Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-02
CHARLES KINGSLEY on GAMgI,ry,i.

CHARLES KINGSLEY ON GAMBLING.
Charles Kingsley has become popular
author among the members of Our Young
Folks Reading Circle, and they will be in
terested in the following expression of his
views about gambling. A boy in the pub
lie school had put money into sweep
stakes without thinking it was wrong, and
our author addressed him the following
letter, the views of which we commend 70
our young friends:
"Hy Dearest Boy: There is a matter
which gave me much uueasiness when YOU
| mentioned it. You said you had put into
some lottery for the Derby, and had
hedged to make safe. Now, all that is
| bad, bad, nothing but bad OF all habits,
1t grows most on eager minds. Success
and loss alike make it grow. OF all
| habits, however much civilized men
may give way to it, it is
one of the most intrinsically savage His
torically, it has been the chief excitement
OF the lower brutes in human form for ages
past. Morally, it is unchivalrous and nu-
christian. a. 1t gains money by the
lowest and most unjust means, for it takes
money out Of your neighbours pocket with
out giving him anything in return (2)
1t tempts you to use what You fancy your
| superior knowledge of horses merits, or
| anything else, to your neighbor's harm.
If you know better than your neighbor,
you are bound to give him your advice.
Instead, you conceal your knowledge to
| win from his ignorance; hence come all
sorts of concealments, lodges, deceits-I
say the devil is the only father of it. Pm
sure, moreover, that the head master
would object seriously to anything like a
lottery, betting, or gambling. i hope you
have not won; | should not be sorry for
you to lose. If you have won, | shall
not congratulate you. If you wish to
please me, you will give back to its lawful
owners the money you have won. If you
are loser in gross thereby, | will gladly
reimburse your losses this time. As you
had put in, you could not in honor draw
back until after the event. Now you can
give back your money, saying that you
understood that the head master and |
disapprove of such things, and so gain a
very great moral influence Recollect
always that the stock argument is worth
less. 1t is this: MY friend would win
from me if he could, therefore I have an
equal right to win from him. Nonsense
The same argument would prove that |
have right to MAIN or kill man if only
| give him leave to MAIN or kill if he can
and will. / have spoken my mind once
and for all on a matter on which | have
held the same views for more than twenty
years"
HOW THE PARROT SETTLED 1T.
Mr. Brown had "bird dog" very
handsome hunter, and | must tell you
how he was spoiled for hunting; it was so
funny circumstance that his master al
ways laughed when he told the story, al
though he was much vexed to lose so GOOD
a game dog.
His housekeeper had parrot given to
her, and the first time the dog came into
the room where the bird was, he stopped
and pointed" The parrot slowly crossed
the room, and came up in front of the dog,
and looked him square in the eye, and
then, after a moment said, you're a
| rascaiw
The dog was so much astonished to hear
| bird speak that he dropped his tail be-
tween his legs, wheeled about, and ran
| away; and from that day to this he has
never been known to point" at bird
| On, Little Men and Women