Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-27

In the first place, an inexperienced bank
employee starts out to be a "game" sport.
Probably his intentions never were to rob
the bank. He gets in with a couple of tx
perienced gamblers. They suggest a game.
Karl Nelson is willing to lose a few dol
lars to pass the evening away, and he sits
with them. The victim is initiated; now
for his ruin.
The next time the gamblers meet Nelson
they treat him we'll. Flattery and wine
break restraints, and the young man falls
into the trap again. There is another
= duced into the circle. He is a stranger to
Nelson, is this man Henry Shaw, and from
all appearances he knows neither Dahl nor
Murray. The latter are with Nelson, they
say, and all lose their money to Shaw.
Nelson leaves the game after arranging
future, and goes home. The gamblers get
together and fix up a game to "shake Mel
son down. They will all buck his cards
and win his money by using all the tricks
and signs they can command. ."Nelson,
the fool" says one "He can't catch. Well
play him for all he's worth. There's a
good graft back CT him."
And so the ruinOus plot develops. Mel
SOD losses heavily. His own funds are ok
hausted and he yves the gamblers money.
"If you don't SETTLE" they say, "We'l give
you up" Nelson RODS the bank to settle,
and then sits down, hoping that fortune
will favor him and he can win enough to
replace the stolen money. He loses again.
Then he rObs the bank to meet his Obliga-
tons with the gamblers fearful they will
expose him.-Grand Forks Herald, April
23d.
In the above isexcellent material for
a lecture to the average young man. He
leaves home, say at the age of Is, and Sc
cures a position in some small town at a
moderate salary. Before he leaves he
makes solemn promises to an anxious
mother and father to behave himself.
Drink! Oh, no, he has seen too much
of the habit to drink; and gambling, too,
is a vice into which he never intends to
be trapped.
He makes these promises, and when he
makes them, he intends to keep them.
But let us see how he fares.
In the first place, after he arrives at
his destination, he wishes to create a
favorable impression. To do this, he
must dress we'll. He sees many persons
of about his own age dressed possibly a
little better than he is. Of course, this
will not do, and be goes to work to dress
as well as anyone. He succeeds, too,
but finds that his salary is too small for
his needs. He had intended to save
something, but discovers that it takes
every cent he earns to keep up appear
ances. "Ah, WE'LL" he says, "there is
plenty of time. I might az we'll enjoy
myself while young, and I can begin to
save when I get an increase of salary"
Strange to say, aver while he builds
upon the increase to aid him in saving,
he, at the same time, builds upon it as a
basis upon which he can dress better,
buy more knick-knacks, and cut a little
more of a dash, and when the long
wished for increase is made, he manages
to spend it all as he did before.
1t is easy, too, for him to be led into
playing a game or two Of cinch, each
evening, to pass away the time. Here il
another drain upon his slender income
but he dare not confess that he can't
afford it, for fear of a little ridicule, so he
keeps up someway, and on he goes.
Now, no one will attempt to prove thai
all the young men of our day are going
to ruin. No one takes such a pessimes
tic view of it, but, in the instance above
cited, is a lamentable case, and who
know where the next instance may
occur?