Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-28

wrong OF a gaming table the;' Shout
Foul! foul!" Over all the gaining
tables of the world I cry ont, ''Foul!
foul! Infinitely FOUL"
Shall / sketch the history OF the
galnbler1 Lurcd by bad company he
finds his way into place where honest
men ought never to go. He sits down
to his first game, but only for pastilne
and the desire of being thought sociable.
The players deal out the cards. They
unconsciously play into satan's hands,
who takes all the tricks and both the
players souls for trumps- he being
sharper at any game. A slight stake is
put up just to add interest to the play
Game utter game is played Larger
stakes and sill larger. They begin to
move nervoasly on their chairs. Their
Grows lower and eyes fash, until now
they who win and they who lose, fred
alike with passion, sit with set iawsand
compressed lips and clinched fists, and
ewes like fire balls that seem starting,
from their sockets, to see the final turn
before it comes, if losing, pale With
envy and trclnuious with unuttered
oat,ls cast back red hot upon the heart
OR, winning, with hysteric laugh
"Ha! ha! have i'll l have it'll"
\ few years have passed and he is
cnly the wreck OF n inan. Seating
himself at the ga,no ere lie throws the
first card, he stakes the last relic of his
wife and the marriage ring which
scaled tho solemn VOWS between them.
Tho game is lost, and staggering back
in exhaustion no dreams The bright
hours of the past mock his agony, md
in his dreams fiends with Dyes of fire
and tongue of flame circle about hin
with Joined hands to dance and sing
their orgies with hellish chorus, chant
ing HALL brother!'' kissing his clc,n,lly
forehead until their loathsome locks,
flowing with serpents, crawl into his
bosom and sink their sharp fangs and
suck up his lifo's blood, and coiling
around his heart pinch it with chills
and shuudcrS unutrerlblo.
TAKE WARNING.
Take warning. You ere no stronger
than tens of thousands who have by
this practice been overthrow. No
young man in our cities can escape
being tempted. Beware of the first be-
ginningS. This road is a down L:rado,
and every instant increases the lnolnen-
tun. Launch not upon this treachcr
Gus sea. Split hulks strew tho beach.
Everlasting storms howl up and down,
tossing unwary craft into the Hellgate.
] speak of what have seen with my
own eyes. I have looked off into the
abyss, and have seen the foaming,
and the Kissing, and the whirlin9 of the
horrid deep in Which the Inangicd VIC
tins writhed, one upon another, and
struggled, strans!ed, blasphelned and
died-thc death stare of eternal dcs-
pair upon their countcnances as the
waters gurgled over them.
To gamblers death bed tilore comes
no hope. lie will probably die alone.
Ills former associates como not nigh
Ills dwelling. When the hour comes
his miserable soul will go out of u lnis-
erablc life into miserable eternity.
AS his poor remains pass the house
where he was ruined, old companions
may look out moment and say.
There goes the Old carcass-dcad at
last" but they will not get up from the
table. Let him down now into his
grave Plant io tree to cast its shade
there. for the long, deep, eternal gloom
that settles. there is shadow enough.