Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08

night they draw out card table and
take out deck of cards and say.
won't you play a game with us?'
"No, my mother taught me not to
play
They laugh at his ignorance.
Time rolls on, and he gets to think
good deal of one Of the girls in the
house. and one night she says:
won't you play a game of cards
with me?"
But he says: 81 don't care to play
cards.
She turned her doye-like eyes upon
him. and with her raven tresses and
teeth like pearls (Old Whiskers, that
is tough place to put fellow I'M,
and she smiles, and he willis.
He learns rapidly, and becomes eX-
pert.
One time he walked into a gam
bling room and thought that he saw
shorter route to fame and fortune,
and he started out professional
gambler. He had been employed by
the Pinkerton agency as detective,
but he gave that up
He was nearly killed in quarrel
in house of illfame and then he
ran away to Tennessee, and began
the old life. Over game of cards
he got into fight. and as he lay
wounded woman said. LET him die,
he has been damning our young men"
But they took him to the hospital and
when he recovered he went to Florida
to town where friend OF mine was
Smelling the woods for Jesus, and he
was converted, and started to preach
ing All that after being thirteen
years professional gambler. led into
it simply because that good-for-noth-
ing church member family could not
see any harm in a game Of cards in
Illinois.
have Just as much respect for the
old gambler who will bet his last
sou as for the women who will sit
around in their homes and play cards
for prizes.
Women Degenerate Gamblers.
They are just as much degenerate.
black-ler gamblers as the gambler in
the gambling hell They ought to be
Put in the calaboose with the rest OF
the gamblers.
You have no right to find fault with
the city officials when they don't sup
press gambling, when a thing SO near
akin TO it is carried on right in your
| own home believe that society as
| il is constituted today is doing more
to damn the spiritual life of the
church than the grog shops. Though
you can't accuse me Of being friend
to that sinking, dirty, rotten, hell
soaked business.
Most Backsiders.
| Nv friends. more people backslide
on the social side than on anything
else that | can think of
! A seemingly estimable woman will
tear and snort and pout through an
afternoon what for? So she can take
horne a dingy cream pitcher or whisk
broom.
| There is nothing SO tame as tC
ask a fellow to play cards for the fun
of It, 1t does not make any differ
limit So we have progressive euchre
and lots Of church members have
cards on their tables as often as food
and they are progressing TO hell.
Woman Lost $40 Prize.
In a town where l was preaching
! they had all the parties to get then
off their hands before I came The.
! had big affair and the prize was s
! $40 cut glass dish. and woman work
ed and sweat and lied and cheated
and took nrogressions which she
! didn't win and then she lost the disl
| by two points. She was sick in bee
for four days Now listen! Her boy
a nice. bright fellow. came in one
morning. and kissed her and said:
"Here. mar; here is a $40 golt
niece; take that and go down to tht
| jewelers. and get p cut glass dish like
that prize 7 won this up at Richard
sons last night" she said:
"Mv boy I take a $40 gold piecs
that YOU won at gambling to buy
cut glass dish!"
He told her that it was Just the
same to buy prize with the s2'
won at gambling. as to win the prize
She said to me afterward. 81 wal
inst as low down as that man Rich
ardson was whom I had looked a
with horror"
FaIIacous
You are as low down as the gam
bier
"Rut." some woman says. ""Mr. Sun
day I am teaching my hoy to pla,
cards so thai when he grows up h
won't want TO plav cards"
i J have heard that: but say. VIII
don't you send your daughter to liv
in brothel so that she won't wan
TO be prostitute when she grows ur
You are a fool and 3, iackass to tai
that wav. Your argument won't hol
water three minutes.
7 don't care who YOU are there i
only one thing TO do. and that is t
go home and to throw awav ever
card that you have into the furnac
and get rid Of the thing.
Affect Each Other.
IF This world was made I'd OF onl
!. one family 7 probably would not noe
, to preach this sermon tonieht. Bl
fortunately. Or unfortunately, we ar
made I'M Of many families. IF vo
, are lax in the care OF your childre,
f. makes it harder for me 10 TAX
care Of mine. If YOU don't car
!, whether vour children 20 to tn
dance. and ] do care. you make
+bo4 much bardnr for MO RI lyea,, n,