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

are there any tears of gamblers,
Does tho wind that blows health
into tho cheeks of the invalid
and that tcools the heated brow of tina lahorer
WHISPER any peace or consolation 10 tho heart
Of the gamesterl All, no, no. In Northum-
berland, England, there is large estate
whose owner in three years-he having in
herited it--in three years got through with
it all Coming down out of the saloon at
nj Int, he got int, his carriay re- started
for home, turned back, won't no to the
saloon, put UP his horses and carriages, put
IN his house In town, PLAYED again, lost all,
went down. started on one of the back streets
homeward, met q friend, borrowed from
him ten guineas, went back to the saloon,
PLAYED again and won won again and again
until he had twenty thousand pounds, then
lost and lost again and again, and diel a beg
gar at st, Pauls. There is no habit on earth
20 mercileSs as the gaming habit.
It nj o works great ruin In the fact that it
Is the source OF maltitudes OF dishonestes In
the worst cases the game itself is cheat
How often it is there is a mark on the back
OF the card to indicate what is on the other
side OF the card How often there are de-
ceeptions iu the shuffling of the cards. How
often it is with the dice that it is loaded with
platinum and doublets come up every time
how often It Is some coadiu winks
TO his comrade and decides the game Some
times the gaming house will introduce dice
or cards unseen to tho players, and that a.
counts for the fact that ninety-ninc out of a
hundred men who 60 into gambling however
wealthy they were at the start, lose every
thing, and are poor, miserable nothings, n.t
permitted oven to sit on the steps of
the door of the house that they once
owned before they went into gambling. In
san francisco young man who had Just
come from the mines, put down $4,000: a
DrGot amount ~ n,n 4 t.,xxa,
the same evening he pat upon the ace and
Others came in and they played, and the time
went on. They patted him on the back and
told him he was good player. He won agan
and again. After a while the tide turned
and he lost and lost, and the ace was
revealin. favorably to the bank, and some
one cried "Foul, fo1l.' Bat the controllers
OF the house presented their pistols and the
tlmult was silenced, and during the evening
s05, 600 had been won hy the banl. You cali
that game of chance! No chance about it.
But the dishonesties practisei at the gaming
table are nothing compared with the dishon-
estes practised in order to get the money to
so on with these evil habits. The greedy
hand of gambling has again and again
snat he'd away the widow mite and despoiled
the orphans portion, or has sold a daughters
virtue to get means to go on with the in
fanny, and has written the counterfeit sig
nature, or has sunk the cargo or has
planted the dagger of O midnight as
sassin. 1t blinds, it hardeus, it rends,
it blasts, it CruShes, it damns How many
bank cashiers, how many trustees of funds
have, through this evil, gone to disgra g, to
Incarceration, to suicide 1t is within the
memory OF many people in this house when
for this purpose $4,000 were taken from
Brooklyn bank. 1t is in the memoryof many
who are here that the cashier of the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company, for
the purpose of carving on gambling
practices, stole $10},00l 1t is within the
memory of most in this house when from
Wall street insurance company were taken
SloO,C0J for carrying on gambling practices
One of the saloons in London bcaste1 that it
ruined nobleman a day. But there are sa-
looms in this country, and there are gambling
houses and club houses where gambling is in
dulged in that could make more infamous
boast OF having ruined a thousand nobemen,
men made in Gods own image blasted for
ever. 1t is an accurSed habit.
The evil also goes on it; ruiuous way in the
destruction OF domestic lie Oh, this plow-
share has gone though so many families, and
the wife sits in rags and the daughter is in
disgrace, and the son comes up to the same
infamous practices, or takes short cut to
destruction across the murderer's scat.
fold. What are all the careSses of
children and a wife's devotion to a gam
DlGE9 IloN biulelN Duii!S bu1 HTe on inc 90
nestle hearth. Nothing to win, nothing
to lose, nothing to flip the blood, nothing tc
fire the imagination. He must go out He
cannot stand it there. After all is gone the
family will go. He will pawn them If a
crown in Heaven wero put in his
hand he would say: 'Here, boys,
here goes one, more game. I now throw
home to a gambers Something to cut, some-
thing to hew, something to scatter, some
thing to blast An only son, of splendid ed
ucation, exquisite manners, brightness of
promise, went to New Orleans. He had
a large amount of money with him,
and they elticed him into gambling saloons
and told him he was splendid player, and
he won large amount Of money; but time
went on and he lost all, and meanwhile had
got on him other bal habits, and when all
was gone he sat down and wrote to his father
and mother thee words.
"Hy beJoued parents: You will doubtless
feel a momentary Joy at the reception of this
letter from the child of your bosom, ,on whom
you have lavishea all the fayors of your de-
ciinng years; but should feeling of Joy
for moment spring up in your hearts when
you shall have received this from me, cherish
it not. l have fallen deep never to rise.
Those gray hairs that l should have hon
ored and protected | shall bring down
in sorrow to the grave. l will not curse my
destroyer, but OH may God ayenge the
wrongs AMI impositions practicsd upon the
unwary in way that shall hest please Him.
This, my dear parents, is the last letter you
viii ever receive from me. | humbly pray
FOR forgiveness; it is my dying prayer.
Before you receive this from me, the cold
grave will have closel upon Inc forever,
Ii to me is insupportable | cannot nay,
| will not suffer the shame of having ruined
you Forget and forgive is the dying rrayerof
" I,rrra .-r, &,
The father went to the postoiice. He got
the letter. He opened it. He tegan to read
and he fell TO the floor. They gathered
around him and thought he was dead; but
having brushed his gray locks from his brow
and famed him he began to breathe. I
wish he hal been dead, for what is life to a
father when his son is destroyed, When any
thing gees wrong in a gambling house
they cry out: Foul, foul" but over
and in al lands cry: Foul, foul,
foulln The gift stores iu our
cities administer to this evil. You shall have
a piano, or a watch, or valuable piete of
jewelry as prize Goods unstable in any
may sometimes be disposed of III
that way, and that habit has covere thu
population with brass finger rings AMI ficti-
tious alornmen;s, and is fast turning this
land into nation of gamblers, Every |
gift store on earth is administrative
egery hour of it iistence t. a gambling |
practice. 1t IS a fraud. Aceliana, the fiald |
of blood Many of tie churches of God are |
not willing that the world shall have this sin ,
all to itself l believe in church fairs. There |
are hundreds and thousands of churches that |
never would have been built bit for church |
fairs. BIT church fair cond lctel on |
the rafting principle is gambling; it is eccle-
siastical gambling. AT the close of some |
fair some valuable articles are not sold. |
They ra He for them Good Christian pc pie
20 home with pri .e, thinking il must be all |
right for Christian women did the embroid-
cry and Christian men dii the ra Hing, AMI
thea the money is to go to n new communion
I. You might Just as we have won with
lLe crack of billiard ball or the toss of
h5 dice. Do you w0nd that a church
which Cop1u9ts fairs on the rafting prin eiple
soes into spiritual pluperisrn- Satan says:
i buiis rsat church I upholstered that
'hprch, i7d for one Satan tells the truth
This e.:l stops not at any inde.ency. In the
State of Maryland they had a lottery for the
purchase of a graveyard Tbs habit
f betting is administrative tc this
evil "rlI bet you si00. I'll bet
you $500. I'll bet you about this.
I'll bet Won about that Tint is COM