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1 t 4 OOOOOOOOOOOOCOOCOOCCOOOOOOCOQO o . u O The mt TIllt-L,fciJ3 WORKER In MAKE ADVEHTI5INQ PAY f! o Khxabeth Citj Is the " u o o u o u u u o S - - UJ uaiUK die coiumni or th i. 1 ECONOMIST, U 8 It goes Into the homes of the peeple g telling the nowr with the voice of a X trusted friend. 2 I medium that reaches more ! famiMes thau any other paper InEaoternOarolina. Sboocoooocooccccoooobooooooooo nummiHinummmHiuui;,, 'TTakE Each man's cBnsiira "but reserve 1hy judgmant. HamlBtCJ VOL. XXVII. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, FRIDAY. APRIL 8, 189hf. NO. 2. Eeoisioimlstt V, 1 'I i i m t: t V I U4JUULiiM a-v ; Larr pe kc of the world her cleanser '. for m alcktL mil rler eooosay ta 4-pooad t.ie k. irj fa ma ask compact. Cfccrx S. LMla. JC ew Tor. Boston, PhCAUsIplil. PUBLISHED WEEKLY -UY THE THE FIELD OF BLOOD. AN EFFECTIVE SERMON ON GAMBLING BY DR. TALMAGE. FALCON PUBLISHING .CO. E. F. LAMB ...Manager. : III. D. CREECY... .... Editor. Subscription One Year, $1.00 t . . PKOFESIOKAL CARDS. DIRECTORY. anks O. CREEPY. Attcrmy-iit-lMte, Elizabeth City, N. C. LfAMB & SKINNER, I ' Attorney t at-Lav, i . E izabeta Oty, N. C. Le r B xMA; FRANK YAUOHAN. Attorney at-Lme, ' , Elizabeth Oty, N. C. Coilections faithfullr made. PRUDEN. & ;PKUDKN, Attorney t-at-La Kilenton,N. C. Tnctlce in Tiaoi&nk, PerquimariB Chowan, Gases, Hcrtlorxl, WaitifaRtnn and Tynell count'ut.J and In Sapnme Court ot the SUte. City Offfrer. M u w r C. A. Attorny Iaac M . Mttktn. Commifioners Palemon John.Thoe. A. Commander. John A Kramer B; Frank S:ence and Wm. W. Griggs. Clrrk " lias. Guirkin: Treasurer (ifi: W. Cobb: Constable and Chief i of INiIiee Win C. Brook?; Street Com- inifijn-r R uln-n W Berry: Firn Cum mif-ion-r AlU-n " Kramer (!tltor i unjoin? Dr. 1. John. PoMitwuster K. F Jjimb. Examiniutr Surireonsof I'enaions Drs J. K. Wool, V. W. Grigca and W. J. Lumsilen. Meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at the corner f Roid and Church Stneta. ChurcJun MftIodistvHev. J. 1L Hall, Piu-tor; services every Sunday at 11 a. m. nnil 7 p. in. Baptist, Kev. W. B. Fjwinick. I. !., pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7. p. Pres byterian, Uev. F. II. Johnston, pastor; services every bunday at 11 a. in. and 7:1 V' in. Ki'Iscoiwl. Rev. L. L. Wil liams, rec! ; servicese very Sunday at I making music as it goes. W, R. GORDON, Attorney at-Lae, CorrunckfC. Collection a pecUlty. ' Practice In State and Fde ral C urf. CM. FEREBEE, Attorney atLate, t Elizabeth City, N. C. "Offlce hours at Camdtn O. J I; on Mondays, r Collections a spc-cialiy.' rHOMAS O. SKINNER! Atiorney-at-Ltw, I Heritor.!, N. C. JH. WHITE, D. D. S., m ElizaSeth Ctir, N. C, Offers bU protci sional srvic-s to the public In al the (branches of Dentis try. Can be found at all limes. -JOace Io Kramer blocic, on laio Bueet, between Poindexter anJ Water. F. MARTIN. D. P. S., Elizabeth City, N. C. Offers his professional nervices to the public in an the branches of Dkntistry Can te found at all times. . Cflin inRolerson Block on Water Street, over the Fair. 1 " W. GREGORY. D. D. S.. Elizabeth City, N. C Oilers his proies siocal services to the pnblic in all the branches of Dkxtistuv. Crown and Uridine work n specialty. OHxc'4 hours. U to 12 and 1 to 0, or any time soouM special occasion require: 4T Oflice, Flora Building, Corner Main and Water Stg.- ; DAVID COX, Jr., J. E., ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, HERTFORD, N. C. Land "sorTtytng a specially. Plans furnished uxjon arDlication. S. 11 n in. nnu 4 i- m. IahIqc Masooie: Eureka Ixnlge No. 317. G. W. Brothers, W" M. ; J. B iripf, S. W.; A. L Pendleton J. W.; B. I-'. tMH'nc, Tresurrr ; D. B. Bradford, See ty.; T. B. WiI?on, 8. D.; C. W. Gric. J. J).; J. A Ilooiwr and T.J. Jordan, Stewards; Kev. E. F. Sawyer, Chnplaiu; J. E. Sheppard ; Tyler. Meets 11 and 3rd Tuesday nights. Otld Fellows: Achoree IjOtlce No 14. C. M. Lurcess. N. G.; W U. Ballard. V. U. II. O. Hill, Fin. Secretary; Maurice vescott; Treasurer. Meats every Friday ut 7:30 p. m. