Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-10

Nl1lcs lounge about, some asleep aud some
awake, but when Tho third watch Of Tho
night arrives, their eye keen, their brain
cool, ther arm strong, their foot heet Az
or pursue, they are ready.
Many OF thcse poor creatures were brought
upin that way. They were born ia thieves
garret. Their childish toy was a burglars
aark lantern. The first thing they rcmem-
per was their mother bandaging the brow
OF their father, struck by the police club.
Ihey began by robhing boys pockets, and
now they have come to dig the underground
passage 70 the cellar Of the bank and are
preparing TO blast the gold vault.
just so long az there arc neglected chill.
dren OF the street. just 80 long we win have
these desperadoes Some one, wishing to
make good Christian point and to quote
2 passage OF Scripture expecting 70 get a
Scflptural passage In answer, said TO ono
OF these poor lads, cast out and wretched,
When your father and your mother for.
sake you, who then viii take you upi" and
the boy said, THE peslice, the pcrlioe"
In the midnight, gambling does It's worst
work. What though tho hours bo slipping
away, md though the wife be waiting in
the cheerless homer Stir up the nre
Bring on more drinks. Put up more
stakes. That commercial house that only
little while ego put out sign OF copartner-
ship will this season be wrecked on a gam
bler's table. There will be many a money
TIL that will spring leak. A member OF
congress gambled with member elect and
won $4,000. The old way Of gettnga liv-
ing Is so slow. Tho old way OF getting
fortune Is 80 stupid. Come, let us toss up
and SEQ who shall have t. And so TIE
.
pitching pennies In rum grocery up TO the
millionaire gambler In the stock market
THE 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 dishouut, and Legislators
tired Of making laws, take n respite in
breaking them. All classcs OF people are
robbed by this crime the importerof foreign
silks and the dealer OF Chatham street
pocket handkerchief The clerks OF the
store take a hand after tho shutters are put
up, and the officers OF the court while away
their time while the fury Is out.
Ia Baden Baden, when that city was the
greatest Of all gambling places on earth, It
was no unusual thing the next morning ir
the woods around that city 60 find the sus.
pended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be the
splendor OF the surroundings there Is no ex.
cuse for this crime The founders OF ctei.
nal destruction roll la 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 n thousand souls. Ia one year in the city OF
Now York there were 81, 000,0 900 sacrificed at
the gaming table.
Perhaps some Of your friends have been
smitton of this sin. Perhaps some OF you
have been smitten by Il. Perhaps there
may be a stranger In the house this morn.
ing come from some OF tho hotels Look
out for those agents OF inlquity who tarry
around about the hotels and ask you,
"Would you like TO see the city" Yes
Have you ever seen that splendid building
uptownW No. Then the villain will un.
dertake 20 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 those
men who move around the hotels with sleek
hats-always sleek hats-and patronizing
air, and uuaccountable interest about your
welfare and entertainment. You arc fool
II you cannot sec through IL. They want
your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
was living In that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar 70 US there. In Chest
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 highwayman
for the belatod traveller on whose body lac
heaps the stones, there Is more mercy 10
the frost for the flower 1t kills, there is
more mercy In the hurricane that shiyers
the steamer on the Long Island coast than
there is mercy in the heart Of a gambler for
his victim.
DRUNKENNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
In the midnight hour, also, drunkenness
does its worst The drinking will be re-
spectacle at o'clock In the evening, a lit
tie flushed at o, tallative and garrulous at
10, at II blasphemous, at II tho hat falls off
and the man falls 10 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 IL Is hushed
up. merchant prince, II he gets noisy and
uncomfortable is taken by his fellow reyel.
ers, who try 10 get him TO bed or take him
home, where lac falls 1Rt in the entry Do
not wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them knowit.
Hush il up. But sometimes IL cannot be
hushed up-whcn the rum touches the
brain and the man becomes thoroughly
frenzied.
Oh, II 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
few hundred Christian men and women TO
come down from the highest circles OF so.
ciety 10 toll amid these wandering and des-
titute ones, and kindle mp a light In the
dark alley, even the gladness of heaven
Do not go from your well filed tables
with the idea that pious talk is going to
stop the Rnawing Of an empty stomach or
TO warm stocldngless feet. Take bread,
take raiment, take medicine as well as take
prayer. There "a a great deal Of common
sense in what the poor woman said 20 the
city missionary when he was telling her
how she ought TO love God and serve him
"oh, 4" said she, III you wero as poor and
cold aa | am and as hungry you could
think OF nothing elseW
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