Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-25
NOTES AND QUERIES.

tails when he accepted invitation to drink
before handing out his tobacco We find the
Reveille taking part in the Eastern question
as follows
York Herald
Referred to the editor of the Kars-on APPEAL.
We have only to say in reply that the Kars-
onappealtowhich you refer the matter has
otherfshtofry $1,000. A grizzly bear is not the
only animal which seeks to revenge its injur-
les upon the thing that hurts it. That beast,
if struck by club, is content if it can tear
the club to pieces When a stock operating
man or woman gets bit by Belmont or scarf
fed by Crown Point, or Tilted by Julia, he or
she, instead of being content to reap the ben
eft of timely sale of Utah or a lucky trans
action in Phil Sheridan, never rests satisfied
until the offending stock makes PREPARATION.
Look at the people who have been towsled by
Ophir and who never think of tackling any
other stock by way of repairing their losses,
Further, observe how almost everybody who
loses money in stocks goes to stocks to get
even" Do you, oh innocent reader, know
what this illustrates Do you know that it
gambling! What makes the greater proper
ton of gamblers in cards Simply the re-
verses of the first ventures at card playing for
money. They go back to . get even. Ask
any fair minded faro dealer what class of bet
tors are the surest prey. He will tell you that
none are so sure to fall victim to the game
as those who get "stuck" after certain card
or combination of cards. The ace has proven
a mans unlucky card. Just as sure as he
gets the real gambling mania once fixed upon
him, he will try and = get even" on that ace.
He and that part OF the layout are mortal
combatants from that time forward. Now, !
what Of all this Suppose it is true what
then Only this; That there are hundreds |
of men and women in Carson of the very best
character and the purest morals who look on
the vice of card playing for money as the most |
demOralizing vice III the world who are Just |
as completely . stuck with the game of
stocks as poor John Doe is with the game of
faro. And there is many one of these good |
people who viii, the very first money they
get hold of-ruined though they are by their
stock dealings-go with all possible haste and
bet it-that' the word, bet it-against Crown
Point or Belmont or Raymond and Ely, to
- get even. And they never will get even
they never viii get over the hallucination of
gambling; they never will stop their folly any
more than Il confirmed bettor ever stops. We
knew an old mana septuageneran
pressman, who had jerked the Devils tail any
e. bo1f had
for lottery tickets. Just as regularly as he
got his weekly pay he bought tickets in the
Havana lottery. He kept his passion to :
himself; enjoyed his own hopes; concealed
his own fears; suffered his own anxieties.
He remained (and died) bachelor because {
he never could strike lucky number. His =
long, long, weary, careworn life was one sue 7
cession of blanks. He never did Y
win a prize-or none worth taking !
into account He was trying to d
" get even on the thing that had hurt him. s
We are not preaching, We are no jaundiced a
reformer. We are neither an example nor a t
warning We are simply relating the truth. a
1t can be had at four bits a week, payable to -
the carrier We are very glad to perpetu- 81
ate the name and virtues of our friend and c.
fellow statesman. Hon. C. F. Coulter of Gold
Hill, in these Ms and Q's. The shutting p
down of the Baltimore has left him Temporal u
riiy without a job, and so one of the very p
best of machinists is unemployed just now. Ell
He says there are great Numbers of idle peo te
Ole on the line of the Lower Comstock .
We are glad to note business aspect i'll the y.
1ill sticking way. Our sturdy and deserving c.
riend, Andy Wright, has found it in the o,
way of his industry to daub a great deal of I'll
,aste, these days of dullness. The Tom 81
Thumb posters up, we see also many We
olored gymnastical panorama in the name of pa
he Australian Team. These are the trap eH
,ines and the hues of the show business and w
We suppose that the eruption will soon culnl- tn
late III a vast expanse of circus bill, allied
,erhaps, to so much morality and instruction
n biology as is inherent i'll menagerie.
ieantime our busy professional friend of the VI
ra
Iagc Art, Professor Harmon, is about to hi,
tart his small compact caravan down into at
he Columbus, Bodie country, treating the tel
and the Monitors and the Kern OF
Is to taste of his prestidigidative qualities ~,
hich are clever and quite satisfactory as we wa