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Show ABSOLUTE CURE FOR THE GAMBLING HABIT A nc'w penalty for gambling, which would do moro to discourage the practice than any increase In lines, was put Into effect last evening on Second South strcot at tho corner of Commercial. Tho guilty man was a little hack driver and tho cruel and unusual punishment was Inflicted by his largo and muscular wife. The woman had evidently been shadowing shadow-ing her husband, for she had no difficulty In locating him In an upstairs gambling house. She persuaded another hackman to go up and call her husband out. Tho man wanted stepped out on the sidewalk and approached his better half. "Did you want me?" he asked. For reply the woman planted a heavy blow under his right eye and followed It with a poke on the left. O "Wha what's the matter?" the husband gasped as ho vainly attempted to sidestep the hurricane of blows. "You know what's the matter!" replied the woman, and at the thought of her destitute des-titute children and her own household necessities ne-cessities she resumed the chastisement. "You will gamble away your money when your wife and family are suffering for something lo ent! You will make a good fellow of yourself while your children chil-dren aro in rags! I'll show you whero I'm at."' By this time a crowd had begun to gather. The policeman who had maintained main-tained an attltudo of sympathetic neutrality neutral-ity while tho man was getting tho worst of it began to bestir himself. Thereupon the angry wife took her lord by the arm and led him down tho street, where they were soon lost, in the crowd. |