Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-10

their work Of darkness. This is
burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store Jock. This is an incen-
diary, and before morning there will be
q light on the SKY, and cry OF Fire!
frew This Is an assassin, aud to-mor-
row morning there will be 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
we're brought up in that way. They
were born in u thieves garrett. Their
childish toy was burglars dark-lan-
tern. 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 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 4 Good Christian point
| and 20 quote passage Of Scripture, eX-
pectiug to get Scriptural passage In
answer, said TO one OF these poor lads,
cast out ana wretched, "When your
| father and mother forSake you, who
! then will take you up?" and the BOY
ha
In the midnight, gambling does us
worst work What though the hours be
slipping away, and though the wife be
waiting in the cherries home? Stir up
/ the fire. Bring on more drinks. Put up
more drinks. That commercial house
/ that only little while ago put out sign
4 of copartnership will this season be
wrecked on a gamblers table. There
will be many a money-till that Will
spring q leak. A member Of Congress
/ eambled with member-elect and won
/ Sl2O 600. The old way of getting liv-
ing is so slow. The old way OF getting
q fortune is so 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 a rum
7 AEOttIE up " Luu uAAAAtNAN.AS
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, keen tap OF the pool
room ticker. At these places merchant
princes dismount, and legislators tired
of making laws take a respite in break
ing them. All classes or people are
robbed by this crime. tho importer OF
foreign silks and the dealer in Chatham
street pocket handkerchiefs. The clerks
Of the store take hand after the shut
ters are put up, and the officers of the
court while away their time while the
Jury is out. Ia BadenBaden, when
that city was the greatest OF all gam
bling places on earth, il was no unusual
thing next morning in the woods around
that city, to find the suspended bodies
of suicides. Whatever be the splendOr
OF the surroundings there is no excuse
for this crime. The thunderS of eter-
nal destruction roll In the deep rumble
Of that gambling ten-pin alley, and as
men come out TO join in the long pro-
cesSion 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 seven million dollars
sacrificed at the gaming table. Per-
haps some OF your friends have been
smitten OF this sin. Perhaps some OF
you have been smitten by II. Perhaps
there may be a stranger in the house
this morning come from some Of the ho-
tells. Look out for those agents Of in
iouity who tarry around about the no.
tolls, aud ask you, Would you like to
see the city?" Yes. Have you ever
seen that splendid building uptown"
No. Then the william will undertake 10
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" aud 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 I'M
accountable interest about your
welfare and entertainments You
are a fool If you cannot see though 1t.
They want your money. In Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, while / was
living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar TO US there. In
Chestnut street young man went
into gambling saloon, lost all his
property, then blew his brains out,
and before the blood was washed from
the floor by the maid, tie comrades
were shutting cards again. You see
there is more mercy in the highwayman
for the belated traveller on whose body
he heaps stones, there is mere 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 a gambler for his
victim.
In the midnight hour, also, drunken
ness does il worst. The drinking will
be respectable az eight o'clock In the
evenig, q little flushed at nine, laxative
and garrulous st ten, at eleven.olasphem-
Gus, at twelve the hat falls of and the
man falls to the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the the driking-
saloons of the city, fathers, brothers,
husbands, sons, as good as you are by
nature, perhaps better.
N THE HIGH CIRCLES OF SOCIETY
il is hushed up. A merchant prince,
il he gets noisy and uncomfortable, is
taken by his fellow-reveIers, who try
70 get him TO bed, or take him home,
where be falls fat in the entry. Do
not wake up the children. They had
disgrace enough. DO not let them
know it. Hush il up. But sometimes
IL cannot be hushed up, when the rum
touches the brain and the man becomes
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