Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-07

" ~ VoofA hENHy tuGslihSIN VIZ u iSdbslby
thepe iaSFumoaa Sestsb lishments. The
hoaeo OF 5commoan OF England actually
adst -1rnB on Derby day that membera
may attend tho races, and. In the beat
oiroleB Of society In this oonntry today
ste many iiaundre6s %M proIsssedly 70,
apsctable men who arc acknowledged
gamblers.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars In
this land are every day being won and
Lost through sheer gambling. Says q
traveller through the west, 'tI have tray
elod j, 900 miles a. O time upon the
western waters and seen gambling aS
every waking moment from tho oom-
menoement to thu termination Of the
Journey" The southwest Of this 0oIn-
try reeke with this sin. IN some Of those
oities eyery third or fourth house in
many OF the streets Is o gaming place,
and ii may be truthfully averred that
each OF our cities 10 cursed with this
evil. f ,.a
Abundance OF Opportunities.
Elem wishing to gamble will find
places just suited 20 theix capacity not
only in the underground oyster cellar,
or at the table back of tho curtain cov-
cred with greasy cards, Or ia the steam
boat smoking cabin, where tho bloated
wretch with rings in his ears deals out
his pack and winks In the unsuspeoting
traveler--providtng Gree dzinks aii
around-but In gilded parlors and amid
gorgeous surroundings. This sin works
Sntn, frat, BY providing an unheaithfui
stimulant. Excitement Is pl%easurable.
Under overy sky and in every ago nien
have sought 1t. We must OF timos have
exoitement. A thousand voices In Ii
nature demand 1t. It is right. It is
healthful. 10 10 inspir!ting. 1t is q do
siro God given. But anything that first
gratifos this appetite and hurls it back
In O. terrific reaction 10 deplorable and
wicked. Look out Cor tho agitation
that, like o rough musician, in bringing
out the tune plays 80 hard he breaks
down tho instrument. Goo never mado
o man strong enough to endure the wear
and tear Of gambling exoitements.
A young man having suddenly inhor-
tted q large property sits at tho hazard
tables and takes up In q dice box tho o.
tate won by O fathers lifetime'a sweat
and shakes it and tossos 1t away. In.
temperance C stigmatizes It's victim,
kicking him out, slavering fool, into tho
ditch, or sending him, with the drunk
aids ~hiooough, staggering up the street
whore his family lives. But gambling
docs not In that way expose its victims.
The gambler may be eaten up by the
gamblers passion. yet you only discover
1t by the greed In hta eyes, the hardness
OF hia features, tho nervous restlessness,
the eh-caa3aso coat "Sa his embarrassed
business. Yet he ia on tho road to ruin
and no preachers voice. or startling
warning or wife's entreaty con mako
him stay for a moment his headlong ca
rear.
The informal spoil Is on him. A giant
is aroused within, and though you bind
him with cables. they would part like
thread, and though you fasten him seven
timos around with chains, thoy would
snap like yusted wire, and though you
piled up In his path heaven high Bibles,
tracts and sermons, and on tho top
should set the GROSS Of the Son Of God,
over them all the gambler would loap
like q roo ovey the rocks on his way to
perdition. "Aooldame. tho field of
bloodi''
Again, this sin works ruin by killing
industry. A man used to roaping scores
or hundreds Of dollars from the gaming
table will not be content with slow
work. He will say, "What Ia the use of
trying to make this 500 in my store
whom I can make Ave times that in half
an hour by the dice" You never know
o confirmed gambler who was industri-
Gus. The mon given to this vice spend
their time not actively employed in tho
game IN idleness or intoxication or
sleep or In oorrupting new victims.
and cut the band Of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo. broken the teeth Of tho
farmeS'g harrow, and gont n strange
tightening to shatter tho battery Of the
philosopher. The very first idea In gam
ing Is at wax with all the Industries Of
society.
Any trade or occupation that Ia Of use
is onnobling. Tho street sweeper ad-
vance tho interests Of society by the
cleanliness effected. Tho cat pays for
the fragments 1t eats by clearing tho
house Of vermin. The fly that takes the
sweetness from the dregs OF tho u
oompensates by purifying the dir and
keeping back the pestilenoe. But the
gambler gives not anything for that
which no takes. ] yecall hat sentence.
He does make q roturn, but it Is dis
grace to the man that no Aeuoes, despair
to his heart, ruin 20 his business, an
guiah 10 his wife. ehame to his children
and otornnl wasting away to his soul.
He pays In tears and blood and agony
and darkness and woe.
What dull work Is blowing to the
farmer when In the village saloon in
one night he makes and loses tho value
Of q summer harvestl Who will want
to soil tapes and measure nankeen and
cut garments and weigh sugar when in
a nights game he makes and loses md
makos again and loses again the profits
CT O goason2
An Example.
John Borack was sent as o mercantilo
agent from Bremen to England and this
country. After two years his employers
mistrustod that ali was not Right. He
was q defaulter 3or $4,000. It was
found that no had lost IN Lombard
street, London, $40, 900; In Fulton
street. New York, $40, 600, and In New
Orleans, 90, 600. He WAS imprisoned,
but afterward escaped, and went into
the gambling profession. He died in q
lunatio asylum. This crime is getting
tts lever under many o mercantile house
In u oitioa, and before long down will
como the great Embellishments, crushing
reputation, homo comfort and immortal
souls. How 1t diverts and sinks capital
may BIO inferred from some authentic
gtotament hn2ore M Tho ton oanin0