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 12UU: II. O Hill Regent; D. A. Morgan, Vice Regent: C, Guirkin, Orator; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; F.M. Cook Jr., Collector; W. J. Woodley, Treasurer. Sleets every 1st and 3rd Monday night. Kniirhts of Honor: R. R White, Die tatr;J, H Encle. Vice Dictator; T. J. Jordan, Reporter; T. R Wilson, Fi nance lejortei; J. C Benbury, Treas urer. Meets 1st and 4th 'l rid ay in eaeh month. 1'uMiuutauk Tribe No. 8, 1. O. R M. W. il Sanford, Prophet; Will Ander son, Sachem; B. il Lane Sr. Sagamore. J." f Boasley. Jr.. Sagamore; Jam.; iSpirs, C. otR ; ! H. .uurrel K. of W Wet every Wednesday uiirht. Co'inly O'Jicera Commissioners C, I.. Kramer, Chairman; F. M.Godfrey J. W. Williams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over man; Register of Deeds, M. R Ci pep- iht; rr-urer, John 6. .Morris C jnty ll.ullli Uiiicers. Dr. J K. OOU! B(ord of Ediicntioii, J . T. Davis Fu liner, N. A Jones. uiK'rinteudant I. N, Meekins TL Downmrd rath of the Gamester rolaUd Oat .With StWrtllnr Fidelity. Tb Chnrch Jfot Gniltles Th Ccttlns Habit Udcra Gift EnterprU. . ICopjTight, 1S38 by American Press Aaso- . elation. WAKHEfOTON, April S. The spirit cf hazard in this ieermcn is arraigned ty Dr. Talmage, and the downward path of the gamester is plainly pointed oat; text, Acts i, 19, "Aceldama that is to cay, the field of blood." The money that Judas gave for gar rendering Christ was need to purchase a graveyard. As the money was blood money the ground i bought by it was called in the Syrlac tongue "Aceldama," meaning "the field of blood." Well, there is one word I want to write today over every race course where wagers are staked, and every poolroom, and every gambling saloon, and every table, pnblio or private, where men and wom en i bet for sums of money, large or small, and that is a word incarnadined with the life of innumerable victims Aceldama.' The gambling Epirit, which is at all times a stupendous evil, ever and anon sweeps over tne ocuntry liKe an epif demlc,, prostrating uncounted thou sands. There has never been a worse attack than that from which all 'the villages, towns and cities are now snf fering. ; . ; While among my hearers and readers are those who have passed on into the afternoon of life, and the shadows are lengthening, and the Eky crimsons with the glow, of the setting sun, a large number of them are in early life, and the morning is coming down out of the clear sky upon them, and the bright air is redolent with spring blossoms, and the stream of life, gleaming and glanc ing, rushes on i between flowery banks, bome or you HOTEL?. Bay View House, CDEXTON, ? C New, , Cleanly, . Attentlre . 8ervant. Near the Court House. ColumbiaHotel, Columbia. Ttboiilx. Co. J. E. HUGHES, - - Proprietor. ley Good Servants, good room , good ubie. Ample 8UM?s and thehers. Ditrooaz or me puouc The so!icted and of the satisfaction assured. THE OLD CArT. WALKER HOI'S IX Simmon's Hotel, CcKRirrcK C. II., N.C Tanrif 5fWv rxr mr&i or 11.75 rcr day. irvlmlinff Ioi!einr. Th DAtronare of th pnb'ic iIicit'd. Satlsfactioa sss-jred GRIFFIN BROS. - Pronrietor. Are you frequently; hoarse? Do you have that annoying tickling in your throat? Would you feel relieved if you could raise something? Does your cough annoy you at night, and do you raise more mucus in the morning? -. Then you should always keep on hand a bottle of i las n i Tranquil House, MANTEO N. C. A. T. EVANS, . , Proprietor. First class In every particular. Table upplicd with etery delicacy. Fbh, oysters and Game abundance in season. Deal JVeglcct Tow XJrer. Lirer troubles quickly malt in serions eo rapjf cation, and the nan who neglecu hia liwr hxM llttla recard for health. A bottle v of nrovaa' Iron Bitters taken now and then I HU keep the Urer in perfect order. If the J dias ha deTeloped, nrotrna Iron Bitter . will rare it permanently. Stre&rth and vitality will alwar fallow it use. I f rowu Iroa Bitters is sold bj all dealers. X If. you have a weak throat you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to "another, and the last one is always harder to cure than the one before it. Dr. J3cr s Ctcrf 3 Federal Plaslcr ff clecis mc fcs-ss frca celii. Help at Hand. If you have any complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice you can pos sibly obtain, write the doctor