Dr. Stiggins:
to supply. Again, I spoke briefly but firmly on the dreadful evils of betting; I reminded him of cases, known to both of us, in which whole households had been involved in awful, irretrievable ruin through mania for gambling on race-horses: of the young fellow with good prospects and talents, with an excellent situation in a business house, tempted by these lists of odds to ruin, disgrace and imprisonment; of the sober middle-aged man, prosperous and beloved by his wife and family, yielding to a form of excitement that is worse than dram-drinking, losing and betting to retrieve his losses, losing again till, his wife dead, his children in misery, he himself at last found rest in a pauper's grave. I could mention scores of such cases, they are known to everyone who cares to interest himself in the subject, and I asked my friend if he thought it right to encourage a journal, published on the Sabbath, which made a special feature of this horrible pest of all classes in England, from the duke to the errand boy. His answer surprised
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