The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-11-21

Of religion, and philosophy and art and infor.
nation from the four winds of heaven. The As.
ISOLATED Press began in 1855 to pay 5000 900 for
news, some OF the newspapers paying $4,000 ex.
ira for special dispatches, and others, lndepend.
ent Of the Associated Press with their own wire
rake gathering up the sheaves Of news from all
the world. 1t is high time that good men under
stood that the press is the mightiest engine of all
| the centuries BY the high water mark on the
type case you can tell the ebb or flow Of the great
tides OF civilization and Christianity. The com.
bined circulation Of New York daily newspapers
! In 1885 was only 10000 day. Now II ia 10000
and at the estimate that five persons peruse each
paper, they have two and one half millions Of
readers per day II used to be mystery how, ac-
eording to the Bible statement, nations were to be
born In day It tseems to me easy now, Getthe
| telegraphio operators and the editors converted
ana IN "a hours all nations will see the salvation
| OF God. In midnight New York there Is nothing
more iull OF solemn import than the midnight
pr nllng press; But with what aching eyes and
exhaustion OF health the work goes on noticed
that night that not more than one out Of ten
seemed TO have bIawny health, The mal-odOrs
| OF ink, however, complete the ventilation; and
the necessity OF toll at hours when God has drawn
the curtains of the world for natural sleep; the
| pressure Of publishing every morning or evening
| whatever breaks down. the temptation to intoxi.
eating stimulants In order to keep up the nervous
system through hours of untimely occupation
temptations which only tho strongest can resist
make the lives Of newspaper men something to
| be sympathized with Don't begrudge the three
or five cents you pay for the newspaper, for in
addition to the knowledge gained, you are paying
| for sleepless nights and smarting eye.balls and
fatisues of brain and early sepulcher.
THE NEwsBoYs' LODGING HOUSE.
With the buzz and click and roar and bewllder
ing activity Of the midnight newspaper Offices in
my mind started up town. "Now," said, "let
us strike out from Broadway to the right and see
what chance there is for New York 20 years from
| now. The vast majority Of the present drunkards
will die drunkards, the vast majority Of thieves
will die thieves, and Of paupers will die paupers
| and Of the destitute will die destitute. What
then2 Give II up, and consider our cities lostP-
No" We never felt so little like giving them up,
nor so full Of high and exhilarant hope We said
to the driver, "Go down Chambers street to
Duane" Reaching the spot we saw the sign
over the door, "Newsboys' Lodging House." Now
II there's anything like it's boys. don't mean
those who by the registers of homes heated of fur.
mace, and the manipulations of over.indulgent
aunts have had their hair cured till they become
girls, but boys with the extra romp and hilarlty
which God puts into lad that he may have
something Of mirth left even after the world has
pounded him, l mean genuine boys-bOys that
can't sit still three minutes at time; boys that
can wrestle and run and swim and fly kites and
leap fences, and get hungry a half nour after
they have dlned, and keep everything stirred up
and lively Matthew ArnOds boys. There they |
were in the Newsboys' Lodging House, They
knew me, and knew them-that is, we met each |
other with an instinct Of friendliness. Their |
coats Off for though the air was chilled outside |
Christian charity had flooded the In ide with |
glorious summer, Sign over the door, saying |
No boys with homes admitted here" Is II pos |
sible that these hundreds Of smiling and happy |
boys have been swept In from the streets7 They |
are first plunged In the bath, and then put under
the manipulation of barber, and then taken to |
q wardrobe, and In the name Of him, who said |
II was naked, and ye clo,hed me-" they walked |
forth in appropriate attire paying whatth can |
so far as possible to keep them from feelings Of |
pauperism, some penny for the privilege Of |
bOuntitul table, and the most eXtravagant paying |
but six cents; gymnasiums to straighten out and |
mind, and religion for the soul, Can they
sing n" l asked, and they answered by making
the halls resound with Ring the bells Of heaven,
for there it JOY to, day" What Is this~ said,
bending over long, wide box, with numbers
nailed beside az many small openings. ut Is a
savings bank" they answered. Each boy has his
number and bank book, and at the beginning
OF the month has permission TO take his money.
