The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-10
Hr DoEsN.r KNOW.

Some people sometimes have strange
 ideas sbout gambling. and about how easy t is to make money that way. oi in any sort of speculation. Here. as n example. is Philadelphia clergy man. who is doubtiess entirely unac- quainted with the methods of gamblers
 and speculators, and who, we are sure,
 has no ides of induigins in anything of the Kind. yet he thinks himself competent te sive sn opinion on the subject. He says he could take $1oo siil. writing pad and . pencil and make | fortune in Wall Street. Of course he knows nothing about 1t. of all piacss ef gambling Wall Street is
 among the most uncertain. Imniense l fortunes are made there. beyond .
 doubt. but they are dropped just as
 easiIy. It Is a notorious fact that for. tunes are made snd lost there In day.
 ana itsis an equally we'll known fact l that nothing is easier than for . lamb ! to be shorn In that famous speculation resort. The clergyman with his hun drsd dollars might find some one who would play with him as cat does with . mouse and then relieve him of his little stake. He would be lucky if | he should be allowed to keep his pen ciI. In short. the man simply talks as one who hss no knowledge of the sub- ject. N.
 And something of the same nature is true of race-track gambling. There is now q young man in Baltimore who Is facing conviction and imprisonment on the serious charge of having appropri- ated approximately one hundred tious-
 and dollars of the eitys funds. He held responsible clerical position. had the confidence of the officials, and was 90 situated as to be able to appropri. ate funds to his own use. He was re. ceivins . fair salary upon which he could have lived comfortably and hon. estIy.
 But this young man had ionginG
 for "hish life." and wanted money to gratify his aspirations. He saw other young men wearing fine clothes spend- ing money freely at the theatres and
 elsewhere. and in other ways having a gay time. He wanted to live as they did but his salary was not sufficient so he set out to win enough. He looked
 about him snd decided that 'playfng
 the races" was the easiest way to get money. but in order 90 do that on what ns considered a pfoper scale he rieed-
 d more money than his salary osfered.
 90 he took some of the city.s money
 and started on his new career.
 Naturally he lost. as inexperienced
 yeunx rnsn are iisbis to do fin most
 cases. Having lost the first of his vir-
 tuaiIy stolen money he naturally took more with the hope of recoupins him.
 self, and the result was what might
 have been expected. and what too of-
 ten happens in such cases Once in-
 voived in crime he went in deeper un-
 til conceaIment was no longer possible
 and he found himself exposed. disgrac- cd and facing a prison sentence. He doubtless thought. like the Phiiadel-
 phia clergyman. that winning money was easy. but took to the race track
 instead of Wall Street.
 And so 1t is in most cases where
 those who have not plenty of experi-
 ence and ample means undertake to win "easy money" As in many other afYairs of life some go up and some go. down." and 1t not infrequently hap pens that man of long experience and
 with a pile of money finds himself at the bottom with little or no chance to
 rise. Tn snort. all speculation. wheth-
 CT in stock. bonds. shares, race horses
 or what not. always has large ele-
 ment of uncertainty. and such ways of
 making money more often than not lead to downfall and sometimes to dis
 grace. The best way to gamble is--
 not to gamble at all.
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 | Straw hats and mint juleps are due about the same time in this part of the world. The straw hats are here.