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Show Young men who think they see easy money in tho gambling game, may do well to ponder over the career ca-reer of C. W. How man, until recently county treasurer of Phillips county. James II Canton, public accountant, has Just completed a the months' Investigation In-vestigation of Howman's accounts, and has dlscovcied a sliortagc in all accounts, totalling i;4,.1.')I,1U. How-man's How-man's picscnt whereabouts are unknown, un-known, but It Is known that he Is a forger, a defaulter, an outcast and a fugitive, despised by th men who once held him in high esteem. And all this -because Howman saw, or thought he saw, the primrose path to easy street, by way of bucket shop gambling. He was a young man possessed pos-sessed of many qnallltics that make for success; bright, capable, of a good substantial family, Influential in the local politics of his county, and possessing pos-sessing tiie conlldence of his people to a marked degree. Hut this clever young man, to whom nature and civilization civ-ilization had been so kind, and who, combining ills other good qualities with honesty and common sense, should have made a line success, found the beaten path, tho way of his fathers, fath-ers, too slow. The lure of tho "blind goddess" turned his head; and the result was the Inevitable dishonesty, forgeiy, fraud, and then disgrace, outlawry. out-lawry. Everything that was worth while to Howman-filends, family, home, and the joy of Hying he left out there In Phillips county, and he can no more leturn to them than a dead man; not even so much, for the dead return in pleasant memories, if their lives have been worth while. And surely this Is the general rule; no man is a successful gambler, or ever makes a substantial fortune by gambling, gamb-ling, whether he follows faio or the boaid of trade And the honest gambler Is, as a rule, a creation of western llction, in ical life you alwajs cut the cards. Taken all in all, It Is a career no man can afford. |