Meanwhile, whatever may be his urgency for o
new top or attractive confectionery, OR any of
those indehnable things with which lads pock.
cts are crowded, he can't get his money out, but
must wait till the beginning of the month; and go
GCUuUuly anu buIlt ueNblOpeOs bthllbLlCB are
dry ordinarily, but there is nothing more spirited
In Thackeray, or more sublime in John Milton,
than the fact that this lodging house since isope
ming has sheltered about 1430C0 boys returned
over t2O09 10 their friends, and that 15,e00 have
deposited over 900 In this big box and that the
institution has turned many Of them into good
citizens, merchants lawyers judges of courts
doctors, cergymen, and prepared multtudes for
heaven where many Of them have already gone
personally, confronting Him In whose compass
sion the institution was established The work of
immigration to the West goes on peTpetually-
There Is absolutely no chance for reformation In
the dens OF New York. What must be the sensa.
ton when lad from Water street wakes up on
an Iowa prairie with hundred miles Of room on
each side Ofhim2 One OF the ragamudins trans.
ported through the benefaGtion Of this Society
wrote from the West: II am on probation in the
Methodist church. now teach a Sunday-sehool
class OF eleven boys. l get along firstrate with
1t. This is splendid country TO make living
IN. II the boys running around the streets with
blaCkening box on their shoulder or bundle of
papers on their arms only knew what high old
times we boys have out here they would not hesi
tate about coming West but come the first chance
they got"
THE HOWARD MISSION
We went down stairs saying The sins of New
York are not more wonderful than her charity"
Making our way into New Bowery, we found the
How ard Mission, famous on earth and in heaven
for what the beft bankers and merchants and
Christian philanthropists have through 1t done
for the rescue Of boys and girls on the edge of
eternal calamity. While we sat there looking off
on the audience Of youth snatChed up from va
GRANGE to God we thought: Who can estimate the
reward for both worlds to those who put their en-
ergles in such Christ like undertakiDgP What
a monument to Joseph Hoxie and Mr.. Van Meter.
IA. H. ~. - q |
H. E. Tompkins Of to-day, and Its thousands Of
friends all over the land, who, in the food they
have sent to this Institution have fed Christ, and
in the garments donated have clothed Christ, and
in the homes opened for the wandering have
housed Christ God will pursue these men and
women with His mercy clear up to the edge Of
the pillow on which they breathe their last, and
give them reception on the other side of the gate
that will make all heaven echo and p-echo with |
their deeds But still there is heIculanean, yea,
an omnipOtent work TO be done in the redemption |
Of juvenile vagranoy. In this cluster Of cities ,
there are $1,000 people over ten years Of age who
can't write their own names What q vast major. |
ity, then, under ten must be ignOrantl "But,p '
said. 1--WE must hasten up Broadway, for the s
places Of good and bad amusement will now be
dispensing their audiences, and we shall see !
great sight" The OrchestIas had played their q
last tunes the theaters had dropped their curtains
and the concerts Of the churches had closed Ah, :
thought, these are the great tides Of life and I
death. Good amusement Is very good; bad amuse- +
meDt Is very bad. He who paints a fine picture {
)r sculptures beautiful statue or arouses an in. Il
locent laugh, or sings beautiful song. or In any
wise cuts the strapOf the bondage OF care on the Il
worlds shoulders, Is a benefactor, and In the ii
lame OF God bless him. But between Canal n
treet and Fourteenth street are enough traps of q
In to keep the world Of darkness In perpetual q
Holiday Within fifteen minutes walk OF Broad o
way any night yOa will find enough places of u
musement to invoke all tina birthstone that bu-
led SodOm. See them come out flashing with
trycbnined wine, guzzling in the recesses of the r
multitudes Of them accompanied in
way That insuTes for them eternal and everlast.
n discontinue. They turn down the narrow
lreets running of Broadway, and the Recording
NIGEL who keeps the accounts, shives with hor. ca
Dr. as he pens the destiny. u
THE GOOD ANGEL AND THE BAD ANGEL. th
Aswe turned homeward, from our carriage win. U
ow we saw tragedy on the corner of Broadway y
nd Houston streets A younp man was haiting | u,