mply using brains. Let us see if
New-Yorkers are as clever as they are charitable. Also, I
shall marry Grace Goodchild in June.

[Signed] H. R.

A great many people announce an epoch-making idea and expect the world
to remember it ever thereafter. H. R. knew that, living in a republic,
he must iterate, reiterate, repeat, and sign every time.

On Saturday morning the ninety-nine other perfectly beautiful girls were
engaged. Grace Goodchild, when asked point-blank if she were engaged to
H. R., now answered, "Do you see any engagement-ring?" Then she held up
her slim and beautiful hands. No ring.

All told, 186,898 tickets had been sold. It was plain that repeating had
been indulged in. The fair sellers could not be blamed.

"If susceptible men have bought more than one ticket," H. R. said to the
reporters, "they need not think they will get more than ten thousand
dollars. But the fact remains that we have more than enough money."

This entitled H. R. to the respect of the most conservative dailies.
And, moreover, he paid full rates for a half-page in which he printed
this advertisement:

HUNGRY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BUY FOOD BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MONEY
WILL RECEIVE A FINE DINNER FREE BY GOING TO MADISON SQUARE
GARDEN TO-NIGHT BEFORE 8.30. FOURTH AVENUE ENTRANCE.

NO MATTER HOW YOU CAME TO BE HUNGRY AND PENNILESS; NO MATTER
WHAT YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN OR WHAT YOUR RELIGION NOW IS; NO
MATTER WHAT YOUR HABITS ARE OR WHAT YOUR POLITICAL OPINIONS
MAY BE, WITHOUT REGARD TO YOUR JAIL RECORD, DISEASE, STATE
OF MIND, OR FAVORITE NEWSPAPER, IF YOU ARE HUNGRY AND HAVE
NO MONEY, COME AND EAT!

TO THE PUBLIC: COME AND SEE THEM EAT YOUR TICKETS!

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN SANDWICH
ARTISTS.

H. R.,
_Sec._

SPONSORS: THE MEN WHO HAVE MADE NEW YORK WHAT IT IS!

Then followed three hundred and seventeen famous names.

"What I have to say," H. R. modestly told the reporters, "I have stated
in my advertisement. However, if you wish to ask any questions, or if
you think the public is interested in any particular point--"

"It is! We do!" exclaimed the reporters. "Tell us about the ten thousand
dollars!"

"It is very simple and very easy," said H. R., with the deadly
earnestness of a man who knows he will not be believed when he speaks
the truth in New York. "As each person passes the ticket-taker he will
go, coupon in hand, into th