 prize, makes 100 |‘mzoq of 8500 each; the fifty numbers on each side of 8,180, of $100.000, make 100 prizes of #9300 each: the Nty numbers'on each xide ot 21,301, the third capital prize, make 100 prizesof 200 each, These are called “approximation’ prizes. Besides these, there are 2,000 “terminal” prizes: that is, the 1,000 tickets whose number ends WIth 59 (after 63,450, the first capital), draw 4100 each, and another 1,000 draw $100 each by having the terminal #0," after 8180 the second capital, IN THE COMING YEAR the first capital prize in the rogular drawings will be 2150,000, and in the extraordinary ones it will e $300,000, On Monday, the day before the drawing, 1 called at the 1ottery company’s office and made known to M, A. Dauphin, the president, my de. sire to see the workings of the concern. It was readily granted, and 1 was taken into every de- partment forthwith. . To say that 1 improved my opportunity js true, and I came out person- ally convineed of the faithful handling by the company of every dollar sent to them by their patrons, indeed, this must necessarily result from the use of the system in vogue, There are some seventy-five clerks employed during the two weeks preceding the drawing, though at other times only forty ave requived, This 18 becanse the rush comes ofi the last lalf of the montn, From one end of the offices to the other, the clerks are paired, and each is a_check on his associate as to_errors. The number of lot- ters received daily during the week or ten days beforendrawing {8 very large,averaging between 10,000 and 15,0000 Without system and rigid dis. cipline the entire concern would be in_chaos in ten hours, One set of clerks do nothing but open letters, assort those containing money into plzeon holes according to the amounts enclose Another set verify the money by the letter Another set read the letters and lay aside orders hat cannot be filled, as calls_for special num- Dbers and requests ovtside of regular methods, Buill wnothier set illorders for tickets, the naie and ADDRESS OF E 1s recorded by another set alphabetically, an- other directs the envelopes to the customers, an- othier set verify the directed letters with the'list as recorded, and the order which conies in atone end of the great concern accompanied by the proper amount of money, goes out at the mal- ing department faithtully executed. The work- g by these clerks in pairs is dead sure of de ing any oversight or error before it has hac otrivel and entangle the records. The ks begin work at 8 a,m.and at 11 half of them quitat the sound of & wog, ey at once £0 to a hotel and substantial lunch prepared by the company, in the rear room of the Dbuilding, At the expiration of twenty minute thiey go back to. their desks and ‘the other half go to lunch. At theend of the forty min- utes all the work of the oftice s evened up among the clerks, and the rush continues until 4 p. m, or later, ad may be. These clerks are experts in their line, and though recelving good salaries arc always well paid forall overtime by the company How cireless many people are in sending money! Inone of the company’s vanlts I saw two large and_long boxes opéned. They con- tained thousands of dollars, sent by persons who Qid not give an_intelligent address, “Some send only their names; others send merely their town and state; and yet some send nefther. Then, hearing nothing from their letter, they accuse the compeny of unfair treatment.’ Bui the con- cern lus a set of books simply devoted to this class of letters, and for years the letter, envelope and money remain pinied together in the long box, of no value to anybody. The money might Tou'thore beforo the company would fouch & penny of It. It is held sacred to the *01d Hoss™ account, as they term the record kept of it. Now, | do not intend to discuss the morals of lotterits, or the MORALS OF PEOPLE ERY PATRON Who buy ticsrets in lotterfes. 1t 18 not necessary oo s0, My object has been merely to see how everything in connection with the Lounisiana State Lottery was conducted—us matter of fact, and not of moral ethics Nor have I considered it necessary to interview the leading men of New Orleans extensively as to the honesty_and fairness of the lottery company. Thut has been done 5o often by newspaper men who have come. here bent onthe same investigation as I, that prople all over the country are well awaré that the company has the unbounded respect ana gonfidence o New Orleans people. from the highest tothe lowest. You can't find aman in New Orleans who would mot wager every dollar he has on the Integrity ana_ strajghi- forwardness of every person connected with the lottery. Retter proof than New ns people ive om this point cannot exist, Everybody here uys tickets in the drawings. Banks, bankers, merchants, elerks, clubs, societies, men And wo' men in every walk of life—they ail buy tickets. Were there any kinks in the drawings ot prepa- Fations 40 you think the people here wonid come upevery month and pay over their money? Wouldii't they be sure of first finding out any funny work? “Assuredly. Just as long as there's a chance for n person to win $15,000,410,0.0,8,000, £2,500 or even 81800 by investing & _single dollar in'the Lonisiana State Lottery, there will be pa- trons of the company throughout the country who will not despair of sometime “getting there."