freely." You -will receive a prompt reply. Address. DR. J. C. AVER, . Lowell, Mass. are en traced in mercantile concerns as darks and bookkeepers, and your whole life Is to be passed in the exciting world of traffic The sound of busy life stirs you as the drum stirs the fiery war horse. Others are in the mechanical arts to hammer and chisel your way through life, and success awaits you. Some are preparing for professional life, and grand opportunities are before you nay, some ol you already nave buckled on the armor. But, whatever your age and calling, tne subject oi gambling about which I speak today ii pertinent. . Some vears ago. when an association for the suppression of gambling was or ganized, an agent of the association came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society. Ho said: "No, I can have no interest in such an organization. I am in nowise affected by the evil." At that very time his son, who was his partner in business, was one of the heaviest players in a famous gambling establishment. Another re fused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his first bookkeeper, though receiving a salary of only $4, 000, was losing from $50 to $100 per night. The president of a railroad company re fused to patronize the institution, say ine. "That society is cood for the de fense of merchants, but we railroad pec pie are not injured by this evil," not knowing that at that very time two of his conductors were spending three nights of each' week at faro tables in New York. Directly or indirectly this evil strikes at the whole world. What I Gambling? Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in tne nope ox winning more than yon hazard. The instruments of gaming may differ, but the principle is the same. The shuffling and dealing cards, however full of temptation, is not (rambling unless stakes are nut nn: while, on the other hand, gambling may be carried on without cards or dice or billiards or.a tenpin alley. The man who bets on horses or elections, on battles, the man who deals in "fancy" stocks or conducts Am a 1 a business wmcn nazaras extra capital or goes into transactions without foun dation, but dependent upon what men call "luck," is a gambler. Whatever yon expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money cr time or skill is either the product of . theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same trategory. Bazaars for the founding of 'hospitals, schools and chnrches, conducted on the raffling sys tem, come under the same denomina tion." Do not, therefore, associate gam bling necessarily with any instrument cr game or time or place or think the principle depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or 100 shares of railroad stock. Whether you patronize Vauetion pools," "Frnch mutuals" cr "bookmaking," whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keno, cards cr bagatelle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest; for it professes to bestow Cpcn you a good for which you give no equivalent I 'This crime is no newborn sprite, but a haagard transgression that comes stag gering down tinder a mantle of curses through many centuries. All nations. barbarous and civilized, have been, ad dicted to it. ; But now the laws of the whole civi lized world denounce the system. Enact ments have . been passed, but only par tially enforced and at times not en forced at all. The men interested in gaming houseiand in jockey clubs wield inch influence by their numbers and effluence that the judge, the jury and the police officer most be bold indeed who would array themselves against these Infamous establishments. The bouse of commons of England actually adjourns "on Derby day that members may attend the races, and in the best circles of society, in this country today are many hundreds cf professedly re sectable men who are acknowledged gamblers-. - r Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this land are every day being won and lc6t through sheer gambling. Says traveler tbrocgb the west, "I have trav eled 1,000 miles at a time upon the western waters and seen gambling at every waking moment from the com mencement to; the termination of. the journey." ' The southwest cf