Blue waters and green and the Far East today . d he had four dollars and seventy-five centsin change. The barkeeper had mistaken it for a decided that they were ahead of a bar for once,and they would stay so. On the street they decidedthat it was lucky money, and went to a faro bankto try it. They won forty-four dollars with it, andquit. Then one of them, who was a horseman, de-cided that it was still lucky money, and that theywould go to the old Garfield race-track, then run byCorrigan, and chance the whole of it on the longestshot they could find. They went out and there wasBucepha
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . d he had four dollars and seventy-five centsin change. The barkeeper had mistaken it for a decided that they were ahead of a bar for once,and they would stay so. On the street they decidedthat it was lucky money, and went to a faro bankto try it. They won forty-four dollars with it, andquit. Then one of them, who was a horseman, de-cided that it was still lucky money, and that theywould go to the old Garfield race-track, then run byCorrigan, and chance the whole of it on the longestshot they could find. They went out and there wasBucephalus, we will call him, odds fifty to one. Theydecided to put their money on him. Just then a race-horse man who knew them came along and talkedthem out of it. He convinced them that B. couldntwin unless all the other horses dropped dead, andso they finally put their money on the favorite. Be-hold!—there was a bruising start. The horses werehalf an hour at the post. The thoroughbreds worethemselves out scoring, and the plug romped home [1681. MACAO with the money. If they had stayed by their luckthat casual dollar bill would have converted itselfinto twenty-two hundred dollars in twenty-four wonder those who fool with games of chance aresuperstitious. The lottery here is the biggest thing in the pays a capital prize of twenty thousand pesos, tenthousand dollars gold, is drawn every month, and itstickets are sold all over Asia. It flourished first inManila, and when Taft drove it out of there, it, re-moved to Macao, where the Portuguese will let any-thing in that has the price. I should judge that thisis a real wide-open town. But the proprietors ofthe gambling-house, who pay three hundred andsixty-five thousand dollars a year gold, insist on amonopoly. No one else can skin suckers but they,the duly licensed. You wonder where the moneycomes from, and what the total business must amountto when eight per cent pays this enormous tax andbig dividends. I lost one do
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