—Hartford (Conn.) Times, Jan. - HOW A COZY HOME AWAS MADE. A Lesson to Married Couples Living on a Small Income. How often we discover in some out of the way nook the cozy harborage of a man who has learned to economize from his small earnings and how to expend the pennies saved upon the bettering of his home surroundings. A pleasant in- stanee; of the latter character came under the notice of a San Francieco Call reporter lately. While hunting information on a certain point, it was necessary for him to interview a man who lives in the neighborhood of North Beach, and he luckily found his vic- tim at home. The desired item was ob- tained in short order,and then the newspaper could not refrain from com- amenting upon the daintiness and com- forts of the room in which they were seated. The host, a man who evidently had artistic tastes, accepted the compli- ment in the spirit in which it was of- fered, and courteously insisted upon showing his guests through ‘“‘the house.” *“The house,” by the way, was the tiniest of flats, oceupying the upper part_of a two-story coitage that was perched upon the side of the hill. “It is only a bandbox, I know,” he aid, “but, you see, our income is so small that we'd be swamped in bigger quarte As it happens, these are quite large enough for our absolute needs, and wife and I are rather proud of them, for all their smallness. Here we pay $16 a month, while for the same space in & move fashionable neighbor- hood we should have to pay from $20 to $26. We count the difference at $9 a month, and we feel we have a right to expend that amount in the purchase of extra furniture or in decorating the walls, instead of adding it to our sav- ings bank account. We have been mar- vied a number of years, and although we started with a meagre outfit we have been enabled, by the exercise of judg- ment in our purchases, to get a lot of traps that cost individually little, but that taken altogether make a rather pleasant showing and add materially to our comfort. niture is not in sets, but consists of odds and ends that have been picked up at different times; but there is not a chair in the house that is un- comfortable to sit in, and our beds are as comfortable as any in this cit, A house is not worth living in where those two things arenot looked after, and as wife and 1 agreed on that point we took especial pains in selecting those articles of furniture. Almost everything we have, to be sure, is second-hand, and- most of it was edy enough when bought; but there's where the fun came in. Plenty of sonp and water, a little varnish, a dab of paint, a touch of gilding, a bit of uphol- stering, and the article looked as fresh as ever, while we had the satisfaction of feeling that 1t was, in a measure, the product of our own labor. I'm inchned to doubt whether any rich man gets much pleasure out of the gorgeous fit- tings of his house as we do from these 3 You'll notice that the fur- § ecraps picked up here and there and tinkered by our own hands. You see, we can give the history of where each thing was bought, of how we consulted over the advisability of its purchase, and of the study and labor expended i getting it into decent. condition again, How it hotheved us at the time and how often wo have laughed sinca over the failure of our first experiments at re~ priring and farbishing) “Those etchings and engravings on the walls have each their story for us, aside from the story told by the pice tures, and as we cannot hfford to buy oil paintings or water-colors that are worthy of notice we make believe to find just as much pleasure in our bits of black and white, and when one makes believe ever so hard it is apt to become areal belief, you know. Wife lives these things, you see.and she has taught me to like them, for it was precious lit- tle I knew about art before we were mar- ried, or comfort, either, for that matter. We are neither of us critics by any meang, nor do we profess to be; but we want 10 have pretty things around us, and are perfectly willing to pay for them. 1 .do not mean in money, for that would be nothing to do if one had the money, butin nlig’?\( sucrifices other ways, For instance, if our rooms were bare we could afford to keep a servant, but wife does the cooking, and I make the fires and help as much as possiblo with the housework. She is an awfully good cook, too, and I have learned enough from her to help some in that line my= sell, It is better for us to keep busy,for since our baby died we find it pleasanter to work than to be idle and think “You mustn’t suppose, howove: all our time is given to the house, for sometimes in the evenings, and always on bright Saturday and Sunday after- noons we take long walks or little trips into the country. As I have told ybu so muchalready it won't matterif you hear that our income has not averaged over 480 a month since we were married, als though I am now getting 8100 a_month, :;ml flhopc to get another raise some day.’ All this and a good deal more was said Auring the inspection of that little fat, ank many a confirmatory remark was thrown in by the wife, who was found busily engaged in the kitchen, A smils ing, pleasent-looking body she was, and evidently as proud as “n queen of tha realm.” Proud of her husband, proud of her home, and immensely pleased to sea that both were appreciated by tha visitor. The latter could not help aps preciating husband, wife, and all, fon there was a decided charm about tha entire outfit. Bverything was so im= maculately neat, everything was sa dainty, that the veriest curmudgeon ij orld could not have withheld o expression of praise and admirations Within the rooms, wherever the eye turned there was something pretty an homelike to look at, whilo from tha windows spread a broad view of the bay and the distant hills. It was the homae, of a poor young couple, poor in the lacky of money only, but it showed taste and® refinement that one would never hava, expected in such a quarter, and spoke volumes in favor of those who ha builded them such a nest. —— for the Van Orden Corsets. Every lady wighy ing good health and a_beautiful figures buy them, Quick sales. Good pay. Send fory terms and circular. Van Orden Corset Co., 12 Clinton Place, N. Y The Paris Ambigu Comque has discarded gas and utilized the electric light, It is tha only theater in France where not a single 103 of gas is burned. The experiment was firs made of lighting the auditorium with elecy tricity, and this proved so successful that thq innovation has now been extended to tha stage. that G | sSrTuATION. l In the mountains of Northwest Georgia in Haral- son County, four miles from the Alabama line on the southern extension of the Appalachian range, in the B heart of the richest mineral beltof the south, at an altitude of 1,200 feet above the level of the'sea, 63 miles from Atlanta, 40 miles from Anniston and 100 miles from Birmingham, [ Population and Industries. l The population of Tallapoosa in 1884 was 56, Jear ago oo, torday from 1so0to 2000 people reside iere, and newcomers are arriving by every train At the present rate of increase the population of will probably be 8,000 before the first of “Tallapoos January, 185, B ““There'are over forty business houses, expres: [ ] egraph, post-office, (hree working establishments, two turing establishments and seve: ® TeMapoowa Furace Coo i Capital stock, $100,000. The tract o have Furnace completed Tallapoosa Mallcable Iron Works, N. Pres. Authorized capital stock, $100,000, ovember 1st, 1888, Tallapoosa Steam Brick Manufactory, capacity, b, 15,1688 Sash, door and blind manufactory, hope o be in opera- 50,000 per day, expect (o be in operation ‘Tallapoosa Lumber Co. Capital, $10,000, tion at an early date. In addition to above are a_broom manufact secured, It is ex: hurches, thice large ho- tels, one newspaper, eight sawmills and wood- cqui is under con: December 1, 1888, . 'Lind, The Com” gany is under contiact to have Works in operation 1 1 T TALILAPOO ore assays from 45 10 63 per_cent. metallic iron, and gold ore from $5 to $300 per ton. ‘Uhis company took first honorable mention on stecl-making ores and marble from their property at the recent Pied- mont Exposition in Atlanta, I COST OF BUILDING AND LIVIIIG.I The cost_of building a house in Tallapoosa is about one-third the cost of building the same house in the North. The cost of living is much less than in New Engiand and the West, and with the mild cquable climate very little fuel is necessary, and that can_be obtained at one-quarter of Northern prices, Sickness is a stranger to Tallapoosa, and vegetables can be raised eight monthsin_the year. With the present advance in real estate a home that now costs the settler $400 can probably be sold for four times that amount one year hence. | Property of this Company. I "The property of this company consists of 2,150 acres of ity Tands oF 10,750 bullding lots still unsold, {average price $aco0 €ach). agooacres of miner agricultural and _timber lands of great value, and over g7ooacres of mineral land additional under op- tions; also Tallapoosa Hotel, houses, office, Lools, negotlable notes, cash on liand and other sscts, ag: gregating over $100,000 in addition. The estimated value by experts of th company's property is over $8,000,000. one tel- fac e iy | A e fope manufactory, wago oy, | o e "It is expected (hat work will be begun on | [EXPENDED IN 90 DAYS | these manufactories immediately, and negotiations re already in progress for the location liere of sev- ral other new and important industrics in the near. i future. Nearly $4,00,000 capital stock, and money in- vested in business, is represented in the list of Tal- lapoosa's business houses and industrics, RAILROAD FACILITIES. e Georgla Paciic T ( Line System) runs