Milford chronicle., 1891-02-27

to 60. He sits down to his frst game. bnt
only for pastime and the desire Of bein0
thought sociable The players deal ont
the cards. They unconsciously play into
Satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and
both the players souls for trumns-he
being sharper at any game. A slight
stake is put up just TO add interest to the
play. Game after game is played. Larger
stakes and still larger. They begin TO
move nervously on their chains Their
brows lower and eyes fash, until now they
who win and they who lose, fred alfke
/ with passion, sit with set jaws, and com
/ pressed lips, and clinched fists, and ewes
like fire balls that seem starting from their
sockets to see the final turn before Il
comes if losing, pale with envy and tremu
lous with unuttered oaths cast back red
hot upon the heart-or, winning, with
hysteric laugh-"Hal hal 1 have i'll I
have itl"
few years have passed and he is only
the wreck Of a man. Seating himself at
the game ere he throws the first card. he
stakes the last relic of his wife. and the
marriage ring which sealed the solemn
VOWS between them. The game is lost |
and staggering back in exhaustion he
dreams. The bright hours Of the past
mock his agony, and in his dreams fiends 1
with eyes Of fire and tongue Of flame circle
about him with Joined hands to dance and
sing their orgies with heilish chorus.
chanting HALL brOtherr' kissing his
clammy forehead until their loathsome
locks, flowing with serpents, crawl into his
bosom and sink their sharp fanes and suel,
mp his life's blood, and coiling around his
heart pinch it with ehills and shudders IN
utterable.
BE WARNED IN TnrR
Take warningl You are no stronger
than tens OF thousands who have by this
practice been overthrown. Noyoung man
in our cities can escape being tempted. Be
ware Of the first beginningsl This road is
a down grade, and every instant increases
the momentum. Launch not upon this
treacherous sea Split hulks strew tbe
beach. Everlasting storms howl uD and
down, tossing unwary crafts into the He'll
gate. speak OF what have seen with nv
1wn eyes. l have looked off into the abvss. ,
md have seen the foaminR, and the hiss
ng, and the whirling of the horrid deep in
which the mangled victims writhed. one
lpon another, and struggled, stranQled. !
1lasphemed and died-the death stare Of I
'ternal despair upon their countenances as
he waters gurgled over them.
10 gamblers deathbed there comes No
W. 49, van Plvo@ptg ule alOne Ills
ormer associates come not nigh his dwell S.
ng. When the hour comes his miserable @
oul will 90 out Of miserable life into a !,
miserable eternity. As his poor remains :
ass the house where he was ruined. old -
Ompanions may look out a moment and Ia
ay, There goes the old carcass-dead at q
lst, but they will not get up from the
ible. Let him down now into his grave
liant no tree to east its shade there. FOR pi
ie long, deep, eternal gloom that settles IL y
iere is shadow enough. Plant no ''for
et-me-nots" or eglantines around the spot az
II flowers were not made to grow on such -
blasted heath. Visit It not in the SIM pr
line, for that would be mOckery, but IN 70
le dismal night, when no stars are out and OF
le spirits Of darkness come down horsed
the wind, then visit the grave OF the 70
mbleri ha