The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-12
THE WORDS OF 4 GAMBLER.


Rev. S. B. Anderson. of Portsmouth,
! o.. recites the following testimony of i
converted gambler and saloon-keep"r,
given in one of the meetings IN his
church:
Il have been in the saloon business,
with a gambling room attached, for
! the last four years. and claim to know
something about what | am now going
to tell YOU. l do not believe that the
gambling done is nearly so dangerous,
nor does it do anything like the same
amount of harm, as the social card par
ty in the home.
Il give this as my reason: In the
gambling room the windows are closed
tight, and the curtains are pulled down:
everything is conducted secretly for
fear of detection. and none but gam
blers, as a rule. enter there. while IN
the parlor all have access to the game:
children are permitted to watch it:
young people are invited to partake in
it. 1t is made attractive and allurlng
by giving prizes, serving refreshments.
and adding high social enjoymentS.
For my part l never could see the
difference between playing for a piece
of silver nodded 10 the shape Of money,
and silver nodded in the shape of a cup
or a thimble. The principle is the
same. and when ever property changes
hands over the luck of cards, no matter
how small is the value of the prize. |
believe it is gambling.
"Perhups you have never thought OF
it. but where do all the gamblers come
from? They are not taught in the gam
bling dens. \ 'greener, unless he IS
a fool, never enters q gambling hell,
because ne knows that he will be tleec-
ed out of every thing he possesses in
less than fifteen minutes. He has learn
ed som ewhere else before he sets foot
inside OF such place. When he has
played in the parlor, in the social game
of the home, and has become proficient
enough to win prizes among his friends
the next step with him is to seek out
the gambling room, for he has learned,
and now counts upon his efficiency to
hold his own.
THE saloon men and gamblers chuck
le and smile when they read in the pa
pers of the parlor games given by the
ladies, for they know that after awhile
those same men will become the patrons
of their business. l say. then, the
parlor game is the college where gam
blers are made and educated. In the
name of God, men, stop this busineSSlln
your homes. Burn up your decks and
wash your hands.
The other day I overheard two la
dies talking on 1.-THE street. One SAID,
I am going to have card-party, and
am going to the store to buy pack of
cards. Which is the best kind 10 get:'
The other replied, Get the angel card.
1t has an angel on the back
Think" said he: ''of dragging the
pure angels of heaven into this intern
al business. "-Religious Telescope.
ALCOHOL AND THE BRAIN.
How often and aptly physiologists
quote from Cassio's exclamation in
Othello-Shakespeare: 80, God, that
men should put an enemy into their
mouths to steal away their brain. That
we should, with Joy, revel, pleasure
and applause, transform ourselves into
beasts. So be now sensible man, and
by-and-by fool and presently a beast.
o, stronge., every inordinate crop is
unblessed, and the Ingredient is the
devil" 4 practical observer can, at a
glance at man under the influence of
alcoholics. determine to a certainty
just how far his brain is under the i'm
mediate damaging effects of the drug.
If he be noisy, boisterous, songful, glib.
rich without money, hilarious, the OBJ
server know that the upper and great
er mass of the brain, the cerebrum, IS
involved, as that is the seat of juGge-
ment or moral faeultier, all of which
are now weakened and thrown into dis
cord. Next we see the victim un-
steady, staggering, totterlng and tal-
ling. It is now certain that the lower
portion of the brain is damaged as there
is centered the controlling nerve in
huence over the muscular movements
of the body. One reason for the sllll-
ness in some men on a drunken spree,
and in others for the rage, ugliness and
Quarrelsomeness is that the brain IS
poisoned, its albumen hardened, its
blood vessels paralyzed and congested,
others unbalancing the mind.
1t is well established fact that alco-
hol scars the brain as the knife scars
the skin, in that it enlarges the cells OF
the brain tissues and form that state,
they never resume their former normal
condition. The reformed often feels
after time, that he is safe, having
conquered his old enemy, but one drink