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b. carried % without clris or dice or 38l-
llarls 0r ten pin alley The nlsn who
beis on horses. ca elections, oa hzrties ~
The man Wa0 das "a "fsncY" stocks, or
coaau1ts a business which hazards extra
capital. or gDes into tFtnssctlons without
found Gatinn, oat aep~ndsat upon whaE men
c,il "luck, Is gambler Whatever yoa
Expect h get from your ueigaao without
Offering AZ elaiyaieut Iu money CT time or
skin is either taf prodne, of theft or gal.-
ing Lottery tickets aud LOTTERY policies
come .ato the same category. Fairs FOR
the founding of hospitals, schools and
churches c9aluctei on thc rafting system.
come under the same denomination ID
rot, therefore, associate gambling neoes-
suriiy with an instrument, or game. or
acis or place. or thiak the pfiaciple de-
pends upon whether you play for - glass OF
wine or one hundred shares Of railroad
stock. Whistler you pEtTonize auction
pools, "VFench mutu2ls, or book max
ing" whether you employ faro or billiards,
ronao and keno. cards or baEatel.e, the
very idea OF the thing Is dishonest, for il
Processes 20 bestow upon YOU "a good for
which yoa give 20 equivalent.
TEN HONEST" GAMBLING HOUSES
II is estimated that every day IL Chris
tendon eigaty million dollars psss from
hard 10 hand through gambling practices.
aud every year in Chrisiendom one hun
drei and twenty three billion one hundred
million dOila.s change hands II that way
There are in this cluster OF cities about
eight hundred confessed gambling estaE.
ltshments. There are aboat three Thousand
FIVE hundred professional gamblers. Oct
OF the eight hundred gambling establish
nents, how many Of them DO you suppose
profess TO be honest, Ten. These ten pro-
fess TO De honest because they are merely
tho ante e-chanbsr To the seven hundred
and ninety that are Acknowledged fraud
uleat. There are first class gambling es-
Establishments. Iou 20 up the marble
stairs. YoI ring the bell. The hyeried
servant introduces you. The walls are
lavender tinted. The mautels are OF Yer
mont marble. The pictures are .Jeph-
thah's Daughter" and Dore's ''Dante's and
Virgil's Frozen Region OF Hell"--a most
appropriate selection. this last, for the
place. There is the roulette table, the
finest, the costliest, most exquisite piece OF
furniture in the United States. There is
the banqueting room, where, free Of
charge TO the guests, you may fnd the
plate and viands aad wines and cigars
sump:uoGs beyond parallel.
Then you come to she second class gam
bling establishment. To Is you are intro
duced b. : card through some "ropcr-in."
Having entered, you must either gamble
Or fight. SaEded cards. dice loaded with
quicksilver, poor drinks, viii soon help
you TO get rid OF all your money ID a tunc
in short meter with sfaccato passages. You
wanted 10 see You saw. The low villains
Of that place watch you as yoI cone ia.
Does not the panther, squat in the grass,
know a calf when he secs it? Wranxie not
for your rights in that place, or your body
viii be thrown bloody into the street, or
dead into the East river. You 60 along q
little fu-thor anl find the policy establish
ment In that place you bet on numbers.
Betting on tWo Numbers Is called sad
die betting on three numbers is called
"gig," be5tin. Oh four numoeis is ca led a
"horse," and there are thousands of our
young men leaping into th;st saddle and
mouating that gig" and behind that
horse" riding - perdition. There is al
ways one kind Of sign on the door-"Ex-
door, for there, in that room, q man ex-
changes health. peace end heaven for loss
Of health, loss Of home, loss OF family. loss
Of immortal soul Exehaage sure enough
and iainite enough
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 cartain. covered with
greasy cards. or in the steamboat smoking
cabin. where he bloaiei wretch with rings
ia his ears instead of his nose, deals the
pack, aad winks in the unsGspecting trav-
e.er-proriding free drinks ell around-bu.
il gilded psr!ors and amid gorgeous sur
roundings.
HAZARDiSC Az ESTATE.
A yoang man. having suddenly hoired a
large property. sits at the hazard table and
takes up in dice box the estate won by a
fathers lifetime sweat. and shakes il, and
toSses it away. lntemPerance soon st.g-
matizes iis victim. kicking him out. a slav-
eriag fool. into the ditch, or sending him.
With the druBkard's hiccough, staggering
CD the street where bis family lives Bat
gambling does not in th-t way eTp,se ia
victims. The gambler may be eaten up BY
the gamblers passion, yet you only dis
cover it by the greed in his eyes, the hard
pess of bis features, the nervous restless
ness the .bTeadbare coat md his erahsr-
rassed Business. Yet he Is on the road ~
bell. and no preachers vcice or startling
warning or wife's e1treaty, can make him
stsy for a raoTnoa at bis headioo- career.
1'ae iafeTnal spell is on him. giant is
aroused within. and though ron taoa kim
WITH cables. they would part Ike thread:
an thouEh y5u fsStsn him seven times