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THE SONG OP THE SHIKT.
"With fingers wearyjand worn,
. With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch,! stitch! stitcfi! .
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch,
She sang the "Song of the Shirt !"
"Work! work! work! i
While the cock is crowing fcloof!
And work work work!
I " Till the stars shine through the roof!
i Ifs oh! to be a slave r
Along with the barbarous Turk, '
I Where wonian has pever a soul to save,
s If this is Christian work!
I -:,? -jj .-" : -
4 "Vork work work !
' -,L"T Till the brain begins to swim !
Work work work!
I Till the eyes are jheavy and dim ! - -.
Seamj and gusset, and' band,
.ir-f Band, and gusset, ahd seam, r
;; Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
; . And sew them onj in my dream!
4 "Oh ! 'men with slaters dear!
. Oh! men with mothers and wives! -
It is not linen you're wearing out, ,
I But human creatines' lives!
Stitch stitch stitch!
In poverty, hungfer, and dirt,
j Sewing at once, with a double thread,
,f A SHRoruas well as a shirt!
I "Hut why do I talkjof death,
That phantom ofgrisly bone? :
I hardly fear his tdrrible shape,
I It Seems so like rjiy own
it It seems so like myjown,
Ikxrause of the fast I keep:
i I) God! thai bread-should Fe so dear,'
I And flesh and blocxl so cheap !
' - - '
' "Work work work !
- My labor never. flags;
And what are its wages? A bed of straw,
A crust of bread-j-and rags:
A shatter' d toof and this naked floor
l A table a broken chair
And a wall so blanli, (ny. shadow I thank
: For sometimes falling there!
' ' ' i - ' .
"Work work work!
From weary chime t eliinie; "
"Work work work!
As prisoners work for crime!
.Banjl, and gusset, ajid seam,
Seam, and gusset and band,
Till the heart issick,ind the brain benumb'd,
As'well as the wearv hand!
I t i j ,
"Work work woj-k! ;
In the dull I)eeepiler light;
Ami work fwork-4work!.
V hen th6 weather Ls warm and bright ;
While underneath jthe eaves i
The brooding swallows cling,
As if-to show me their sunny backs, '
' And twit me witji the Spring.
"Oh5! but tolbreath the breath
Of jthe cowslip arid primrose sweet ;
With1 the sky above my head,
And the grass beneath my feet : .
For only one short iour j
To feel as I usedjto feel, j
Before I knlew the jvoes of want, i
And the walk that costs a mealj
i "Oil! but for one short honr! ;
A respite! however brief!
ZSo blessed leisure tor love or hope,
But only ;time for grief!
A little weeping .wjuld ease my heart
Hut in their win? bed '
i Mr tears must stop! for every droj
iiinuers neeuie anu inreaa:
; Witlr fingers wearyj and worn, I
With evelids heavy and red,!
; A woman sat, in unwomanly rags
Plying her needle and thread ;
! Stitch stitch stith! !
In iwvertv, hungier, and dirt;
; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
Y ould that its tonejeyuld reach the rich :
Nie sung this bong 01 the onirt!
- i i: 3 : : IHOMASIUOOD,
"ACELDAMA."
Ir. Talraage's Sermon, Preached
Simrtav Morttinsr, Nov. 7tli
"Acelrlama, that is to jsay, the field ol blood.
Acts 1:19. r , j !
i The money that Judas, gave for
surrendering Chr&t was used.to pur-
eliitse a graveyard. . As the jmoney
I- was blood money,! the ground jbought
I bv it was called Iii the Syriac tongue
1' Aceldama- meaninr "the field of
I blood.!' Well, there is one word I
want to wrte to-day over evexy race
course! where wages are staked and
every poolrtom j and every gambling
saloon, and every table, public or
private, where men and women bet
for sums ojf monby, large ;or small,
anu mails a woroj uicaraauuiu wnn
f the life of innutnerable victims
Aceldama, j The gambling spirit,
I which' is at; all times a stupendous
! evil, ever and anon sweeps over the
COUniry 11KC-ull t-piucmn.-, piuatiu,-
ting . uncounted thousands. There
has never been a worse attack than
that , from which all the villages,
towns and! cities lare now sutlenng
The farces I recently enacted in our
Brooklyn
courtroom,
by which
1 was nroven
that 1 in
the city
I churches, there is-
i VfYT FVOITOHlMORAE, FORC
I to nut into the! penitentiary the
j ganrblingjHckeysjwho belongUhere,
is only a jspecirheiv of the power
l earned by this abomination, wnicn
1 is brazenl sansuinarv. . transconti-
I nentafand hemispheric.
