A Gambler's Family.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1609, 15 January 1886, Page 2

A Gambler's Family.

* - # . * ■■ Some^^^e^^^^^^||ceai lif e m th« metropolis are stranger tnan afly I have ever read. ,^. I. know, of on* which has not yet got Into the local papers but^probably will some day. More than sa generafipn ®q a; man, iwJjoijras • 'known- tea. baukerJihi Louiii^fJ m*, w married a beautiful woman m that city/ by whorn;he hadjia, a >f cw r years tix of the most beautiful danghtefe. He was indulgent to them m a degree, which was the marvel" of the city m which h* lived ; he brought them up m compara. tive'ic;riorance, thdu^h all futfnally ":;- brigh+V. Oniß day during" the 1 war:H«yLwaff;- --■ suddenly . cptnpelleii tS '' ; leaVe r/ L6ui»vill» ' "' and ,fly. tb^anadft/ 'fhenlt'calin^ ! '6ut that! he. ha^ gobbed a : , ' Paymaster named Cooke," of IBS.OOOdpls. ';': at cards, and his wife learned ror/ "th« first time that his-busineßs of banking .involved simply the keeping of a iaro. .bank.v il|' r „^_? **vj ri ' *- ' She v fcpnoealed tlu» 4 jEict Mm* jher children and fled to New York yritih them to hide m ythis. great city. ShY succeeded. \-She' r^aVed these girls ia an | exemplary way, notwithstanding sb*wa» compelled to receive from her dis» j, honoured husband the fruits of h£i - i swindling 'at card*;^ She bore it for/ye*** --' 'until she had Married'- off*' ! iill - heri f «i; i 4a,i»ghterß ; then she 1 refused Wtherjkkl * v from her h'u'sbarict. 'ML^.JHH^ini<l-ikfli i children remained m ignorance of ' ifoeirr father's character ' and businese, and) were proud : of himJ o Suddenly, a fevy years agft he died* .and,, the New^rk papers told, the story of hia crwainal^ life ; and the daughters learned what 'their - father' had -been; One died fttei th« shock. The others withdr*w.thenißj«lT*s from all acquaintances with old 'Mends. One, whose husband 'rwaa «quaP ( y fond and OToud of -her, wlqaplvto.ltt' her hid*, her head in^seorecy^ and.- prae awayi The other; Ker father's iaifouriteVan^ who had^inbre than h«r share of family pride, and!. who hafl nofeonfrequentljl twitted her husband wit 6 the fact thai he was " m trade," while her father wat laT banker, m the, first-shock J>&he r«V velation of the reaV chariicter of h#r &tlier JlOnje, turned ib -dissipation m drink to some extent, and to'camblinff; desperatoiyj tad; finilly i 5 , the course of only two years of shame, has descended to' the low-levelofbfci th» mistress -of'a farobanker.—New York letter to Philidelohia News. '