Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-02
CARDS AND DICE.
The Mania Which Men Possess for
Gambling.
The Fortunes That are Lost, the Lives Tha,
are Wrecked, and the Hopes That
are Blasted Over the Green
Table.
A PICTURE OF METROPOLITAN LIFE

audiences o. 5000 people occupying the
place every Sabbath morning and evening.
After explaining portion of the scrip
lures this morning, DR.. TalmaSe gave out
the following opening hymn:
"My soul be on thy guard,
| Tel thousand foes Rcise!
| The hosts of sin are pressing hard
| To draw thee from the skies"
After the hymn had been sung by the
congregation, DR.. Talmage began his SER
mon on the subject:
''ShRlI the Gamblers Be rriumphauts''
| The text was II Kings xix.ZS: "Eecause thy
rage against me and thy tumult Is come ~,
lnto uhthe ear, ear .-.SserVIe VIII iSut my hook
nv Nm s0Ss s9s ny sSiaAs " thy hps' and I
The following is the sermon:
Sennacherib, the infamous, had taxed aud
| outraged the people until it was time for
1 him to be stopped. God through the prophet
declares He will stop him and that in no
smooth or complimentary style. He will
| not coax him back. He will not argue or
| persuade him back but as butcher thrusts
an iron hook into the nose of an OK to lead
him to the slaughter so God will turn this
| foul Sennecherib. 81 will put my hook in
to thy nose and will turn thee back
The gambling evil has of late taken on
imperial airs. Having for centuries in
secret raped multi.udes to financial and
moral death, il now becomes
Blatant and Defiant
as | have never before seen or heard it
Recent events are astounding Shall the
gamblers be triumphant in these cities or
shall our authorities be sufficiently backed
up by public opinion to rsut md extirpatc
them, IS one of the absorbing questions for
every good citizen. Sir Garnet Wolse'ey
khar An A
PaCha by September 10, and he kept bis
promise to the day. You know how the
Egyptians have been spoiled. The gamO.
lerS of these cities, for 8 time queched,
promised that they would open their places
again by the 2jth of September, and they
have kept their promise 10 the day, their
prOmptneSS in the bad ali example for
prOmptneSS in the good. Refreshed with
the summer recreation o. Saratoga end
other watering places, these gamblers
open their pool rCpmS at Hunters Point,
and the police EN- do nothing, aud COr)-
ncr suggeStiyely allows his premises 10 be
used as sn entrance TO one of these
pandeTo oniums, the Coroner, no doubt,
having an eye 40 business, as the way of
the gambler is so often the
Way of Sudden Death.
On last Thursday about thirty Of these
miscreants were arraigled in New York
by talented counsel struggling for rescue the
District Attorney is SOlemnly warned by
private letter and in Other ways that he
had better look out. Politicians are told
that if they take any part in the suppress
sion of pool rooms or gambling saloons
| they shall be neither sherifs, nor cOronerS,
| nor district attorneys, no mayors, nor
I judges. What now all good men and wo-
I men, and all churches, and all reform as
A In IL STRONG
| vehement sentiment against these villain
Gus practices. | was in Cincinnati last
/ week, and plsSiRg TO the depot, | heard the
/ clatter of dice, and away out in the ceun-
| try at an agricultural fair group OF men
| gathered in front OF the hotel and all day
long gambled while their honest neighbors
! were admiring the honest products OF the
| earth and blessing God for greet prosperity.
! From sea to sea this style OF iniqUity has
! spread itself This crime is
On The Increase.
| so that it is we'll tLat not only fathers ana
| brothers ard sons be Interested in such
discussion but thai wives and mothers
| and sisters aud daughters look out lest
! their pisseLt no Ne be sc uCed. o. their
I intended home be biaI!C1. No man, no
woman can stand alOOS fIOn such subject
| as this and say: 1T has no pract cal hear
| ing upon my life for the g may be in
| short time in yoLr history an experience
| in which YOU Will fEd that the discussion
| involved three worlds -carSu, heaven and
| hell. There are 3, 800 Professional gamblers.
| Out of T. e establishments how many OF
| them DO you suppose profess to Dc honest;
| Ten. These ten pro'eS"inG to be honest
! because they are merely (he ant'-chamoer
| to those that are acknowledged fraudulent.
| These are frst-ClaSs gambling establish
| pents You sep a little wav ouV OF Broad
way. You 20 up the marble stairs. You
| ring the bell The liyeried servant intro
duCes yod. The wall are lavender tinted.
| TIE man lies are o; Vermont marble. The
pic,ur,s are, ''Jephtha's D.uohtar and
bore's "Da1tes' and Nirg'rs Frozen Re-
gion oi He''." .
A Most Appropriate Selection
this last, for the place. There IS the 70 J.
| lette table, the MLest, coStliest, most e.
Uuisite piece Of furniture in the Cnised
States. There is the banqueting room
where, free Of charge to the guests you
cigars, sumptuoLsly beyond parallel. Then
! you come to the Second-cl1ss gambling e.
| Enlistment. To it you are introduced by
| a card 10 some ''rOper.in." Having entered
| Won must either gamble or yhG. Sanded
| cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor
drinks mixed with more poor drinks
will son help you to get rlu
of your money to tune IN short metre
without Staccato passages. ION w~ntcd 10
see You saw. The low Yilla'es OF that
place watch you as you come in. Does not
| The panther, SQUAT in the grass, know calf
when he sees iL2 Wranyle Dot Tor yoir
rights in that place, or your body Will be
thrown bloody into the street, or deao lnto
the East River.
You 90 along little further and find the
policy establishment. In that place you
[
| is called saddle" betupg on three num-
bers is called a sig" betting on four
numbers is called horse" and there
are
| leaning into that saddle and mounting that
sic, and behind that horse riding - peru
tiOn. The usual sim on the door IS the
! word Exchange most appropriate
title. for there. in that room, q man ex-
chances health. and peace, and heaven, for
loss of wealth, loss OF home, loss OF family,
| loss of immortal soul; exchange, sure
| enough, and infinite enough.
There in is many disposition to hazard
| They feel a delight in walking near precl-
niece because Of the sense of danger. There
are people who 60 upon JunStrau, not lor
| the iargeness of the prospect but 10. me
feeling that they have OF thlnkipS Th nas
would happen il should fall of? There
! are personswho have their blood thrilled AID
/ accelerated by skating very near an alr
| hole There are men who find positive
delight in driving within two inches o. the
| edre of bridge 1t is this disposition 70
| hazard that finds development in gaming
practices. Here are $500. may stake
! them. II l stake them may lose them,
| but o
Whichever way it turns have the excite
ment Shuttle the cards. Lost! Heart
thumps. Head dizzy. At it again Just 10
| gratify this desire for hazard. ~.
Then there are others who 60 into this
sin through sheer desire for gain. 1t IS es-
peciaiIy so with professional gamblers.
They always keep cool; They never drink Tt.
enough to unbalance their Judgment. Iney
| do not see the dice so much as they see the
dollar beyond the dice, and for that they
watch as the spider in the web, looking as
If dead until the fly passes. Thousands OF
young men, in the hope OF gam, 70 INTO MO
these practices They say: wen, my
| salary fs not enough 70 allow this luxu-