The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-25

hall is the place where during the next
few months thousands upon thousands
of our young people will have their
immortal souls destroyed.
Avoid Games of Chance.
Summer red light the third: Beware
Of all games Of chance. What does
that mean2 Beware of joining the
gambling game, which will be played
every night in the side room of the ho-
tel which opens into the. hotel bar,
which game will be kept up until or
o'clock in the morning. Beware of
commingling with the ''plungers" gath
cred before the bookmakers' stands at
the famous summer races? Oh. no.
would no more expect you to be found
In such dagrantly compromising posi-
tons than you would expect to find
your pastor there. But beware of the
insidious beginnings. Beware Of wa
gering the box of candy upon the game
Of tennis or quoits which Is played in
the hotel grounds. Beware Of betting
the penny upon the simple game which
Is played upon the hotel porch. In
other words, beware Of taking your
first lessons in one Of the most awful.
the most fascinating and the most de-
structive Of all evils, the gambling evil.
| When the poisonous desires Of
game Of chance are once inoculated
into a young mans heart there seems
to be no human power to stop him
from committing mental, physical and
spiritual suicide. Senator Chauncey
M. Depew of New York city, whom
even the most literally minded men
would not charge with being a bigot,
once gave this startling testimony: "a
considerable proportion of failures in
business and so per cent of the de-
falcations, thefts and ruin Of youths
among those who are employed In
places of trust are due directly to
gambling. I have seen in my vast en-
ployment so much misery caused by
the head of the family squandering his
savings In policy shop and promising
young men led astray in a small way
and finally becoming fugitives or land
ing in the criminal dock that l have
come to believe that the community
/ which licenses and tolerates public
gambling cannot have prosperity In
business" With such an impressive
| warning as that before u.s. can w"
afford to trif1e with this sin in even
the smallest way? The policy shop or
| the slot machine Is only q step from
/ the roulette table and the race track.
| The race track and the roulette table
/ are the threatening rocks where thou
sands upon thousands of human craft
are wrecked for time and for eternity
/ Trif1e not with the games OF chance.
however small the wager, any more
than you would play about rattle
snakes fang or toy with boa con-
strictor's coils or a tigers claw.
Flirting Denounced.
/ Summer red light the fourth: Be-
ware of trifing with human affections.
i That means do not be firt Do not
/ falsify with the glance of the eye or the
/ smile of the lip or the touch of the hand.
Do not imagine that you can treat the
delicate instrument of the human heart
as mere temporary plaything. thump-
ing and banging 1t and swapping its
many silver strings. and indulge the
belief that 1t can afterward be re
tuned and made capable OF sending
/ forth sweet music. That means do not
trif1e with the beautiful diamond OF
love and plunge 1t into the Satanic
fires Of summer Irritation and Their
hope 1t will have lost none Of its lus-
ter. 1t will not retain Its purity. II
will become as blaek and hideous as
/ the filthy piece Of charcoal which the
servant losses into the CRATE on win
/ ter night. It will become as black as
/ the fatal line on Gains forehead, which
marked him as destroyer OF bis
brothers life.
Oh. the destinations and yet the hell
/ ish malforming power of summer
fIirtationi Have you ever sat upon a
/ hotel porch and watched the insects
! gather out Of the darkness and buzz
/ and play about the electric lights7
Those lights have for them the fatal
/ spell that the glittering eye of the
/ black snake has for the mother bird
sitting upon the edge Of her nest.
These insects will circle round and
round the brilliant light. They will
disappear for awhile. as though they
know the hot tongue of death is read-
to touch them Then at last they will
make one plunge and in an instant the
wings and the legs are gone. Then the
poor suffering creatures fall to the
ground, wriggling and twisting and
dying, to be trampfed under the foot Of
man. Such are the awful results which
follow when the human insects play
about the kissing. blasting fires Of a
summers Irritation. It may be pleas
ant for awhile to feel the hot flush
upon the cheek. It may seem only fun
i to pass few hours as eoauette, tear
ing and inflaming the tenderest feel
ings of a true man in a summer row
B boat or In romantic walks through the
woods. It may seem to be a glorious
act to boast how many you can con-
quer in love. as an Indian warrior
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