Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 February 1891 — Page 7

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MANY EVILS THAT GUFLSE THE GREAT CIT»E8.

IfliaHlii'i XenllmK, Un»pr««lii| Oread Bmiifthftl [th• Widow's Mite—Dr. TalBMC*'I Sermon.

ROT. Dr.Talmage preached at Brooklyn and New York Sunday and Sunday !night Text: Exodus ix. 13-14.

A decided sensation was produced in iKew York and in Brooklyn Sunday by (Dr. Talmasrfl's announcement cf a series of sermon* which he proposes to preach on "The Ten Plagues of The ,Three Great Cities." In this sermon, which is the first of the series, he pays hiB attention to the prevalent curse of •gambling*. He said:

Last winter in the Museum at Cairo JSgypt, I »aw the mummy or embalmed Ibody of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the Ancient Israelites. Visible are tb«

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ery teeth that he gnashed against the brick makers, the sockets jof the merciless eyes with which he flooked upon the overburdened people Of God, and the hair that floated in lihe breeze of the Red Sea, the very lips with which he commanded them to make bricks without straw.

Thousands of years after, when the wrappings of the mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm as if in imploration, but his skinny "bones cannot again clutch his lest and shattered scepter. It was to compe' [that tyrant to let the oppressed go free that the memorable ten plaguewere sent. Sailing the Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyptian cities. •1 Baw no remains of those plagues that pmote the water or the air. None of the frogs croaked in the one, none of the locusts sounded their rattle in the other, and the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and ih- ough the starry Slights hovering about the pyramids too destroying angel swept his wing. But there are ten plagues still stinging and befouling and cursing our cities, and like angels of wrath smiting not only the first born but the last born.

Brooklyn, New York and Jersey City, though called three, are practi* pally one. The bridge already fastening two of them together will be followed by other bridges and by tunnels from both New Jersey and Long Island chores, until what is true now will, as .the yea.s goby, become moreemphau ilcally true. The average condition of public morals in this cluster of cities |B as good if not better than in any other part of the world. Pride of city is natural to men, in all times, if they live or have lived in a metropolis doted for dignity or prowess. Caesar jboasted of his native Rome Lycurgus jof Sparta Virgil of Andes: Demosthe»es of Athens Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should puspect a man of base heartedness who carried about with him no feeling of complr." in regard to the place of his ve who gloried not in its arts, or behavior who looked with uitation upon its evidence^ of prosperity, its artistic embellishments, and its scientific attainments.

Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of winning more than you hazard. The instruments of gambling may differ, but the principle is the same. The ebuffiing and dealing of cards, however full of temptation, is not gambling unless stakes are put up, while on the other hand gambling may be carried on without cards or dice, or Milliards or a ten pin alley. The man fvho bets on horses, on elections, on battles—the man who deals in "fancy" stocks," or conducts a business which hazards extra capital, or goes into transactions without foundation, but dependent upon what men call "luck," is a gambler. Whatever you expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money or #me or skill, is either the product of $heft or gambling. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same category. Fairs for the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, con. ducted on the raffling system, come under the same denomination. Do not, therefore, associate gambling neces•arily with any instrument, or game, or time or place, or think the principle flepends upon whether you play for a glass of wine, or 100 shares of railroad stock.

It is estimated that every day in Christendom $80,000,000 pass from hand to hand through gambling practices, and every year in Christendom 0123,100,000,000 change hands in that tray. There are in this cluster of eities about 800 confessed gambling establishments. There are about 3,500 professional gamblers. Out of the 800 gambling establishments how many of |hem do you suppose profess to be fionest? Ten. These ten profess to be honest because they are merely the tnte-ch'-imber to the 790 that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first class gambling establishments. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The walls are lavendertinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are "Jephtha's Daugher," and Dore's "Dante'8 and Virgil's Frozen Region of Hell." A most appropriate selection, this last, lor the place. There is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, most exquisite piece of furniture in the United States. There is the banqueting room, where, free of charge to the guests, you may find the plate, the viands, and wines, and cigars, sumptuous beyond •~Darallel.

Then you come to the second-class /establish ment. To it you are introduced by a card through a -'roper-in." Having entered, you must either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks, jpill soon help you to get rid of all

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our money to a tune in short meter staccato passage*. You wanted (lo You saw. The low villus of

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the plaoe watch you as you come in. Does not the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle not for your rights in that place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the street, or dead into the East River. You go along a little further and find the policy establishment. In that place you bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called a "saddle," betting on three numbers is called a "gig," betting on four numbers is called a "horse." and there are thousands of our young men leaping into that ''saddle," and mounting that "gig," and, behind that, "horse," riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign On the door—''Exchai.ge

a most ap-

propiate title for the door, for there in that room, a man exchanges health, peace and heaven, for loss of health, loss of home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough.

