Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-05-22


Again, avoid as you would avoid the
death of your body, mind and soul any
one who has in him the gambling spirit.
Men who want 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 cards, or in the steamboat smoking
cabin, where tine blOated wretch with rings
in his cars deals out his pack and winks at
the unsuspecting trayeler-providing free
drinks all around-but in gildod parlOrs
and amid gorgeous surroundings.
Avoid Unhealthy stimnlants.
This sin works ruin first by unhealth-
/ ful stimulants. Excitement is pleasurable.
Z Under every sky and in every age men
have sought it, The Chinaman gets 1t by
smoking Lis opium, the Persian by chew
ing hashocsh, the trappur in buffalo hunt,
the sailor in "A squat, the inebriate In tho
bottle and the avarioious at the gaming
table. We must at times have excitement.
A thousand voices in our nature demand
it. 1t is right. II Is hoalthful. 1t is inspir-
ing. 1t is desire God given. But any
thing that first gratifles this appetite aud
hurls 1t back in terrific reaction is de-
plOrable and wicked. Look out for the agi-
tatiOn that, like a rough musician, in
bringing out the tune plays SO hard he
breaks down tho instrument. God never
made man strong enough to endure the
wear and tear Of gambling excitement.
No wonder If, after having failed In the
game, men have begun to sweep off imag-
mary gold from the side of the table. Tho
man was sharp enough when he started
at tho game, but u maniac at the close. At
every gaming table sit on one side, &C.
stasy, enthusiasm, romance-the frenzy
OF joy; OH the other side, ferceness,
rage, tumult. The professional gamester
schools himself into apparent quietness.
Tho keepers Of gambling rooms are gen
orally fat rollicking and obese, but thor
ough and professional gamblers in nine
cases out If ten, arc pale, thin, wheozy,
tremulous and exhausted.
a young man having suddenly inherited
large property sits at the hazard tables
and takes up in II dice box the estate won
by fathers lifetime sweat and shakes 1t
and losses it away. Intemporance soon
stigmatizes its Misunderstanding him out, /
a slayering fool, into the ditch, or sending 1
him, with the druCkard's hiooough, stag |
gering up the strs& where his family lives /
But gambling does not in that way expose |
its victims The gambler may be eaten up |
by the gamblers passion, yet you only dis
cover it by the greed in his eyes, the hard
ness of his features, the nervous restless
ness, the thrcadbaro coat and his embar-
rassed business Yet he is on the road to
hell, and no preachers voice, or startling
or wifo's entreaty, can make
him stay for moment his headlong ca
reer The informal spell is on him; giant
is aroused within, and though you may
hind him rnf ut 10
thread, and though you fasten him seven
times round with chains they would snap
ike rusted wire, and though you piled up
N his path heaven high Bibles tracts and
and on the top should set the
ross of the Son of God, over them all the
gambler would leap like a roe over the
'ocks on his way to perdition.
The Gambler Gains Perdition.
A man used to reaping scores or hun
lreds of dollars from the gaming table
will not DO content with slow work. He
will say, what is the use of my trying to
make these 500 in my store when can get
i've times that in half ali hour down at
Billy 's?'' You never knew a confirmed
gambler who was industrious. The mon
,iven to this vice spend their time, not
ctively engaged in the game, in idleness
T intoxit alton or sleep or in oorrupting
low victims. This sin has dulled the car
enters saw and cut the band of the fac
cry wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the [
geth of the farmers harrow and sent I
TRANCE lightning to shatter the battery Of
be philosopher. The very first idea in
aiming is at war with all the industries
T society. Any trade or occupation that !
of use is ennobling. The street sweeper {
dvances tho interests of society by the
Ieanliness effected. The cat pays for the
it eats by cleaning the house Of
ermin. The fly that takes the sweetness
'Om the dregs Of tho cup cOmpepsates by I
urifying the air and keeping back tho G
estilence. But the gambler gives not !
1ything for that which lac takes. l recall q
lat sentence. He does make a return, 1
ut it Is disgrace to the man he neeces, d
8spair to his heart, ruin to his business, o
lguish to his wife, shame to his children /
ld eternal wasting away to his soul. He L
lys in tears and blood and agony and [
lrkness and woe What dull work is 5
owing to the farmer when in the village b
loon in one night he makes and loses the Il
hue of a summer harvestl Who will L
ant to sell tape and measure nankeen O.
I'd cut garments and weigh sugars when o
a nights game he makes and loses and
axes again and loses again the profits of
season. John Borack Was sent ms mer- b
ntile agent from Bremen to England and y
is country. After two years his employ "
S mistrusted that all was not right. He u
as defaulter for SS7, 600. 1t was found Il
at he had lost in Lombard street, Lon ST
N, S29, 900; in Fulton street, New York, &C
U, 200, and in New Orleans $4,000. He u
as imprisoned, but afterward escaped and C
1nt into tho gambling profession. He =
I'd in a lunatio asylum. This crime is oil
tting its levur under many mercantile te
use in our cities, and before long down bi
II come the great establishment, crush 10
9 reputation, home comfort and immOr- OF
souls. III
The whole world is robbed What is ia
lst sad, thOEe are no consultations fpl N
o loss and suffering entallod pF gaming,
men fail in lawful business, God pities th
d society commiserates, but where, in to
Q Bible or society, is there any oonsola- to
N for tho gamblerp From what tree OF Sc
O forest oozes there a balm that can NJ
Dthe the gamester's hearth In that bottle "a
iere God Keeps the tears Of his children wi
0 there any tears of the gambler2 Do the so
nds that colse to kiss the faded cheek m
sickness and TO cool tho heated brow of fe,
0 labOrer whisper hope and cheer to the fol
iaciated victim of the game of hazardf he
len an honest man is in trouble he has ca
npathy. Poor fellowl" they say. But ur
gamblers come to weep at the agonies we
the gamblerS In Northumberland was tic
q of the finest estates in England. Mr..
rter owned 1t, and in ysor gambled it tir
away. Having lost the last aero Of the vO
ate, he came down from the saloon and is
into bis carriage, went back, put up asl
horses and carriage and town house of
j played. He threw and lost. He started bo
home, and on a side alloy met friend, or,
m whom he borrowed ten guineas. Ha poi
ut back to the saloon, and before great Ell
lie had won eco, COO He died at last
ygar in st. Giles. How many gamblers
sorry for Mr.. Porter2 Who oonsoled
n ON tho loss OF his estatos What gam To
r subscribed to put a stone over the
n mans grave? Not one Furthermore,