Show LOTTERY SC SCHEMES nEMES ac every few days we receive notices of gift enterprises jewelry associations lotteries and affairs of that character in the east to which our attention is called with requests to advertise behave invariably declined giving them the least publicity or noticing them in any manner believing them to be but little if any better than schemes for swindling many of our citizens also receive bimi elmi are frequently accompanied by tickets for themselves and others to sell to their friends these people must find plenty of dupes in various quarters or they would not be so numerous and successful as they apparently are in their business it is a pretty good evidence when a man patronizes such institutions that he lacks either judgment or honesty and very frequently both an honest man with any degree of judgment must see that where there are such promises held out as these people give there must be some roguery connected with the scheme unless indeed we conclude that they have money which they want to give away BI B d e the humorous writer te r josh bli nii lings 11 makes some very good remarks on thil this s subject which we give in his hia own peculiar language yu ask me what i 1 think ov the gift distributing bizz ness 1 and I 1 dont lies iles hesitate tew sayi that it haz awl the pre monitory symptoms simp toms of a dead beat I 1 have altuz found that when enny man offers to give me ten dollars for 50 cents he lies i may think he means to do doit dolt it but he dont think so buti but 1 may possibly cum within 9 dollars and a half ov it once and if isido I 1 do i hav dun well a grate deal better than i will the next time 1 1 anever neve pu put t enny munny into thee these swindles and would az soon boon undertake to raise a good sized greenback bi planting a shinplaster back ov the hog pen ifyu if yu git desperate and feel as tho yu must gamble or die go 25 cents odd or even on the number of hairs in a kats kate back and count coun them this will cool yu aph we can scarcely think that any of our people are likely to patronize sueh such associations ciati ons but lest lea some unwary person might get dec deceived elved we publish these remarks respecting them thin to put our cit izene on their guard the originators are re so eo pertinacious in pressing the advantages of their schemes upon the attention of the public that it jit would wohld be strange if they were not successful in securing some dupes |