While arnong'mV; hearersare those
who haveL passed; on into the after-
; ternoon of lite, and the shadows are
lengthening, &na the sky cnnisons
with the Iow ,of j the setting bun, a
large number ot Jtnem are in early
I life, and the morning is coming down
out of the; clear, sky upon them, and
I the bright air is redolent with spring
blossoms,1 and the stream of life,
kmm?l and erlancing, rushes on
between flowery banks, making mu
sic as it goes. Some of you are en
gaged iri jmercantile concerns, as
clerks and I bookkeepers, - and. your
.whole life is to be uassed in the ex
citin? world of traffic. The sound
jof busv lilfel stirs Ivou as the jdrum
stirs the fiery warhorse. Others are
in the mechanical arts, to hammer
'and chisel fyour way ' through life,
arid iucc3await.ynii: "Some are
Wrenarin for nrofessional life1, and
grand opportunities are before jyou
nav. some4 of Vou already have
! buckled on the armor.
V But whatever your; age or calling,
I the subiect of iramblms:, about wnicn
1 1 sneak to-davl id nertinent. Some.
tvears aro. when 'an association for
i i SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING
was.organized, ari agent of the lass
piation Imfe to a prominent citizen
and asked him tq patronize thesoci-
ty. He said; " Jso, I can hate no
Bm mmm punt
- : j " - 'j. ; l ; '. " I ;
VOL. XV.--NO. 46.
interest in such an organization. I
am in nowise aflectn-d by that evil."
At that very time his son, who was
his partner in business, was one of
the heaviest players in Heme's fa
mous gambling establishment. An
other refused his patronage on the
same ground, not knowing that his
first bookkeeper, though receiving a
salary of only one thousand dollars,,
-was losing from fifty to one hundred
dollars per night. The president of
a railroad company refused to patro
nize the 'institution, saving : "That
society is good for the defense of mer
chants, but we railroad people are
not injured by thfe evil ;" not know
ing that at that time two of his con
ductors were spending three nights
of each week at faro tables in .ew
York. Directly or indirectly this
evil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling Li the risking of somee?.Re and TtrmTrit. The pfb
-.
thing, more
or less valuable, in the
hoi
pe ol winning more than you haz
d. The instruments of traniintr
ai
mW differ, but the jrincijilei is the
saiHe. Tlie sliufHing and dealing of
cards, however full of temptation, is
hot gambling unless stakes are put
up ; while, on the other handV
gambling may be carried on without
cards, or dice, or billiards, or tenpin
alley. The man who bets on .horses,
o'n .elections, on battles the man
who deals in '"fancy" stocks, or con
ducts a business which hazards extra
capital, or goes into, transactions
without foundation, but dependent
on what men call ''luck," is a gambler.
It is estimated that one-fourth of
the business in London is done dis
honestly. Whatever you expect to
;et trom your neighbor without oller-
ing an equivalent in money, or time,
or skill, is either the product of theft
or gaming. Lottery tickets and lot-
ery policies come into the same cat-
eorv. airs lor the ioundinii ol
lospitals, schools and churches, con
ducted
OX THE RAFFLING SYSTKM,
come under the same denomination.
Do not, therefore, associate gambling
necessarilv with anv instrument, or
game, or time, or place, or'think the
principle depends upon whether vou
play for a glass of wine or one
hundred shares of railroad stock.
Whether you patronize "auction
pools," French mutuals" or 'book-
making;" whether you employ faro or
billiards, rondo and keno, cards or
bagatelle, the very idea of the thing
is dishonest, for it professes to be
stow upon you a good for which you
ve no equivalent.
This crime is no new born sprite,
but a haggard transgression that
comes staierin down under a
mantle of curses through many cen
turies. All nations, barbarous and
civilized, have been addicted to it.-
Before 1838 the French government
received revenue from gaminghouses.
In lo67 England, lor the improve
ment of her harftors, instituted a lot
tery to be held at the front door of
St. Paul's cathedral. Four hundred
thousand tickets were sold at ten
shillings each. The British museum
and Westminster bridge were par
tially built by similar procedures.
The ancient Germans would some
times put up themselves and families
as prizeg, and suffer thernaelves to
be bound, though stronger than the
persons who won them.
But now the laws 01 the whole
civilized world denounce the svstem.
Enactments have been passed, but
only partially enforced, and at times
not enforced at all. 1 he men inter
ested in gaming houses and jockev
clubs, wield such influence by their
numbers and- amiKuee, that the
judge, the jury and the police officer
must be bold indeed, to would
array themselves against these infa
mous establishments. The House of
Commons, of England, actually
ADJOURNS ON DERBY DAY
to go out and bet on the races ; and
in the best circles of society in this
country to-day, are many hundreds
of professedly respectable men who
are acknowledged gamblers,
j Hundreds of thousands of dollars
in this land are every day being lost
and won through sheer gambling.
Says a traveller: through the west :
"I have traveled one thousand miles
at a time upon the western waters,
and seen gambling at every waking
moment, from the commencement
to the termination of the journey."
The southwest of this country reeks
with this sin. In some of those cities
every third or fourth house, in many
of the streets,: is a gaming place, and
it may be truthfully averred that
each of our cities is cursed with this
evil.
