The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-18

and press it TO their lips, the dregs OF the
cup falling upon their tongue. viii begin
20 hiss and uncoil with the adders of an
eternal poison.
Again: avoid as you would avoid the
death of your body, mind and soul any
one who has in him the gambling spir-
H. Men who want to gamble, viii 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 the blOated wretch
with rings in his ears deals out his pack
providing free drinks all arOund-but in
gilded parlors and amid gorgeous sur
rOundings.
This sin works ruin first by unhealth-
ful stimulants. Excitement is pleasure
bic. Under every sky and in every age
men have sought 1t. The Chinaman gets
il by smoking his opium; the Persian by
chewing hashish; the trapper in a buffalo
hunt; the sailor in squat: the inebrlate
n the bottle, and the aVariciOus at the
gaming table. We must at times have
excitement. A thousand voices in our Ia
ture demand it. II is right Ii is health
iul. 1t Us inspiring. 1t is desire COG
given. But anything that first gratihes
this appetite and hurls it back in a ter
rific reaction is deplorable and wicked.
Look out for the agitation that like
rough musician, in bringing out the tune
plays so hard he breaks down the instru-
ment. Cod never made man strong
enough to endure the wear and tear of
gambling excitement. No wonder if, after
having failed i'm the game, men have be-
gun 10 sweep off imaginary gold from the
side of the table. The man was sharp
enough when he started at the game, but
a maniac at the close. At every gaming
table sit on one side ecstasy, enthusiasm,
romance-the frenzy of joy; on the Other
side, ferceness, rage, tumult. The pro-
feSSiOnal g2mcster schools himself into APP
parent quietness. The keepers of gambling
rooms are generally lat, rollicking ana
obese, but thorough and professional
gamblers, in nine cases out of ten, arc
pale, thin, wheezy tremulOus and ex-
A young man, having suddenly inherited
a large property, sits at the hazard tables
ana takes up in dice box the estate won
by a fathers lifetime sweat, and shakes
~ ana losses 1t away ntemperance soon
sugmatizes its Victim-kicking him out q.
slaVering fool, into the ditch, or sending
him, with the drunkard's hiccOugh stag
gering up the street where his family lives
But gambling does not i'm that wav ex-
pose its victims. The gambler may be
eaten Up oy me gambler passion. yet you
oHly discover II by the greed in his eyes,
the hardness of his features, the nervous
| restessness, the threadbare coat and his
embarrassed business. Yet he is on the
| road TO hell, and no preachers voice or
startling warning, or wife's entreatv can
make MIN stay for a moment his head
lois career Inc internal spell is on him;
giant - aroused within, and though
you may bind him with cables they Womb
part like thread, and though you faster
him seven times round with chains fhev
would snap like rusted wire: and tboug1
you piled up in his path heaven-hign.
Bibles, tracts and sermons and on the
top should set the cross OF the son of Cod
! over them all the gambler would lean
IKE roe over the rocks, on his way 10
perdition. Wy ~
man used to reaping scores or b,,r-
dreds of dollars from the gaming tabio
| VIII not be content with slow work 10
! VIII say: What is the use of nv trvine
70, 70 maze f,f" inese $2o IN my store when 1 can
| get nyye times that in half an hour dow,
| at BlllY's?' You never knew a confrn1a6
! gambler who was Industrious The mon
gwen TO TINS vice spend their time no,
| acllNely engaged in the game, in idleness
! or lntoNlcation, or sleep, or in corrunfin@
| new victims. This sin has dulled the car
t tor, saw ana cut the band of the fac
toIS WiletI' sunk the cargo, broken The
| teeth OF the farmers harrow, and semi =
| strange lightning to shatter the battery Of
/ the philosopher. The very first i1ae a.,
gaming is at war with ali the industriioas ~
society Any trade or occupation tbAf is
| OF use Is ennObling. The street-svveener
SisoniDest le interests of society by the
| SaSaIuuess erected; The cat pays for the
/ fragments il eats by cleaning the bonee
OF vermin. The fly that takes the sweet
/ ness from the dregs of the Gun coynDe,,-
| safes by purifying the air ana l9aapinrr
/ b1ck the pestilence. But the gambler Ij,leSS
NOT anything for that which he takes 7
/ recall that sentence. He does make a re-
! turn; but il is DISGRACE 10 Tho ~ -
| ileeces despair to his heart ruin ~ he
! business, anguish to his wife. shame to
! ms chliuren, and eternal WASTING n 80 -
! MS soul He pays in tears and bloo,S 49,
| agony ana darkness and woe, Wb9t 5iIT
/ work Is ploWing to the farmer when in fbe
! ElHaSe saloon in one night he makes ana
| loses the value of a summer b9r,-a,t :
! Who will want to sell tape and measure
! hankeen, and cut garments. and weieS
/ sugars, When in a nights game he ma ~
/ and loses, and makes again and loses % IL
/ the prOntS or a season. John BOraclr 60
/ sent as mercantile agent from Bremen ~
/ england ard this country. After two years
| ms employers mistrusted that an va NJ
! right. lie was a defaulter for aigrb+x,-eo,-e,,
/ lhouSanq collars; IL was found that he had
! IOSI IN LOMBARD street, London ryvapt,-
! nine thousand dollars in Fulton street
NeW 1oIk, ten thousand dollars and in
/ New Orleans, three thousand dollars ~
/ was imprisoned, but afterward escaned
and went into the gambling Drofoss3c,1
! lie dleu IN q lunat.C asylum This o~ir,e is
/ EetlhS lts lever under many mercantfIe
uGuse IN our cities, and before long down
! Will come the great establishment. crush
/ ING reputation, home comfort ana immor-
tai souls.
IN, me whole Of, world is robbed! What is
! most SAD, there are no consultations for the
/ loss ana suner.ng entailed by gaming n
] men fail in awful business. Cod nities
/ ana society cOmmiserates; but where in
/ the Bible or society. is there any, co,,soo7 "a
! tion for the gambler? From w6at treS a.
/ the forest oozes there balm thar con
/ Soothe the gamestcr's heart? In thai bof-
tie where God keeps the tears of his ebii-
/ Qren, are there any tears of the arnbiar ,
/ 10 the winds that come to kiss the faded
I Sheeh OF SICKNESS and 10 cool the heated
/ brow of the laborer. whisper hone ana
/ cheer TO the emaciated victim of the game
| OF hazard? When an honest man is in
/ trouble. lie has sympathy. Poor fatlG3,-ii'' -
! they say. But do gamblers come to ween
/ al the agonies OF the gambler? In Norm
umperlahd was one of the finest estates in
/ England Mr.. Porter owned ii. ana so -. n
/ year gambled it all away Having LOST
1 the last acre of the estate he came down
i from the saloon and got into his carriage
| went back; put up his horses, and CARR.
| age and town house, and played He
| threw and lost. He started for home. and
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