H THE SIN OF GAMBLING. (t Hao the Sirength of a Oars Rope. Little Threads Compose the Rope, Put nee Made It is Strong Enough to Hold a Ship — How the Game Fada Dr. Talmage draws some vivid plet~ ores of the gambling dens of our large and the evil habit if allowed to take root. His text alah 6: 18: “Woe unto them that with a cart-ropo.” cities shows how Rrows: was | sin as It were There are some iniquities that only nibble at the heart. After a lifetime of their work the man still stands up right pected, and I, Theso vermin not strength enough to aw through a man's character. But ere are other transgressions that ft up to gigantic proportions, bind him AM SOMO such great empha~ commits them cart-rope, vou know how they make The stuf! of which it is fashioned is nothing bnt tow which you pull apart without any ex- ertion of This is spun into threads, any of which you could easliy snap, but a great many of these threads are then you Lave a rope strong enough to bind an ox, or hold a ship in a tempest, I speak 0 you « f the of gambling. A cart-rope in strength is that sin, and I wish mor especially to draw y attention to the small threads of influence out of which that mighty iniquity is twisted. This crime is on the advance, so that itis well not only that fathers, and broth- ers, and such » discussion wives, and moth- ars, and daughters look out leat be sacri ficed, or home be woman can stand as this and honor heave le HELE gu izo hold of a man and 5 ds with t There iniquit sis of ovil » who may be sald to sin as with a 1 suppose 8 great rope out your fingers interwound sin yet our sons, be interested but that in sisters, and their present home their intended Noman, no subieot J ical bearing upon that Does gross Know ig aif when | sees iL? Wrangle 1 n that piace, or thrown bloody into the nto the river You go along the policy you n two num ting on three pum! is called a “gig” bet. littia further and find ent. In tl tting ing esta bi Hn it place bet on Ders 1s « 5 idie:™ be that ridi ' and perdi ! ii ys one | | of sign ap there, xchanges health, for loss health, 88 of mn the door Exchange” for the 4 in that room, & man ’ oat propriate title wor, for peace, aud Heaves im- enough be small thread wt it is made. There is, in many, # disposition to hazard. They feel a delight in walking near a precipioe because of the sense of danger. There are people who go upon Jungfrau, not for the largencss of the prospect, but for the feeling they have of thinking, “What would happen if 1 should fall oft?” There are persors who have thelr blood filliped and accelerated by skating very near an air hole There are men who find a positive delight in driving within two inches of the edge of a ridge. It is this disposition to hazard that finds development in gam- fog practices. Here are $500. | may stake them. If I stake them I may lose them: but I may win 85,000, Whichever way it turns, I have the excitement. Shuffle the cards. Lost! Heart thumps. Head dizzy, At it sgain--just to gratify this desire for hazard. Then there are others who go into this sin through sheer desire for gain. It is especially so with professional gamblers. They always keep cool, They paver drink enough to unbalance their judgment. They do not see the dios no much as they see the dollar be. yond the dice and for that they watch spider in the web, looking ae'if | the | citizens, from the | State street to the low Ann streot gon | the Central railroad of Georgia, | takes his place at the roanlette | poses, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSLAY, AUGUST 12, 1547. store, office or shop I /mght to have finer apartments. I cought to bave better wines I ought to have more richly flavored cigars I ought to be able to entertain my friends more ex- peasively. I won't stand this any longer. I can with one brilliant stroke make a fortune. Now, here goes, prin. ciple or no prinelple, Heaven or hell, Who cares? When a young males up hit mind to live beyond his tncome, Satan has bought him out and vut, snd it is only a question of time when the goods are to be delivered The thing ls done. Youn may plant in the way all the batteries of truth and righteousness, the man Is bound to go on. When a man makes $1,000 a year and spends $1,200 dollars; when a young man makes $1,500, and spends $1,700, all the harples of darkness ery out: “Ha! ha! we have him,” and they have, How to get the extra 8500 or the extra $2,000 is the question. He says: “Here is my friend who started out the other day with but little money, and in one night, so great was his luck, he rolled up hundreds and thousands of dollars If he got it, why not I? It is such dull work, this adding up of long lines of figures In the counting house; this pull. ing down a hundred yards of goods and selling a remnant; this