These dice are introduced by the gam
blera, unobserved by honest men who
coma into the play; and this accounts
for the fact that ninety-nine out of a
hundred who gamble, however wealthy
they began, at the end are found to be
poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that
would not now bo allowed to sit on the
doorstep of the house that they or ce
owned.
In a gaining house in San Francisco
a young man having just come from
the mines deposited a large sum upon
the ace and won twenty-two thousand
dollars. But the tide turns. Intense
anxiety comes upon the countenances
of alL Slowly the cards went forth.
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Xivery eye is nxea. jot a sound is
heard until the ace is revealed, favor
able to the bank. There are shouts of
"Foul!" "Foul!" but the keepers of
the table produce their pistols and the
uproar is silenced, and the bank has
won ninety-five thousand dollars. Do
you call this a game of chance? There
is no chance about it.
FRACDS IX ORDER TO GET MONEY,
But these dishonesties in the carry
ing on of the game are nothing when
compared with the frauds which 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 and the portion of the
orphans, has sold the daughter's virtue
to get the means to continue the game,
has written the counterfeit signature.
