The Banner-Democrat., 1893-06-03

iuily -UdTreu Uedcus Ou, AcdNCuiy |
Shepherd. fold that little one In Thy
arms. Wrap around you your shawl or
your coat tighter, for the cold night
wind sweeps through.
Strike another match. All! is it possible
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
will ever dawn on that brow. But the
light has gone out. Do not strike an
other light in such a 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 the mid
night.
Do you know it is in the midnight |
that criminals do their worst work?
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 is a
burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store lock. This is an in
cendiary, and before morning there
will be light in the sky, and cry OF
Fire! firer' 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 garret. 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 a good Christian point
and to quote passage of Scripture. ex-
pecting to get scrlptural 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: 1.-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 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 sea-
son be wrecked ON a gamblers table.
There will be many n money-till that
will spring leak. A member OF con-
gress gambled with member elect and
won one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars. The old way of getting
a living is so slow. The old way
; of getting a fortune is so stupid. Come,
let us toss mp and sec who shall have
. it. And SO the work goes Oh, from the
wheeling wretches pitching pennies in
a 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,
n keen tap of the pool-room ticker. Al
e these places merchant princes dis
4 mount, and legislators tired of making
4 laws, take respite in breaking them
! All classes Of people are robbed by thi'
: crime, the importer of foreign silks ant
! the dealer in Chatham street pocke
, handkerchief. The clerks of the stor'
take a hand after the shutters are pu
j. mn. and the officers of the court whil
4 away their time while the jury is out
b In Baden Baden,-when that city wa
q the greatest of all gambling places OF
= earth, it was no unusual thing tn
next morning. in the woods aroun'
= that city. to find the suspended bodle
- of suicides. Whatever be the splendo
~ of the surroundings, there is no excus
g for this crime. The thunders of etel
a nal destruction roll in the dee
~ rumble of that gambling tempt
,e alley, and as men come out :
join the long procession OF sin, a
"a the drums of woe beat the deac
ID march of thousand souls. In on
Ia year, in the city of New York, ther
"a were seven million dollars sacrificed a
n. the gaming table. Perhaps some
"a your friends have been smitten OF tn
ID sin. Perhaps some of you have bee
sv smitten by it. Perhaps there may I
he a stranger in the house this mornin
a come from some of the hotels. Loo
=. ont for those agents of iniquity WI
" tarry around about the hotels, and as
lis you: "would you like to see the city
re Yes. Have you ever seen that spie
ho did building uptown" No. Then Il
w. villain will undertake to show W
20. what he calls the ''lions" and u
.el elephants" and after your
mt man. through morbid curiosity
ct through badness of soul, has seen Il
,st .lionsn and the elephants" he W
at be on enchanted ground. Look out
to these men who move around the
ad tells with sleek hats-always sle
". hats-and patronizing air. and una
for countable interest about your welfa
nv and entertainment You are fool
~. Won can not see through it They wa
vour money. In Chestnut street, Ph
he adelphia, while was living in tn
4 . CITY. an incident occurred which "
.en familiar to us there. In Chestn
ed street a young man went into ga
Nc Hing saloon. lost all his property, tn