The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-05-29


", not anly in the underground oyste
cellar. or at the table back of the cu1
: tain; covered With Efeasy cards: Or /
the steam boat smoking cabin, wher
the bloated wretch with rings in bi
ears deals out his pack and winks a
the unsuspecting traveler-providin
free drinks all around-but In glide,
Farlors and amid gorgeous surround
Ihgs
a young man having suddenly in
herited a large property, sits at thu
hazard tables and takes up in dice DO.
the estate won b9 fathers .lifetim,
sweat, and shakes it and losses it aWaa
Intemperance soon stigmatizes it,
victim kicking him out, shaving tool
into the ditch, or sending him, will
the drunkard's biccough, staggering
up the street where his family lives
But gambling does not IN that way
expose It's victims. The gambler may
be. eaten up By the gamb ler's passion
yet tot 6Aly discover it BY the greed il
his eyes, the hardness of his features,
the nervous restleSsness, the thread.
bare coat and his embarrassed bust
ness. Yet he is on the road to hell, and
no preachers voice or startling warn
ing, or wife's entreaty, can make him
stay for a moment his headlong career.
The Internal spell is on hims a giant il
aroused withifl; and though yoti may
bind Hill. with cables; they would
part like thread, and though Eot fasten
him seven times round with chains,
they would snap like rusted wire; and
though you piled up IN his r1th Heaven.
high Bibles, tracts and sermons, and
on the top should see the cross of the
Son of God, over them all the gambler
would leap like roe over the rocks, on
bis way to perdition.
The whole world is robbed What Is
most sad, there are no Consultations for
the l6ss and suffering entailed by gam
ing, If men fail In Lawful business
God pities and society commiserates;
but where's IN the Bible or society, is
there any consolation for the gambler
From what tree of the forest oozes there
balm that can sCothe the game
sters hearth In that bottle where
Odd kests tbs teAFe 1T His children;
are there any tears of the gambler
Do the winds that come to kiss the
faded cheek of sickness and to cool
the heated brow of the laborer whis-
per hope and cheer to the emaciated
victim of the game of hazard7 when
an honest man lie in trotible, he
has sympathy 'Poef feii5wt'
they say. But, do gamblers
come to weep at the agonies
of the gambler? In Northum berland
was one of the finest estates in En-
gland: Mr.. Porter owned it, and in a
year .Ranb1ed it all away: Having lost |
the last acre III tie estate; he came
down from the saloon and got into his
carriage; went back; put up his horses, |
and carriage, 8nd to+*h h8use; and |
played. He threw and lost. He started
for home, and on side alley met friend
from whom he borrowed ten guineas;
went back to the saloon and before a
great while, had won 100000. He died
1T last d baggar In ST. Giles, How
hahy gamblers felt sorfy fof Mr.. Pori
,er? Who consoled him on the loss of
lis estateS what gambler subscribed
% put STONE over the pddE mans
,rave? Not onei,
Furthermore, this sin is the source
# pncouhted dishonesty: The game
# hazzafd itself is often cheat. How
many tricks and receptions in the deal
ng of the cards! The opponents hand
S oftimes found out by fraud. Cards
re marked so that they may be desig-
ated from the back. Expert
have their ageomplices,
nd 6ns *ink may dscide the
anne. The dice have been
ound loaded with platina, SO
hat doublets come up every time.
'hese dice are introduced by the gam
lers unobserved by the honest men
tho have come into the play, and this
counts for the fact that 90 out of
DO who gamble; however wealthy
hen they began, at the end are
ound to be poor, misera bic; hag-
ard wretches; that would not now
e allowed to sit on the doorstep
{ the house that they once owned In {
gaming house in San Francisco a 5
Dung man, having just come from the /
lines, deposited large sum upon the :
&c and won $22, 900. But the tide
lrns. Intense anxiety comes upon the
of all. Slowly the cards T
ent forth. Every eye Is fixed.
OF sound is heard, until the ace {
revealed favorable to the bank. '
here are shouts of ''Fou1! foull'' but 9
lie keepers of the table produce
Ieif pistols, and the oproar is silenced, F
Id the bank has won sos, Odd Do you z
Ill this game of chance? There is Il
} chance about it. But these dis Z
onesties in the carrying on of the G
lme are nothing when compared
it'll the frauds that are committed in Y
der to get money to go on with the 8
,farious work.
with its needy hand, has q
atched away the widows mite and =
e portion of the orphans; has sold
e daughters virtue to get the meand
continue the game; has written the
unterfeit's signature, emptied the {
mixers money vault, and WELD
the assassin's dagger. There s.
no depth of meanness to which i,
ii not stoop. There is no cruelty at
lich it is appalled,. There is no
lrning of God that it will not dare.
unappeasing, fercer and
lder it blinds, it hardens, it rends, IL
asts, it crushes, it damns. Have
thing to do with the gamblers,
neither they gamble on large or small
ale.
CAST out these men from your COM
nv. Do not be in innate with them. r
ways be polite. There is no demand I
at you ever sacrifice politn ess. A
Jung man accosted Christian Quaker \
th: "Old chap, how did you make IL