Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-28

his horses and carriage and town house
and played. He threw and lost BE
started home, and In side alley met q
friend, from whom he borrowed 10
Quineas; went back TO the saloon and
before q great while had won E20, 900.
He died ct last q begger In St. Giles.
How many gamblers felt sorry for Mr..
Porter? Who consoled him on the loss
Of his estate? What gambler subscrib-
ed to put stone over the poor mans
grave? Not one.
Furthermore, this sin Is the source Of
uncounted dishonesties. The game Of
hazard itself Is often q cheat. How
many tricks and receptions In tho deal
ing OF the cardsl The opponents hand
Is oftimes found out by fraud. Cards
are marked 90 that they may be desig-
mated from the back. Expert gamblers
have their accomplices and one wink
may decide the game.
The dice have been found loaded
with platan, 30 the doubles" come up
every time. These dice are introduced
by the gamblers unobserved by honest
men who have come into the play, and
accounts for the fact that ninety-nine
out Of q hundred who CANDLES, however
wealthy they began, at the end are
found poor, miserable, ragged wretches
that would not be allowed to sit on the
door step Of the house they once owned.
In gaming house in San Francisco q
young man having just come from the
mines deposited large sum on the ace
and won 1900. But the tide turns.
Intense anxiety comes upon the counte-
nance of all. Slowly the cards went
forth. Every eye Is fixed. Not o sound
is heard until the ace Is revealed fav-
orable to the bank. There are shouts
Of foul" foul" but the keepers OF
the table produce their pistols and the
uprOar lie silenced and the bank has won
S85, 900. Do you call this game OF
There Is no chance about
It.
But these dishonesties in the carrying
on OF the game are nothing when COM
pared with the frauds which are COM
mitted in order to get money to 60 on
with the nefarious work. Gambling with
It's greedy hand has snatched away the
widows mite and the portion Of the
orphans; has sold the daughters virtue
to get the means 10 continue the game;
has written the c0unterfit signature
emptied the bankers money vault, and:
welded the assasin's dagger. There Is
no depth OF meanness to which 1t will
not stoop. There is no cruelty at which
Il is not appalled,. There Is no warning
Of God that 1t viii not dare. Merciless,
indispensable, fiercer and wilder it
blinds, It harden it rends, it blasts, 1t
brushes, it damns. It has peopled our
prisons and lunatic asylums. How many
agents and cashiers and trus-
tees OF funds it has driven TO Disgrace,
and suicidel Witness years
400 cashier OF q railroad who stole
o103, 900 to carry on his gaming prac-
tees. Witness $4,000 stolen from Q
bank within the memory of
many OF you, and the $3.50, 900 taken
from O Wall street insurance company
Tor the same purpose!
These are only illustrations on large
scale Of the robberies every day COM
mitted for the purpose OF carrying out
the designs Of gambling. Hundreds OF
OF dollars every year leak out
without observation from the mer-
chants till into the gambling hell. A
man in London keeping one OF these
houses boosted that he had
ruined q nobleman day; but II all the
saloons Of the land were to speak out,
they might utter q more infamous
boast for they have destroyed q thous-
and noblemen year.
Notice also the effect Of the crime
upon domestic happiness. 1t has sent
It's ruthless plowshare through humid
lreds Of families, until the wife sat in
rags and the daughters were disgraced
and the sons grew up to the same in
famous practices, or took short cut 10
destruction across the murderers
,caffold. Home has lost all charms for
the gambler. How tame are the child
rens car sses ard the wife's devotion to
the gamblerl How dreary the fire
burns on the domestic hearthl There
must be louder laughter, and something
10 win and something to lose, an excite
nent TO drive the heart faster and fillup
the blood and fire the imagination. No
home, however bright, can keep back
the gamester. The sweet call Of love
bounds back from his iron soul, and all
are consumed In the fame
Of his passion. The family bible will
20 after all other treasures are lost, and
4 his crown in heaven were put into
his hand he would cry: 'Here goes
,ne more game, boys? On this one
throw stake my crown Of heaven" A
young man in London on becoming OF
AGE received q fortune Of $780, 900, and
through gambling in three years was
thrown on his mother for support. An
)nly son went TO q southern city; he
vas rich, intellectual and elegant in
His parents gave him on his
departure from home their blessings.
The sharpers got hold Of him.
They battered him. They lured him to
he gaming table and let him win al
most every time for good while and
1atted him on the back and said: First
ate player" But, fully in their grasp,
hey Aeeced him; and his $50, 900 was
ost. Last Of all he put his watch up and
ost that. Then he began to think OF
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