The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-24

Wtfe's entreaty, can make him stay for :.
his headlong career. The Internal
spell is on him; giant is aroused within;
and though you bind him with cables, they
would part like thread; and though you
fasten him seven times around with chains,
they would snap like rusted wire, and
though you piled up in his path, heaven
high, Bibles, tracts and sermons, and on the
top should set the cross of the Son Of God,
over them all the gambler would leap like
Q roe over the rocks on his way to perdition.
'Aceldama, the field Of blood"
You never knew a confirmed gambler
who was industrious. The men given to
this vice spend their time, when not actively
employed in the game, in idlenoss or intoxi-
cation or sleep, or in corrupting new vie
tins. This sin has dulled the carpenters
saw and cut the band Of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth Of the
farmers harrow and sent q strange light
ening TO shatter the battery Of the philoso-
pher. The very first idea in gaming ia at
war with oil the industries OF society. Amy
trade or occupation that Is OF use is en-
nobllng. The street sweeper advances the
interests Of society by the cleanliness ef-
fected. The cat pays for the fragments it
eats by clearing the house Of vermin. The
fly that takes the sweetness from the dregs
of the cup compensates by purifying the
air and keeping back the pestilence. But
the gambler gives not any thing for that
which he takes. l recall that sentence He
does make a return; but it is disgrace to
heart, ruin to his business, anguish to his
a. ~ "a, ,,,I
wasting away to his soul. He pays in
tears, and blood, and agony, and darkness,
and woe.
John Borack was sent AZ mercantile agent
from Bremen to England and this country.
After two years his employers mistrusted
that all was not right. He was a defaulter
for 81, 900. 1t was found that he had lost
in Lombard street, London, $4,000; in Full
ton street, New York, $4,000, and in New
Orleans, 5000. He was imprisoned. but
afterwards escaped, and went :c:o the
gambling profession. He died in lunatic
asylum. This crime ia getting its lover un-
der many q mercantile house in our cities,
and before long down will come the great
establishment, crushing reputation, homo
comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts
and sinks capital may be inferred from
some authentic statement before 10. Tho
ten gaming houses that once were author
ICED In Paris passed through the banks
yearly s25,WO,OO francs Where does all
the money come FRONT The whole world II
robbed. What Is most sad, there are no con-
solutions for the loss and suffering entslled
by gambling II men fail in lawful business,
God pities and society comiserates; but,
where in the Bible or In society Is there any
consolation for the galnbleri Prom what
tree in the forest oOEes there . balm that
can seothe the gamester's hearth In that
bottle where God keeps the tears Of His
children are there any tears Of the gambler
Do the winds that como TO kiss the faded
cheek Of sickness and TO cool the heated
brow Of the lAborer whisper hope and cheer
to the emacisted victim Of the gsmo Of has-
ardi When IN honest mau is in trouble he
has sympathy. "Poor fellow" they soy.
But do gamblers como to weep Ut the ago.
MES Of the gambleri
Furthermore, this sin 10 the source Of I'M
counted dishonesty. The game Of hazard
itself is often cheat How many tricks
and decepuons in the dealing Of the cards.
The opponent'a hand 10 often found out by
fraud. Cards sro marked 90 that they may
b designated from the back. Expert
gamesters have their accomplices, and one
wink may decide the game. The dico have
been found loaded with platina, - thai
doublets come up every time. These dice
are introduced by the gamblers un0bserved
by the honest men who have come into the
play, aud this accounts for the fact that
ninety nine out Of one hundred who
gamble, however wealthy when they b.
gan, at the end are found to b poor, mis-
cradle, hsggard wretches who would not
be allowed to sit on the doorstep Of the
house that they once owned. Do you call
tMs game Of chance, There "a no chance
about it.
But these dishonesties In the carrying on
of the game are nothing when compared
with the frauds that are committed In order
to get money to 60 on with the nefarious
work. Gambling, with its needy hand, has
snatched away the widows mite and the
portions Of the orphans; has cold The
daughters virtue to get the mems to con.
tinue the game; has written tho counter
felt signature, emptied the banker's money
vault and welded tho assassin's dagger
There is no depth of meanness to which II
will not st0Op. There 10 NO cruelty q,
which it is appalled,. There Ia NO warning
Of God that it will not dare Merciless, un
appeasable, fierce and wild, it blinds, l,
hardens, it rends, It blasts, 1t crushes, !,
damns. 1t has peOpled our prisons and lu
natio asylums.
A man in London keeping one Of these
gambling houses boosted that he had
ruined nobleman q day; but II oil the
saloons Of tho land were to speak out, they
might utter more infamous boast, fol
they have destroyed thousand noblemeu {
year.
Notice also the effects Of this crime upor
domestic happiness. 1t has sent its ruth
less plowshare .nrough hundreds of fam
lilies, until the wife sat in rags, and the
daughters were disgraced, and the SOM
grew up to the same infamous practices, Of
took short cut TO destruction across ths
murderer's scaffold.
Home has lost ell charms for the gambler
How tame are the children's caresses and
drcarily the fire burns on the domestic
hearth. There must be louder laughter
and something to win, and something u
lose; and excitement to drive tho hear
faster, fllip the blood and fire the imagina
ton. No home, however bright, can keep
back the gamester. The sweet call Of love
bounds back from his iron soul, end all en-
dearments are consumed in the fire Of hi
passion. The family Bible will 60 after al
other treasures ore lost, and II his crowr
in Heaven were put into his hand be wouk
cry: "Here goes; one more game, my boys
On this ono throw stake my crown q
Heaven"
An only son won't 70 New OrleanA h,
was rich, intellectual and elegant In man
ners. His parents gave him on his depart
ure from homo their last blessing Tn
sharpers got hold Of him. They fatteret
him. They lured him 70 the gaming tabl'
and let him win almost every time for {
good while, and patted him on the back ant