The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-04-21

that criminals do their worst work7
at half-past eight o'clock you will
find them in the drinking saloon, but
toward twelve 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 Ii a
burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store lock- This is an in
cendiary, and before morning there
VIII be light in the sky, and cry of
Fire! fire" This is an assassin, and to-
, morrow morning there will be dead
body in one of the vacant lots During
the day time these Williams 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 thieves garnet. Their childish
toy was burglars dark lantern. The
first thing they remember was their
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 under
ground passage to the 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 a scr1ptural 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 perlice!'
In the midnight, gambling does its
worst work What though the hours
be slipping away, and though the wife
be waiting in the cherries home? Stir
up the fire. Bring on more drinks.
house that only little while ago put
out sign of copartnership will this sea-
son be wrecked on gamblers table
There will be many a money-til that
will spring leak. A member of con-
gress gam bled with member elect and
won one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars. The old way of getting
living is so slow. The old way
of getting fortune is so stupid. Come,
let us toss up and see who shall have
it. And so the work goes on, from the
wheeling wretches pitching pennies in
rum grocery up to the millionaire
| gambler in the stock market.
In the midnight hour, pass down the
| streets of our American cities, and you
hear the click of the dice and the sharp,
keen tap of the pool-room ticker. At
these places merchant princes dis
mount, and legislators tired of making
laws, take respite in breaking them.
All classes of people are robbed by this
crime, the importer of foreign silks and
| the dealer in Chatham street pocket
| handkerchiefs. The clerks of the store
take hand after the shutters are put
up, and the officers of the court while
away their time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was
the greatest of all gambling places on
earth, it was no unusual thing the
next morning. in the woods around
| that city. to find the suspended bodies
of suicides. VIVA tever be the splendor
of the surroundings, there is no excuse
for this crime. The thunders of eter-
nal destruction roll in the deep
rumble of that gambling ten-pin
alley, and as men come out to
join the long procession of sin, all
the drums of woe beat the dead
march of a thousand souls. In one
year, in the city of New York, there
were seven million dollars sacrificed at
the gaming table. Perhaps some of
your friends have been smitten of this
sin. Perhaps some of you have been
smitten by it. Perhaps there may be
a stranger in the house this morning
come from some of the hotels. Look
out for those agents of iniquity who
tarry around about the hotels, and ask
you: Would you like to see the city?"
Yes Have you ever seen that SPLEEN
did building uptown" No. Then the
villain will undertake to show you
what he calls the 'lions" and the
elephants" and after young
man, through morbid curiosity or
through badness of soul, has seen the
''lions" and the elephants" he will
be on enchanted ground. Look out for
these men who move around the ho-
tells with sleek hats-always sleek
hats-and patronizing air, and unac-
countable interest about your welfare
| and entertainment You are a fool if
you can not see through it. They want
your money. In Chestnut street, Phil
adelphia, while / was living in that
city, an incident occurred which was
familiar to us there. In Chestnut
street a young man went into n gam
| al Il, Al,
blew his brains out. and before the
blood was washed from the floor by the
maid the comrades were shutting cards
again. You see there is more mercy in
the highwayman for the belated trav-
eler on whose body he heaps the stones;
there is more mercy in the frost for the
flower that it kills; there is more mercy
in the hurricane that shivers the steam
er on the Long Island coast, than there
| is mercy in the heart Of a gambler for
his victim.
In the midnight hour, also drunken
ness does its work. The drinking will
6e respectable at eight o'clock in the
evening, little flushed at nine, talk
alive and garrulous at ten, at eleven
blasphemous, at one the hat falls off
/ and the man falls to the floor asking
for more drink. Strewn through the
neutrality-suspicious. of the city, fathers
brothers, husbands, sons, as good as
you are by nature, perhaps better.
In the high circles of society it ie
hushed UP. A merchant prince, if he
gets noisy and uncontrolla BILE, is taken
by his fellow-revelers, who try to get
him to bed, or take him home, where
he falls fat in the entry. Do not wake