A young man, having suddenly he!red a large property, sits at a hazard table, and takes up a dice box, the estate won by a father's lifetime sKveat, 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 staggering up the street where his family lives.

But gambling does not in 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 busK ness. "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 upon him a giant is aroused within him: and though you bind him w.th cables, they would part like thread and though you fasten him seven times round 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.

Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping .-scjres, or hundreds, or thousands ol dollars from the gambling table will not be content with slow work. He will say, "What is the use of trying to make these $50 in my store when 1 can get five times that in half an hour down at Billy's?" You never knew a confirmed gambler who was industrious. The men given to tbi* vice spend heir time, not 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 carsro, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow and sent a strange lightning to shatter the battery of the philosopher. The very first idea in gaming is at war with all the industries of society

This crime is getting its lever under many a mercantile house in our great ties, 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 us. The ten gaming houses that once were authorized in Paria passed through the banks yearly 325,000,000 of francs. Where does all the money come from? The whole world is robbed! What is most sad, there are no consolations for the loss and suffering entailed by gaming. If men fail in lawful business,

God pities

and society commiserates, bu* where in the Bible or in the society is there any consolation for the gambler? Jb'rom 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 of the gambler? Do the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek of sickness and to cool the heated brow of the laborer, whisper hope and obeer to the emancipated? When an honest man is in trouble, he has 83 mpathy. "Poor fellow!" they say. But do the gamblers come to weep at the agonies of the gambler? In No/thumberland was one of the finest estates in England. Mr. Porter owned it, and in a year gambled it all away. Having lost the last acre of the estate he came down from the saloon and got into his carriage, went back, put up his horses and carriage and town house and played. Ho threw and lost. He started home, and in a side alley met a friend, from whom he borrowed ten guineas went back to the saloon, and before a great while had won £20,000. He died at last a beggar in St. Giles. How many gamblers felt sorry for Mr. Porter? Who consoled him to the loss of his estate? What gambler subscribed to put a stone over the poor man's grave? Not one!

Futhermore, this *in is the cource of uncounted dishonesties The game of hazard itself is often a cheat.

How many tricks and deceptions in the dealing of cards! The opponment's band is often found out by fi-aud. Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert gamesters have their accomplices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice may be loaded with platlna, so that the "doublets" come up every time. These dice are introduced by the gamblers unobserved by honest men who have come into the play, and this accounts for tho fact that ninetynine out of a hundred, at the end are found to be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the door-step of the house that they once owned. In a gambling bouse in San Francisco a young man having just come from the mines deposited a large sum upon the ace and won $22,000,

But the tide turns. Intense anxiety comas upon the cotwtnanoes of all.

Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard un« till the aoe is revealed favorable 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 $95,000. Do you call this a game of chance? There is no chance about it

Merciless, unappeasable, fiercer and wilder it blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crush s, it damns. It has peopled our lunitio asylums. How many railroad agents and cashiers and trustees of funds it has driven to disgrace, incarceration and suicide! Witness years ago a cashier of a railroad who stole $103,000 to carry on his gaming practices. Witness $40, 000 stolen from a Brooklyn bank within the memory of many of you, and the $180,000 taken from a Wall street insurance company for the same parpose. These are only illustrations on a large scale of the robberies every day committed for the purpose of carrying out the designs of gamblers. Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year leak out without observation from the merchant's till into the gambling hell. A man in London keeping one of these gambling houses boasted that he had ruined a nobleman a day but if all the saloons of this land were to speak out they might utter a more infamous boast, for they have doetroyed a thousand noble men a year.

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 daughters were disgraced and the sons took up the same infamous practices or took a short cut to destruction across the murderer's scaffold. Home has lost all charms for the gambler. How tame are the children's caresses and a wife's devo* tion to the gambler! How drearily the fire burns on the domestic hearth! There must be louder laughter and something to win or lase and excitement to drivo the heart faster and fil«» lip the blood and fire the imagination. JJb home, however bright, can keep back the gamester. The sweel call of love bounds back from his iron

soul, and endearments are consumed in the flame of his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and if the crown in heaven were put into his hand he would cry: 'tiere goes one more game, my boys! On this one throw I stako my crown heaven."

Shall I sketch the history of the gambler? Lured by bad company, he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go. He s.ts down to his first game, but only for pastime and the desii of being thought sociable. The players deal out the cards. They unconsciously play into Satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and both the player's soul's for trumps— he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up, just to add in** terest 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 com* pressed lips and clenched fists, and eyes like tire balls that seem starting from their sockets, to see tho final turn before it comes if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths cast back red hot upon tho heart—or, winning, with hysteric laugh, "Ha! ha! I have it! I have it!"

