Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1884-10-04

gambler may in moment OF
luck win, say two hundred thousand
or three hundred thousand francs, but
no Am will repay him for sleepless
nights and for hours of anxiety, for
nights made into days. No occupation,
legal, political, or mercantile, will pay
for the eXtravagances he must indulge
in. While he is in the full tide of pleas
ure the clouds are near, and the gam
bier finds his hell on earth. For every
hourof pleasure he spends days of misery
The pleasures become only rccollections
while misery, despair, and often suicide,
stare him in the face.
"A man with the passion for play will
do anything TO procure money in order
to recover his losses. He will borrow
five thousand francs from his bank.
one thousand francs from friend. five
hundred francs from an acquaintance,
one hundred francs from comparative
stranger, fifty francs from a club
waiter, twenty francs from the cook,
ten francs from cabby who may have
driven him three or four times. and
then five francs from anybody to get a
dinner or breakfast with. All taste fol
honest industry leaves you, honor even
takes wings and finally you are sighted
by your friends and vilided by those
you have served"
"You have won and lost large
amounts during the past two years,
have you not, Mir Deutsch?"
Eyes; my differences in two years
have been fully four million francs
that is, have won quite two million
and lost over two million" "
"How much of this went for percent
ages TO the clubs?'
"Well, | should think that at least
four hundred thousand or five hundred
thousand went into the clubs as percent-
ages. IL is only question of time
when the entire capital of player
must be consumed by the proprietors OF
clubs, and the various fees, etc, nee
essary, Play at Paris clubs means GER
tain ruin il man keeps at it long
enough They must in time ruin every
man who plays at them, and they will
finally consume all the capital or drive
away the capitalists.
What do you mean by running all
the playersP"
81 mean simply this: Take ten play
ers each with ten thousand francs, or
five hundred louis. They take alter.
nately banks each of an average of fifty
louis, which costs two louis to the canette
for each bank. Now they can deal fifty
banks day, which makes one hundred
louis TO the canette, and thus in a GER.
tain number of days easily calculated
the entire party must have lost the en-
tire sum they went ia with. Outside OF
this, the taxes are terrible. In the
first place there are the dues Oi
the club; second, the man who
deals bank at baccarat of ten louis
must give one louis TO the house, or ten
per cent. of the original investment.
If he loses, the players against him win
but nine louis. If he wins but one
louis in his bank, the players have
lost two louis, and the bankerwius moth.
ing. Then if man has occasion tc
ask credit at the caisse he has to pay
; one louis per day for every fifty louis he
has lost.
, 1.-The charges at ecarte at the club:
r are even worse. Five francs have to be
paid for each pass, so that it is easily
possible for two players 20 play and both
! lose | have played with gentleman
> lorty-siN games at one louis game
My opponent won twenty-five and
, won twenty-four times. At the finish
] therefore. had won two louis from
my friend, but we had paid five francs
for each pass paying six louis alto
1 gether and my friend five and hal
louis, SO that the net loss was mint
, and a half louis. | lost four louis anC