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Show The Evil of Gambling, A gentleman who was iccently tiae)lnghad occasion tostopat a hotel connected with a large ranch, at which place there Is an extensive shearing plant. About one hundred men have been employed during the shearing season, the shearers making from eight to fouiteen dollars per day. It was last pay day when tlio traveler stopped at the hotel referred to. Daily In the' evening the shearers engaged in a game of poXer, for small stakes, which, however, increased in size as the night passed by. At 1 o'clock in the morning, men engaged in conversation under the bedroom window or the hotel guest, and from the tiend of the talk, It was discovered discover-ed that one of the men had been at work for the past month, had earned upward of one hundred and fifty dollars dol-lars and that night had lost every cent of It, not having enough left to pay his rare home. It could also be gleaned from the talk that the loser In the game was a man of family. Tills Is not an uncommon story, but should hold a moral for all men. Think or the loving wjfo at home with little ones, who had been waiting wait-ing and perhaps counting the dajs for the return of the husband and rather, perchance bad been thinking about those little tilings to be purchased pur-chased for homo and ramlly that were most needed. "What chagrin and disappointment dis-appointment would be In that little household when the truth was told them, and think or the reelings or the husband returning home under such circumstances. Sorrow and remorse of conscience weie his, and In ills failure to provide for the necessities of those dependent upon him would It be strange R he should do some-tiling some-tiling rash? Men with limited means, and or ramllles especially, have no business aiound the gambling table, for every dollar lost means a deprivation to the little ones at home, saying nothing about the Immoialltyor gaming, and It may beputdownasan Inralllblorule that ir foitune should favor the Individual In-dividual as a winner, the money so procured will prove a curse, for It only adds encouragement to engage In other games In the ruture, which ultimately ul-timately will wind up with gieat losses. Men of all classes and ages, should shun the gambling room, and not be lured away with the Idea that easy money will be made. Let men who profess to be gamblers indulge in-dulge in those games by themselves. Business and working men, steer clear or all intrigues which aie misleading and calculated in their natuie to debase and degrade, and take Horn men their haul earnings, wlilch Is needed to be spent in the legitimate expense or rain lly and home. |