always waiting upon somebody else, whea I could put $100 on the sce sad plek up & thou sand.” This sin works very insiduounsly Other sins gound the drum and flaunt the flag, and gather thelr recruits with wild hozszs, but this marches its pro- cession of pale victims in dead of night, In silence and when they drop into the grave there is not so much sound 68 the click of & die OJ how many have gone down under it Look at those men who were once highly prospered, Now thelr forehead islicked by & tongue of flame that will never go out. In thelr souls are plunged the beaks which will never be lifted Swing open the door of that man's heart and see a coll of adders wriggling in indescribable horor until you tarn sway and hide your face and ask God to help you to forget it. The most of thls evil is unadvertised. The commun- ity does not Bear of is Men defrauded in gawing establishments are not fools enough to tall of It. Once in » while, | however, there la an exposure, as when | In Boston the police swooped upon » goming cetabdlishment snd found in it representatives of all classes of first merchants on Ballock, the cashier of wns bundred and er; as when found to have gtolen one | three thousand dollars for the purpose as | of carrying on gaming practices; when a young man in one of av banks «f Brooklyn, found to have ings AZO, Was forty ! sand dollars to us when be Fe mpans hundred thie at one SEE a is ff bush fact EN pang excitement 8 significant f the day gal are iz Il street? Men go oto the ex nt of stock gambling y piuoge as, when man are intoxicated nto sa liguor sxloon Ww Tie agitation that in ois proximity . and tha : wt tLe houses, thes moas pesand] in ie chair sunocnces the whey western,” or “Fart Warn” Island.” ar *New York the rat! tat! tat! of the “North a "Book Central.” and ing “corvers,” and getting up “pools” snd “carrying etock.” and a “toread™ froen 80 W and the rushing around in curtstooe broker age, and the sudden cries of “Roper two! ‘Boyer tan!” "Take stn™ ‘How mes y™ sad the making or losing of | $10,000 by ane operation unfits » than | 0 go home, sand © he goon up the flight of state, amid tosiness offices to the darkiy-ourtaloed, wooden-shot- tered room, gaily furnished inside, and wr te farc table Many years ago for sermonpie par and in cowpany with the chief of New York, | visited one of of police : {| the most brilliant gambling houses in that city. It wus night, and as we came upin front all seemed dark. The blinds were down; the door was guarded; but after a whispering of the officer with | the guard at the door we were admitted into the hall, and thence into the par | lors, around ome table finding eight or | ten men in | the work golag on in silence, save the mid-life, well dressed all noise of the rattiing “chips” the gaming table in one parlor, and the re volving ball of the roulette table in the other parlor. Some of these men, we were told, had served terms in prison; somes were shipwrecked bankers and brokers and money dealers, and some were going their firet rounds of vice but all intent upon the table, as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh! there was something awfully solemn in the stlence-~the tn- tense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the players No one locked up. They all had money in the rapids and I have no doubt some saw, as they sat there, horses and carriages, and hoases and lands, and homs and family rushing down into the vortex. A man's life would not have been worth a farthing in that presence had he not been aes companied by the police, If he had been supposed to be on 8 Christian errand of observation. Somes of these men went by private key, some went in by eareful introduction, some were taken in by Abe patrons of the estad lahment. The officers of the law told tue: “Nowe get in here except by police mandate, or by seme letter of a po- tron.” While we were thers a young man came in, put his money down on the roulette and lost; put more money down on the roulette table, and lost; put more mosey down on the roulette table, and lost; then in his pockets for more money, on man TOare carry on gaming | nuected | from | gambling got | | turn.” stock market when the that Spirit, ona change your enthwe natare, | “| so that youu oil] be a different soctioneer' | banner, snd the excilement of mak | excitement of | pone, in severe stlenece he turned his back upon the scene nnd passed out While we stood there men lost thelr property and lost thelr souls Oh, mer clless place! Not onee in all the Lise tory of the gaming house has there been ome word of sympathy uttered for the losers at the game Sir Horace Walpole said that a man dropped dead st ono of the club houses of London; his body wos carried Into the club house, nnd the men began immediately to bet