The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-09-30


that nasty liquor and beat and slarve US
cause there would be nobody to sci! he
any-and then we should have plenty II
eat" aug. u aa9 ~
| Away she rnn down the street 'owart
that reeking center Of filth, poverty anc
misery, the noted Five Points Of New
| York. tas 7laau8
As we plodded up Broadway, looking
in here and there upon the pnlalia
/ splendors Uf metropolitan "saloons'--w,
think that is the word for fashionable
upper class erog>shops-we almost in
voluntarily cried g, Il corn," as we saw
the ho, spirit of that grain, under ili'
various guiscs OF squire GIN -1''ovd fun
--"pale brandy'-"pure port'-"fieid'
sick"-or "Lager>ber"- poured dow
the hot ,hron,s of men--and alb, yes, o
women, too, whose daughters may some
day sit at midnight upon the culd curb
stone crying shot CORN" to gain penny
for the purchase of n drink of the fiery
dragon lI'ey are now inviting TO home
in their bosoms, whose cry in alter years
will be, "Give, give, give" and still as
unsatisfed us the horse>leach's daugh,
iefs.
Again, as we passed on up TIA. street
still busy and lhrong"d al midnight, as q
country village ai midday in,eTmission Of
church service, ever and anon from some
side-slreei, came up tho cry of shot
corn--hol corn!" and ever as we heard
it, and ever as we shall through all years
10 come, we thought Of iba, lille girl and
her drunken mother, and the "bad man"
at the corner grocery, and that hers was
the best, the strenges, Maine L'wsarg
nent which had ever fallen upon our
listening ear.
Again, as we turned the corner of
Spring street, the glare and splendor of
a thousand gas lights, and the giilering
cui>glass Of that, for the first time,
lighted up bur-ro"m Of the Prescott
House. so lauded by the Prcss for its
maen;fcence, dashed our eyes. and al.
most blinded our senses TO degree Of
that first class Hotels mus,
have such Five Point dcnizen-making
appurtenances as This glltering room,
inviting, open TO the street:
when that wa,ch-word cry, like the
pihroch's startling peal, came up from
Ihe near vicinity, waling like a lost
spirit on the mid>night air Hot corn,
hot cum here's your nice hot corn
smoking hol-ho!--hol corn"
"Yes, yes! I hear yon cry-it is a
watch word-e glorious watch word, that
bids us do or die-unlil the smoking, not.
fory-(urnace,Iike gates of hell, like this
one now yawniug before MS, shall cease
to be licensed by Christian people, to
send delicate little girls at midnight
through the streets, crying, "l1oi corn
TO support drunken mother, who's"
frs, glass was taken in "fashon"blc
saloon," or irst>class liquor selling hotel.
"IIot corn,' then, be the watch word
OF al! who would rather see the grain
fed 10 the dfundard's wife and children
than INTO the Unsuitable hot NAV Of the
whisky still.
Let your resolution grow hot and
strong every time you hear this midnight
cry. tina, you will devote, if nothing
inurc--
"Three grains Of corn, mother,
Only three grains of corn,"
toward the salvation of the thousand
equally pi,iable objects as the little ei'|,
whose wailing cry has been The melting
cause of this prescn, dish Of ''llot corn
smoking ho'w
CnAr. ll.-TnE UoME OF LITTLE KATY.
About a weak ago, we published a
little story under this title, detailing
some of the sullerings which crime and
misery bring upon the poor Of this city,
and hn,cd at the cause. That story is
not yet finished. The next nigh, after
the interview with that neglected, i'll
used little girl, the same plsintive cry of
"ITut corn! hot corn! here is your mic"
hot corn" came up through our open
window, on the midnight air, while tie
nIn came dripping down from the over
charged, clouds in jus, sufficient quan~
titles TO wet the thin single Carmen, q!
the owner of that swee, young voice,
wilhou! giving her an acceptable excuse
for leaving her pos, before her hard task
was completed. AT length the voice
grew fainter, and then ceased, and then
we know ,ba, exhausted nature slept
tender house plan. was exposed to the
chilling Influence Of a night raIn-that
an innocent little girl had the curb.s'one
for bed and an iron pos, for pillow
tia, by and by she would awaken, not
invlgorated with refreshing slumber, bu'
poisoned with the sleep>inhaled minsma
Of the fil,h.reoking gutter at her feet,
which may be breathed with imPunlty
awake, but like the malaria Of o'l'
Southern coast, is death to the sleeper;
no, soothed by dreamy consciousness
of hearing a mothers voice, tuning the
soft lullaby Of
"Hush, my child, lie still and slumbcr;"
but starting like a sentinel upon savage
frontier post. with alarm at having slept;
sh,vering with night air and fear, and