San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-22

1t is only when the curtains OF
the night are drawn that the noxi-
GUS things that dread the light
comes forth TO prowl in the dark
ness and crush out the life and
hope of earth. The wild beasts OF
the jingle and the wilder beasts
of humanity, who lie dormant in
the dens OF infamy and sleep dur
ing the day, come forth to seek
their prey when the curtains OF the
night are drawn and peace giveth
her beloved sleep. How hard the
kingdoms Of heaven and hell join
territory can never be known to
those who have not gone forth in
the night to learn wisdom, the
wisdom of light and darkness, of
shame and security, Of peace and
discord, mercy and murder, OF
hate and love, Of cleanliness and
impurity, of damnation and SAL
walton, of man in his best estate
and in the lowest hell OF his ma
ture.
Night is the season sacred to
pure affection as we'll as to widest
passion. At the shut OF holy eve
how d ear the gatherings around
the old home fire and the sweet
condolences of those who take
pure pleasure in the dear COM
muings of that hour. How natur-
al as the sun goes down to let
the wrath Of the spirit set also,
bearing the admonition Of the
wise man in mind. How the
peace that flows as river gathers
volume as the light OF the quiet
stars come down, the glimmer Of
a celestial lamp to light the
thoughts to the upper plains Of
cleanest living and thinking. AS
the harmonies OF universe speak
in the ear Of the night contempls.
tors, who study the stars and find
in them the answer to so much
of earth'S questionings, how the
discords OF human hearts and
lives die out, and how quick the
spirit to catch the key note Of
the music OF the spheres.
Alas! Night is also the time OF
widest revel and most unhal-
lowed passion. Dabaucheries null
tiply under the canopy OF the
darkness, and all riot gains cour-
age as the light that reveals is
quenched in the night blackness'
Crime grows bold as the eye OF
day is closed by the finger OF night,
and in unblushing effrontery
stalks abroad under the lamps
of the city, or hides in the shadows
of the obscurity that it may sally
forth to its work of destruction
when a victim approaches. AS
the noise of daily business dies
out the rising sounds Of revelry
take their places and the scene
is changed as by the wand Of the
black magician. To I, c
seek the darkness to find only the
fruitage of sin, evils stands on
the neck of good and rules the
world alone.
Strange that the same evening
shadows which call the pure to the
home nest, and the pious to the
place Of prayer, call the prurient tt
the palaces Of sin and to the cham
bers Of death. The same quie
night lights, under which tn,
imaginations Of the clear
thoughted grow elevated, risin.
to the eternal uplands where tn
breezes are untainted and tn
life takes on divineness, cal
forth in others the foules
thoughts and down into the deep
est depths OF depraved though
and unchaste feeling and uncleal
action plunges them. The sam
stars that mirror forth the celes
tisl lights of the habitations O
purity to one, reflect back tn,
flaming lamps Of the honses Of i'm
fanny and pollution. Seeing al
the evil and all the good that i
done under cover Of the night, on,
wonders much at the strange des
tiny that so marries all thes
under the white canopy OF tn
overhanging night.
In the night conscience grow
scared In one and quickened Il