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

/ elGilCr SailtDlc OF iISllG. Ct1QeO csirliS,
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. Tho low villains of
that place watch you as you come in.
Does not the panther, squat in the
grass, know calf when he sees it9
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 establishment. In that place
you bet on numbers. Betting on two
numbers l., called saddle" betting
on three nunbcrs.s callcda gig bet
! ting on four Numbers is called n
''llorse," and there arc thousands of
! our young mon lcaping into that sad
de-" and mounting that gig" and be-
hind that horse" riding to perdition.
There is always ono kind Of sign on the.
door; ,sxshang !. u most appro pirate
saGa
and s & III loss Of
home; loss.o family, loss 81 immortal.
soul Exchange sure enough and in
finite enough.
MEN CAN GAMBLE WHERE THEY LIKE.
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 curtain,
covered with greasy c,>'ts, or in the
steamboat smoking cabin, where the
bloated wretch with rings in his cars
instead of his nose deals the pack and
winlls in the unsuspecting traveller
providing free drinks all around-but
in gildcd parlors and amid gorgeous
surroundings
a young man, having suddenly licircd
largo property. sits at tho hazard table,
and takes up in Il dice box the cState
won by fathers lifctiuc sweat, and
shakes it and tossc; it away. Intcm-
perancc soon stiglnatizcs its victim
kicking him out, slavering fool, into
the ditch, OR sending him. with the
drunkard's hiccousll, 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 gambler; passion, yet you only dis
cover II by the greed il his eyes, the
hardness of lis features the nervous
rcstlcssncxs the tlircadbarc coat and
his embarrassed business. Yc. he is on
the road to hell, and no preachers
voice or startling warning, or wifcs en-
treaty can mako him stay for moment
his l,callons career The Internal spell
is Oh him; y giant is aroused within;
and though you bind him with cables,
they would part like thread; and
though you fastcn him seven times
round with chains, they would snap
like rustc,l wire: and though you piled
upin his pntll heaven high Bibles. tracts
and sermons, and on the top should set
the cross of tho son Of God. over them
all the gambler would lcc:.,, like n roo
over tho rocks on his Wa. TO perdit;on. !
Again, this sin works ruin by killing
industry. a ran used to rcaping
scores, or ll;lnd .'c,ls. or thousands of
dollars from the gaming table will not
be content with GLOW work. IIo will
say, "NVllat is the usc OF trying to
mako these li:ty dollars in my store
when Gun get five times that in l!aif
an hour down ut 'Billy's'E' You never
knew Il confirmed gambler who was in
dustrious. The l::ca given to this vice
spend their time not actively employed
in tho game iai,llcnoss or intoy;cation
or sleep or i'll cori'u?ting now victims.
This si, Las dullcl the carpenter saw,
and cut the banl Of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the
farmers harrow, and sent q strange
lightning to shattcr tho battery OF the
philosopher. The worry first idea i'll
gaming is ut war will all the industries
Of society.
IT'S &IGI1TY LEVER
This crinio is getting its lever under
many mercantile house IN our great
cities, and before long dow, will come
the great establishment, crashing rcpu-
tation, holnc. comfort and immortal
souls. How 1t divcrts and sinks CAPT
tai may be inferred from some authen-
tic statement before. US. The ten gam
ing houses that once were authorized
in Puris passed. through the banks
yearly t;lrco hundred and twenty-five
millions Of francs Where does all the
money como from? The whole world
is robbed! What is most sud, there
are no consultations for the loss and
suffering cntailed by gaming.
If men fail in lawful business God
pities and society conlmiseratcs, but
where In the Biblo or in society Is there
any consolation for the gambler? Tntm
wnat tree OF the forest oozes there a
balm that can soothe the gatneSters
hearth In that hottie where God keeps
the tears of his children are there any
tears of the gambler2 Do the winds
that come to kiss the faded cheek OF
sickness, and to cool tho heated brow
of the laborer, whisper hope and cheer
to the cmaciated victim of the game of
hazard? When an honest man is inl
trouble he has sympathy. 'Poor fel-
lowi" they say. Bat do gamblers
come to weep at the agonics Of the
ganblcr2
In Northumberland was ono of the
finest estates in England. Mr.. Porter
owned it, end in year gambled it all
away. Having lost the last acre of the
o.t n TO l,n Gonna down from the saloon