as to whether he were dead ar alive, and when it was proposed to test the matter by bleeding him, it was only hindered by the suggestion that it would be unfair to some of the play- eral In these gaming houses of our cities men have thelr property wrung away from them, und they some of them to drown thelr grief in strong drink, some to ply the counter feitor's pen, and so restore their ford tunes, some resort to the sulcide's re go out, volver, but all going down, and that! | work proceeds day by by night ''T young man, never around my soul.” But have not some, threads of that cart-rope been twisted? I erralgn before God the gift enter prises of our cities, which have a ten- dency to this a nation of gum. blera Whatever you get, young man, | in such a place as that, without giving a proper equivalent, Is a robbery of dey, snd nigh | at art-rope,” sO YVSE Some been wound has make your own soul, and a robbery of the | community. Yet how we are appalled, to see men who have falled In other ens terprises go into gift concerts, where the chiof attraction Is not music, but the prizes distributed among the andi | ence; or to sell books where the chief attraction Is not the book, but the package that goes with the book. Tol bacco dealers advertise that on a cer tain dey thoy will put money into thelr! papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco in Cincinnati or New York may unexpectedly come upon 8 magnificent gratuity | | Boys hawking through the cars pack- ages containing nobody knows what) until you open them and find they cond tain nothing. Christiso men with plo tures on their walls gotten in a lottery, and the brain of community taxed to find out new way of getting things without paving for them Oh young men, these are the threads that tn o MDE make the cart-rope, and wi the young man cunsents U 80 proc tices De : i foot already n« man gift the name of « wr these nterprise } ite aRrily., prises care " Why, they Oo frecu path ‘There's he Pom they gro ; § new apt u use of my trytng to get back, rificed my respectability: and they gt utterly destroyed (rod this LR I've until m,my friends, by His Haly am I tall yt moenent, man in great want-ewhat is Higher social pond minnte. Your it? More smlary! tim? Not mn waot of every man, if be hes pot al ready obtalned it. It is (xd. Are there any who have fallen victims 0 the «in Bat | have been rep relionding? You ase tn e prison rush against the wall of this prison, and try to get oul, and fall; end yom turn around and dash asgolost the other wall until there bd blood an the grates, and blood will never got out In this way is only one way of petting ont. Therq is a key that can unlock that prison hoose, It is the key of the house David at his girdle. If you will allow him to put that key to the lock the bolt will shoot and the door will swing open, will be a in Christ Jesus hack snd you free man O prodigal, what a business this is for you, feeding your father stands in the front door strain. ing his eyesight catch the first glimpse of your return; and the calf is as fat as it will be, and the harps of Heaven are all strung snd the feet free. There are converted gamblers in Heaven. The light of eternity flashed upon the green baize of thelr billiard saloon. In the laver of God's forgive ness they washed off all thelr sin They quit tryiog for earthly stakes They tried for Heaven and won iL There stretches a hand from Heaven toward the head of the worst ‘offender. It is & hand, not clenched as if to smite, but outspread, as if to drop & benediction, Other seas have a shore and may be fathomed, but the sea of God's love eternity has no plummet to strike the bottom, and im- mensity no iron bound shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite compassion. Its waves are the hosanoas of the redeemed. The ar. gosien that sall on ft drop anchor at last amid the thundering salvo of eter: nal victory. But alas for that man who sits down to the flaal game of life and puts his immortal soul on the ace, while the angels of God keep the tally. board; and after kings and queens, and kuaves and spades are shuffled” and “out,” and the game ls ended, h snd inending worlds discover that he bas lost it, faro bank of eternal darkness clutching down Into fe wal. let all the blood-stained wagers Flies. There are 48 varieties of the csmmon . swine, when to A a | preach a mormon an temperanon, After | ary i 13) | his ocarly h | Cartwright 5 ou | af | It in the key that Christ wears | | was a doer and miss it if a calf.’ | Lincoln was | not a manager and seldom had any mon - | ey ahead. When ho came to Springfield LINCOIN'S FRIEND. STORIES OF THE EARLY LIFE OF THE | MARTYRED PRESIDENT, | Phillp Clark «f Mattoon Told Some | Things About Abe That Other Histo ring Overlooked « Additional Tests. mony to the Big Heart of Lincoln. { The lato Philip Clark of Mattoon, | Ia, was a Ufolong friend of Abraban Lincoln, A short time before his death | Uncle 2hilip sald in conversation with | & corres pondent of the Chicago Times. | Herald: 1 do not believe the tailor ever lived { who wns skillful enough to make clothes to fit Lincoln, Ho was tho roughest and ' most irregular man in outline I ever saw. But no child was afraid of him, and po woman would declare him to be | ugly. Yet any description of his appear. | ance you would write down would war { rant the conclusion that ho was any- | thing but good looking Why, I must | tell you, the very skin of tho man did | not fit, for tt appeared to be loose on his features, and I knew him from { youth to aga After the Black Hawk | war Lincoln wos sclzod with politi {cal aspirations, but falled to get the {coveted position of representative | He met with un obetacle in my friend | Peter Cartwright, a good man, whom [ also knew as well a8 a Wrother in those dreary days After 1832 I saw | Lincoln quite iu Springfield, { where he then lived I bad met with { some reverses, apd efter compounding medicines, the patare of which I had learned from the Indians, which medi | eines were sold by Dm Robinson and | Shields, I took my money and went in to partnership with tho merchants Gar rett and Douglas, and wa bought hogs fattened them on the mast and what corn we could buy tn the flelds “Tho crop wes poor that year, and we bought a great deal of groand ot §3 per often : BI | sero and noodid tho services of a man to | [ aid this part of | measure the ground the business and hit upon Abo Linooln as that man. Ho bad a sort of survey ing outfit. [ hired work for os and gove him tho cathe re markable wages of 1 a day for hissery oom Al Aber] always called htm by his Lhanks] nx y know and 1 knee we could tho work dono for Dots a H Abe, ul ad the bright inad in our servi wns 8 friend rwerunl fru irtexl Lor { acoountans for | hogs in Un Golds, armsns to tho aan mae Cane, Abe asedst an hin now stand ; They aro pear We would tio tho bhog's xl swing him up, and tho wedght, rs and cut a bunch y neck to show the ani mt : OL Hogs in thos low than the bres ng could be seen if thos dags he Us wl of ternporanos mo might An a wien sone x hat wo all go to the church bear the Row. John Berry Tian ing sttentivly Abe remariosd to me that that sabjoct would some time be | coe of the greatest in this country “Lincoin loved debate and could tell | | an anecdote with great «foot. In ane of | rooes for congress 1 hoard him | 4 | debate with Poter ( artwright, who was I all tell you the great | the terror of every local amtor, as his | opponent. Ho asked Cartwright ff Gen the grace of | eral Jockson did right in the remand I believe {t was—af the bank deposits, evadod the Question and gave a very indefinite answer. Lincoln remarked that Cartwright reminded him of a hunter hoe anos knew who reo- ognized the fact that tn summer the an your sook You | deer were md and in the winter gray, Therq | | might resernble a calf. The hunter had and at one ecasm, therefor, a door rought down ono of kong range, when it was hard to se the differvoon, and boasting of his own marksmanship had add, ‘B shot at it so as to hit it if it This convulasd tho andienoe and carried then with Lincoln “Gratitude was a religion with him a poor fluancier, He was from Salem, ho had been boarding for » | year with a man named Nelson Aly at $1.50 per week and was tn debt to him $70. Misfortune overtook Ally long aft. er that, and he bocamo an tnmato of the Knox county poorhouss, Lincoln wens in person and had him taken from the county house and given another home, He then asked Judge Davia to soo thas Ally should be card for tn cass bo (Lin. coln) should die first, 1 beard this oom. tract between Lincoln and Davis Ally survived Lincoln two yess © Roser him well “The last time I saw Ldncoin waetn EERRRERY gE More Successful Do A woman is sick; some di oping in her system. She g him a story, but not the whole She holds something ba gets what she wants to say, completely mystifies the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still by E. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. determined tc step help her sex. Having had considerable experiencein and in treating female ills with » ' —a : her Vegetable Compound, she SUC men of piamts, encouraged the ge WO» America to write to ard Bb "or or v . . ana ocung a woman, it was Lincoln to do this | gratefully for this | “rr | - a * Mrs. Pinkham dur Some True Reasons Why Mrs. Pinkham "is embarrassing to detail some of th symptoms of her suffering, even to he family physician. It was for this reason that years ago Mrs. Lyd; DOCTORS MYSTIFIED. 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