Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-04-13

garrett Their childish toy was burglars
dark lantern. The first thing they remem-
Der was their mother bandaging the brow
Of their father. struck By the police club.
They began BY robbIhg boys pockets, and
now they have come to dig the underground
passage to the cellar Of the bauk, and are
preparing to blast the gold vault.
Just 20 long as there are neglected chill
dren Of the street. just 50 long we will have
these desperadoeA Some one, wishing to
make good Christian point and TO quote
passage Of Scripture, expecting to get a
Scriptural passage In answer, said TO one
Of these poor lads. cast out and wretched,
when your father and your mother for
sake you, who then will take you upY and
the boy said, ''The perlice, the perliceP
In the midnight, gambling doesits worst
work What though the hours be slipping
away, and though the wife be waiting in
the cheerless homer Stir up the fire.
Bring on more drinks Put up more
stakes. That commercial house that only
a little while ago put out sign Of copartner-
ship will this season be wrecked on q gam
bler's table There will be many a money
till that will spring leak A member Of
congress gambled with a member elect and
won sl20, 0,000 The old way Of getting liv-
ing Is 30 slow. The old way Of getting a
fortune is so stupid. Come, let us toss up
and see who shall have IL. And 30 the
work goes on, from the wheezing wretches
pitching pennies in a rum grocery up to the
millionaire gambler in Che stock market.
TIRE GAMBLERS HOURS.
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 poolroom ticker. At these places
merchant princes dismount, and legislators
tired Of making laws, take respite in
breaking them. All classes of people are
robbed by this crime, theimportero of foreign
silks and the dealer of Chatham street
pocket handkerchief 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 fnd the sus-
pended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be the
| splendor of the surroundings there is no ex-
cuse for this crime. The thunders Of eter-
nal destruction roll in the deep rumble Of
that gambling tenpin alley, and as men
come out to join the long procession of sin
all the drums of woe beat the dead march
of thousand souls. In one year in the city Of
New York there were 81, 900, 900 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 morn
ing 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 splendid building
uptown" No. Then the villain will un-
dertake to show you what he calls the
lions" and the elephants" and after a
young man, through morbid curiosity OF
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 hotels with sleek
hats-always sleek hats--and patronizing
all, and unaccountable interest about your
! welfare and entertainment You are a fool
If you cannot see through 1t. They want
| your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
was living in that city, an incident occurred
|
nut street a young man went into gam
bling saloon, lost all his property, then
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 highwaymsn
for the belated traveller on whose body he
heaps the stones, there is more mercy in
the frost for the flower il kills, there is
more mercy in the hurricane that shivers
the steamer on the Long Island coast than
there is mercy In the heart Of gambler for
| his victim.
| DRUNKENNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
In the midnight hour, also, drunkenness
does its worst. The drinking will be re-
spectacle at s o'clock In the evening, lit
tie flushed at Q, talkative and garrulous at
TO- at II blaspnemous, at 10 the hat falls of
and the man falls to the floor asking for
more drink. Strewn through the drinking
saloons of the city, fathers, brothers, hus.
bands, sons, as good as you are by nature,
| perhaps better
In the high circles of society it is hushed
| up. Amerchant prince, If he gets noisy and
uncomfortable, is taken by his fellow revel-
ers, who try to get him to bed, or take him
home, where he falls fiat in the entry. Do
not wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them knowi it.
| Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be
hushed up--when the rum touches the
brain and the man becomes thoroughly
| frenzied.
! Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you
cannot hush it up. You do not see The
worst. In the midnight meetings q GREAT
| multitude have been saved. We want a
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