; In themselves, most of the games
employed in gambling are without
harm. Billard tables are as harm
less as tea tables, and a pack of cards
as a pack of letter envelopes, unless
stakes be put up. But by their use
for gambling purposes they have be
come significant of an infinity of
wretchedness
SIX HUNDRED ,
gambling saloons in New York when
last counted. ' '
Men wishing 'to gamble will find
places just suitedi to their capacity,
not only in the underground oyster
cellar, or at the table back of the
curtain, covered with greasy cards,
or in the steamboat smoking cabin,
where thebloated wretch, with rings
in his ears, deals out his pack, and
winks in the. unsuspecting traveler.
Eroviding free drinks- all arountl -ut
in gilded parlors and amid gor
geous surroundings.
This sin works ruin, first, by un
healthful stimulants.
EXCITEMENT 13 PLEASURABLE
Under everv sky and
in everv age
men-have sought it.
The Chinaman
gets it bv smoking his opium, the
Persian by chewing hashish, the
trapper in a buffalo hunt, the sailor
in a squall, the inebriate in the bottle
and the avaricious at the gaming
table e must at times have ex
yri n r-Ksn h w rates for
"HERE SHALL' THE PRESS
citement. A thousand Voices in our
nature demand it. It is right- It is
healthful. It is inspiriting. It is a
desire God-given. But anything
that first gratifies the appetite -and
hurls it back in a terrific reaction is
deplorable and wicked. Look out
lor the agitation that like a rough
musician, in bringing out the tune,
plays scj hard he breaks down tle
instrument ! God never made man
strong enough to endure the wear
and tear of gambling excitement.
No wohder if, after having failed in
the game, men have begun to sweep
off imaginary gold frorn the side o."
the table. The man was sharp
enough; when he started at the game,
but a maniac at the close. At every
gaming table tit on one side Ecstasy,
.Enthusiasm. Rouituuc- the frenzy
of ioy : and the other side, Fierce-
. clonal gamester schools lumseli
into apparent quietness. The keep
ers of gambling rooms are generally
fat, "Tollicking and obese ; but thor
ough and professional gamblers, in
nine cases out of ten, are pale, thin,
wheezing, tremulous and exhausted.
A young man having suddenly in-herited-a
large property, sits at the
hazard tables, and takes up in a dice
box tlje estate won by a ;-
FATHEk's LIFETIME'S SWEAT,
and shakes it, and tosses it away.
Intemperance soon; stigmatizes its
victim kicking him out, a slavering
fool, into the ditch, or sending him,
with the drunkard's hiccough, stag
gering up the street where his family
lives; But gambling does not in that
way expose its victims. The gam
bler 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 restless
ness, the threadbare coat and his
embarrassed business. Yet he is on
the road to hell, and no preacher's
voice, or startling warning, or wife's
entreaty, can make him stay for a
moment his headlong career. 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 snap like rusted
wire; and though you piled up in
his path, heaven-high, Bibles, tracts
and sermons, and on the top should
set the cross of the Son of God, over
them all the gambler would leap like
a roe over the rocks, on his way to
perdition.
" ACELDAMA, THE FIELD OF BLOOD !"
Again, the sin works ruin by kill
ingndustry. A man used to reap
ing' 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 these fifty dollars in my store,
when Lean get five times that down
at BillV's ?" You never knew a con
firmed gambler who was industrious.
The men given to this vice spend
their time, when not actively em
ployed in the game, in idleness, or
intoxication, qr sleep, or in corrupt
ing new victims. This sin has dulled
the carpenter's saw and cut the band
of the facforv Wheel, sunk the cargo,
broken the teeth of the farmer's har
row and snt a strange lightning to
shatter !the battery of the philoso
pher. The very
FIRST IDEA IN WAGING
is at war with the industries of soci
ety. Any trade or occupation that
is "of use "is ennobling.: The street
sweeper advances the interests of so
ciety by the crcanliness enected. I he
cat pays for the fragments it eats by
clearing tho house of vermin. The
11 v that takes the sweetness from the
dregs of the cup compensates bv pu
ntying the air and keeping back the
pestilence. But the gambler gives
not anything for that which betakes.
I rucall that sentence, He does make
a return : but it is disgrace to the
man that he fleeecs, despair to hi:
heart, ruin to his business, anguish
to his wife, shame to his children
and eternal wasting away to his soul
He pays in tears, in blood, and agony,
and darkness and woe
What dull work is plowing to the
farmer, 'when in the village saloon in
one nignt, he makes and loses the
value of a summer harvest ! Who will
want to! sell tape and measure nan
keen and cut garments and weigh
sugars, when in a night's game he
makes and loses, and makes again
and loses again
THE PROFITS OF A SEASON ?
John Borack was sent as mercantile
agent from Bremen to England and
this country. After two years his
employers mistrusted that all was
not riffht. He was a defaulter for
eightv-severi thousand dollars. It
was found that he had lost in Lom
bard street, London, $29,000 ; in Ful
ton street, New York, S 10,000, and
in New Orleans $3,000.. He was lm
prisoned, but afterwards escaped,
and went into the gambling proles
sion. 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, crush
ing reputation, home comtort and
immortal souls. How it diverts and
sinks capital may be infered by some
authentic statement before us. The
ten gaming houses that once were
authorized in Paris, passed through
the banks annually three hundred
and twenty-five million francs
Where does all the money come
from ? I The whole world is fobbed !
