The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-28

gamblers have. Numbers OF lOollSn
girls and gilded flies we're led on
the downward path to ruin at Ar.
nory Hall, but all of the crime,
profanity and sin that were ever
| engendered there, would not equal
the ruin wrought in Wall street in
a single day. Mr.. Dickinson goes
into exile utter long &nd honora-
BILE life, branded as a thief, and the
men who got the money faunt their
ill-gotten riches at Newport, Sara.
toga and Long Branch.
The latest news is that Billy Nc.
Glory after his release experienced
change Of heart. and was going to
open Mission like Jerry McAu-
ley's. where the Magdalene and the
tramp might be brought to a sense
of their lost condition. But just as
, the goody goodies got ready to give
Billy a welcome and reception,
Billy went off on a tear with the
boys. He set up the champagne
for the crowd, got as tight ss bricks.
and the conclusion is forced upon
US that the day of his salvation is
yet far off.
One of Her Majesty's Own got
laid by the heels here last week,
/ and had novel and unpleasant ex-
perience in our great and noble
country. He left England on a
three months furlough, intending
to unit 'Hindians and bufaloes.
He had scarcely landed in. New
York when he started out to see the
Elephant. He saw Jumbo, and
though he started out we'll dress
ed gentlemen, with fine watch and
couple of hundred dollars in his
pocket, yet he landed at twelve
o'clock at night in the vicinity of
Five Points, not only minus his
valuables but also minus his clothes.
When the policeman lugged him off
to limbo, he looked like the worst
kind of o tramp. He wandered
about the town for three days till
he was almost starved to death. At
last he found his way to Castle
Garden where he made bis story
known. 1t is probable that Lieu
tenant Campbell Of Her Majesty's
Own will in a few days be floating
on an even keel, but he won't for
get his experience among the
blarsted Yankees in hurry. He
may not carry back many Indian
scalps or buffalo horns. but he VII
have a heap of valuable experience
which will prove of much practical
service when he goes hunting in
foreign lands.
Philanthrophy takes queer freaks.
Almost every week in the winter
time you will see some member of
the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children make raid on
the little children engaged in a
rustic dance or singing in fairy
chorus in the theaters.
All of these children are we'll fed,
| we'll clad, well housed and well cared
for, and bettrr paid for what they
do and are injured by it less than
any other children who have to
earn their living on this planet.
Yet the Soci>ty drags them off from
their occupation and dooms them to
idleness and consequent poverty.
Yet around all the docks, ferries
| and steamboat landings little rag
ged half.starved girls swarm selling
papers or whatever they can find to
sell; there are t::ousands of these,
varying from eight to fourteen or
fifteen years of age; they are many
OF them little homeless waits or tie
children of drunken parents; they
are constantly associated with the
most vicious class Of rufian hood
lums, but the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children ncv.
er stretches out a hand to save
| them.
One of the healthful signs of the
| times is that the intolerable nui
sance, the Salvation Army, is grad
ually dwindling away in New York
& Brooklyn. A few months ago their
street parades were forty and fifty
strong. One Eightlast week I met
a hallelujah company on the street
and there were only six all told
The two Salyat on lasses who were
beating tambourines looked more
like street trsmps than gospel dis
pensers, while every one of the
males looked like hopeful candida
tes for the penitentiary. Why it is
that this nuisance has been tolerat
ed is mystery. Every time they
appear upon the st!eets Iney attrac!
crowd Of gaping rufians and ere
ate a riot. Let US hope that the
end of the Salvation Army, with its
disgraceful mummery, will soon be
among the things Of the past.
If any one imagines that Cover
nor St. John is going to ride into
the White House on Prohibition
car, he would be quickly disabusee
of that idea if he could have seer
the parade of the Liquor Dealers
and Brewers Associations II
Brooklyn, the City Of Churches, OF
Thursday, August l4th. The pro
cession was fully two miles long
and the horses alone, exclusive O
the wagons they drove, and tn
costly freight OF beer, ale, gin' rum
brandy, &C., &C., were worth owe
a quarter of a million Of dollars
Ali the liquors beneath the sui