p. 13 | A DEAR BUTTON

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 14, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 24.

A DEAR BUTTON.

"I WAS well acquainted," says a reformed gambler, "with the circumstances of a young man starting to go to the Hot Springs of Arkansas. He was a man who had acquired, by honesty and industry, about nine hundred dollars. He had been in bad health for some time, and concluded to visit the springs to recruit his health. On his arrival at the mouth of White River, he was detained for a boat, and while there he was induced to play cards. I am unable to say at this time what was the game that he played, but he won some forty or fifty dollars, and the game broke up.

"After the game was broken up, one of the gamblers pulled out a button and bantered the young man to win it at a faro, and he pulled out a quarter and bet against the button, and the banker won. He tried again and again, until he lost some three or four dollars, to win the button, and then went to bed. The banker had now several persons betting small bets on the game, and had won some eight or ten dollars, and there was quite a noise and bustle going on. The young man who had quit and gone to bed, got up, and felt a strong propensity to win all. He began betting on the game again, and in a short time lost the whole of his nine hundred dollars trying to win a button; for that was all he could have won, as the man had no money at first but what he had won from the young man. The young man was obliged to make his way home, without his health being benefited, and without his money."

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