What is most sad, there is no conso
lations for the loss and suffering en
tailed by gaming. If men fail in law
ful business, God pities and societv
commiserates; but, wherein the Bible
or in society, is there any qo,n.sola
tionfqc te-gambler? From What
tree of the forest oozes there a balm
that can soothe the gamester's heart?
In that bottle where God keeps, the
tears of his children, are there any
tears bf the gambler ? Do the winds
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE
DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17,
that come to kiss the faded cheek of
sickness; and! to cool the heated brow
of the laborer, whisper hope and
cheer to the maciafed victim of the
game of hazard ? Wlien an honest
man is in trouble he has sympathy,
"Poor fellow j" they say; But do
GAMBLERS COME jo WEEP
at the agonies of the gambler ? In
Northumberland was oine of the finest
estates in England. Mr. Porter owned
it, and in a yar gambled it all away.
Having lost the last acre of the estate,
he came dowjn from the saloGrand
-ot into his carriage, Went back, put
His horses and carnage aiid towrf
hoLoe and played. He threw, and
lost. He started home, and on aside
alley met a friend, from; whom he bor
rowed ten guineas, went back to the
r.:vi -it t l. i . i
Ulll V 1 V 4.1 ill V uu IT 1UH, JllHl
rie men msi a oe-f.
gar at St Giles. How many gamblers
felt sorry for IMr. Porter? Who con
soled him oh the loss of his estate?
What gambler subscribed, to put a
stone over the
poor man s grave
Xi if fine ' !
Furthermore, this sin is the source
f uncounted dishonest'. The game
)f hazard itself, is often a cheat.
How many tricks and' deceptions in
the. !
DEALING OF THE CARDS
The opponent's hand
iounu out pv iraua. uarus are
i l it f t-
Cards
marked so that they may vbe desig
nated from the back. jExpert game
sters have their accomplices, and
one wink may decide the game.
The dice have been ifound loaded
with platina so that doublets come
up every time. These dice are in
troduced by the gamblers unobserved
bv tho honest men' who have come
into the plav, and thfe accounts for
the fact that !! out of 100 who gam
ble, however wealthy when they be
gan, at the end are found to be poor,
miserable, Haggard retches who
would not now be allowed to sit on
the doorstep
of the house that they
In a gaining house in
once owned.
ban Franci
co a young man having
just come -from the mines deposited
large sum upon the? ace, and won
822,000. Biit the tide turns. In
tense anxietj' conies upon thecoun
tenances of all. f
SLOWLY THE CARD.' VENTj FORTH.
Every eye is) fixed. Not a' sound is
heard until the ace is revealed favor
able to the bank. There are shouts
of "Foul! fdtil!" but the keepers of
the table produce thejr pistols, and
the Uproar is silenced ?and the bank
has won 89.000. Do'' vou call this
a game of
chance?
j There is no
chance abou
But these
; it. :
dishonesties in the car
the game are nothing
rying on
of
when compared with the frauds that
are committed in order to get money
to go on with the nefarious work.
Gambling, with its greedy hand, has
snatched away the widow's mite andt
the portions of the (orphans; has
sold the daughter's virtue to get the
means to continue the game; has
written the counterfHt signature,
emptied the banker's money vault
and wielded, the assassin's ,dagger.
There is no depth of meanness to
which it will! not stooix There is no
cruelty
There" is
at
no
which it
is appalled.
WARNING OF i GOD
that it will not dare, j Merciless, un
appeasable, fierce and wild, .it
blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts,
it crushes,-it (jlanins. t has peopled
our prisons apd lunatic asylums. '
How many railroad agents, and
cashiers, and trustees of funds has it
driven to disgrace, incarceration and
suicide r ltness years ago a cashier
of the Central;
Railroad and Banking
Georgia, who stole
Company of
$103,000" to
carry on his gaming
practices. ltness the 40,000 stolen
from a Brooklyn barak within the
memory of ihany .of; you and the
$180,000 taken from a Wall street
insurance company for the same
purpose, these are only illustra
tions on a larre scale of the robberies
committed for the purpose or carry-
ing out the
designs of gamblers.
Hundreds of
thousands ot dollars
every year leak out without observa
tion from the merchant's till into
THE GAMBLING! HELL
I i
A man in Ijondon keeping one of
these gamblin
houses boasted that
a nobleman a day ;
saloons of this land
he had rumea
but if all the
were to speali
but, they might utter
a more infamous boast; for they have
destroyed a thousand nobleman a
year.' 1 .
Notice also the effect of this crime
upon domestic happiness. It has
sent its ruthless plowshare through
hundreds of families, until the wife
sat in rags, and the daughte s were
disgraced, and jthe sons grew up to
the same infamous practices, or took
a short cut to destruction across the
murderer's scaffold, j
Home has lost all charms for the
.gambler. Howj tame (are the chil
dren's caresses and a wife's devotion
to the gambler How drearily the
fire burns on the domestic hearth !
