The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-11
THE WEEKLY SENTINEL: THURSDAY NOVEMBER II, 1885,

counted dishonesty. Tho game OF hazard
itself is often cheat. How many tricks and
receptions in the dealing of the cards! The
opponents he nd Is ofttines found out by
fraud Cards are marked so that they may
be designated from the back. Expert game
sters have their accomplices, and wink
may decide the game. The dice have been
found loaded with platina, SO that doublets
come up every time. These dice intro
duced by the gamblers unobserved by the
honest men who have come into the play, and
this accounts for the fact that 80 out of 100
who gamble, however wealthy when they
began, at the end are found to be poor, mis-
cradle, haggard wretches who would not
now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of the
house in San Francisco a young man having
just come from the mines deposited large
sum upon the ace, and won S22, 900. But the
tide turns Intense anxiety comes upon the
countenances Of all. Slowly the cards went
forth. Every eye is fixed. Not sound is
heard until the ace is revealed favorable to
the bank. There are shouts of "Foul! FOUL"
but the keepers of the table produce their
pistols, and the uproar is silenced and the
bank has won S95, 900. Do you call this
game of chance2 There is no chance about
But these dishonesties III the carrying on Of
the game are nothing when compared with
the frauds that are committed in order to get
money to go on with the nefarious work
Gambling, with its needy hand, has snatched
away the widows mite and the portions Of
the orphans; has sold the daughters virtue
to get the means to continue the game; has
written the counterfeit signature, emptied
the bankers money vault and welded the
assassin's dagger. There is no depth Of
meanness to which it wM not stoop There
is no cruelty at which it is appalled,. There
is no warning of God that it will not dare
Merciless, unappeasable, fierce and wilder, it
blinds it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crushes
it damns. It has peopled our prisons and
lunatic asylunls.
How many railroad agents, and cashiers,
and trustees of funds it has driven to dis
grace, incarceration and suicide? Witness
years ago cashier of the Central Railroad
and Banking company of Georgia, who stole
S103, 600 to carry on his gaming practices
Witness the SAC, 200 stolen from a Brook
bank within the memory of many of you,
and the $3.50, 900 taken from Wall street in
surance company for the same purpose.
These are only illustrations large scale
of the robberies committed for the purpose
of carrying out the designs of gamblers.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year
leak out without observation from the mer-
chants till into the gambling hell
n ulilu III LOulon keeping one OF THESE
gambling houses boosted that he had ruined
a nobleman day; but if all the saloons of
this land were to speak out, they might utter
a more infamous boast, for they have de-
stroyed a thousand noblemen a year.
Notice also the effect of this crime upon
domestic happiness. 1t has sent it's ruthless
plowshare through hundreds OF families,
until the wife sat in rags, and the daughters
were disgraced, and the sons grew UP to the
same Infamous practices, or took short cut
to destruction across the murderers scaffold
Home has lost all charms for the gambler
How tame are the children's caresses and q
wife's devotion to the gambler! How drear-
lily the fire burns on the domestic hearth |
There must be louder laughter, and some
thing to win, and something to lose;
an excitement to drive the heart
faster, flip the blood and fire
the imagination. No home, however bright.
can keep back the gamester. The sweet call
Of love bounds back from his iron soul, and
all endearments are consumed in the fire of
his passion. The family Bible will go after
all other treasures are lost, and il his crown
In heaven were put into his hand he would
cry, "Here goes; ono more game. my boys
On this one throw I stake my crown of
heaven"
A young man In London, on coming Of
ago, received fortune of $120, 900, and
through gambling, In three years, was thrown
ON his mother for support
An only son went to New Orleana He
was rich, intellectual and elegant In mannerx
His parents gave him on his departure from
homo their last blessing. The sharpers got
hold Of him They hattered him They
lured him to the gaming table and let him
patted him on the back and said, illustrate
player" But fully in their grasp they
feeced him, and his $50, 900 were lost. Last
Of all, he put up his watch and lost that
Then he began to think OF his home, and of
his old father and mother, and wrote thus:
my Beloved Parents: You will doubtless
feel q momentary joy at the reception Of this
letter from the child of your bosom, on whom
you have lavished all the favors Of your de-
clining years. But should a feeling Of Joy
for moment spring up In your hearts when
you should have received this from me, cher
ish it not. have fallen deep, never to rise.
Those gray hairs that I should have honored
and protected shall bring down in sorrow
to the grave. I will not curse my destroyer,
but, oh, may God avenge the wrongs and i'm
positions practiced upon the unwary in a
way that shall best please himi This, my
dear parents, is the last letter you will ever
receive from me. humbly pray your for
giveness. 1t Is my dying prayer. Long be-
fore you will have received this from me the
cold grave will have closed upon me forever.
Life to me is insupportable. I cannot, nay, ]
will not, suffer the shame of having ruined
you. Forget and forgive Is the dying prayer
of your unfortunate son.
The old father came to the postoface, got
the letter and fell to the floor. They thought
he was dead at first, but they brushed back
the white hair from his brow and famed
him. He had only tainted. I wish he had
been dead, for what is life worth to father
after his son is destroyed "Aceldema, the
field Of bloodr'
When things go wrong at a gaming table
they shout: Foul! FOUL" Over all the
gaming tables of the world I cry OUT "Foul
FOUL infni; ely FOUL"
Gift stores" are abundant throughout the
country With book, or knife, or sewing
machine, coat, or carriage there goes d
prize At these stores people get something
fbroxEr, in, with thar 1,r1rchaSa Tt NAV Ia a