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Show GAMBLING AND DEVICES Written about By a Richmond Reader. All are Fakes And Should be Shuned. Good Advice Offered Free. Editor Rkpuhlican In reading your piece In the last Issue touching upon gambling, I was reminded of a recent conversation I had with a gentleman who has worked In tho factory making slot machines now operatedjn most every available place In thecountiy. This gentleman stated positively that these machines weic put upon tho most scientific principles and, as with other gambling devices, the machine ma-chine would win for the house. They can do nothing else the way they are constructed. The lesulls of yencial plajing, not for one particular Individual Indi-vidual but for a series of plajs that would be made, the house would le-celve le-celve fifty per cent, tho owner forty per cent, and the sucker ten per cent. If people would use what little bialns they possess they ccitalnly would shun gambling devices Justus quick a they would a hlghvvaj man. Go to the glided halls of the gambling dens and what do jou seeV Their walls decorated with the finest of pictures, costing huudieds of dollars, the men manipulating the games wearing costly diamonds. And whose money pays for all these cxtravaganccsV The joung man and the poor gullible man of family, who has possibly been lpred Into these dens of vice by a paltry drink or two, and then systematically robbed of that which should be used at home. These games have become so pievalent, that It requires some men to be llrmly resolute In their minds to remain away. If the, experience ex-perience of others would only be heeded, less of theso evils would be Indulged In-dulged In. 1 know of a joung man In this State whose father left him a legacy of scveial thousand dollars. He took to gambling, from that to drinking, from drinking to visiting disreputable disreput-able houses with the final lcsult that he lost his money and mind and became be-came an Inmate of the Provo asylum. If tho joung men of the country would only listen and profit by such examples ex-amples how much better oil they would be. 1 have also known joung men to work away fiom home all summer sum-mer and come homo In the fall of tho year without a dollar and live off of the old folks scarcely able to provide for themselves. Tho way I look at these matters, it might have been better bet-ter If such bojs had never been boin. Instead of beluga support and com-foit com-foit to their aged paients In declining declin-ing jeais, they piovo the opposite. Much of this Is caused by gambling anddrlnklng which often blots out the nobler povveis of a good heart and sometimes bleaks the sacied ties that bind husband aiHlwlfe,sevets the connection in the family, com-munlty,ieligion com-munlty,ieligion and cveiything else. In my feeble way I cntieat all to shun gaming in all Its deceptive forms, If jou legard your own and the happiness hap-piness of jour family, whoaio dependent depend-ent upon jou. This jou should do. It matteis not how fashionable it has become, It Is jour place to consider the Immediate- welfaie of your own Iheslde. No other poison will dolt for jou. The lesponsiblllty Is upon you and jou alone, then why fritter awaj haul earned money and deprive jour dear children or aged paients as tho case may be, of that which would make them glad and happy |