There must be louderj laughter, and
something to win, and something to
lose ; an excitement Ho drive the
heart faster, fillip the blood and fire
the imagination;. Nq home, how
ever bright, can feeep back the game
ster. The sweet cajl of love bounds
baqk from hi;i irpn soul, and all en
dearments are i ! -
j CONSUMED
of his passion,
will go after all
IX
THE FIRE
The family Bible
other treasures are
lost, and if his crbwn in heaven were
put into his hand he would cry,
"Here goes;- on nqre game, my
bo's. Qn this one throw I stake my
orowh of heaven.!"
A young man in London, on com
ing of age, received i a fortune of
$120,000, arid through gambling, in
three years, was thrown on his
mother for support.
An only son went tq New Orleans.
He was rich, intellectual jind elegant
in manners. His parents gave him
on his departure from home their
last blessing. The sharpers gVrt hold
of him. They flattered him. They
lured him to the gaming table and
let him win almost every time for a
good while, and patted hini on the
back and said, "First-rate player."
But fully in their grasp they fleeced
him, and his $30,000 were lost. Last
of all, he put up his watch and lost
that. Then he began to think of
his home, and of his old father and
mother, and wrote thus :
"My Beloved Parents : You will
doubtless feel a momentary joy at
the reception of this letter from the
child of your bosom, on 'whom you
have lavished all the favbrs of your
declining years. But should a feel-
-Hn? ot iov tor a moment snrai? nn
. . n
o .. . r----o -r
in your hearts when you should
have received this from me, cherish
it not. I have -
FALLEN DEEP, NEVER TO RISE.
Those gray hairs that I should have
honored and protected I shall bring
down in sorrow to the gnjve. I will
not curse my destroyer, hilt, oh, may
God avenge the wrongs and imposi
tions 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 hunu ly pray your, forgiveness. It
is hiy dying prayer. Long before
yoii will have received this from me
theicold grave will have closed upon
me;forever. Life to rue is" insupport
able. I cannot, nay.l will not, suf
fer the shame of having ruined you.
Forget and forgive ii the dying prayer
of your, unfortunate son.'!
The old father eaine to the post
office, got the letter! and fell to the
floor. They thought lie was dead
at first, but they brushed" baek tin
white hair from his brow and fan
ned, him. He had only fainted. I
M'ish he .had been dead, for what is
1 n , t i . l e. i
nie worth to a lather alter his son
is
destroyed ?
Aceldama, the field of
blood !"
When things go
wrong at
: "Foul!
a gam
Foul !"
of the
ing bible they shout: .'
Over all the gaming
tables
world I crv out: "Foul ! foul! in
finitely foul !" ' j
"Gift stores" arc abundant through
out jthe country. With a book, or
knife, or sewing machine or coat, or
carriage there goes a prize. At these
stores people get something thrown
in with their purchase. lt may be
a gold watch, or a set of silver, a
ring,; or 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 and despoiled the moral
sense ot the
community, and is fast
making us
j A NATION OF GAMBLERS.
Tlie church of God has not seemed
willing to allow the world to have
all the advantage of these games of
chance. A church fair !opens, and
toward the close it is found that some
of the more valuable articles are un
salable. Forthwith the 'conductors
of the enterprise conclude that they
will raffle for some of the valuable
articles ; and, under pretense of anxiety-
to make their minister a pres
ent, 6r please some popular member
of the church, fascinating persons
are dispatched through the room,
pencil in hand, to "solicit shares," or
perhaps each draws for his own ad
vantage, and scores of people go
home1 with their trophies, thinking
that is all right, for Christian ladies
did tlie embroidery, and Christian
men did the raffling, and the pro
ceeds went towards a new commun
ion set-. But you may depend on it,
thaas far as morality isoncerned,
you might as well have Won by the
crack of the billiard ball br the turn
fof the dice box.
Do; you wonder, that churches
builtj lighted or upholstered by such
processes as that, coinq to great finan
cial apd spiritual decrepitude? The
devil says": " I helped td build -that
house; of worship, and si have as
much; right there as you fiave ;" and
for once the devil is righl
Wei do not read that they had a
LOTTERY FOR BUILDING THE CHURCH
at Corinth or at Antioch; m for get
ting up an embroidered urplice for
St. Paul. j
All this I style ecclesiastical gam
bling. 31ore than one nian who is
destroyed can say, that his first step
on the wrong road was when he won
something at a church fair.
The gambling spirit; has not
stopped for anv indecency. There
transpired in Maryland a lottery, in
which people drew for lots in a bury
ing ground ! The modern habit of
betting about everything' is produc
tive ot immense mischief. 1 he most
beautiful and innocent amusements
of yachting and baseball playing,
hav6 been the occsion of putting up
excited and extravagant wagers.
That which to many has been ad
vantageous to body and ' mind, has
been to others the means of financial
and moral loss. The custom is per
nicious in the extreme, where scores
of rhenj in respectable life, give them
selves tip to, "betting now on. this boat,
now on that ; now on thi4 ball club,
now ori that-.
