The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-04-12

your coat tighter, for the cold night
wind sweeps through.
Strike another match. All! is 1t pos
sible that that young woman's Scared
and bruised face was ever looked into
by maternal tenderness? Utter no
scorn. Utter no harsh word No ray
OF hope has dawned on that brow for
many year. No ray of hope ever will
dawn on that brow. But the light has
gone out Do not strike another light
1t would be mockery to kindle an
other light in such place as that.
Pass out and pass down the street. Our
cities of Brooklyn and New York and
all our great cities are full OF such
homes, and the worst time at midnight
Do you know it is in the midnight
that criminals do their worst workP
At half-past 8 o'clock you will find
them in the drinking saloon, but to-
ward 10 o'clock they go to their garrets,
they get out their tools. then they start
on the street Watching on either side
for the police, they go to their work Of
darkness This is a burglar and the
false key will soon touch the store lock.
This is an incendiary, and before morn
ing there will be light on the sky, and
cry of "Fire! firel" This is an assas-
sin, and tomorrow morning there will
be dead body in one of the vacant lots.
During the daytime these villains in
our cities lounge about, some asleep and
some awake, but when the third watch
of the night arrives, their eye keen,
their brain cool, their arm strong, their
foot fleet to fly or pursue they are
ready. Many Of these poor creatures
were brought up in that way. They
were born in a thiefs garret. Their
childish toy was burglars dark
lantern. The first thing they remem-
Der was the mother bandaging the brow
of their father, struck by the police
club They began by robbing boys
pockets, and now they have come to
dig the underground passage to tho
cellar Of the bank, and are preparing to
blast the gold-vault
Just so long as there are neglected
children Of the street, just so long we
will have these desperadoes Some one,
wishing to make good Christian point
and to quote passage of Scripture, ex-
pecting to get Scriptural passage in
answer, said to one of these poor lads,
cast out and wretched: when your
father and your mother forsake you,
who then will take you up?' and the
boy said: 'The perlice, the perlicer
In the midnight gambling does its
worst work What though the hours
be slipping away, and though the wife
be waiting in the cheerless home? Stir
up the fire. Bring on more drinks Put
up more stakes. That commercial house
that only little while ago put out sign
of copartnership will this season be
wrecked on gamblers table. There
will be many a money-till that viii
spring alealS A member of congress
gambled with member-elect and wor
$4,000. The old way of getting liv
ing is SO slow. The old way Of getting
a fortune is so stupid. Come, let III
toss up and see who shall have it AnC
so the work goes on, from the wheeling
,wretches pitching pennies in rum-e.v
Gerry up to the millionaire gambler II
the stock exchange.
In the midnight hour pass down tn,
streets Of our American cities and yoi
hear the click Of the dice and the sharp
keen tap Of the pool room ticker. A
these places merchant princes dis
mount, and legislators, tired OF makinl
laws, take a respite in breaking them
All classes of people are robbed by thi
crime, the importer Of foreign silks an
the dealer in Chatham street pocke
handkerchief The clerks Of the stor
take hand nfter the shutters are pu
up, and the officers Of the court Will
away their time while the jury Is Out
In Baden Baden, when that city wa
, the greatest of all gambling places o
: earth, II was no unusual thing the mex
, morning in the woods around that cit
/ to find the suspended bodies of suicides
, Whatever be the splendor Of the sui
roundings there is no ex cuse for thi
. crime. The thunders of eternal d.
, strnction roll in the deep rumble {
q that gambling ten-pin alley, and as me
a come out TO join the long procession {
. sin, all the drums Of woe beat th
, dead march OF thousand souls.
h one year, In the city OF New York, ther
a were seven millions Of dollars sacrifice
| at the gaming table. Perhaps some (
a your friends have been smitten Of tn
h sin. Perhaps there may be strang'
a in the house this morning, come fro
some Of the hotels Look out for tho'
4 agents Of iniquity who tarry about u
: hotels and ask you, "Would you like
v see the cityT Yes Have you ev'
\ seen that splendid building uptown
n No Then the villain will undertake
I. show you what he calls the lions ar
n the elephants" and after a your
i man. through morbid curiosity
o through badness Of soul, has seen Il
is Lions" and the "elephantS" he will
4 on enchanted ground. Look out for the
d men who move around the hotels wi
"a sleek hats-always sleek hats-and p
"a tronizing afr, and unaccountableintere
about your welfare and entertainer
II You are fool u you cannot SEQ throut
X it, They want your money. In Chez
,e nut street Philadelphia while / W
" living In that city, an incident occurr
: which was familiar. TO us there
10 Chestnut street q young man went in
{" a gambling saloon, lost all his properi
m then blew his brains out, and befc
ID the blood was washed from the floor
10 the maid, the comrades were shufii
IN cards again. You see there Is me
a y,.rcv In the hiphwavman for the