The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-27


to hand through gambling practices, |
and every year IN Christendom S123,-
100, OOO, 600 change hands in that way
There are n this cluster of cities about
500 confessed gam bling esta blishments-
There are about 3, 500 professional gam
blers- Out of the 500 gambling estab-
Gshments. how many of them do you
suppose profess to be honest? Ten
There are hrst class gam bling estab-
Hshments. You go up the marble
stairs. YOu ring the bell The liveried
servant introduces you The walls are
lavender tinted The mantels are of
Vermont marble TVhe pictures are
''Jephthah's Daughter and Dore's
''Dante's and VirgiIs Frozen Region of
He'll a most appropriate selection,
this last, for the place. There IS the
roulette table, the finest, the cOstliest,
the most exquisite piece of furniture in
the United States There is the ban
quoting room where, free of charge to
the guests, you may find the plate and
viands and wines and cigars, sumptuOus
beyond parallel.
Then you come to the second-class
gam bling adjustment. To it you are
| introduced by a card through some
roper in Having entered You must
either gamble or fight. Sanded cards,
dice loaded with quicksilver, poor
drinks, will soon help you to get rid of
all your money to tune in short meter
with staccatO passages. You wanted
to see. You saw. The low villains of
the place watch you as you come in.
Does not the panther squat in the grass,
know calf when he sees it? Wrangle
not for your rights in that place or
your body will be thrown bloody into
the street, or dead into the East river
You go along little further and find
the policy esta blishment. In that place
you bet on numbers. Betting on two
l. IA
on three numbers is called a gig" bet
ting four numbers is called a
''hOrse," and there are thousands OF
young men leaping into that saddle"
and mounting that gig" and behind
| that HORSE - riding to perditiOn.
A Young man, having suddenly heired
a large property, sits at the hazard
| table and takes up in a dice box the es-
| tate won by fathers lifetime sweat
and shakes it and losses it away. In
| temperance soon stigmatizes its victim
| kicking him out, a slavering fool, into
| the ditch or sending him, with the
drunhard's hiccOugh, staggering up the
| street where his family lives. But
! gam bling 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 harshnesS of his features, the
| nervous rest1esSness, the threadbare
| coat and his embarrassed business. Yet
| he is on the road to hell and no preach
er's voice or startling warning or wife's
| entreaty can make him stay for mo-
/ ment his headlOng career. The Internal
spell is on him; 4 giant is aroused
within; and though you bind him with
| cables, they would part like thread;
| and though you fastened him seven
times round with chains they would
| snap like rusted wire; and though you
| piled up in his path heaven-high Bibles,
tracts and sermons and on the top
| should set the cross of the Son of God,
! over them all the gambler would leap,
like a roe over the rocks, on his way to
perolitiOn.
Again, this sin works ruin by killing
| industry. a man used to reaping
| scores, or hundreds, or thousands OF
dollars from the gaming ia bic will not
be content with slow work. what is
the use of trying to make these fifty
dollars in my store when can get five
times that in half an hour down at
'Billy's'?" You never knew a confirmed
| gambler who was industrious. The
very first idea at gaming is at war with
all the industries of society.
This crime is getting its lever under
many mercantile house in our great
cities, and before long down will come
the great establishment, crushing repu-
tatiOn, home, comfort and immortal
| Souls HOW II Q1NGrLS ana Sinks AE1lLtl
may be inferred from some authentic
statement before rs The ten gaming
houses that once were authorized in
! Paris passed through the banks yearly
| 335, 600, 900 francs. Where does all the
money come from? The whole world is
| robbed! What is most sad, there are no
! consultations for the loss aud suffering
entailed by gaming. If men fail in law
full business God pities and society com
miserates; but where in the Bible or IN
society is there any consolation for the
| gambler? From what tree of the forest
OOzes there balm that can sOOthe the
| gamester's heart? In that bottle where
/, God keeps the tears of his children, are
there any tears of the gambler? Dc
, the winds that came to kiss the faded
cheek of sickness, and TO cool the heated
brow OF the iabOrer, whisper hope and
cheer to the emaciated victim of the
, | game of hazard? When an honest mar
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