The morning news., 1893-12-03

waves of chance as they fall or rise
From these facts that they accumulate
they are sure they Will learn the wisdom
that will make them rich. Thus did the
alchemists of old They paid for every
cents worth Of experience they ever got.
They see the golden louis rolling into the
Golfers of tho bank, but each one is plan
ming a dam that will stop that flow and
divert the stream his way.
The brutal man of business, cruel, cold
and calculating, when he undertakes an
affair sees TO it that the odds are in his
favor before he begins. But here are
people who risk Sc TO win S. Are they
optimists, fools or what Is the difference
I between the average amount they pay
and the average amount they receive rep
resented by the sum of the pleasure they
have had out of the game!
The machinery Of the bank seems TO me
the very acme of juggernautism The of
ficials, cold and impassive, were the least
interested of all in the result of the turns
of the little wheel. They watched the
players build their little piles of gold
without the least feeling. 1t was as if
they said to themselves, you are build
ing-but for us You are building with
materials which are ours, and which we
shall call for presently
What chance has the player? How
small the golden louis looked upon the.
bDdIu AJUC sweep Oi bttc uhHi Vi bnt
crOupier and fifty of them were raked
into the nav of the bank. II was all done
in moment. The savings OF lifetime
would be swallowed uD in half an hour,
and the official would yawn, as much as to
say, "Is that all?" while the loser sat on
one side and turned white and gaspcd for
breath.
DEATH IN THEIR MIDST.
An old man, 90 years old, and he had
the red button Of honor in his lapel, sat
on bench watching the play, from which
he had just withdrawn. He presently
fell over senseless upon the lounge. A
doctor went to his assistance and begged
that he be carried into the open air, but
it was ten minutes before any one could
be got TO move him. Meanwhile the play
went on five feet away. Eventually he
was carried out, perhaps dying. No one
seemed TO care. Some old fool who has
ruined himself, F." observed a cocotte sneer-
ingy. This is not fictitious picture in
troduced for dramatic effect IL happened
to-day TUESDAY, Nov. ~ at twenty min
utes to 3 p. IN, and saw il. | once saw an
old banker let his head fall forward in a
street car in Philadelphia, and in a sec
ond he was dead. He looked just As that
man looked that | saw carried out Of the
Casino.
To those who swarmed around after it
was all over, the officials merely said
"C'est unc petite indisposition. Cest
tout.'
And at the tables: "Faites vos jeux,
messieurs."
But the doctor who had pleaded for
help TO have the man taken into the open
air said Il am afraid he is dying"
It's funny, this idea of princedom
founded on roulette. IL Gilbert and Sulli-
van wrote a comic opera with the Monaco
factory for a plot it would be more
screamingly humorous than anything
they ever did-that is if il did not really
exist and they suddenly thought Of the
idea. To have monarch over a gambling
den is like personifying the king Of
spades.
A silly London evening paper, comment
ing on IA South American revolution, said
sit makes the very name Of republic de-
tested" What then does the existence
of Monaco do TO the very name Of
monarchy
It may be con venient to have spots on
the earth where the different vices may
be enthroned I saw play in America
called The Isle Of Champagne It told
of an island where there was no water,
but where people drank only the efferves-
cent juice of the grape How would it do
10 establish principality based on bar
rooms and in the confines Of which any
one found sober should be fined $40 or ten
days.