Subscribers sending us stamps must pro
tect them with oil paper, or xve will have
to refuse them. M’e have received during
the past few weeks of wet xveather hun
dreds of letters with stamps stuck together,
that have been a loss to us.
BOGUS LOTTERY AGENTS.
How Sharpers Worked Their Little Game
Successfully.
Washington, November 14.—Some time
ago an individual m Montreal, Canada,
representing himself as agent of the Louis
iana Lottery Company, xvith headquarters
at Montreal, sent numerous circulars into
the United States advertising his lottery
scheme, xvhich worked successfully, the
promoter rocketing SIO,OOO and then disap
pearing. The success of this operation has
apparently had the effect of inducing others
to enter the same field. Recently the post
office department became aware of the ex
istence of a firm doing business under the
name of J. G. Clarke & Co., xvith head
quarters at Niagara Falls, Canada, and pre
tending to be agents of the Louisiana Lot
tery Company. As in the first instance,
circulars xvere sent through the United
States mails inviting remittances for tick
ets. The department took steps to nip the
scheme in the bud by issuing an order stop
ping the payment of money orders and de
livering all registered matter addressed to
the firm through the United States malls.
The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find
the Word?
There Is a three-inch display advertisement
in this paper, this week? xvhich has no two
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one appearing each week,
from the Dr. Harter Medicine Company. Ibis
house places a "crescent” on everything they
niike and publish. Look for it, send them
the name of the word, and they will return
you book, beautiful lithograph, or samples
free.
CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS.
