Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-08

cities every third or fourth house in many
OF the streets is gaming place, and it
may be truthfully averred that each of
our cities is cursed with this evil.
In themselves most of the games em-
ployed in gambling are without harm.
| Billiard tables are as harmless as tea
tables, and a pack OF cards as pack of
| letter envelopes, unless stakes I've put up.
But by their use for gambling purposes
they have become sign fcant Of an intin-
| ity Of wretchedness-sixh hundred gamb-
ling saloons in New York city when last
counted.
! Men wishing TO gamble will find places
Just suited to their capacity, not only IN
the underground oyster cellar, or at the
| table back OF the curtain, covered with
greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking
| cabin, where the blOated wretch with
rings in his ears deals out his pack. and
winks in the unsuspecting traveler-prO-
viding free drinks all around-but in
gilded parlors and amid gorgeous sur
roundings.
This sin works ruin, first, by unhealth-
full stimulants. Excitement is pleasure
| BILE. Under every sky and in every age
men have sought it. The Chnaman gets
it by smoking his opium; the Persian by
chewing hasbeesh the trapperin buffalo
hunt; the sailor In a sQuall; the inebri-
ate in the bottle, and the aVaricious at the
gaming table. We must at times have
excitement. A thousand voices in our
nature demand 1t. 1t is right. 1t Is
healthful. 1t is ipspiriting. 1t is de-
sire God given. But any thing that first
gratiies this appetite ana burls 1t back
| in q terrific reaction els deplorable and
| wicked. Look out for the agitation that.
| like rough musician, In bringing out
| the tune plays so hard he breaks down
the Instrument GOD never made man
strong enough to endure the wear
aud tear OF gambling excite
ment. No wonder If, after having failed
in the game, men have begun to sweep Off
imaginary gold from the side OF the table.
| The man was sharp enough when he
started at the game, but maniac at
the close. AT every gaming table sit on
one side Ecstasy, Enthusiasm. Romance
the frenzy OF joy; on the other side,
| Flerceness. Rage and Tumult. The pro-
| tessional gamester schools himself into
apparent quietness. The keepers OF
gambling rooms are generally fat, rollick-
ing and obese; but thorough and profes.
siOnal gamblers, in nine cases out OF ten,
are pale, thin, wheeling, tremulOus and
exhausted.
A young man having suddenly inber-
tied large property, sits at the hazard
! bdOiCos anu t0hCo OP III a NO-DbA buC CS-
tate won by tatber's liietime's sweat,
and sha kes 1t and tOsses it away. lntem.
perauce soon stigmatizes Its victim
| kicking him out, slaVering fool, INTO the
! ditch, or sending him, with the drunk
ards hiecougb, staggering up the street
where his family lives. But gambling
does not in that way expose its victims.
The gambler may be eaten up by the
| gamblers passion, yet you only discover
| it by the greed in his eyes, the hardness
| of his features, the nervous Testlessness,
| the threadbare coat, and bis en-
| barrassed business. Yet he is on the road
to hell, aud no preachers voice, or
sta ting warning, or wife's entreaty, can
make him stay for a moment his headlOng
| career. The internal spell is on him; a
| giant is aroused within; and thOugb you
bind him with cables, they would part
like thread, and though you fasten MIN
seven times round with chains, they
would snap like rusted wire; and though
you piled up IN his path heaven-higb
| Bibles, tracts and sermons, and on the top
| should SET the cross Uf the Son of God,
over them all the gambler would leap like
a roe over the rocks, on his way to Derdi-
tion. "Aceldama, the field OF biOodV
Again, this sin works ruin by killing
! industry. A man used 10 reaping scores
or hundreds OF dollars from the gaming
table Will not be content with slow ork.
He will say: "What is the use of trying
to make these fifty dollars in my store
when can get five times that in half an
nour down at Bllly's" You never knew
q confirmed gambler who was industri-
GUS. TIE men given to this vice spend
their time not actively employed In the
game in idleness, or intoXicatioD, or
sleep, or in corrupting new victims. This
sin has dulied the carpenters saw and
cut the band OF the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth
of the farmers harrow, and sent
strange lightning to snatter the bat.
terry OF the philosopher. The very first
| idea iD gaming ls at war with all the in
dustries of society. Any trade or occu-
paLIOn that is OF use IS ennobling. The
! street sweeper advances the interests OF
| society by the cleanliness effected. The
| cat pays tor the fragments it eats by
! clearing the house Ot vermin. The fly
| that takes the sweetness from the dregs
| oil the cup cOmpensates by purifying the
air aud Keeping back the pestllence. But
the gambler gives not any thing for that
! which he takes. l recall that sentence.
He does make return; but IL Is disgrace
to the man that he feeces, despair 10 his
| heart, ruin to bis business, anguish TO his
wife, shame to his children, and eternal
wasting away to bis soul. DE pays IN
tears. and blood, and agony, aud dark
ness, and woe.
What dull work is plowing to the farmer
when in the village saloon IN one mig hit he
! makes and loses the value of d summer
| harVesti Who will want TO sell tape and
measure nankeen and cut garments aud
| weigh sugars when in u nights game ne
makes and loses, and makes again and
loses again the profits OF seasoni John
| BOrack was sent as mercantile agent from
Bremen to England and this country.
Alter TWO years bis employers mlstrusted
tnat all was not right. He was de.
laulter TOR eighty-seven thousand dollars.
IL was found that he had lost, in Lombard
street, London, twenty-nine thousand
dollars; in Fulton street, New
YORK ten thousand dollars, and
In New Orleans, three thousand
dollars. He was imprisoned, but after
wards escaped, aud went into the gam
bling profession. He died in a lunatic
asylum. This crime is getting It's lever
under many a mercantile house in our
cities, and before long down will come
the great establishment. crushing reputa-
ton. home comfort and immortal souls.
How 1t diverts and sinks capital may be
inferred from some authentic abatement
before us. The ten gaming houses tina;
once were authorized IN Paris passed
through the banks yearly three hundred
and twenty-five millions OF francs.
Where does ala the money come from
The whole world is robbed What ID
most sad, there are no consultations for
the loss and suffering eutailed by gaming