Daily Evening Star

SHUN THE GAMING TABLE.—Judge Forsyth lately occupied a prominent position in the State of New York. He possessed a large property, which he lost by gambling, and endeavored to redeem by forgery. He recently fled to England, after involving his friends to large amounts for endorsements. Commenting on his infatuation, the Albany Express contains some excellent remarks, from which we extract what follows:

By a strange perversion of human nature, the gambler's debts are always debts of honor. They cannot be collected in a court of law, and therefore the gambler feels himself honorably bound to pay them. We have no doubt Judge Forsyth paid all these debts at the expense of his integrity as a man and his reputation for life! Verily, this is a world of inconsistencies. The celebrated Fox is said to have refused the payment of a small and just debt, because he owed a debt of honor and had not money enough to pay them both. In justice and forgery, and breach of trust, are all committed under the infatuation of a reckless and gambling honor. The frenzy of the game rises over the mind with the spirit of insanity, binding reason and judgment and conscience to the very wheel of fortune. Let no man think himself safe at a game of hazard. He does not play for money alone: he hazards the possession of a sound mind.