The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-05

Sights In Il Gambling House - A Young
Man Who Lost All--Doscribing the
Dissolute Dance--' Gods Rcd Ho t
Truth" to the Rescue.
(flom The Nc,o Yo,h: Sun.
Like one of the gods who annoyed
Tantalus, Mr., Talmago holds out,
every Sunday, the grapes Of his
vicious experience, only to wink and
withdraw them slyly the instant
that his congregation has pursed
up it's mouth for their reception.
Repeatedly, with three conspicuous
police officials and two deacons, he
rolls through the moonlight in a
magnificent carriage on his way to
the Coates of He'll" but having
reached his destination, instead of
answering expect and de-
sorlbing what his audience is waiting
for, he nimbly slips around the
corner of the emergency, and de-
votes the rest of his sermon to we'll
worn generalities and the combined
praise of Anthony Comstock and tho
Brooklyn police. The advance and
retreat of the pastor of the Taber-
nacle were yesterday almost simul>
taneous. He went up to the Gates
like IL lion. only instantly to whisk
away from them like Il lamb,
"fhe gates of hell shall not pro-
vail against it," Mr.. Talmage
shouted by way Of text. cts
only 10 o'clock. said the officer Of
the law. rs we got into carriage
for the purpose of pursuing our
midnight explorations. It's only
10 O'Clock, and too early to SEQ
anything in the haunts of vice, for
the tAuatras have not yet let out
'Wh"t do you moan 2 II mean that
the places of iniqlity are not in full
blast unt:i the tiloa5res ir,ye Let
"n0. H1t D*n:i,n.t 3io close Of
Inc chea1rea. S:.c t,ii: nf the law
tells the driver TO stop in front of
one of the costliest and most bril-,
liant gambling places in the city.
The front is dark, tho blinds are
down, and the door is guarded but
after little whispering between
the officer of the lazy and tho door
keeper, Mr., Talmage is allowed to
enter into hall, and then into a
parlor. There eight or ten men, in
middle life and we'll dressed, are
gathered about Il gambling table.
All is quiet. save the noise made by
the rafting chips and by the res
roiving roulette ball in another par
lor. Some Of these mon had served
in State prison, somo were bankers
and ship brokers, and some we,e
going the first rounds Of their
vicious career. There was some
thing awfully solemn in the
silence, in the intense gaze,
and the suppressed emotion as the
players contemplated the shifting
fortunes on the board. "a man y
ife," declared Mr.. Talmage, "was
not worth farthing there, unless
protected by the police, if it should
be supposed that he had come on a
mission of Christian observation.
[Smiles from some in tho Taber.
nacle.] A young man came in, put
money down on the roulette table.
and lost. He put down more money
and lost. More, and lost. Feeling
in his pockets for more money then,
and finding mono. "he turned his
back in severe silence, and passed
out"
The literature about the costli-
ness and magniicence Of these
places Mr.. Talmage said was untrue
Men kept their hats on and smoked
and there was nothing in the up
holstery or furniture to forbid it.
It wassnot uncommon. was Mr..
Talmags's moral, for gamesters to
resort to the suicides revolver. In
gambling processes, was his anti
climax, 123,0o0,000,000 change
hands every year.
At IL o'clock Mr.. Talmage passed
out into tho street. The burly
guard slammed the door, and they
went down to the carriage and
''rolled away toward the Gutes of
He'll" Heaven. as everybody knows.
has three gates on each side, all
made out of solid pearl Hell's
gates are set in sockets Of deep and
dreadful masonry, and are very
high, 80 that people may not get
out. It is safe to 20 where God