The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-09-18
= GAMBLERS STORY.
:, New York Lawyer at thc Mo"s0
CA Carlo Tables,

zS -, New York Lawyer at thc ssoh'0
Ess1eA - Carlo Tables.
,vc,,.known lawyer In town. VINO
q German S BY birth. tells the follow
:" i" story of one Of the many moar,
ss;ng positions his passion Tor gam
s,;no has placed him in; .,,,a
P. .'',no years before his coming to TINS
2 ,u,- he made flying trip from ms
.,n IN Berlin to the gambling haiis
asf Monte Carlo. The season thcre e, msas
. . ;ts height and the place was fl'leo
';.h wealthy. reckless men and women
.n ~, 70 arouse theirdeadened feelings
% ;r,,ulring in high play. Although
|SS.s,' ,.,.rcr had no friends to ;nve'gie
~ -, into the game, the fever was on
sss;m and he hurried to the ga'a'ns
sallcs to try his luck. For hours nc
In, his place a, the table, sometimes
| ;pninc sometimes losing, sliding up
80 down the scale OF fortune nn.l! Vhe
NOS, iucvi.l be end camc-aot a sou
- left to him His twenty 'housaN',
f-,ncs were gone, and he "''h"e'eu
:n,,..s)v out into the beautiful gar
lens surrounding the Casino as 50
80 hod done before him, hungry ana
.orn ont with the terrible STRAIN woh-
icing what next to do. Finally nlght
go and now the pennilcss man, wlc
a.. day before could have had the pest
a. place afforded, sneaked OFF INTO
.,,r,,o Of bushes to determine his lu-
mp liz was thoroughly dis
$500 and tired. but he coul not sleep.
Ill cursed his passion for gambling and
vor. he would never make another
,oLc Visions Of suicide came up DC
sfor, him. and he wondered no" he hao
,c,tcr die In the midst OF his mourn
|fnl rcycric policeman, proving
around for just such cases as nus Sfuihy
ordc-cd him I" move on. lie 1ciV very
much like n park loafcr
III The night at last came to an end ana
Abe unfortunate fellow, chilled 10 inc
by tho night air. crnwled deJcct-
edly toward hotel where he h'a o'he"
|k4hc day before to get some paper 10
y farewell note home, for he had
dctrmined to take his life. On his way
|s4hrough the park H. met man walk
inp briskly along. whom he recognized
as the vice president of the Monte Car
|slo syndicate The young German was
desperate enough to beg and he asked
|84hc official for money to get him safely
|ahomc to berlin.
Il not a franc" answered the vice
Dresidcnt If ! we're to give to every
one who makes the same request o! NJ,
the bank would never declare divi-
dcud
81 He still continued his arguments,
however, telling who he was ami CIV
inr the names of such prominent men
in Berlin as references that the vice
president consented to telegraph one OF
Is the men referred to and see if there was
|sanv truth in the young mans state
,nents. The answer came back:
tive him ali the money he wants if
IS he consents to leave Monte Carlo.
The vice president then gave him fix"
hundred francs on that condition, and
To see that it was fulfilled he saw the
now happy fellow on board q train that
would leave in half an hour and left
| him there, amid profusc apologies anG
/ thanks on the young mans part. Bu;
no sooner va, he ont Of sight than the
4 gambler, with tho money burning IN
| his pocket forgetting his vo"s mover to
q play again, ignoring the condition on
! which he obtained the money. sDraui:
| from the train and ran hastily to tn
| Casino lie knew he had little time
IS and less chance to retrieve his losses.
8 for he must catch the outgoing train:
| but he was powcrless to resist the
temptation Dividing his money into
81 five parts, he began to play. He could
not oso Wherever he put his money,
black or red he seemed to win rs if he
controlled the marbl" that spun round
and round and meant life or death to
him iIeglanccd at the clock But few
minutes were left He must double all
70 be q winner lie would stake his
II ITO on ono turn OF that brightly paint
cd bowl Gathering the gold before
s. him, he placed it on the I'D to tbs
very last sou The croupcr turned the
bowl; tho little ball whirrcd and whir-
Fred slower and slower as the rerolu
tons OF the howl diminished in velocity,
and then, hesitating for a second, fell
with rattle into one OF the pockets
r. Had Atlas ever dropped the world, no
greater weight would have been lifted
|8from him than was lifted from tina:
Aman's heart as he saw the way
the turn had come. With trem bin,
hands he gathered in his winnings and
hurred back in time to board his train
before the guards had locked the doors
|Once settled in his seat. he counted
Sover his money, In that last thirty
minutes he hal dragged back from tin"
&clutchcS OF the bank all ne had lost, and
|%5was now two thousand francs ahead.
~ Some years have passed since that
$eventful occasion in his life. but he has
Sncver gone Rack to review the scenes al
|sshis wonderful luck Yet the gambling
fever is on him still, and he is never
happier than when risking his last
gent on a Guttcnherg selling platter
n. y. sun