Show ian jok pot an maurier bos been much nl about in the press by men pretending be bis most friends one or two conspicuous instances family of the late lamented v ere i tl surprised at this 0 I 1 da manner s institutions wai i pair tt vases which ho called 1 is jc pots lie used to receive a large number tit contributions fraai english and amerl can friends all purporting to be truo and worthy of an illustration by him I 1 know at least several instances where friends of mine have sent him texts which he very soon afterward used to good advantage As these contributions arrived he threw them into one of these oke pots by w ay of filling a m kind of pigeonhole then wl en a mo mant arrive 1 in which I 1 e bad to his head for a subject 1 e would dip 1 ii band or catl er his arm into this lot tery and elsh up one contribution after the other until ho foun 1 one thit th it might be regarded as a prize ticket in order that he might insure 1 against repetition I 1 e observed tl e routine of never putting a contribution back into the mine jote jo te pot from which he had extracted it but deposits 1 it in the second vase until alie first one biad boon cleared then he attacked he sec on 1 one an 1 emptied all the lottery kilps back into the first ai I 1 BO on daily weeding out tl e worthless ones and re freshing hii memory as to thoo adapted to i is purpose the fact that these two joke pots were kept BO well supplied by friends 1 0 ed their contributions Is in itself ample testimony to tl e personal charm widely exercised by tins warm hearted master of black and white afi mi 9 weekly |