this coun try reeks with this sin: In some of those cities every third or fourth bouse in many of the streets is a gaming place, and it may be truthfully averred that each cf cur cities is cursed with this. Abundance of Opportunities. ilen wishing to gamble .will" find places j'ust'stsitcd to their capaoity not only in the underground oyster cellar, cr at the tacie Dact.oi the curtain cov ered with" greasy cards, or in the steam boat smoking cabin, .where the bloated wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack and winks in the unsuspecting traveler providing free drinks all aronnd but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surroundings. This sin works ruin, first, by providing an unhealthful stimulant, i Excitement is pleasurable. Under every sky and in every age men have sought it. Wo must at times have excitement! A thousand voices in our nature demand it It is right. It is healthful. ( It is inspiriting. It is a de sire God given. But anything that first gratifies this appetite and hurls it back in a temno reaction is deplorable and wicked. Look out; for the agitation that, like a ,! rough musician, in-bringing out the tdne plays so hard he breaks tlowjjf the instrument. God never made a man strong enough to endure the wear and tear of; gambling excitements. A young -man having suddenly inher ited a large property sits at the hazard tables and takes up in a dice box the es tate won by a father's lifetime's sweat and shakes it and tosses it away. In temperance" soon stigmatizes its victim, kicking him out, a slavering fool, into the ditch, or sending him, .with the drunk; ard's hiccough, staggering up the street where his family lives. But gambling does not iri that way expose its victims. The gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's passion, yet you only discover it by the greed in his eyes, the hardness of his features, the nervous restlessness, the threadbare coat and his embarrassed business. Yet he is on the road to ruin and no preacher's voice "or startling warning or wife's entreaty can make him stay for a moment his headlong ca- f reer. i i The infernal spell is on him. A giant is aroused within, and though you bind him with cables they would part like thread, and though you fasten him seven times around with . chains, they would i i . it ' i- Enap iiks rusieu wire, anu icoogu jou piled up in his path heaven high Bibles, tracts and sermons, and on the top should set tha cross of the Son of God, over them nil the gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks on his way to perdition. "Aceldama, the field of bloodl" Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scores or hundreds of dollars from the gaming table will;, not be content with slow work. He will say, "What is the use of trying to make this $50 in my store when I can make five times that in half an hour by the dice." You never knew a confirmed gambler who was mdustri-. ous. The men given to this vice spend their timefnot actively employed in the game in (idleness or intoxication or sleep or in corrupting new victims. This sin has dulled the carpenter's saw, and cut the band of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow, and sent a etrange liehtenine to shatter the battery of the philosopher. The very first idea in gam ins id at war with all the industries of society. i " ! " ! Any trade or occupation that is of use is ennobling. .- The street sweeper ad vances the intereatsof society by the cleanliness effected. The cat pays for the fragments ii eats by clearing the house of vermin. The fly that takes the sweetness from the idregs of the cup compensates by purifying the air and keeping, back the pestilence. But the cambler gives not anything for that which he takes. I recall that sentence. He docs make a return, but it is dis grace to the, man that he fleeces, despair to his heart, ruin to his business, an guish to his wife, shame to his children and eternal wasting away to bis souL He pays in tears and blood and agony and darkness and woe. What dull work is plowing to the farmer when in the village saloon in one night ho makes and loses the value of a summer harvest I Who will want to sell tapes and measure nankeen and