Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-22

few menths thousands upon thousands
OF Gus 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 mean! 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
4 O'Clock in the morning. Beware OF
commingling with the ''plungers'' gath
cred before the bookmakers' stands at
the famous summer races? Oh, no. l
would no more expect you to be found
| in such fiagrantly compromising posi-
tians 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,
Tic hlOSl IdSt1hdllLE Tic LlOSl ut-
/ structive of all evils, the gambling evil
| When the poisonous desires of a
| 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. Depcw 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 80 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. l have seen in my vast en-
ployment so much misery caused by
the head of the family sQuandering his
savings in a 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 us, can we
afford to trifie with this sin in even
the smallest way? The policy shop or
the slot machine is only 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 a boa con-
strictor's coils or a tigers claw.
Flirting Denounced.
Summer red light the fourth: Be-
ware of trif1ing with human affections.
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 a mere temporary plaything thump-
ing and banging it and swapping it's
many silver strings, and indulge the
belief that it can afterward be re-
tuned and made capable Of sending
forth sweet music. That means do not
trifie with the beautiful diamond Of
love and plunge it into the Satanic
fires Of a summer Irritation and then
hope it will have lost none Of it's lus-
ter. 1t will not retain its purity. 1t
will become as black and ,hideous as
the filthy piece of charcoal which the
servant losses into the CRATE on Will
ter night. 1t will become as black as
the fatal line on Gains forehead, which
marked him as destroyer of his
brothers life.
Oh, the destinations and yet the hell
ish malforming power of a summer
Irritation! Have you ever sat upon a
hotel porch and watched the insects
gather out of the darkness and buzz
and play about the electric lights
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 ready
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 trampled 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. 1t may be pleas
ant for awhile to feel the hot flush
upon the cheek. 1t may seem only fun
to pass few hours as a coquette, tear
ing and in6aming the tenderest feel
ings of a true man in a summer row.
boat or in romantic walks through the
woods. 1t may seem to be glorious
, act to boast how many you can con-
! Quer in love, as an Indian warrior
boasts of his proves in war by the
number of scalps he carries at his belt