Democratic messenger., 1893-04-15

60 to their work of darkness This Ia a
burglar. and the false key will soon touch
the store lock. This is an incendiary, and
before morning there will he light ON the
sky and cry of Fire. fire. This is an as
sassn. and tomorrow morning there will
he a dead body in one of the vacant lots.
During the daytime these villains 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 Il
or pursue, they are ready
Many Of these poor creatures were brought
up in hat way. They were born in thieves
garrct Their childish toy was burglar
dark lantern. The first thing they remem-
ber was their mother handagiiss the brow
of their father. struck by the police club.
They began 10y robbing boys pockets. and
now they have come To dig the underground
passage to the cellar of the bank, and are
1 preparing to blast the gold vault
| just so long as there are neglected chill
drcn of the ircct, just 50 long we will have
these dcspcradocs. Some one, wishing to
make "a good Christian point and TO quote
a passage of Scripture. expecting to get n
Scripiural passage in answer, said to one
of these poor lads. cast out and wretchcd,
When your father and your mother for
sake you. who then will take you up;' and
the hoy said. The pcrlice. the perlice.'
| In the midnight. gambling does its worst
work What though the hours he slipping
away. and though the wife be waiting in
the chccrcss home; Stir up the fire.
l Bring on more drinks. Put up more
stakes. That commercial house that only
little while ago put out sign of copartner-
blers table. There will he many money
till that will spring leak. \ member of
congress gamble,l with II member elect anl
won slaO,Oo The old way of gettinga liv-
ing is SO slow The old way Of getting a
fortune is 81 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 II rum grocery up tn the
millionaire gambler in the stock market.
Till GAMBLEI,s HOURS.
In the midnight hour. pass down the
streets Of our American citiee, and you hear
the click of the dice and the sharp. keen tar
of the poolroom ticker. At these places
merchant princes dismount. and Legislators
tired Of making laws. take a respite in
breaking them. All classes Of people are
robbed by this crime. the importerof foreign
silks and the dealer of Chatham street
pocket handkerchiefs. The clerks Of the
store take "a 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 sus-
pended bodies of suicides. Whatever be the
splendor of the surroundings mere is no ex-
ctsc for this crime. The thunders Of eter-
nal destruction roll in the deep rumble of
that gambling tenpin alley, and as men
come ont To join the long procession Of sin
all the drums of woe heat the dead march
of a Thousand souls. In one year in the cit y Of
New York there were 81. 600 sacrificed ut
the gaming table.
| Perhaps some of your friends have been
>miiicn of this sin. Perhaps some of you
have been sE,ittcn 10y il. Perhaps there
may be Il 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
Hons and the elephants" and after a
young man, through morbid curiosity or
through badness of soul. has seen the
lions and the ELEPHANTS he will he ON
enchanted ground. Look out for these
men who move around the hotels with sleek
hats-always sleek hats-and patronizing
air. and unaccountablc interest about your
welfare aud entertainment. You are a fool
If you cannot see through it. They want
/ your money.
| In Chestnut street. Philadelphia, while
was living in that city. an incident occurred
which WAS familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street n 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 shullling cards again. You
see there is more mercy in the highwayman
. for the belated traveller on whose body he
heaps the stones. there is more mercy in
,spital, Baltimore, for the past month,
| ived here on the Steamer Pocomoke $
iurday last While there it was neces-
j'y for him to undergo the painful Oper
on of having his limb amputated jnst
low the knee.
Allison Miles, of this place, and Miss
Iizabcth Dorsey, of Somerset county,
ERE married IN the Salem NJ +. Church
| "Wednesday afternoon at , O'Clock.
he sacred edifice was filled To overflow
= with the many friends of the contract
Z parties. Promptly at the hour named
|. bride, leaning on the arm of her
ended, walked up the aisle of the
irch to the exquis site strains of the
dial march rendered on the organ by
IS Berthe Tull. Rev. +. G. Mac Nichol
rformed the ceremony which united !
happy couple. Immediately after The
'emony they were driven to the depot
ere they took the Old Point Express
Dendron, Virginia, where they will
ide in the future. We extend congratu-
| ions 10 the newly married couple and
III them long and prosperous life.
rhe Band of Hope will meet tomorrow
lnday) afternoon in the Baptist Church
% clock.
stop the snawIng oi an empty stomach or
to warm stocknglcss feet Take bread,
take r:,iment. take medicine as well as take
prayer. There is great deal of common
senss in what the poor woman said to the
city missionary when he was telling her
how she ought tn love Cod aud serve him
''Oh." said she. If you were as poor and
cold as ! am and aS hungry, you could
think of nothing else
\ great deal Of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing; for the simple rea-
son it is not Practical as after the battle of
| Aniirtam n man i,nt out of an ambulance
with a bag of tracts, AMI he went distribut-
ing the irac;s. an,l George stuart. one Of
the best Christian men in this country. said