The Danbury News

A Story with a Moral.
A dealer in pork has a precocious son who was expert in cards, and, in playing with his young companions, was seldom on the losing side. He began at first to bet on the game. and ere long would play regularly for money with any of his age disposed to accept the risk. He came home one day, bringing several dollars which he had acquired in his small way of gaming, and exhibited his gains to his father with quite an air of triumph. The thoughtful parent shook his head and told his son that the money was not honestly acquired. "But I did not cheat," said the boy. "I hope not," replied the father; "but did you give the loser any equivalent whatever for it ?" The boy hung his head, and the parent added, "money is honestly acquired where there is an exchange of products or service, and the receiver gives an equivalent for it; to take another man's property and give him no equivalent for it, is to rob or cheat him."
A few months after, the father came home from the produce exchange with an elated aspect, and announced that he had settled his speculative contracts in pork by the receipt of nearly fifty thousand dollars. His son eyed him steadily a moment, and then said: "What did you give the other man, father, as an equivalent for the money?"- New York Journal of Commerce.