A few years have passed and he is only the wreck of a mah. Seatic^r himself at the game ere he throws the first card, he stakes the last relic of his wife and the marriage ring which seals the solemn vows retween them. The game is lost, and staggering back in exhaustion he dreams. The bright hours of the past mock his agony, and in his dreams fiends with eyes of fire and tongue of tlame circle about him with joined hands to dance and sing their hellish chorus, chanting, "Hail, orother!" kic6ing his clammy forehead until their loathsome lock?, flowing with serpents, orawl into his boom 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 practice been overthrown. No young man in our cities can escape being tempted. Beware of the first beginnings! This road is a down grade, and every instant increases its momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. Split hu ks strew the beach. Everlasting 6torms howl up and down, tossing unwary crafts into the Hellgate. 1 speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. 1 have looked off into the abyss, and I have seen the foaming, and the hissing, and the whirling of the horrid deep in which the mangled victims writhed, one upon another, and struggle d, stra gled, bl isph and died—the ueath-stare of ettr.ial despair upon their countenances as the waters gurgled over them. To a gambler's death-bed there comes no hope. He will probably die alone. His former associates come not nigh his. 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 look out a moment and say: "There goes the old carcass—dead at last," but they will not get up from the table. Let him down now into the grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no "forget-me-no.s" or ^glatiines around the spot, for flowers wure not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sunshine, for that would be mockery, but in the dismal night when no stars are out and the spirits of darkness come down horsed on the wind, then visit the grave of tho gambler.

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EDITORS AT WAR.

On* KI1UO, Another Snrlaua'y Hart, a Bystander

Shot

Elliott, with his brother Patrick, and Os. borne met Monday afternoon on High street near tho American Hotel. Patrick Elliott opened fire on Osborne, and Osborne returned the fire. A running battle ensued, in which W. J. El'iott joined, all three men emptying their revolvers as rapidly as possible. One of the shots from W.9 J. Eiliott's revolver grazed Osborne's arm and he turned and tired at the former. The shot missed its mark and Osborne fled into Malcolm McDonald's hatstore. As he did so he turned and fired at W. J. Elliott. The latter fired his weapon almost simultaneously, and the shot took effect in Os borne's chin. It went clear through hi mouth, upward and backward through th brain and came out at the base of the skull Elliott had followed Osborne into the store, and as he iired the last shot grappled with him. In the scuffle which ensued both weapons were discharged and Os borne fell to the floor dead, although th. ast shot, it is said, did not taKe effect in either man, the ball which killed Osborne having entered his facc as he came through the doorway. Osborne fell upon a large pile of boxes containing hats and the weight of his body caused the boxes to collapse. They engulfed him, covered him completely. Elliott retreat* ed out at the front door and disappeared in the crowd with th? revolver in his ha id.

W. L. Hughes, a highly respectel citis

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WASHIN3TOM.

The copyright bill pasied the Senate on the 18th, in an amended form. It may not become a law this session.

Congressman Blaud has written a letter to one of his constituents in reference to Mr. Cleveland's anti-ftee coinage letter. Mr. Bland concludes his epistle as follows: "I do not see how the Democratic party can indorse free coinage and atthesam time indorse Mr. Cleveland nor do I see how our party can do otherwise than to de« mand free coinage in its national platform. People may admire Mr* Cleveland's courage and honesty, but I see nothing to be gained by our people by ad*

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Dead, Other* Injured*

A horrible tragedy ocourred as Column bus, O., shortly after 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. Two men wore ki led and sev* eral wounded in a fusilade of pistol shots. The terrible affair was the outgrowth of a newspaper feud which has been raging for several weeks between the publishers or the Sunday World and Sunday Capital, of Columbus. Col. W. J. Elliott, editor of the Capital, shot and instantly killed Albert Osborn, city editor of the World. W L. Hughes, an old gentleman standing near by, was shot and killed with a stray bullet from Elliott's pistol.

The tragedy, as before stated, was there suit of a newspaper war. Two weeks ago the World made charges against Elliott's family insinuating that a female relative of Elliott's was unchaste. Elliott retalU ated on the following Sunday with a four column article charging F. W. Levering, editor cf the World, with being tne join* proprietor of an assignation house, being associated with a woman named Lou Bur* ton in the disreputable enterprise. Levering is an assistant State oil inspector, and prominent in politics. The charges, therefore, created a profound sensation. The charges against Levering also implicate^ Claude Meeker. Levering and his city ed" itor, Mr. Osborne, retaliated with a sensa*. tionalarticle charging Elliott with nearly all the crimes in the calendar,

formerly Stewart of the innenie

asylum, was standing on the pave nent watching the formation of the Washington birthday parade. He was struck during the running battle. The ball ontered Hughes's head immediately over the left eye, and ho drooped on the iron grating in front of Ambrose's restaurant, expiring instantly.

