Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-13
Gift Enterprise.

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Gift Enterprise
We nave received the circular of n great
gift enterprise, with request to "inscrt in
your valuable paper. give an editorial notice,
Being somewhat disposed to accommodate
the proprietorS, we will favor itwith an edi-
torial first, and see about the insertion after
wards
The gift enterprise is new and ftshiona-
bio name for lottery and lottery is n very
pernicious form of gambling, and seamblinr
is one of the meaneSt ways Of stealing. Take
1T any form, the gambler is a thief. lie an
propriates to himself that which is the prop
erty OF another, and in marmer most repre-
hensible because to do so he induces anotn-
er to attempt to steal from linn. Thus he
not only robs hisyictim, but dcmoralizes him
by making him likeshimsclf thief at heart,
! and7intent, even though he be the loser i'm
the game. We have much more respect for
the robber who picks the pocket, or brca ks in
to the room of the unguardcd one than we
have for the man who induces M, unst1snect-
ing young man toieopardizc both his money
ana ms character ut u game in which he is
sure to lose both. The loss Of money is not
to be dcplored so much as loss of character.
But many n man cain be induced to buy n
cards or otherwise. 1t ieu chance. lie thinks
to make o fortune suddenly, and it is not
much of q risk. Docs he not know. in tho
first place, that the mon he deals with are
| gamblers, and enter upon this "cnterprisep
to make money without labor and mt the eX-
| pcnsc Of the GREEN ones who can be cau~ht
| by a scheme Offering Slj, 900 farm, SiO.-
600 brick house, $4,000 town lot a $1,000
horse, Sooo buggy and such like These
gamblers put out their bills knowing that
fools arc not all dead, and that fool and his
money are soon parted. 0fcourse they keen
enough to pay themselves well, and then dis
tribute" what is left if any.
Occasionally sOmo ono proves "lucl1v'--
better say unlucky, for it proves n curse in
nmcty-nmc cases out of a hundred. The
fortunate posscssor of the big farm, or fine
house, or line horse, knows that ho has an
article that he has never paid for, and which
IN reahty belongs to another, or to others =
Such possessions are mitigated curses.
But the meanuess of this system of gamb-
ling IL it's lying to begin with. 1t is called
a. gut enterprise" This is lie at once
! There is no gift about it. 1t is simply TAX
ing your money, with o possibility of your
stealing as much, may bo more, from some
one who is as big fool as Yourself And,
Oh how benevolent they are! 1t is some
times to promote the arts, music, and some
times literature, Art unions, Gift cnterpris-
/ cs, and such like. arc the moanest kind of
gambling operations. fyou havo money to
TOOL away in such schemes, consult the pa
pers that advertise for them. You probably
! nave onoln your house, and your son has
probably made up his mind to try his luck
with The little pocket money he has, without
having you knowit; Papers thatinvitc your
boys to become gamblers, and tell them where
TO lind the best choice liquors, are great in
,stitutions to introduce into your house---so
would rattlesnakes or the small-pox.-h,dt-
| ana Ameri.uH.
BRUTALITY Tho woman who has been
arrested in Fishkill, N. Y, for shocking
cruelty to a little orphan girl whom she
took to bring up, kept school in that vii
lase The child is Portuguese by birth,
about IL years old, very pretty, and tells a
straightforward story One mode Of tor
turing her was to make her hold hot poker
in her hand until completely burned 10 n
blister and after doing so to take a rulcr
and whip it upo' the burned parts. An
other mode was to strip the child naked,
lay her upon the floor, and thcn draw the
heated poker over different parts of her
person burning her in frightful manner.
At another time the teacher put a gag in
the little girls mouth, and made her keen
1t there for thirtysone hours, of course with
out food on drink. A string was attached
to each end of the gag and tied at the back
OF the head. The sufferer was asked wby
she did not unite the string, and the an
.swer. was that it was tied in a hard knot.
so firmly that it sank into the flesh, and
she, could not unite is. /, At another time
the woman cut all the hair off the child,s
head, and upon the'top Of her head is a
burn caused byscomingin contact with q
hot stoye-pipe on an occasion of being pun
ished.
The Philadelphia Argus pcrtipently adds.
1T the above atrocities had been perpctiated
upon a darkey at the South, would not the
hypocritical philanthropist ofthe New York
Tribune have barkcd himself hoarse with
his vehement denunciations? AS the snf-
fcrer was only a white girl and the cruelty
was practiced in Black Republican com
mpnity, this oppression hater is as silent
upon the matter as'aE Egyptian mummy.
Is It not singular that such shorn prctcn-
ders to benevoience should bo able 10 eyer.
clse q partieleSof influence oyer an intalli.
gent community2 n ssY,k
The ambition to be witty. so,nesi,nea
oyercomes eycnayouth 'saHection, .John,'
said a father TO his son, on the 6ay he was
twonty-One, "you have got d fool for your
master now. ff Yes" said John, end r
have had these twenty years lsT'If
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