nd are drawn out one at a time. At the same time another ticket
inscribed with the amount of a prize is drawn from another wheel, and
this prize is accorded to the number drawn from the ticket wheel. This
is continued until the 739 prizes have been disposed of.

The Kentucky and Missouri lotteries are drawn every day at noon, and
every night. The prizes are neither as large nor as numerous as in the
Havana lottery. The drawings are made in public, and the numbers so
drawn are telegraphed all over the country to the agents of the lottery.

"The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of
seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy-eight, inclusive; or in other
words, 'three number' schemes. The numbers vary with the day. To-day
seventy-eight numbers may be placed in the wheel and fourteen of them
drawn out. Any ticket having on it three of the drawn numbers takes a
prize, ranging from fifty thousand dollars to three hundred dollars, as
the scheme may indicate for the day. Tickets with two of the drawn
numbers on them pay an advance of about a hundred per cent. of their
cost. Tickets with only one of the drawn numbers on them get back first
cost. On another day only seventy-five numbers will be put in the wheel,
and only twelve or thirteen drawn out. And so it goes.

"The owners or managers of these concerns are prominent sporting men and
gamblers of New York and elsewhere. Considerable capital is invested.
It is said that it takes nearly two million dollars to work this
business, and that the profits average five hundred thousand dollars or
more a year. The ticket sellers get a commission of twelve per cent. on
all sales. The tickets are issued to them in lots, one set of
combinations going to one section of the country this week, another next;
and all tickets unsold up to the hour for the drawing at Covington, are
sent back to headquarters. In this way many prizes are drawn by tickets
which remain unsold in dealers' hands after they have reported to the
agents; and the lottery makes it clear."

It is argued that lotteries, if managed by honest men, are of necessity
fair. This is true; but there is a vast amount of questionable honesty
in the whole management. The numbers may be so manipulated as to be
entirely in favor of the proprietors, and in the fairest lottery the
chances are always very slim in favor of the exact combination expressed
on any given ticket being drawn from the