is found at county fairs, on railway trains, in gilded dens, and at public
resorts. Being a professional outlaw, and subject at any time to arrest
and imprisonment, usually he has an accomplice. Sometimes a gang
work together, so that it is with perfect ease they may relieve any
unwary novice of his money. They know human nature on its low,
mercenary side, and soon can find their man in a crowd. But few
persons have started out in life having it for their aim to get something
for nothing who, sooner or later, have not been "taken in" by this gang
of swindlers. They know their kind. The end of the professional
gambler is final loss and ruin. He will make $100, he will make $500,
he will make $1,000, he will make $2,000; then he will lose all. Then
he will borrow some money and start anew. And again he will make
$200, he will make $600, he will make $1,200, and he will lose all.
Like the winebibber and the professional murderer, the professional
gambler has his den. Not a large city in the world is without these
haunts of vice. Who is it that feeds and supports them? The novice
at cards and dice, husbands and sons of respectable families, just as
the occasional dram-taker supports the saloon. As one has asked:

"Could fools to keep their own contrive,
On whom, on what could gamesters thrive?"
--GAY.

The penny novice seeks the penny gambling den. The aristocratic
speculator seeks the gilded gambling den. The expert trickster of
large luck and large fortune makes his way to Monte Carlo, the
gambling Mecca of the world. Monte Carlo is a famous resort
situated in the northwest part of Italy. It is notorious for its gambling
saloon. This city of nearly four thousand inhabitants is located in
Monaco, the smallest independent country in the world. Monaco is