The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-02-23
GAMBLING, IT'S CONSEQUENCES.

lor tne last three years, when his physicians re,
c.inended Dieppe to him, as all other places ha
! ialleo IN restoring his strength. This occurre
IN I sne month of July, some few years since.
LIS daughter accompanied him the mo,
= ooauuIui OF ltaly's daughters, where there al
~ 1iany competitors for the prize ofloyeliness
Oiyh'pla was an only child; vet the Marnui
mad been married four times - y
s Desoured by ambition and pride, he could nc
even from her conceal his ANNOYANCE about he
se1 !or now his name, which had been handle
J. ooWn In the direct line for four centuries woul
peilsn With himself Ha would freely have DIV
eh MS immense fortune twice over, his life. hi
n.lI me- az to have possessed son who woul
iiaiio uoWn his name to posterity, 8- .-
;. At sixty he was the widower of two Roma
iau1es q high descent, and of a German princess
ana alj three had died without his wish bein
d accomplished He was old now, and worn b
sne H,tngues OF place and ambition. He fei
nilnself going; death stood before him ever,
moment more visibly, and to try and concea
Ine painful act from his view, this last of tn
s oscarni endeayored by gaieties and pleasure
n crown hlmsef with the semblance Of youth
- idi7ed around him rampant of debaucheries
orgies,and gambling; he flung millions awav. IN,
"neh ~ accident, thought of his child CAM
"oloss MN, 1t was in bitterness of spirit
,tD, woman woman!7" he exclaimed
Hsfe VIII always remain a sufficient fortune
~ her, enid CT eighteen ? What would she
40 with all my palaces She would be alright
ca oy the heaps of gold which had accumulat
eI Tor son On, on, let us amuse ourselve.
! WINE we may. shall perhaps die to morrow =
Oii!y1mpla knew why her father lived thus
ne aga not spare her the knowledge of why he
was so reckless. Without pity towards her 40
earelng for how much he panied her heart, he
was constantly approaching llar as the cause O
all, Cursng her and her dead mother, he cared
NOT new much she, who so tenderly loved him
oeheh the unsightly wounds of his ambitious
heart and waen he saw her in tears, his only
resource was to leave her alone, to weep in the
oltterst sorrow child might know, arising from
fathers cruelty. And YET Forscarmi loved his
uaugn'er, not as father should have done, but
as something belonging to himself AS something
beautiful, the most exquisite OF his nossessions
handsome piece of furniture-his own This
] was the reason why he ALWAYS kept her with him
made her travel where he went, and refused her
hand IN marriage to the wealthiest mobiles of Aus.
tria and Italy
Stay with me, ?" he said II want to have
yeu near me. Yon can marry when | am dead.
| w men his teverish nights Of excitement had
passed broken down and trembling from a de-
oaucn OF wine and gambling, he was in the hab.
| 1t going to the baths, or seeking in the wave
renewal of Wgor to pursue an existence capa-
pie OF Killing strong man OF twenty and vet
ne was TOO unhappy to. relinquish the excitement
one day he endeavored TO hathe alone without
his attendant when the tide was coming in; but
weaker than usual, he was carried away, and
then flung in fainting fit upon The beach The
next wave was taking him away % certain des-
tructOn, when young man, VINO was bathing,
swan to his senseless form and bore him to land
in safety.
When Foscarini opened his eyes, he turned to
thank the-one who saved him, and, to his annoy
ance recognized an officer from Trabans whom
he had met at the baths of Pyrmont and Vienna,
and whose assduties towards olympia had Civ
en- him much uneaslness
A few words of cold thanks and polfteness
We're exchanged, and the young German asked
tel. 0 ii''i 4"iS No
He was frigidly told that he might do so.
AT the end OF month the Marquis and Ste
phen had become inseparahle
otlli madly in love with Olympia, the latter
was however, too clever this time to manifest it
SO openly as he had done at Pyrmont He al
lowed Foscarini to think hat he was cured of
ms passion. He spoke ofOlympia without trem
ohhg or turning pale, and with perfect ease of
manner, addressed a few common place compli
ments to her, to which she replied in the same
Indifferent tone.
Quite blinded, the old man unsuspiciouslv
yielded hlmsefinto the others hands He made
nm his companion and coRfidant, and raised the
curtain before him which had concealed all his
past lite, and revealed the horrors which had
been hidden beneath the splendor and garlands
OF his teteS. Stephen, however knew it already;
Olympia had concealed nothing from him. For
two whole years he had followed in the track of
Foscarlni and his daughter. Thus Stephen pas
sed almost every night at the the Maqruis', and
to meet his taste, and at the same time, if posi-
bic, keep him from going among strangers, he
became seeming gambler, to restrain the real
one.
During the month he had played away all the
money be possessed about him and all he could
borrow, and the more lost, the better Foscarini
Io7ed him, for the Marquis knew no happiness
out IN dice, no pleasure save in winning
But luck changed.
The Marquis lind passion for a sort lof loo
called bouilette, which Stephen affected to like
equally we'll 1t had already cost him ten thou
sand louis when one evening he arrived at the
Narquis's half all hour earlier than usual, with
the last fifty louis he could then command in the
world and firmly resolved that if he lost them,
ne would no longer carry on the fearful game he
had been playing, but at once throw off the mask
OF hypocrisy and demanding Olympia again in
marriage from her father, endeaver by other
means to win him from his love Of gambling. If
she were refused to him, lie felt all the despera-
ton would seize upon him which was natural to
a young man like himself,wIo had vainly sought
the one he loved so long.
Forscarini and Stephen were seated opposite
to each other. At their loo table there was
Partisan banker, an English naval officer, and
TWO planters from Havana. Stakes were i'm
Aense. Stephen commenced by ten louis, then
ten MORE again the same and then the same
All were lost. He trembled. Foscarini laughed
at the smallness of the stakes. With hand
which appeared iustinctively to draw back, Ste
phen placed his ten louis before him; he held
three deuces in his hand, and gained hundred
louis from the Partisan banker.
At live in the morning he had won two hun
dred thousand piasters, the banker eighty-four
thousand, the naval officer twenty-theusand, &
the other two more than thirty thousand.
1t was Foscarini who had lost all that
The gamblers drank glass of punch, and am
Icably gave each other rendezvous for the even
ing.
Evening came, and the play of the one prece.
ding had been that of child in comparison with
it. Angelo Marquis of Fosearini lost all that he
possessed-al his palaces at Naples and Florence
all his villas at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, and
his property in the Camragna at Rome his gold,
diamonds, horses-all
The day broke through the crevices of the shut
tiers through the double curtains the daylight
cast It's pale light, which made that of the expi
ring wax light of the red glare which we fancy an
emanatlon from the Internal regions.
vi the six intrepid players, four of them looked
like statues The immense losses of their host
the piles of money and o US placed befoae
them had petrifed them. Only two men there
found words or movement. These were Foscar.
I'M and Stephen. The farmer was searching in
all his pockets for something more wherewith tc
gamble, and he found nothing. Never before
had man in this world such physiognomy al
that one
AT last he advanced two flaming eyes close t.
the others face, and in a low voice seemed t.
roll in his bosom like distant and threatening
thunder. he said
Monster, all that / possess is yours; wha
those other gentlemen won is trife, but you-a
this present moment, you might say to me, ok