Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-15

darkness. This is burglar, and the
false key will touch the store lock.
This is an incendiary, and before morn"
ing there will be light in the sky. and
cry of Fire. fire." This is an assassin,
and tomorrow morning there will he u
dead body in one of the vacant lots
During the day time these villains in
our cities lounge about, some asleep
and some awake. but when the third
watch of the night arrives, their eyes
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.
Just so long rs 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 Il passage of Scripture, cX-
pecting 20 get scriptural passage in
answer. said to one of these poor lads.
east out and wretched: when your
father and your mother forsalle You,
who then will take you up" and the
boy said, 1.-THE pcrlice. 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 checrless home? Stir
mp the fire. Bring on more drinks.
| Put mp more stakes. That commercial
house that only little while ago put
out sign of copartnersh;p will this sea-
son he wrecked on Il gamblers table.
| There will be many Il money-till that
will spring II leak.
| In tie midnight hour, pass down the
streets of our American cities, and You
hear the click of the dice and the sharp.
keen TRIP of the pool-room 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. the importer of foreign silks and
| the dealer in Chatham street pocket
handkerchicfs. 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
Whatever he the splcndor OF the sur
roundings. there is no excuse for this
crime The thunders Of eternal de-
struction roll in the deep rumble of
that gambling ten-pin alley, and as
men come ont To join the long process
sion of sin. all the drums of woe beat
the dead march of q thousand souls. In
one year in the city of New York there
were $1.0O000 sacrificed ut the gaming
table. Perhaps some of Your friends
have been sniitten OF this sin. Perhaps
some of You have been smittan by it,
Perhaps there may he stranger
in the house this morning come
from some of the hotels. Look
out for those agents of iniquity who
larry around about the hotels. and ask
Won: Would you like 10 see the city,"
Yes. "iIGve 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"
ana after Il Young man, through NOR
bid curiosity or through badness OF soul
has seen the lions" and the 'clc-
phants." he will be on enchanted
ground. Look ont for these men who
move around the hotels with sleek hats
always sleek hats-and patronizing
air. and unaccountablc interest about
your welfare and entertainment. You
are Il fool if you cannot see through it.
They want your money.
In the midnight hour. also, drunken
ness also does its worst. The drinking
will be respectable at 8 o'clock in the
evening. little flushed at 9. talllative
and gurrulous ut 10. at II blasphemous,
at II the hat falls off and the man falls
to the floor asking for more drink.
Strewn through the drinking saloons
of the city, fathers, brothers, husbands,
sons, us good as you are by nature, per-
haps better.
Do not go from your well-filled tables
with the idea that pious talk is going
to stop the cravings of an empty
stomach or to warm stocliingless feet.
Take bread. take raimant, take medi-
cine as well rs take prayers. There is
great deal of common sense in what
the poor woman said to the city mis-
sionary when he was telling her how
she ought to love God and serve him.
'Oh." said she, ''if you were as poor and
cold as am, and as hungry, you could
think of nothing else"
A great deal of what is called Christ
ian work goes for nothing for the sim
pie reason it is not practical. As after
the battle of Antictam man got out
of an ambulance with a bag of tracts.and
he went distributing the tracts. and
George Stuart, one of the best Christian
men in this country, said to him. What
are You distributing tracts for now?
There are 5000 men bleeding to death.