cut garments and weigh sugar when in a night's game he makes and loses and makes again and loses again the profits of a season? - i An Example. John Borack was sent as a mercantile agent from Bremen to England and this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that all was net right. He was a deiaaiter ior a,uuu. is was found that he had lost in. Lombard street, London, $29,000; In Fulton street, New York, $10,000, and in New Orleans, $3,000. He was imprisoned, hut afterward escaped, and went into the gambling profession. He died in a lunatic asylum. This crime is getting its lever under many. a mercantile house In our cities and before long down will come the great establishment, crushing reputation, home comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement before ua. The ten gaming houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearly 325,000,000 francs. " . Furthermore this sin is the eource of dishonesty -The game of hazard itself is often a cheat." How many tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the cards I The opponent's hand is ofttimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert gamesters have their accom plices, and one wink "may decide the fame. The dice have been found loaded with platina so that doublets come up ivery time. These dice are introduced i ty the gamblers unobserved by the holi est men who have come IInt6 the. play. and this accounts for' the fact that $9 out of 100 who gamble, however wealthy when they began, at the ehd are fotnd to be poor, miserable hag gard wretches that would not now be allowed to sit in the doorstep ! of-the house that they once owned. In a gaming bouse in San Francisco a young men having just come the mines deposited a large sum! the ace and won $22,000. But the tide turns. Intense anxiety .comes upon the countenances of all. Slowly thej went forth. Every eye is fixed. sound is heard until the ace is reveahfd favorable to the bank. There are shouts of "Foul I Foul I" but ) the keepers at the tables produce their pistols, arid the uproar lssiiencea, ana tne name nas won $95,000. Do yon call ij this a game of from upon cards Nota The gambling spirit has not stefpped for any indecency. There transpired in Maryland a lottery in which people drew for lots in a burying ground. The modern habit cf betting about every thing is productive of immense mis chief. The most healthful and inncent amusements of yachting and baseball playing have been the occasion cf j put ting up excited and extravagant wagers. That which to many has been advan tageous to body and mind has ben to others the means of financial and moral loss. The custom is pernicious in the extreme, where scores of men in respect able life give- themselves up to betting, now on this boat, now on that ; now cn this ball chub, now on that Belting that qnce was chiefly the accompani ment of the race course is fast becoming a national habit, md r in some circles any opinion advanced on finance or pol- THE WQXDERS OF SCIENCE LUNG TROUBLES AND CONSUMP. TION CAN BE CURED. I An Eminent New York;Chemf$t and Scientist Makes a Free Offer to Our Readers. chance? There is no chance about li. l itics is accosted with the interrogation. .MuiiTO aitm mo eurc oi ims crime i "iow much will you bet on that, sir? upon domestic happiness. It has sent : This custom may make no appeal to its ruthless plowshare through nun- slow, lethargic temperaments, but ihere dreds of families, until the wife sat in are in the conntrv tens nf thnnsahrla nf rags and the daughters yvere disgraced quick, nervous, sanguine, excitable and the sons grew up to the sarnej infa- temperaments, ready to be acted upon, mous practices or jtook a short cut to and their feet will soon take hold on destruction across the murderer's scaf- death. For some months, and perhaps fold. Home has lost' all; charms fr the for years, they will linger in the more gambler. How tame are the childrenfs polite and elegant circle of gamesters, caresses and a wife's devotion to the but after awhile their twithwav ; will I T M ' T mf ' ' the fire bur lis There must be gambler! How drearily on the domestic hearth I louder laughter and something tp win and something to lose, an excitement to drive the heart faster, fillip the bloOd and fire the imagination. Noi homo, however bright, can keep back the gamester. The sweet call of love bpunds oacx irom nis iron soui, ana an enaear m en ts are consumed in the fire df his passion. The family! Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and t his crown in heaven were put into hist hand "Here goes I One! moire he would cry: game, 'my boys. On this one throw! I JmiiL stake my crown of heaven." A young man in .London, on coming of age, received a fortune of $120,000, and through gambling! in three years was thrown on his mother for -support. An only son went td .New Orleans. He was rich, intellectual and elegant in manners. His parents gave him. on his departure from home, their last 'bless ing. The sharpers got hold i of him. They flattered him. ( They lured him to the gaming table and let him win al most every time fora good while, and patted him on the back and said, "First rate player. " But, fully in their grasp, they fleeced him, and his $30iOOOwe5ro ost. Last of all, he put up his wat&h and lost that. Then; he began, to think of his home and of histoid father and mother and wrote thust: -' -j "My beloved parehts,'yon will doubt less feel a momentary joy.at the Recep tion of this letter from the 'child lof your bosom, on whom you have lavish ed all the favors of your declining years. But should a feeling of joy j for a rxjo ment spring up' in j your hearts,! when you should have received this froip nle, cherish it not. IhaVe fallen deep, ievjer to rise Those gray hairs, that I should have honored and j protected, I shall bring down in sorrow to the grave. I will not curse my j destroyer, but, oh, may God avenge the wrongs and inipjo- sitions practiced upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him ! This, my dear parents, is the' last letter you will ever receive from; me. I humbly pray your forgiveness. It is my dying prayer. Long before yon will have re ceived this from me the bold grave' wll have closed upon me forever. Life to me is insupportable. : I I cannot, nay, I will not, suffer the shame of having ruined you. Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of you unfortunate spni" The old father came to the postoffide, got the letter and fell to the floor. They thought.he was dead at first, but jthey brushed back, the white' hair from his brow and fanned him. I He had only fainted. "Aceldama, thejfield of blobdj" When things go wrong at a gaming table, they shout, Foul, foul!" Oyer all the gaming tables of the world I cry out: VFoul, foul I Infinitely foul I'j Gift Enterprise. I "Gift stores" are abundant through out the country. With a book or knif e cr sewing machine or coat or carriage, there goes a prize. iAt these stores peo ple get something thrown in with their purchase. It may be a gold watch, 401? a set of silver, a ring lor a farm. Sharp way to get off unsalable goods. ' It' has filled the land with fictitious articles and covered up our population with brass finger rings, l and! despoiled the moral sense of the t community, and lis fast making us a nation of gamblers, j The church of God has not seemed willing to allow the world to have all the advantage of these games of charade. A church bazaar opens, jand towardlthe close it is found that some of the njore valuable articles are unsalable. Forth with, the conductors of 1 the enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some of the valuable. articles, and, under pre tense of anxiety to make their minister a present or please some! popular mem ber of the church, .fascinating persons are dispatched through the room, peflcil in hand, to "solicit shares." or perhaps each draws for his jwn advantage &na scores of people gd home , with their trophies, thinking that it is all right, for Christian ladies did the embroideiy and, Christian men did the raffling, khd the proceeds went toward ia hew cbm- munion set. But you may depend oii 1$, that as far as morality is concerned, you might as well have won by thecracjc bf the billiard ball or the turn of the dice box. Do you wondertbat churches built, lighted or upholstered by such processes as that come to great financial and spir itual