directly through thecity, giving railroad frontage of three miles for manufactories. Rome & Columbus, the Carrollton & Decatur, and the At- antic & Pacific are either surveyed or now building Three other railroads, the Chattanooga, with Tallapoosa as their objective point, Perfect Climate. Perfect Health. The climate of Tallapoosa is & happy medium be- tween the subitropical climate of Floridaand the cold Work can be done out-of-doors every day The average summer temperature is 76 tand best {reestone water s locatlon on an eleyated plateay per: wonderful e ple suffering from rheumatism, kidney complaints, {ndigestion, consumption and genral debility have rmanently cured by e climate and health- orth, in the year, and winter ssnd the purs abounds. By fect natural drainage is secured. Sever. chalybeate springs are near the city, and man been greatly benefited or drinking of these waters, fulness of Tallapoosa cannot be overdrawn. Surrounded by Rich Minerals. apOosA 15 SIUAted 10 (hC Neartol gold and iron-bearing district of the South. The richest of iron ores, manganese, cop) ver, gold, marble and other minerals aboun The richest Over $73,000 has been expended by this compa in grading streets, build- ing bridges, developing mines, advertising, elc. Their pay roll has been as high as $3500 per week, and all is bustle and enterprise. Over 100 new dwelling-houses are now building in_the city and many more are contracted for to be erccted as soon as material can be secured. l'l'lIE TALLAPOOSA HOTEL. | “This Hotel, owned by the Tallapoosa Land, Min- ing and Manifacturing Company. i the finest oo the line of the Georgia Pacific Railroad between Annis- ton and Adanta, 1t contains so legantly furnished rooms, las a table unsurpassed, and is an excellent hotel In every particular. Rates, $2.00 per day, $9.00 per week, $32.00 per month. |THE TALLAPOOSA JOURNAL, I paper, with a circulation of e ith lem of intercat 1o Those inierested in the wel(are of Tallapoosa and her prospects. Any one thinking of investing or locating in Tallapoosa should sead 5oc. in stamps for six months' subscription, The sales of building lots in Tallapoosa made by this Company have amounted to over $100,000in the Is a large, enterpri nearly 5,000, an sil ron 0 1 SA 1S 0 T 1 O A [ e ] AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND PROFITABLE INVESTMENT. more, Lots that sold for $300 only a short-time ago are changing hands at {rom $600 10 $2,000 NOW. s Tapid increase in real estate, population and enterprise is duc solely to the magnificent mineral and agricultural resources of this section, its de- Tightful location and its unparalicled healthfulncss. Those who lend their money or their influence for | i the building up of Tallapoosa enjoy their equal | p share of the benefits derived directly and person- | st ally. Every stockholder in this Company who pur. chases a lot from the Company adds the amount of the purchase money at once to the dividend fund in which he isan equal sharer with the rest. Every fiood word spoken for Tallapoosa, every investment he shall induce his friends to make, all adds directly to the stability of his own investment and to the amount of his dividend. This is co-operation ; and this principle of making every invesior and settler an interested party—directly, financially interested in the success of tlic enterprise—is what has made the Tallapoosa of to-day so successful, Come o the Soath, It is the most desirable place for settlers and in- vestors in the United States to-day. Cities are Frowing upin this mineral elt like magic, and for- tunes are being made rap- idly by the advance of real estate and land compan- ies’ stocks, It is fast be- coming the manufacturing centre of the country, and with its wealth of mineral products, i1s equable cli mate, rich soil and remark- able healthfulness, is the most disirable field for im- migration and profitable investment ever offered, PRICES OF BUILDING LOTS. Lots 60x150, on bentatrects and av- onues, five min- o) 70,3500 Cormer Lotsy e Lots, ‘orper Lo $400; Lots souu}, nicely located) ten minutes’ walk’ from depot. n side Lots from $50 to 8200 ; Corner Lots, $75 10 8250, Werms, one.third cash, which must be remitted with order; balance, one and two years, with interest at 8 per'cent. Those desiring’ (o' purchase by mail can write us what priced lots they desire and the location wished, Znd we will make the selection subject Lo their ap' proval at any time they may desire to inspect it. The Tallapoosa Land, Mining and Manufactu Company is regularly incorporated, with a capit $10ck of 000,000, consistng of gocco shares. of $5.00 cach. This stock s fully paid in te organiza- tion of the Company, can never be increased, never assessed, and is subject Lo no personal liability. It was first offered o investors Aug. 16t at $1.00 per share, but s rapidly advanced until it is now sell- ing at §5.00 per share, 8 OME AND SEE Nothing pleases us so well as to have people come th as or fol thy the pr se thi cided to offer 2 5.,/ £8,00 per ahia) will