The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-01-24
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3 For the Laneaiief Gazette.
MEssRs. EDIroRs lin my midnight
reflections | thought proPertO write
short article for your paper which might
te instructive to your readers. We live
in au age of progression. While many
are going 10 church and trying 10 worship
the God who created them, others arc
pursuing the course Of vice and immoral
ity. First Once there lived man who
sold milk for living. and lie said when
he was young he sold pure milk. but
there being pump in his COW yard, he
soon discovered that pumping was easier
th'n milking; which plan he adopted for
the purpose of faster gain. Some over
one year since there was citizen Of our
town who kept saloon, who thought
there was faster way Of making money
than saloon keeping consequently he
started game called Faro-many ofyour
readers have never heard OF such game.
[ will now explain it. This gentlemen,
as well as others had a few dollars. The
game is of this kind, some call it Fighting
the Tiger, and frequently they have
tiger painted on very nice box made for
the purpose Of keeping the money of the
banker in, with divisions to separate the
coin from the ills, which box is frequent
ly opened for the purpose CT showing that
the banker has money. He, the banker,
has what they call chips, ma ie of ivory,
in circular form, which he gives out for
change in lieu Of coin and redeems them
with money il the bstters are fortunate to
wins Now the game, The banker places
confined a certain number of cards on a
table and then says: Gentlemen, make
your bets. They place the chips on th
cards placed on the table. He has box
in which he places deck of cards; there
is spring in the bottom of the box which
keep the cards to tho upper part OF the
box. After the bets are made, lie the
dealer, draws a card from the box face
upwards and places it a short space from
the box, and that is TIE bankers card
and .he card that remains in the box is
the beter's card, and he pays according
ly. Soon after this game was introduced
, the sporting men from a distance learned
that succors Bit in our city, and they
came in and took rooms at respectable no
tells 10 carry on the same branch Of bust
ness, part OF whom had bad luck and Gu
, on the landlords for their bills; others lie
! down to a more humble position anC
rented rooms for sleeping and boarded a
t saloons. The writer's opinion is that thi
3 is a greet evil, and to lis knowledge SOM
of our respectable mechanics have beer
decoyed and have lost their accumulation
: Of years. Some Of our lawyers have par
d ticpatsd in the same thing; also clerk
!, who sell goods in respectable mercautil
A houses; the class referred to are what tn
writer calls night hounds, who prowl tn
streets at late hour Of night and knoc
3 at the doors OF innocent widow women
and cause their neighbors TO think the
ars imprudenl when they are not. AS
10 matter of course they never go sober an
st certain saloons are kept open for dodg
10 ing place, and some Of the proprietcrs al
"a participants, and occasionally have ger
eral melee among themselves. Whe
'' this thing first commenced 1t was prac
ticed in secret dens. and it was enjolne
on all who we're allowed 20 enter to be
- profound secret, but like all others VII
y practice Vice, they became boldcr an
u rented rooms Of respectable citizens in Il
tie most populous part of our city, thay wi
to owned the property knew for what pu
pose it was rented. The writer's opiniC
is that some Of our young men who 10
in saloons, and scarcely know what it is
~ sit az a table and eat good meal, won
oe do we'll to 90 to tie country and te'
ito stock for some farmer for simply the
as board, thereby stunning evil compan
ns the result Of which would be in the
=. favor. S& 81 A CITIZEN.
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