Connecticut western news., 1893-04-13

of ''Firei FireH This IS an assassin, and, tomorrow morning there will be 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 fly or pursue, they are ready.
 Many of these poor creatures were brought up in that way. They were born in thieves garrett Their childish toy was burglars dark lantern. The first thing they remember was their mother bandaging the brow of their far ther, struck by the police club. They be- gan by robbing boys pockets, and now they have come to dig the underground 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 good Christian point and to quote passage of Scripture, ex. pecting to get Scriptural passage in an- swer, said to one of these poor lads. cast out and wretched, When your father and your mother forsake you, who then will take you upY and the boy said The perlice, the perlice."
 In the midnight gambling does it's 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 season be wrecked on a gamblers table. There will be many money till that will spring leak. A member of congress gambled with mepber elect and won S12O, O,OOO The old way of getting a liv ing is so slow The old way of getting fortune is so stupid. Come, let us toss up and see who shall have it. And so the work goes on, from the wheezins wretches pitching pennies in rum gro cery up to the millionaire gambler in the stock market.
 GAMBLERS OF ALL GLASSES.
 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, the importer of foreign silks and the dealer in Chatham street pocket handkerchiefs 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 be the splendor of the sur roundings, there is no excuse for this crime The thunders of eternal destruc- tion roll in the deep rumble of that gam bling 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 $7.000, 900 sac rifced at the gaming table.
 Perhaps some of your friends have been smitten of this sin. Perhaps some of you have been smitten byit. Perhaps there may be stranger in the house this morning 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 up town?" No. Then the viii lain will undertake to show you what he calls the 'slions" and the elephants" and after young man, through morbid curiosity or through badness of soul, has seen the ''ions" 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 air and unaccountable tainment. You are fool if you cannot see through it. They want your money.
 In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while was living in that city, an incident oc- cured which was familiar to us there. In Chestnut street, a young man went into gambling saloon, lost all his prop erty, then blaw his brains out, and be- fore the blood was washed from the floor by the maid the comrades were shuff1ing cards again. You see there is more mer. cy in tho highwayman for the belated traveller on whose body he heaps the stones; there is more mercy in the frost for the flower that it 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.
 DRINKING IN ALL RANKS.
 In the midnight hour also, drunken ness does it's worst The drinking will be respectable at o'clock in the even- ing, a little flushed at g, talkative and garrulous at 10. at il blasphemous, at 12 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, as good as you are by nature. per haps better.
 hushed up. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy and uncomfortable, is taken by his fellow revelers, who try to get him to Eod, or take him home, where he falls flat in the entry. Do not wake up the children. They have had digrace enough. Do not let them know it. Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be hush ed up-when the rum touches the brain and the man becomes thoroughly fren- zied.
 | Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you cannot hush it up. You do not see the worst. In the midnight meetings great multitude have been saved We want few hundred Christian men and women to come down from the highest circles of society to toll amid these wandering and destitute ones and kindle up light in the dark alley. even the gladness of heaven.
 Do not go from your well filled tables with the idea that pious talk is going to stop the gnawing of an empty stomach or to warm stockingless feet. Take bread, take raiment, take medicine as well as take prayer. There is a great deal of common sense in what the poor woman said to the city missionary when he was