The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-10
AMATEUR GAMBLING.

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much that doesn't appeal. location
ally he has something that rings true
He understands human nature-knows
the pitfalls that are dug for the youth
In recent editorial on amateur
gambling he gave some wholesome and
sententious advice. 1t should be read
by every boy in the land Some of it
was as follows:
Gambling robs a man of rest; and
the keen edge of his life is lost in
shuffling the pasteboards. All he gives
| to his employer or the world is the
discard. outside Of his play he is a
weak, inefficient person, and his weak
ness Is very apt to manifest itself in
burdening his friends.
II your gambler is on a salary he
very often comes around for his wages
before pay day; then he gets to dis
counting his salary to a money shark;
then If he can, he will borrow his pay
before he earns it, without first con-
sulting you. He intends to pay it
back-oh. yes!
He wins and pays it back.
This encourages him to borrow more
the next time. He takes more in order
to win more. He is now obliged to
play heavily because his debts are &C
cumulating.
1t is an old story, and dozens of
men in Sing Sing can tell you all about
! it.
| One bad feature of the poker game
| is the poker face--the impassive, white
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reveals nothing-nothing but untruth.
And the principal reason it reveals
nothing is because there is nothing
| back of it to reveal; it has not token
truth, talent, sympathy, kindness, love
or intellect.
If four men start in to play poker
with ten dollars each or a thousand
dollars each, it is just a matter of
mathematical calculation before all of
them will have nothing. All they have
will go for cigars and drink and the
midnight lunch, which they would not
need If they went to bed at reason
able hour.
! No man can play the races continu-
ally and win. John E. Madden, who
| has made a million dollars or so out
of horse racing. says that defeat, and
nothing but defeat, awaits the bettor
on cards or horses. Madden has fol-
lowed the business for a quarter of a
century, and says; Il quit betting
years ago, and il ever bet again 1t
will be because the disease has gotten
the better. of my business Judgment
| The bookmaker gets it aIl--he has
but to wait and the whole thing is his
DO not imagine that all the gambl-
ing Is done in the cities. Man made
the cities, God the country, but the
devil made the small towns" Hardly
a village in America is free from the
scourge,
Gambling means blurred vision
weak muscles, shaky nerves. Loss OF
sleep, lack of physical exercise, irregu-
lar meals bad air, excitement, from
a devils monopoly of bad things and
the end is disgrace, madness, death
and the grave.
| am not a member of the Christian
Endeavor society. the Epworth league
the Baptist union. the Purity league OF
the Society for the Suppression o.
Vice, and all / say here is simply &
. to others, with all soft sentimen
omitted.
Boys, we need all the BRAIN w,
have in our work.
IL by concentration and cutting on
folly we succeed in degree, we d.
! we'll But do not believe we can rea
sonably hope for success unless W.
eliminate che pastboard procliyities
This as cold business proposition
am done
r 81 What's the matter with Nortl
: Dakota weather?
5 tFIt is unlikely Mae Wood vii
wear mourning for former Senate
) Plat.
/&zT The south rejoices there are n
riots or strikes They still, however
r lynch brunette violators of the law.
Eg John ID. may have long and
rocky road to travel before he get
, his halo-but he's on his way.
ar The doctor who advised peopl
putting straw in their mouths mus
fear the cost of living will go sti
higher
- A western homesteader wrote
Fargo friend asking what the chance
would be to secure wife "betwee
trains IL he stopped off in Fargo.
: EF William Il. Curtiss has publishe
ria posthumous statement from tn
late Senator Plat in which it wa
r shown how Harrison was nominate
! for the presidency on pledge OF hi