St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-09-04

righteousness-that man 10 bound q
90 on. When = man makes $1,000 4
year and spends 81. 80; when . young
man makes 81, 500 and spends 81, TOO. Ill
the harpies Of darkness cry out: ''Hsl
ha! we have himw and they have. How
to get the extra $500 or the extra o, OK
il the question. He says: Here 4
my friend who started out the other
day with but little money. and in one
night, SO great was his luck, he rolled
mp hundreds and thousands Of dollars
II he got it. why not II It is such dull
work, this adding up Of long lines Of
figures in the counting house; this
pulling down Of = hundl ed yards Of
goods and selling a remnant; this III
ways awaiting upon somebody else,
when could put = hundred on the ace
and pick up thousand.
This sin works very insidiously.
Other 81 ms sound the drum, and daunt
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 50 much sound ~ the
click of dice. Oh! how many have
gone down under it Look 1t those
men who were once highly prospered.
| Now their forehead is licked by .
tongue of flame that will never 20 out
In their souls arc 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. Is when
in Boston the police swooped upon =
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; rs when Bullock, the cashier
of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was
found to have stolen sos, 600 for the
purpose of carrying on gaming prac-
tices; rs when q young man in one of
the savings banks of Brooklyn. many
years ago, was found to have stolen
$40. 0o0 to carry on gaming practices; Is
when , man connected with q Wall
street insurance company was found to
have stolen $50, 900 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
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. rs, when men arc 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 s.Northwestern," or
Fort Wayne" or Rock Island" or
New York Central, and the rat! tail
tat! Of the auctioneer's hammer, and
the excitement of making corners"
and getting mp pools" and ''carfy-
ing stock, and 'sbrcak" from so to 70,
and the excitement of rushing around in
curb stone brokerage, and the sudden
cries of ''liuyer threew buyer temp
Take 'em!' '.How many?" and the
making or losing of $1,000 by one OPP
Grafton units man to 60 home, SO he
gpes up the fight Of stairs. amid bust
ness Offices. to the darkly-curtained,
woodcn-shuttered room, gaily fur
nished inside, and takes his place at
the rouletts or faro table. But can
not tell all the process by which men
get into this evil. A man weut to-Nev
York. He was = western merchant
He went into gaming house on Park
place. Before morning he had lost Ill
his money. save 81, and he moved
around about with that 81 in his hand,
and after awhile. caught still more
powerfully under the infernSi in fatua-
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 Sermonic pur-
poses, and in COZ with the chief |
of police Of New York l visited one OF |
the most brilliant gambling houses in
that city. 1t was night. aud Is we
came up in front oil seemed dark. The |
blinds were down; the door was
guarded, but after = whispering Of the
officer with the guard 1t 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
''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-dealers. and some were 70
ing their first rounds OF vice-but all
intent upon the table, Is large or small
fortunes moved up and down before
them! Oh! there was something awfnlly
solemn in the silencs 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, Is they sat there,
horses and carriages, and horses
md lands, and home and family