Betting, that once was chiefly the
accompaniment of the racecourse, is
fast becoming a national habit, and in
some circles any opinion: advanced
on finance or politics, is accosted
with the interrogation : "How much
will you bet on that, sir?'
This custom may maej no appeal
to slowj lethargic temperapients, but
there are in the country tens of thou
sanda of quick, nervous,! sanguine,
excitable temperaments ready to be
acted upon, and their feet will soon
take hold on death. For some months,
and perhaps for years, they will lin
ger in the more polite and
ELEGANT CIRCLE OF GAMESTERS,
but, after awhile, their pathway will
come to the fatal plungei Finding
AND UNBRIBEDSY GAIX
1886.
themselves in the rapids, they will
try to back out, and, hurled over the
brink, they will clutch the side of
the boat, until their finger nails,
blood-tipped, Will pierce the wood,
and, then, with white cheek and ago
nized stare, and the horrors of the
lost soul lifting the very hair from
the scalp, they witl -plunge down
where no grappling hooks can drag
them out.
Young man ! stand back from all
styles of gambling. The end thereof
is death. The teripin alley affords
the best of physical exercise, and
many an hour I . have passed in some
such place getting physical invigo
ration ;. but many of the tenpin alleys
are now given up to gambling prac
tices. Husbands, brothers, fathers,
enter. Put down your one thousand
dollars all in gold ! Let tha.bov set
up the pins at the other enu 6r'-?!c
alley ! Now stand back and give the
gamester full sweep ! Roll the first
there ! it strikes ! and down goes
his respectability ! Try it again.
Roll the second there ! it strikes !
and down goes the last feeling of hu
manity ! Try it again.. Roll the
third there ! it strikes ! and down
goes his soul forever ! It was not so
much the pins that fell as the soul !
the soul !
FATAL TEN-STRIKE
for eternity
! "Aceldama, the
field
ot blood.
Shall I sketch the history of the
gambler? Lured by bad company,
he finds way a into place where hon-
est men ought never to go. He sits
downto his first game, but only for
pastime and the desire ot being
thought sociable. The players deal
out the cards. Thev unconsciously
play into Saltan'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"-plaj'ed. 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
iwith set jaws and compressed lips.
and clenched hsts, and eyes like fire
balls, that seem starting from their
sockets, to see the final turn before
it comes. If losing, pale with envy
and tremulous with un uttered oaths
cast back red hot upon the heart ; or
winning, with hysteric laugh, " Ha!
ha ! I have it !"
A few years have passed, and Ife
is only the wreck of a man. Seating
himself at the game, ere 'he throws
the first card, he
STAKES THE LAST, RELIC
of his wife the marriage ring which
sealed the solemn vows between
them. The game is lost, and stag
gering back in exhaustion he dreams.
The bright hours of the past mock
his agony, and in his dreams fiends
with eyes of fire and tongues of flame
circle about him with joined hands,
to dance and sing their orgies with
hellish , chorus, chanting "Hail,
brother !" kissing his clammy fore
head until 'their loathsome locks,
flowing with serpents, crawl into his
bosom and sink their sharp fangs
and suck up his life's blood, and,
coiling around his heart, pinch it
with chills and shudders unutterable.
Take warning! You are no
stronger than tens of thousands who
have by this praotice been over
thrown. No young man in our cities
can escape being tempted. Beware
of the first beginnings! This road
is a down grade, and everyinstant
increases the momentum. Iiunch
not upon this treacherous sea. Splint
hulks strew the beach. Everlasting
storms howl,, up and down, tossing
unwary crafts into the hell gate. I
speak of what I have seen with my
own eyes. I have looked off into
the abyss, and have seen the foam
ing and the hissing and the whirling
of the horrid deep in which the
mangled victims Writhed one upon
another, and struggled, strangled,
blasphemed and died -the death-
star of eternal despair upon their
countenances as the waters gurgled
over them !
TO A GAMBLER'S DEATHBED
there comes no hojMJ. He will prob
ably die alone. His former associ
ates come not nigh hia dwelling.
When the hour comes his miserable
soul will go out of a miserable life
into a miserable eternity. As his
poor remains - pass the house where
he was ruined old companions may
lookout a moment and say: "There
goes the old carcass dead at last ;"
but thev will not get up frc m the
table,
grave,
there,
Let him down now into his
Plant no tree to cast its shade
for the long, deep, eternal
gloom
enough
that settles there is shadow
Plant no forget-me-nots or
eglantines around the spot, for flow
ers were not made lo grow on such
a blasted heath. Visit it not in the
sunshine, for tha wld be. mockery,
but in-5 the dismal ' night, when no
stars are o,ut, and the spirit of dark
ness come down horsed on the winds,
then visit the grave of the gambler !
Ou His Native Heath Words of
. Welcome.
, New York Star.
The presence in New York, after a
long absence, of Mr. James Gordon
Bennett gives rise, to considerable
pleasant comment. . The general
hope ii that his coming home indi
cates an intention to resume his resi
dence here.