decrepitude? The devil says VI helped to build that house of worship and I have as much right there asjyou have," and for cnce;the devil is right' We do not read that they had a lottery for building the church at Corinth,- or at Anticch, cr for getting up an em broidered snrplice for St jPanl. All this style ecclesiastical gambling. More than one man who is destroyed can, say that his first step on the! wrong road was when he won something at a church come to the fatal plunge. ; Career of the Gambler. j Shall I sketch the history of; the gambler? Lured by Lad company, he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go. He sits down to his first game, but only for pastime and the desire of being thought socia ble. The players deal out the cards. Tbey unconsciously play into satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and! both the players' souls for trumps he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up, just to add interest to the play. Game after game is played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set (jaws and compressed lips and clinched! fists! and eyes like fireballs that seem start ing from their sockets to see thelfina turn before it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unfltter ed oaths cast back ; redhbt upon the heart; or winning, with hysteric laugh "Ha, ha! I have it!" i A few years have passed, and ho is only the wreck of a man. Seatinglhim self at the game, ere he throws tb first card, he stakes the last relio of his, wife the marriage ring which sealed the solemn 'vows between them: 'The game is lost, and staggering back in cxbaus tion he dreams." The bright hours df the past mock his agony, and in his dream fiends with eyes of fire and tongues o name, circle about him jwith ipincd hands, to dance and; sing their, drgies with hellish ; chorus, chanting, "IIail. brother!" kissing his clammy forehead until their loathsome locks, now ing with serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs and suck tip his lifeblood, and coiling around his heart pinch it with chills and shudders tmut- , The distinguished New York chem- f ' a. Nocuin, demonstrating hit discovery of a reliable ami absolute cure for Consumption (Iulmonary Tub rcalosi) and all bronchial, throat, ung and chest dfawra stubborn coughs, catarrhal affection, general decline and weaknew, Iom of fleh, and all comli lionsi of wasting away, will send TllliKE FREE BOTTLES (all different) of his 2W Discover ig to any afllicted reader of the ECONOMIST writing for -them." 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Please tell the Doctor that you saw ' his offer in ti e Economist. : terable. . f Take warning I You are no stronger than, tens of thousands who have by this' practice been overthrown.! No young, man in our cities can escape be ing tempted. 'Beware of the first begin nings 1 Thitf road is a down grade and every instant increases the momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea Splint hulks strew the beach. Everlast ing storms howl up and down, tdssing unwary craft into the hell gate. I speak M 1 -V 1 1 I 01 wnac 1 nave seen witn my ownteyes, To a gambler's deathbed there comes no hope. He will probably die alonej His former associates come not nigh his dwelling. ' When the hour comes, his miserable soul will go out of a miser able life into a miserable eternity! As his poor remains pass the house where he was ruined, old companions! may look out for a moment and say, "There goes the old carcass -dead at last, ' but they will not get up from the table; Let him down into his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no "forgetme nots" or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sun shine, for that would be mockery, but in the dismal night, when no stars, were out, and the spirit of darkness come down, horsed on the wind, then visit the grave of the gambler. lair. He' Lobster. j. - The expression "He's a lobster," which has now become so general in colloquial use about town as to convey a clear cut message of contempt or de rision, has a somewhat peculiar origin. There is ixihing about a lobster, Which the elder iamas, it may be recalled, described a "the cardinal of the sea," to