The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-10-17

AYEW YORK.-The news that Wal
ter C. Adams had declared him
self bankrupt directs attention
to the curse that is commonly be-
lieved to Turk in gamblers gold. The
money that is earned by gambling
never Sticks" according to COM
mon adage, and by another we are
informed that what comes easily goes
In the same way.
Walter c. Adams is a son Of Al J..
Adams, the policy king" who, start
ing his earning life as brakeman on
a railway train, ended with fortune
of 100000, extorted from the poor
and credulous in policy shop.
Adams, after serving a term in Sing
Sing for swindling, said angrily to a
friend, who wished to effect recon
ciliation with his alienated family:
Don't talk to me about them.
bate them all. They waste my money.
They'll never have any luck!"
1uS AAau WAooc ucdlI was ulIeu
with hatred for his own, and who
cared nothing for the poor families
whom he had made poorer and more
wretched, died by his own hand less
than seven years ago. Under the
curse that turks in gamblers gold and
the family curse he uttered the mil
Hons he accumulated by fraud are
melting away much faster than gamb-
aers' gold usually vanishes. For, be-
sides having the rate of vanishing of
gamblers gold, dishonesty won and
accumulated at the expense of misery
In wretched homes, it's speed in dis.
appearing Is doubled by the curse of
Al Adams himself laid upon whatever
his family handled.
Sons Share of Millions Gone.
After seven years, Walter Adams
share Of the millions has gone as a
date winter SNOWFALL melts under
hot April sun, or a soap bubble van
ishes when blown by an impatient
child. He has gambled away a gamb-
ler's gains.
The share that came to his daugh-
tiers has gone by way of their several
husbands, for each has had two and
one has been twice divorced; the 9th.
er was divorced and separated from
her husband. What remains to one
OF them will soon be dissipated In the
great white way, for she has gone
abroad, intending to go upon the
stage, and score Of INSCRIPTIONS
managers will star "Al Adams daugh.
ter" as long as rag of her fathers
money remains.
Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, mourning
over the murder of Herman Rosen.
thai and grieving as much at her des-
titution which followed, said, None
but bad luck follows gambling"
Pat Sheedy, gambler of information.
al notoriety, and friend of the late
big Tim" Sullivan, of tragic fate,
said while the gambler lay on his
death bed: mo boy ought ever take
any but the straight road. Nothing
but bad luck waits for him in the
other" Pat Sheedy died poor. Her
man Rosenthal left his widow In act.
ual need. The dissipating of the
Adams millions Is but another proof
of the truth that is In common saws.
Trace the unacceptable truth In the his.
tory OF AL Adams and his family.
Cursed His Partner.
While AL Adams was a brakemen on
a freight train Of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad, dissat-
isfied with his lot and seeking even
then what he called easy money" he
met Zachariah Simmons. Simmons,
watching the gigantic system of theft
of BOSS" Tweed, conceived the idea
that another means of building up a
fortune could be devised by wiring.
ing the pennies from the poor and
ignorant. Simmons established a pol.
dcy business, and, recognizing in
Adams soul as INSCRIPTIONS as his
own, took the brakeman into his pol
icy shop. Adams was from the first
blind 10 the misery his penny villainy
wrought in wretched homes. He only
knew that these small. trickling
streams formed river of gold that
emptied into his pockets. Taught
well by his instructor, he soon pushed
Simmons out Simmons left cursing
Adams:
Make the money" he said as he
slammed the door until the copper
pennies on his former partners table
ratified, "and may 1t choke you!" II
did, In a way, for as Adams fortune