The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-04

given. But anything that first gratifies this
/ appetite and hurls it back in terrific re-
| action, is deplorable and wicked. Look out
! for the agitation that, like a rough must
clan, in bringing out the tune plays so
! hard he breaks down the instrument! God
never made a man strong enough to endure
the wear and tear of gambling excite
ments.
A young man having suddenly inherited
large property. sits at the hazard tables
and takes up in a dice-box the estate won
by a fathers lifetime's sweat and shakes
! il and losses it away. Intemperance soon
stigmatizos its victim, kicking him out a
slavering fool, into the ditch, or sending
him, with the drunkard's hiccough stag
gering up the street where his family lives
But gambling does not in that way expose
its victims. The gambler may be eaten up
by the gamblers passion, yet you only dis
cover il by the greed in his eyes, the hard
ness of his features. the nervous restless
ness, the threadbare coat, and his embar-
raised business. Yet he is on the road to
ruin, and no preachers voice, or startling
warning, or wife's entreaty. can make him
stay for moment his headlong career
The internal spell 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 times
around with chains, they would snap like
! rusted wire; and though you piled up in his
path heaven-high Bibles, tracts, and ser
mons, and on the top should set the cross
of the Son of God, over them all the gam
bier would leapke roe over the rocks,
on his way to perdtion. 'Aceldama, the
field of blood!'
Again this sin works ruin by killing in
dustry. A man used to reaping scores or
hundreds of dollars from the gaming-ta-
bic will not be content with slow work. He
VIII say, What is the use of trying to
make these fifty dollars in my store when
can make five times that in half an hour
by the dice" You never knew a confirm
ed gambler who was Industrious The men
given to this vice spend their time, not ac-
lively employed in the game, in idleness,
or intoxication, or sleep, or in corrupting
new victims. This sin has dulIed the car
penter's saw, and cut the band of the fac
tory wheel, sunk the cargo broken the
teeth of the farmers harrow, and sent a
strange tightening to shatter the battery
OF the philosopher The very first idea in
gaming is at war with all the industries
of society
Any trade or occupation that is of use
is ennobling. The street sweeper ad-
vances the interests of society by the
cleanliness effected. The cat pays for the
fragments 1t eats by clearing the house of
Vermin. The fly that takes the sweetness
from the dregs of the cup compensates by
purifying the air and keeping back the
pestlence But the gambler gives not
anything for that which he takes. 1 re-
call that sentence. He does make a re-
turn; but it is disgrace to the man that he
feeces, despair to his heart, ruin to his
business. anguish to his wife, shame to
his children, and eternal wasting away to
his soul. He pays in tears and blood and
agony and darkness and woe.
/ What d,,I v,,orly Il.
| when the village saloon in one night he
| makes and loses the value of a summer
| harvest! Who will want to sell tapes and
/ measure nankeen and cut garments and
| weigh sugar, when in nights game he
/ makes and loses. and makes again and
loses again, the profits of a season?
John Borack was sent as a mercantile
agent from Bremen to England and this
country. After two years his EMPLOYERS
mistrusted that all was not right. He was
a defaulter for $4,000. 1t was found that
| he had lost in Lombard street London.
| $4,000; in Fulton street, New York $4,000.
and in New Orleans, 5000 He was i'm
| prisoned, but afterwards escaped and went
into the gambling profession. He died
in a iunatic asylum. This crime is getting
! its lever under many a mercantile house in
our cities, and before long down will come
| the great establishment, crushing reputa-
tlon home comfort, and immortal souls
| How 1t diverts and sinks capital may be
| inferred from some authentic statement
before us. The ten gaming houses that
once We're authorized In Paris passed
through the banks yearly 1926, 900 francs
Furthermore, this sin is the source OF
| dishonesty. The game of hazard itself is
| often cheat. How many tricks and de.
ceptions in the dealing of the cards! The
| opponents hand is oftimes found out by
fraud. Cards are marked so that they
may be designated from the back Elk.
pert gamesters 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 gamblers
unobserved by the honest men who have
come into the play. and this accounts fol
the fact that ninety-nine out a 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 a gaming-house in San Francisco. 6
young man having just come from tn,
mines deposited large sum upon the ace
and won twenty-five thousand dollars. Blu
the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes upor
the countenances of all. Slowly the card:
went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not {
sound Is heard until the ace is revealed
| lawn dbie " NllS Dunk. InGre are SHOUTS
of Foul! Foulr' but the keepers at tn,
tables produce their pistols, and the up
roar is silenced, and the bank has woi
ninety-fve thousand dollars. Do you cal
this game of chance? There is no chanc,
about 1t.
Notice also the effect of this crime upoI
domestic happiness. 1t has sent its ruth
less ploughshare through hundreds of fam
lilies, until the wife sat in rags, and tn,
daughters were dsgraced, and the SON
grew up to the same infamous practices
or took short cut to destruction across
the murderer's scaffold. Home has los
all charms for the gambler. How tam,
are the children's caresses and wife's de
votion to the gambler! How drearly tn,
fire burns on the domestic hearth! Their,
must be louder laughter, and something
to win, and something. to lose; an excite
ment TO drive the heart faster. flip tn,
, blood and fire the imagination. No home
however bright can keep back the game
ster. The sweet call of love bounds bacl
from his iron soul, and all endearment
are consumed i'm the fire of his passion. Th
family Bible will go after all other treas
r ures are lost, and IL his crown in HEAVIER
/ were mt into his hand he mould 49,.