Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-10-14
them. An 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 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 about
the city, to find the suspended bodies
of suicides Whatever be the splendOr
of surroundings, there is no excuse for
this crime. The thunders of eternal
destruction roll in the deep rumble of
that gambling tenpin alley, and as men
come out to join the long procession Of
sin all the drums of death beat the
dead march of thousand souls.
In one year in New York city there
was $7,OOO,OOO sacrificed at the gam
ing table. Perhaps some of your
friends have been smitten of this sin;
perhaps some of you have been smitten
by it; perhaps there may be a stranger
here 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 villain will undertake to
show you what he calls the lions and
the elephants" and after a young
man. through morbid curiosity o.
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 patronizing air and unaccountable
interest about your welfare and enter
tainment. You are a fool if you can
not see through it. They want your
Gambling and Drunkenness.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
while 1 was living in that city, an in
cident occurred which was familiar to
US there. In Chestnut street a young
man went into a gambling saloon, lost
all his property, then blew his brains
out, and before the blood was washed
from the floor by the maid the COM
rades were shutting cards again. You
see, there is more mercy in the high
wayman 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
n the hurricane that shivers the
steamer on the Atlantic coast, than
here is mercy in the heart of a gam.
bier for his victim.
In the third watch of the night also
does its worst. The drink
ng will be respectable at o'clock in
he evening, a little flushed at 8, talk
ltive and garrulous at 10, at II bias
)hemous, at II the hat falls off, at l
he man falls to the floor, asking for
more drink. Strewn through the drink
ng saloons of the city, fathers, hus-
bands, sons as good as you are by ma
ure, perhaps better. In the high circles
IF society it is hushed up. a merchant
prince, if be gets noisy and uncontroI-
able, is taken by his fellow jewellers,
who try to get him to bed or take him
home, where he falls fiat in the entry.
DO not wake up the children. They
lave had disgrace enough. Do not let
hem know it. Hush it up. But some
lines it cannot be hushed up when the
um touches the brain and the man be-
omes thoroughly frenzied. Such a
me came home, having been absent
or some time, and during his absence
lis wife died. and she lay in the next
DOM, prepared for the obseques, and
e went in and dragged her by the locks
nd shook her out of her shroud and
'itched her out Of the window. Oh,
When rum touches the brain you can
lot hush it up.
My friends, you see all around about
ou the need that something radical be
lone. You do not see the worst. In
he midnight meetings in London a |
reat multitude have been saved. We |
want a few hundred Christian men and |
women to come down from the highest |
ircles of society to toll amid these |
and destitute ones and kim
lie up a light in the dark alley, even |
he gladneSs Of heaven. Do not go |
in your fine furs and from |
our we'll filed tables with the idea |
hat pious talk is going to stop the |
,nawing of an empty stomach or to |
warm stCcllingless feet. Take bread, |
axe raiment, take medicine, as well |
S take prayer. There is a great deal
f common sense in what the poor wo-
nan said to the city missionary when |
lie was telling her how she ought to
owe God and serve him. ooh" she
aid, eff you were as poor and cold as
am and as hungry you could think Of
lothing else!''
Power of a Helpful Word.
A great deal Of what is called Chris
ian work goes for nothing, for the sim
lie reason it is not practical. AS after
he battle of Antietam a man got out
Il an ambulance with a bag of tracts,
md he went distributing the tracts,