Connecticut western news., 1896-05-21

ardy When an honest man Is In rroupIe, he has sympathy Poor fellowr" they say. But do gamblers come to weep at umberland was one of the finest estates in England Mir. Porter owned it and in year gambled it all away. Having lost the last acre of the estate, he came down from the saloon and got into his carriage, went back. put up his horses and carriage and town house and play ed. He threw and lost He started for home and on a side alley met a friend. from whom he borrowed ten guineaS He went back to the saloon, and before great while had won e20, 900. He died at last a beggar in St. Giles How many gamblers felt sorry for Mir. Por- ter? Who consoled him on the loss of his estate? What gambler subscribed to put stone over the poor mans gravel Not one. Furthermore, this sin is the source of uncounted dishonesty. The game of hazard itself is often cheat How many tricks and deceptions in the dealing os the cardsi The opponents hand is ofttimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert game sters have their accomplices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found loaded with platina, so that doublets come up every time. These dice are introduced by the gam blers unobserved by the honest men who have come into the play, and this ac- counts for the fact that ninety nine out of hundred who gamble, however wealthy when they began, at the end are found to be poor, miserable, haggard wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of the house that they once owned.
 In gaming house in San Francisco & young man having just come from the mines deposited a large sum upon tho ace and won $22, 1000. But the tide turns Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances of all Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed Not sound is heard until the ace is revealed, favorable to the bank. There are shouts of ''Fouli Foulr' but the keepers of the table produce their pistols, and the up roar is silenced, and the bank has won $95, Ooo. Do you call this a game of chance? There is no chance about it But these dishonesties in the carrying on of the game are nothing when com pared with the frauds that are commit ted in order to get money to go on with the nefarious work. Gambling, with its needy hand, has snatched away the widows mite and the portion of the or phans; has sold the daughters virtue to get the means to continue the game, has written the counterfeit's signature, emptied the bankers money vault and wielded the assassin's dagger. There is no depth of meanness to which it will not stoop. There is no cruelty at which it is appalled,. There is no warning of God that it will not dare, Merciless. unappeasable, fiercer and wilder, 1t blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crushcs, it damns. Have nothing to do with gamblers whether they gamble on large scale or small scale.
 Cast out these men from your compa- ny. Do not be intimate with them. Al ways be polite, There is no demand that you ever sacrifice politeness A young man accosted Christian Quaker with, ''old chap. how did you make all your moneyT The Quaker. replied, By dealing in an article that thou mayst deal in if thou wilt-civility Always be courteous, but at the same time firm. Say no as if you meant it Have it understood in store and shop and street that you will not stand in the companionship of the skeptic, the idler, the pleasure seeker, the gambler
 Rather than enter the companionship of such accept the invitation to a better feast. The promises of God are the fruits The harps of heaven are the mu- sic Clusters from the vineyards of God have been pressed into tankards The sons and daughters of the Lord Al, mighty are the guests While standing at the banquet to fill the cups, and divide the clusters, and command the harps. and welcome the guests, is daughter of God on whose brow are the blossoms of paradise and in whose cheek is the flush of celestial summer. Her name is Religion
 Her ways arc ways of pieaszntno~A And all her paths arc peaoe.