invite iWision, but a few years ago when all inter racing was a customary thing in ti-a vicinity. of New Yor, es pecially in neighboring New Jtraey, a mud horsa that failed fo realize tho ex pectations of those who bet money'epon it was called a "lobster, " an allusion to its mode of progression. Houses which had been generally defeated hvere lobster horses, and as this colloquial ex pression got to be more general in use on the race tracks it began to be applied not only to horses, but to men! and things as well. A lobster car was a car that made slow time. A lobster boat vs-as a boat in which rapid time coma not be expected. A lobster calculator teas a man who took too long, in the Judg ment of his critics, to add up an ac count and so gradually the namd lob ster has come to be accepted as a desig nation of sloth or inferiority, and "fHe'a a lobster" has come to be regarded as a phrase of disapproval. New York jSnn. How the Whale Escaped. A whale! ia seldom caught nap ping. When, however, ono is wak ed from his after dinner sleep by a passing vessel, ho makes off from the intruder in great haste: Tho ; author of a recent book, "With Rus sian Pilgrims, '"-has a good story to tell of a whale thus disturbed. Ono day at sea, vhen I was chap. ; lain on thWancouver, a big whalo created a sensation. Tho upper deck was covered with loungers, for it was a lovely summer af ternoon, and all tho deck chairs had their novel reading occupants. Tho whalo. was sleeping in tho sunshine and suddenly elt his tail tickled by tho' passing monster. Uo leaped bodily out of tho water in hia anxiety to hurry. away. Tho, fash ionable -crowd gave a shout, novels flew and chairs emptied themselves quickly as every ono rushed to tho rail, but tho 3 whalo dived, and 'an infant's voice s'aid, "Ma, did tho whalo jump out of tho cabin win dows" . j . : ; : - 1 Practical. "Do you believe in dnt motto,' 'Nevvuh put off tell tomorrow what yoh kin jes' as well do terday I " in quired Pickaninny. Jim. "Sho'ly I does," replied hi3 moth er, who .was removing tho dishes from the table. " T 41 Well, den, ez long ez 1 tab do timo I reckons mebbo I might ez well go right ahaid an cat nnnthuh supper." Washington Star. In tho course, of a sermon a uegTo preacher in Georgia, toughing on the subject of earthquakes, said: "Oh, my sinful hearers, a yearth- quako is nothin mo ner less den dis: Hell dono got tired waitin fcr you en gone ter sleep en wako op yowninf . c- Its Lofty Purpose. "Will you tell me," asked tho re porter who had looked upward at tho cloud 'piercing structure until his neck was weary, "what you are . building this gigantic smokestack for?" "In order, perhaps," coldly re-. plied the architect who was con structing tho tower,' "to get beyond the reach of tho higher OTiticm." And the deafening roar of the workmen went on. Chicago Trib une. . , , An Awful Dlsclosare. "Your future," said tho trance medium, "is clear. I seo you going over a wide; unsettled expanse of country. You walk, walk, walk, for . days at a time." - "An explorer! God be praised! "No, young man," replied tho fair dealer in futures, "you will b9 an actor." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1 it - Full Dreas at Fight. J In London judges, artists, lords and gentlemen attend prizefights in evening dress. When Croot was killed by Barry of the spectators were of the upper class, j i ' Thackeray and XJddell. Thackeray and tho lato Dean Lid-. dell were boys together at. tho fa mous Charterhouse school, and they sat next to each other in the form, . he boys of which were called the "Emeriti." No ono was prorootea from this form who could not repeat from memory the ."Eclogues" and -tbe"Georgicg, " This feat was accom- -plished by Liddell; but not by Thack eray. In giving, these reminiscences some years ago at the epeech day of the Oxford Boys' High school. Dr. Liddell added that Thackeray accus ed him later of having been tho Dob bin who wrote his Latin verses for him, an impeachment the dean would not own, though he admitted that Thackeray could not have writ ten them himself. ' ; I! I'
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 8, 1898, edition 1
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