No man in the Uruted states holds
in his hands so, great a power, and
the Star thinks that it is a power
whioh ean be effectively used only
by one who lives in New York. Mr.
Bennett is now in the maturity of
his faculties and experience, and the
jress of the whole country will glad
y yield to hirn. the precedence and
eadership which no one else can
claim.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
Thanksgiving' Proclamation.
North Carolina, )
Ejrecutive Department, j
iieiievmg
that God Almighty
the source of all power and authority
is
in civil government, and recognizing
Him in the person of His Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, jas the Saviour of
mankind and the Giver of everv
good and perfect gift. I, Alfred M.
Scales, Governor of North Carolina,
by virtue of the authority in me
vested by law, do appoint Thursday,
tlie 25th day of November, as a day
of special thanksgiving to Almighty
God for the large share of. mercies
and blessings vouchsafed to us in the
past year, and of devout prayer that
He will continue to us His'guardi
anship and tender care for all time
to come. A mi I respectfully urge
upon all, in accordance withari hon
ored custom of .our people, to remem
ber liberally on that day tlJb helpless
orphans that we have "taken under
our charge.
Done at our city of Raleigh, this
the 6th day Nevember, 18S, and in
me one nunureu and eleventh vear
year of our American Independence
Alfred M. Scales.
By 4 the Governor:
C. H. Armfield,
Private Secretary.
If a
Man Smokes or Drinks,
Him Pay For It.
Let
Philadelphia Record, Democrat.
Our distinguished fellow-cittizen,
Judge Kelly, still adheres with Ko
man tenacity to his programme of
abolishing the taxes on whiskey and
tobacco as a means of avoiding the
reduction of the tariff. He ask:
Why not tax cabbage and oats .as
well as compel American citizens to
pay 554U,tAl,uXJ lor the privilege ot
smoking and chewing American-
grown tobacco?" The plain answer
is that cabbages and "oatmeal, like
salt, rice, coal, blankets, flannels and
many other articles that are taxed,
are necessaries of the family, while
whiskey and tobacco are not. Tlie
taxes which the consumer pays for
his drink and moke are voluntary ;
the taxes on clothing, salt, coal are
compulsory, for these . are articles
with which the family cannot dis
pense. J udge Kelly falsely assumes
that th tobacco tax is paid by the
producer, and he fervently thanks
heaven that he is again able to raise
his voice against the "iniquity." The
producer of totnicco no more pays
the tax than does the distiller of
whiskey. The distiller and tobacco
grower merely collect the taxes from
consumers as involuntary agents of
the government.
A
Southern Brig-adier's
Find Echo.
Words
New York Star.
Governor Gordon, in his inaugural
address at Augusta, gave fitting ex
pression to the universal sentiment
of the South, regarding the renewed
and perpetuated unity of the States
of the republic. No voice will be
raised anywhere in the Federal
union to dissent from his eloquent
declaration that, " Nowhere in this
republic are there either disloyal cit
izens or disloyal sentiments. But
everywhere all hearts, voices and
arms are ready for the preservation
of the general government in all its
constitutional vigor, as tlie pledge of
our peace and safety."
Truly, the Democratic party has
reason to congratulate itself on this
happy result of its constitutional and
fraternal policy. As soon, as the
Southern States were relieved from
the curse of Republican carpetbag
rule, prosperity revived, loyalty was
renewed, and tlie world witnessed a
realization of the glory of " a union
of hearts, a union of hands, a union
that naught e'er can sever."
rlie Nevs & Observer's Sensible
View of the Position of the
"New Element" in Politics.
Whether it will always throw its
weight, as it . has done this time,
against the best interests of all the
people of the district, it must, of
course, itself determine. It is to be
hoped that it will realize before it
goes too far, that its own welfare is
bound up with that of the rest of the
people, and that it will thus take a
more rational view of general poli
tics. Once let any class in this
country undertake to run candidates
of its own for office regardless of
party lines, and dire trouble will
begin immediately for that class as
well as for the people at large.
Something
Everybody
Know.
Does Not
New York Star J
It may not le amiss in this con
nection to explain what everybody
doesn't know, the exact meaning of
the . word "honeymoon." To be
etymologically correct, a bride and
groom ought to extend their honey
moon, or trial trip, to four weeks,
the exact period of a lunar month, a
custom I "believe, that is more hon
ered in the breach than the observ
ance. The honey part of the word
comes from an old German habit of
drinking metheglin, made from
honey, for thirty days after the wed
ding, with a view to promote sweet
ness or stickiness, I suppose. Cham
pagne and Burgundy are the popu
lar substitutes nowadays.
Ilead and Ponder, Ye Anti-Civil
Service Men.
N'ew York SUy.J
The cleanest sweepe in the removal
of federal officers were made in Vir
ginia aad Iodiana. - Yet both States
were carried by: the Republicans,
while Massachusetts, where the sweep
was hardly observable, gave the
Democrats several additional Con
gressmen. A hit, a palpable hit, for
civil service reform.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
la Deny s torch has crone out.
