The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

| ly-favored cigars. I ough hit to be able
to entertain my friends more expen-
sively. l won't stand this any longer.
/ can, with one brilliant stroke. make
fortune. Now, here goes, principle
or no principle, Heaven or hell. Who
cares?" When a young man makes up
his mind to live beyond his in
come, Satan has bought him out and
out, and it is only question of time
when the goods are to be delivered.
The thing Is done. You may plant in
the way all the batteries of truth and
righteousness-that man Is bound to
go on. When a man makes $1,000 a
year and spends 81, 200; when young
man makes 81, 500 and spends 81, 700, all
the harpies OF darkness cry out: "Ha!
ha! we have him!' and they have.
| This sin works very insidiously.
| Other sins sound the drum, and faunt
the flag. and gather their recruits.with
wild huzza, but this marches its pro
cession of pale victims in dead OF night,
in silence, and when they drop into the
| grave there is not so much sound as the
click Of dice. Oh! how many have
| gone down under it. Look at those
men who were once highly prospered.
Now their forehead is licked by a
tongue of fame that will never go out.
In their souls are plunged the beaks
which will never be lifted. Swing
| open the door of that mans heart and
you see coil of adders wriggling their
| indescribable horror until you turn
away and hide your face and ask God to
help you to forget it The most OF this
evil is unadvertised. The community
does not hear of it. Men defrauded in
gaming establishments are not fools
enough to tell of it. Once in awhile,
however, there is an exposure, as when
in Boston the police swooped upon a
gaming establishment and found in it
the representatives Of all classes of cit
liens, from the first merchants of
State street To the low Ann street
gambler; as when Bullock, the cashier
of the Central Railroad OF Georgia, was
found to have stolen SlO3,0O0 for the
purpose of carrying on gaming prac-
tees; as when young man in one OF
the savings banks of Brooklyn, many
years ago, was found to have stolen
$40, 900 To carry on gaming practices; as
when a man connected with Wall
street insurance company was found to
have stolen S1s0,000 to carry on his
gaming practices. But that is excep-
tional.
Generally the money leaks silently
from the merchants till into the game
ster's wallet believe that one of the
main pipes leading to this sewer of
iniquity is the excitement Of business
life. Is it not a significant fact that
the majority of the day gambling
houses of New York are in proximity
to Wall street? Men go into the ex-
element of stock gambling, and from
that they plunge into the gambling
houses, as, when men are excited, they
go into liquor saloon to get more
drink. The agitation that is witnessed
in the stock market when the chair an
nounces the word Northwestern" or
Fort Wayne" or Rock Island" or
New \ DIRK Central" and the rat! tat!
tat! of the auctioneer's hammer, and
the excitement of making corners"
and getting up pools" and Garry
ing stock" and 'break" from so to 20,
and the excitement of rushing around in
curb. stone brokerage, and the sudden
cries of Buyer threew Buyer temp
Take 'emw "How many?" and the
making or losing of $40. 900 by one OPP
Grafton units a man to go home, SO he
goes up the fight of stairs, amid bust
ness offices, to the darkly-curtained,
wooden-shuttered room, gaily fur
Dished inside, and takes his place at
the roulette or faro table. But l can
not tell all the process by which men
get into this evil. A man went to New
York. He was a western merchant.
He went into gaming house on Park
place. Before morning he had lost all
his money, save 81, and he moved
around about with that 81 in his hand,
and after awhile, caught still more
powerfully under the internal infatua-
ton, he came up and put down the
dollar and cried out until they heard
him through the saloon: zone thou
sand miles from home, and my last dol
lar on the gaming table,"
Many years ago for sermonic pur-
poses, and in company with the chief
of police of New York visited one of
the most brilliant gambling houses in
that city. 1t was night, and as we
came up in front all seemed dark. The
blinds were down; the door was
guarded, but after whispering of the
officer with the guard at the door we
were admitted into the hall, and
thence into the parlors, around one
table finding eight to ten men in mid
life, well dressed-all the work going
on in silence, save the noise of the
rafting ''chips" on the gaming table
in one parlor, and the revolving
ball of the roulette table in the other
parlor. Some of these men, we were
told, had served terms in prison; some
were shipwrecked bankers and brokers
and money-dealcrs, and some were go
ing their first rounds of vice-but all
intent upon the table, as large or small
fortunes moved up and down before
them! Oh! there was something awfully
solemn in the silence - the intense
gaze, the suppressed emotions of the
player. No one looked up. They all
had money in the rapids, and have
no doubt some saw, as they sat there,
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