Patrick

the courage and honesty of a man

who stands in the way of their prosperity, and rejects their demand for the money of he constitution so necessary to give us a healthful circulating medium now demanded, especially among the agricultura classes. The fight of the South and West against Wall street is on, and Mr. Cleve* and can not stem the tide."

RESCUED AFTER MANY DAYS.

"Alive, alive." was the joyful tidings Monday night at 11:30 from the ill fated slope No. 1, at Jeansville, Pa., after eighteen days entombed in the darkness of the minr, five of the victims of the terriole

disaster

are found alive. Their names are

John Tomaskuskv, Joe Mastuskowich^ Join

Berno,

BoscoFrinkoandan unknown

Hungarian who was visiting John Berno. These, with the thirteen bodies already found, make eighteen men, the exact num^ ber given in these dispatches the day of the accident. How they survived is a miracle. Nothing like it has been known or heard of in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania.'!

The following is a list of patents granted Tuesday: E. Brentney, Indianapolis,dust collector M. W. Brouse, Billingsville, watering trough T. Crakes, Mishawaka cultivating fruit trees W. E. Goodnow Columbus, pipe-wrench M. C. Henlay, Richmond, pulley-lathe B. Kunkle, For Wayne, safelv-valve: J. S. Roberts, In, dianapolis.^/urnace: C. J. Swart, Goshen, umbrella or parasol S. Swope, Terre Haute, rake C. L. Wheeler, Mariob, oar seel. ... ....

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Elliott was shot in lh3

back and arm, and has a frightful wound on the top of the head. The physicians are as yet unable to determine how serious his wounds are. Two other men are known to have received bullet wounds. C. W, Sullivan, a clerk of C. C. Griswold's, who while passing the scene, was shot in the left arm, though dangerously. The other was a young student named Gardner, who received a bullet in the left lesr. Severa persons are reported as slightly injured, but were hastily carried away. W. J. Ell* iottwasat one time State Supervisor of Printing, and has taken an active part in politics. He is a personal friend of Chap. Stewart Parnell, the deposed Irish leader Both of the Elliotts are locked up at the station house.

ANCIENT JartUSALEi"

Interesting Thingrs Concerning the Quaint Old City. Sitting as I am upon the site of King David's palace, I see the whole city spread out below me. What a curious! city it is! In my tour of the world have found no place so full of stranire sights, of picturesque characters, and so different in every particular from every other part of the civilized world. Aside from its wonderfully interesting historical associations, Jerusalem today is a city of itself. Forty tho isand people are packed within its narrow walls, and it looks more like a jjre^at honeycomb than a city. The house? are piled one upon another in all sort of irregularities, and if you would take a half-section of land and scatter over the whole great piles of gigantic store boxes, just :ts you find them back of a store, you would get some idea of Jerusalem as it looks to me from Mouni Zion. These houses have no chimneys, and their stone roofs are in ev. ry case almost fiat. Many of them have little

bee-hive domes Jutting out of tneir center, and if the town were on a level these domes would look like the haycocks of a great meadow at time of harvest Yellow limestone is the material of Jerusalem. The wood used in the building of the whole city would not last an American Jamily a winter, and the roofs, walls and floors of these thousands of houses are o! cold, yellowish-white limestone. Even in the bishop's mansion, which is one ol the finest in the city, 1 get out of my bed onto a stone floor, and I walk to my breakfast thro' stone halls, down stone steps.

There are no wells in this city ol« Jerusalem. All of the water comes down in rain, and the trees and gardens of the town can be numbered on your fingers. The hills about the city are almost as barren as those of New England, and the only foliage visible is the dark, silvery green of the olive orchards on the Mount of Olivos and along the hills between Jaffa and Bethlehem. The only green to be seen

an acre of common inside the walls oJ the temple plateau, and here and there a house top which by age has gather ed coating of dirt from the dust oi the city, and on which the green gras? has sprouted. Here and there you se ruined arches which are too dangerou to be inhabited by the bees of thi? human hive, and on these the mos? and grass grow. There is one green, bushy, tree at the se of Mount Calvary, and a solitary palm looks

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over the city besiJe the business street named after King David. It is not an attractive looking town, and its glaring cream white makes sore the eye? under the r.iys of this tropical sun.— F. G. Carpenter.

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Newsboy—Please, mister, will you give me 2 cents to get a night's lodging?

Minister—But 2 cents won't pay foi that, my little friend. Newsboy—No, sir. But if I had 2 cents I could pitch with the other boys, and perhaps win a pile.—New York Sun.

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