1 1 1 1 1 1
Who
will srite her a litrht ?
President Cleveland is busilv en-
fe.j--v i'h- Mini" ms message to Lon-
ress.
unept Henrv GeorrreV friend ;
accused
of ioririii":
a check on the
'"Georde
fund."
Mr
"hoebe, the opponent of Mr.
in the recent election, will
Mr. Carlisle's seat.
Sharp, the New York briber
Carlisli
contest!
Jak
vC
is having his turn before the courts.
J ustict
The
fore th
sharpe
law
is
low, but, we hope, sure.
Kvill of Samuel J. Tilden is be-
courts and the lawyers are
lung
up their wits on "will
President Cleveland was given a
grand
reception
at Harvard. See
our N
ew 1 ork
letter in another
column.
1
, It is
said now that Chinese Gordan
is aliv
VI'
somewhere in the equatorial
regions of Africa. We wish we could
believe it. .
The
J apanese Prince and Princess,
ave been making a tour of
who
this
mntry, sailed for home last ,
Thursday.
It i
has tt
reported that Mr. Powderly
graphed the Chicago strikers
to aba
hour 1
fid on tlie strike, that the eight
iw is at present unpracticable.
Hon. John. F. Andrew, whom the
Democrats of Massachusetts came so
near e ectmg, was .special escort, in
behalf of the Boston people, to Pres
ident Cleveland. , , .
Mr. Blaine stayed in NwvYork'a
long time, and was supposed to be
making a still hunt for the nomina
tion in 1888, although he refused
to discuss politics.
Mr. Justin McCarthy is in Mon
treal. He was treated with consid
eratioi by tlie Irish National League,
the nit mbers of parliment, commer
cial corporations and the" different
banks. "He was dined by, J. J. Cur
ran, member of parliment.
Bert ram Boyce Rodway, an Eng-!
lishman, wrote a note to his young
and es ranged wife to meet him in
Centra L Park.' She met him, and he
shot In r. She is lying dangerously
wounded and he is locked up. Cause
unkno n. He seems dazed.
Jami's P. Fish, the partner of Fer
denand Ward in the defunct Marine
Bank, is in a pitiable condition. Hia
health has been failing for months,
and now he is nearly blind, and
cannoi stand or sleep with comfort.
The w ly of the transgressor is some
times cry hard.
The Autocrat of all the Russians
is mee ing open defiance in Bulgaria,
and th j New York papers think there
is pror lise of active hostilities in tho
Baikal States for the assertion of
Russia 1 supremacy. Turkey is also
threat ned and a i'rent eastern war
- . .
is amo lg the possibilities of the near
future.
Pror bet Wigging has a rival, one
Prof. Foster, who predicts a great
storm eriod extending from Decem
ber 4tli to December 17th. Heavy
snows md blizzards and high winds
will impede railway travel. Tele
graph : nd telephone lines will be in
terferes with by "energetic electrical
disturbances." Look out!
Mr. lenry George is still in the
eyes of his admirers. Last week he
was di ned, and complimented on
his ver- large vote. His supporters
have gi ven notice of their intention
to obta n controlling representation
in the constitutional convention
which 1 las just been ordered in New
York. And if they get control, a
new system of taxation will be born.
Mr.
Ienry Watterson has como
home.
lie was interviewed upon
ibis return by a Herald reporter, and
gave ut erance to many sensible ex
pressioiis. He says the Democratic
party must meet the issues of the
day hon estly, take courage and stand
up for jrinciple that is right. No
party cajn long survive unless founded
on principle. Spoils wont keep it
together. '
M. I eLesseps has returned to
France. Just before leaving he was
given cablegrams from his family.
The mother and seven or eight of
the children sent him much love
and best wishes for a speedy and
safe homeward voyage. "He is a
grand old man, hale, robust, full of
intellectual and physical vigor, and
has done many wonderful things
during tie many useful years that
have been his.
General John B. Gordon on last
Tuesday Was enaugurated Governor
of Georgja. His address is full of
strong gfkxl sense, his sentiments
meet the approval of all right think
ing men.1 The New York Herald
after quoting a few extracts from his
speech goes onto'say : "If such senti
ments as these represent the South,
the occupation of certain republican
orators is jkone. Their whole capital
in trade, at 'bloody shirt,' will be con
fiscated arjd they must needs go into
political bankruptcy."
Mr. Gladstone is still in earnest
about Ireland.- His letter to Lord
Walverton 6ays : "Nothing can be
done toward closing the Liberal
breach until-we know the Govern
ment's plans respecting Ireland.
They have already taken six months
to prepare them: If we all agreed
that at the end of this rather ample
time they should be produced, let
the dissident Liberals use their in
fluence with the Government and
require theii production. They will
then at the right time appear, and
nobody car at this time say that we"
must go to loggerheads upon them j
DUu ine mere iact 01 uuuv;uiiiug m
thinking they ought to be produce!
will be a step in tie right direction,,"