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Show 'JJ::; Gambling and the Ruin I To Which It Leads ianB . PWSiA. ' , j Drinking, swearing, lying, do their H?'f Vrt In bringing misery to the world lyfll' '' but I, really think they work no more nln l. harm than does the vice of gambling. JJKkv - Many young people regard is at aport IHB.ii'. ' en, aa a truth, It nan no connec- BBb Won whatever with real aport, 'ImI; - A Two boya engage in a game nt IsKfll? j1 -marblea. They are playing what It ilKj' ' aometlraea called "keeps' Thai bi, Wi01 tke boy who can shoot "or "fudge" 9H E i '-'v' bMt ind ecur th mo,t mrvc9 HI ffl '" ' from bla PPnent keeP tneII' ThlJ iftl l'!';f ' :" "lajBstas much gambllag, getting f , rsomethlng tor nothing', as playing jffijHJ J cards'' for money, or wagering upoa iHUi' -th Mtceme of a race. It almost la,- PgMjWi4- variably enda In trouble. The accu- HH p' Lu '' ,satkA of cheating lsmader eae boy t-'Z ' " tttti that he haa lost bU marblw ua- PBil. fairly, "a quarrel foll'owa and thea a lwPi ngat Friendships 'ri broken and 1 'Wfc l-' tB 8ource f tke Btire trttMe ba" 1 IrH f Ibeen the wrong desire to gamble if 1 ' , ' not to work for that which belongs Til 1 f y' '" o another.- . fBS. "What la gained by honest work W i '' brings contentment, "great satlsfac- P Rj ' tlonot mind. No one can dispute lm l k$ L yourlght to ItJ'tnVlaw approves' of 5 & V 1 the way you have made your gain. For what you have received you have given a fair equivalent In labor , those frgm whom you Have taken the money In your pocket have received just compensation for it. He la as ' satisfied as you are. But what the gambler galni never nev-er comes in that way, Even assuming assum-ing that he does not cheat In the game (most gamblera do cheat and have to cheat In order to survive) ho muat always be taking advantage of another. To illustrate, I wilt : quote a man who once gave me his 1 reasons tor quitting all forms of gambling. He said to me: "For years and years as I grew up and gambled I never stopped to think that I owed other people about ae any responsibility. I would say to myself that It they wUhei to . drink, or to He. or to gamble, it was aone of my business. ' I fori that I had enough to do to look after myself, t did hot see thVf sil dd now that I had no right toput temptation temp-tation In the way of another. 'One night I learned that a con-! con-! alderable sum of tnwW I had "won sad been stolen by my opponent, lie bad stolen K that he might ,come to the gaming table and fit his desires against in, ' That set ate Co thinking. think-ing. If he woald steal te gratify, his passions, ethers woald, and there was no -telling how, much illgotten money I had bees gaiaiag, It seemed seem-ed te me under all the elrcamstaac-es elrcamstaac-es that I was ae better tkaa thmls-erable thmls-erable thief who ere thea was being be-ing taken -Into custody. kAviag' lest hot only v the money, hat hls'repata-Uei. hls'repata-Uei. - - .lisjflfllHf "Still. I 41a as hf:yV'W-scleaee hf:yV'W-scleaee u t shfula fckfe'ad wt e wHh the Tarda1, tntH day came M ws(k a yWu Whe wo .at ale, p.-fs:.,wtt.l With-me UeVt.fSt tta .Taafwis tw!wisi:!"raaV the vWweeH;fevi;.H L aet kW; tkewa riA ' W. rT-e;'ef aet-miS aet-miS ( -ae wia.iy eertal-iMn.. eertal-iMn.. svte efTi 4e' ear; U. raaala, i, W'.lser the eimiraMe esii atk'ret in a mtaate ksUsaeaafcaM'thetJ aaeaet' deliars-1e Hmn.The anteant wait lrmaeh'Bere-''ihaA tae ordinary man ea ean la. a work-Jng work-Jng lifetime. $ ptrtiealar laser has been expended la gettTaf It JLuck and a little Judgment or a teal .trick has made It poserble'to win. I We sigh with envy and are tempted (to try It ourselves. u But before you do let me say to you this of the hundreds' and thus-ands thus-ands of gamblers I have known I ' hover knew one to die having a dollar dol-lar to his name. I hove Seen tho majority burled In the field, I have never known a gambler who was contented con-tented and happ7. I never met outside out-side of certain vicious storybooks a gambler who respected tils own profession. pro-fession. I never met one who, If he could have turned back the years, would not have done so and chosen life Bonio othei occupation. I have never seen tainted money, money gained by gambling methods, bring genuine prosperity to a slngla soul. I saw a man win one hundred Ithousand dollars within flfteenmln-utes flfteenmln-utes time. You might say he should have been tho happiest man on earth. He had.sufflctent to live upon for the I rest of his lite. He would never need to do a stroke of work. Yet he was not happy, the awful infatuation infat-uation of gamlag was upon him, and In two day's lme his fortune was gone -and tho third nlgnt after he 1 slept in my police station as a char-! char-! Ity lodger. f Evil money breeds no peace for mind or body. The spirit ot gaming destroys the nerves, unfits the body for any honest work, sets the human hands and hearts one against the other .ends In everlasting misery. This Is not a sermon I am dellverina but a statement of facts drawn frorc Ion gexperlence with gapblers ot or ery description". They are the most unnappy, the most discontented, tho . most lonesome lone-some set 6t Individuals one can con- , ce(ve of. Life holds for them no sunshine, no hope, nojjromlso for siich a future as awaits blm who dally honestly toils for tys bread and butter and walks to his home every night knowing that ho nasi Injured no one, that tho ruin ot tho honor of nnothcr can never bo charged to his account. Charles N Poolo ot Scotland Scot-land Ya'rds, England. |