Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-10-03

make $4,000 and then go to Europe" If he
mas mas made $4,000, he says, al will make $780,
VoV and then retire." If he has made $50 600
Ut S'o'VVo, ne says. 81 will make just $3.50, 900,
so as 10 DC able to live decently." There is no
deviation from this rule. And it invariably han
pens that just before the gambler has reached
the limit he fixes upon, fortune turns apainst
MN, and he is ruined. Everybody supposes
.na' ne VIII be wise enough TO retire at the fight
tune, and to be content with wha, he has got.
Nobody ever is
=. IN tne crisis consequent upon the Schuyler
ana's' some years ago, young clerk having
nonesily come by a few hundred dollars, bought
hrle STOCK with it at about 30. 1t rose in few
weeks 10 40 or 20. He made several thousand
o1Iiars, lie continued to speculate. He bought
oiher STOCKS, which rose likewise He extend ID
his operations, gave up his office, invested ali
n's money and his time in his gambling schemes.
All tbroye. Every stock he touched rose. He
began 10 feel he that he was a person of very
superior Judgment His broker rather shared
tne OPINION, listened respectfully to his orders.
and asked him for hints He took fine house
ana lived well. When he had made considera-
n'e over hundred thousand dollars his broker
'oos MN into his inner room one morning.
MT L., said the honest man, the bal.
ance IN my hands due you is now S. con.
slderaoiy more than you will want TO live upon
Tor the rest Of your life. You have mother
and sister. you continue to speculate you
"lii iniaiioly lose every dollar. Let me entreat
ana imPiore OF you TO draw out this money and
go TO Europe for a couple ofyears
the young man laughed scornfuly at the sup-
gestion, and intimated that he was old enough
to take care Of himself
Then, sir said the broker, you will be GOOD
enough to withdraw your balance and close YOUR
account with me, for / will have no hand in ru-
lining you'
lie did so; engaged other brokers who were
glad Of the business; and was beooar within
sixty days, without employment, or money, or
credit, or capacity for work.
o'ock gambling is certainly the most runous
OF pursuits for it not only leads TO pecuniary
loss, out 1t nnfits man for any work, and in
hne cases out OF ten saps his moral principles
How can man work for S25 or $50 week
VINO has operations on foot by which he NAV
make mi as many hundreds in the like period p
Inc miserable, idle. good-for nothing creatures
VINO hang about William street and the stock
exchange, ready to gamble in stocks with any
one VINO VIII trust them, are really the most pit
liable wretches in the city; for they ,nld not if
they would work at any honest labor They are
unht Tor every employment save gambling, and
when they go down they go down very deep in
deed-quite out of sight. How they TEEN with
ialsehood, tool No fabrication is too infamous
Tor them to utter when their interest NAV be SER
we'd by the depression or imitation of stock
This reckessness of truth is one Of the most in
variable marks of this class Of stock gamblers.
oome who are members Of the church,
men OF family and character, esteemed and
respected in private and public life, will
tell the most outrageous fasehoods to serve their
stock.gam6ling operations, without the least
scrnple or hrsltancy and no one ever seems to
think their conduct reprehensble Purse bab-