Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-13
cities =
THE GRIMM

criminals do their worst Work!
At half past s o'clock you will hnd
them in the drinking saloon, but toward
- o'clock they go to their garrets' they
ret out their tools, then they start on the
Street Watching on either side for the
police, they go to their work OF aa,S. s
ness. This IS burglar, and the raise
kew vii, soon touch the store lock. Ihls
is an incendia-y, and before morning
there will be light on the sky and cry
of Fire: Fire!" This is an assassin,
and tomorrow morning there viii be
dead body in one of the vacant lots.
During the daytime these villains III our
c;t;es 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
feet to fly or pursue, they are ready
MANY of these poor creatures Were
bropoht 20 in that way They were
born in thieves garret. Their childish
toy was a burglars dark lantern. The
first thing they remember was thelr
mother bandaging the brow OF their f''-
ther. struck by The police club. They 2e
Gan bv robbing boys pockets. and now
fnev have come to dig the underground
massage 10 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-
pectiAg to get a Scriptural passage IL an
swer, said to one Of these poor lads. cast
out and wretched. When your father
and yoursmother forsake you. who then
Will take you up" and the boy said,
The perlice, the perhce.'
In the midnignt gambling does its
worst work. What though the hours he
shpring away and though the wife be
waiting in the cherries 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 copartrc,ship will this season be
wrecked on gamblers table. There
will be many money till that VIII
spring leak. A member of congress
earlbled with member elect and won
S1oG. eco. The old way of getting llv-
| iug is so slow. The old way of getting
a fortune is SO strpid. Come, let Cs toss
ND and see who shall have It And sc
the work goes on, from the wheeling
wretches pitching pennies in rum gro
| = - -. ;l1,o, ra c,ar, bI.,- IN the
stock market.
GAMBLERS OF ALI. CLASSES.
In the midnight hoyr 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 Al
these places merchant princes dismount
and legislators, tired of making laws
take a respite in breaking them. AL
classes Of people are robbed by this
crime. the importer of foreign silks and
the dealer in Chatham street pocKel
band,,eral.;.se. The clerks OF the store
| take hand after the shutters are pu
up. and the officers c, the court while
away their time while the jury is out.
In Raden-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 snspended bodies of suicides.
W,,.e41.;.,- be the splencor Of the sur
roJ,latsi.l .:s. ihere is no excuse for this
c.7n.a. Tie ilunders of eternal destruc;
ti.,l.yrssif'l Il the deep rumble of that gam
bling ts,>pin alley, and as men come ont
to jon II. .ong procession of sin all the
aeums of woe bea: the dead march OF a
thousa>ld souls. In one year IL, the city
Of New ork there were s. 00,G00 sac
ri6ced 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 iniquitv
who tarry around about the ho,oie ..l.>,
ask You. Would You like TO see the city,"
Yes. Have You ever seen that splendid
building up town. No. Then the vii
lain will undertake to show yc:: 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 these men who move around the
hotels with sleek hats-always sleek hats
and patro1lizing air AID unaccountable
interest about your welfare and enter
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.
La Chestnut street, q young man went
into gambling saloon, lost all MS prop
.erty, then blew his brains out and be-
fore the blood was washed from the floor
bv the maid the comrades were shifting.
cards again. You see there is more mer-
cy in the -highwavman for the oelated
traveller on whose body he heaps the
stones; ther" is more mercy in the frost
for the Cover that it kills: there is more
mercy in the hurricane that shiyers the
steamer on heAaong Island coast than
there is mercy in the heart of a gambler
for his victim.