be fil 4 the price will_probably be advanced. As it is plan of this Company (o interest as many people possible in Tallapoosa, the number of shares to be taken by any one person is not limited, Orders will g be filled for 1 share, - not be held in large blocks b tributed among those who will Tallapoosa and its advantages asa dence and inv eln, Failh can do 60 come and personally inve last three months, and are increasing daily. Pri- | to Tallapoosa and investigate with their own eyes. vate sales in the city will amount to nearly as much | Will you not come? COME anp INVESTIGATE. | $865,000 in Manufacturing. | This company undertake to secure for Tallapoosa within three years the following industrics, cither by the donation of land for plant I Tallapoosa’s Basis is Co-Operation. l siderations, ot sl taking stock in such manufacturing enterprises by d other valuable coa- uld it become necessary at the will cooperate with others by avesting a portion of their surplus or devoting the roceeds of e sale of a portion of their treasury tock to these or other enterprises of equal benefit 1o the city. 1. A cotton mill, for sheeting, estimated to o s s .. $150,000 A 6o-ton charcoal iron furnace, estimated . A malleable iron works, estimated (8 . An enormous hotel, estimated (o cost., A furniture factory, estimated to cost A sash, door and blind factory, estimated 10C08L. ... ..0ovo : A rolling mil, esti to cost.. A stove works, estimated to cost, ... Car works, estimated (o cost... A wagon' manufactory, estimate . Public ‘school building, estimated 'to Total... tereaees o The Company offer the most liberal in- 100,000 <+ 100,000 150,000 25,000 25,000 100,000 ducements to manufacturers who will locato in Tallapoosa. Raw material labor are abundant and the South is fast 4ad cheap coming ¢ manufacturing center of the United States, Cor- respondence with manufacturers solicited, iPIIIGEllF STOCK. SPEC I To carry rapidly forward and avenu rent and other public im, 'mdm. of new streets cottages in the city to A vements and expenses the directors ma tst& ify, this Company have de- G0 shinres of the stock at par value, Orders for this stock lled in rotation till the block is sold, vlhfil\ , the erection of shares, 5o shares, 100 shares any amount which the investor may think it r his interest o purchase. 10is the preference of ¢ Directors of the Company that this stock shall i s, but dis- uie cty by eir financial interest in it. The Company whom Birmingham, Ala., is indebted for its marvel- ous den rowth is Bow paying 100 per cent rnrly divi- on its stock, and it is now worth 4,000 per in the claims we make for lace of resi- tment, we make the following cheerfully pay the i expenses of any person visi; oosa who d not f "To show our sincerit or other printed matter, gate the ospects of Tallapoosa, and, if not found as repre- nied, their expenses will be cheerfully paid by is Company. WHAT THE PRESS SAY OF TALLAPOOSA. " [From New York Times, Oct. 8, 1887,) “The Tallapoosa Company and Southern capitalists B G. W. Adair, of Atlanta, being the Hon. John' B, B Georgia. Al of the Officers and Directors = Lnown men, and their purpose is to establis! Tallapocsa. includes both Northern its President being Col nd one of the Directors Gordon, Governor of re well a large B 20d progressive city on the site of the old village of Tallapoosa | Auanta, Ga,, Capitols Aug. 20, 1881« Tallapooss cadwood” of is destined to be the ** Denver' or * the Eastera part of the Union, Birmingham, Ala., Herald, Oct. 16, 1887: One year nguql'l"- osa 'was hardly known' to the out- Ride workd ; it is now attracting men and capitalists from every section of the United States. Macon, Ga., Zelegraph, Aug. a1, 1887: This Company is one of e Fichest mining companies in | the world—possessors of mining property, right) developed, worth millions. POPOIY, BT _ Birmingham, Ala., Age, Oct. 16, 188;: On arriy ing in Tallapoosa on every side the Age reporter's ears were greeted with the sound of the hammer, of the saw and the planing and saw mills, and the general hum of a pusting and busy place. _ Chattanooga, Tenn., 7imes, Oct. 16, 188: There is probably no place in the ‘South 1o-day offering SEND FOR PROSPECTUS. Price List of Lots, and other informa HOW TO REMIT. ® rency, by Express or Registered Letter. An elaborate Prospectus, giving in detail full particulars o illustrations of many Residences, Public Buildings, Fa tion of interest to Investors and Settlers, will be mailed FREE to any address on application. Make all Remittances for Stock or Lots by Bank Draft, Postal Note, Money Order or Cur- Address, Col. GEO. W. ADAIR, PRESIDENT, TALLAPOOSA LAND, MIKING & MAN'F'G €O, more inducements o the settler, mechanic and in- Vestor than the young and progressive city of Talla- poosa, Ga. New Haven, Conn., Register, Nov. 5, 1887 : The significant characteristic of Tallapoosa is that those people who have investigated it are most thor- oughly enthusiastic over its prospects. r Jurvpr;]mr.'ty, ories, Ete,, Plat of City, TALLAPOOSA, GA,