The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-25
PRICE THREE CENTS.

him, and he SAYS: 'pll bet you sfOO,"
set him down as liar. He is a liar and in
| that way proposes to bolster up sort OF ve-
racity, 1t is debasing pra tice Bet about
| nothing Pay for what you buy, not looking
| for prize, For a slow, phlegmatic nature.
the gambling pra tice may have no special
temptation; but if a man be sanguine, II
| man be nervous, il n man he eScitable, lot
him look out for thiseYl. A little while you
may stay in the still waters, but J'l. ara
coming TO the abyss and the boat vii! h,
| thrown over. and you will cling to ii with
| fingers blood tipped and nails PIERCING tue
wood, until with white ch eks aud the hor-
rors OF lost soul lifting ths very hair from
the scalp, you will plunge Where no Crap
ping hook will ever drag you out.
Young men, avoid this evil Ii you
have any tickets in your pocket that
| are suggestive of this evil, destroy them
when YOU go home. There is not young
man in New York or Brooklyn but will be
tempted by this evil. There is hardly
| young man in this house, or an old one who
has not been tempted. 1t is 50 much so that
| innocent and kindly and healthful amuse-
ments are becoming atfe ctel. Now, do not
know a more healthful recreation than ten
pins. have passed many hours in ten pn
| alleys and they have always been to me the
means of physical recuperation. l can
hardly think of any e.tter form of
amusement than ten-ptn aIlev Yet you
know as well as that sols~ of these peces
have been turned into gambling saloons.
husband, father, brother, son enter ten-pia
alley for this purpose. Let tho boy set up
the pins at the other end of the alley. Give
the gameSter full swing Now stand out of
his way. Roll the first. There, itstrikes Down
goes his respectability. Stand back now, give
him another chan"e, Roll the second There,
be strikes down the last feeling of humanity
Give him full swing Let the gamester have
full chance. Roll the third. 1t strikes
Down goes his soul. 1t was not the ten-pins
that fell-a SOUL an immortal soul Let
me give you in brief thu history of a
gambler. Lured by friends he goes to places
where an honest man ought never go. He
sits down at the table just for the purpose of
being thought sociable, or Willing away the
time They play. They play into Satan's
hands and he takes all the tricks and both
the players s)uls for trumos, he being a
sharper at any game. A small stake is put
up Just to make it interesting. Game after
game is splayed. larger stakes and st larger,
until after while they begin to move nerv-
ously on their chairs, AMI the brows lower
and the eyes fash AMI the lips more and
more conpressal and the fist IS clcnchai and
the eyes like fire balls seem starting from
their sockets tosee the final turn before it
comes If losing paling with envy andt
tremulous with unutterel oaths cast
back red hot upon the heart; or
winning, with hysteric laugh, crying:
Aha. aha | have it!n A few years have
passed on and he is the mere wreck of man.
Before he throws his first card now he puts
down the last relic of his wife, the marriage
ring that seaei the VOWS between the n. He
plays. He eloses. He says back He dreams,
and in his dreams the past hours mock
him with great agony, and friends with
eyes of fire and tongues of fame gather
around him and join hands to dance, with
hellish chorus. chanting, "hail, brother"
and kiss his clammy forehead, and their
loathesome locks flowing in serpent5 crawl
into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs
and suck at his life blood, and coiling around
his heart pinch it with chils and shudders
indescribable.
That is you, oh young man, if yon come to
the terminus of that blasted road on which
you have already started, May God help
You! Remember that this is down grade