Connecticut western news., 1901-10-17

khCN NlN NiIlOnS pOOl, anu NhCl lore they do not deserve our sympa- thyw Are they vicious? So much more need they your pity. The Chris ian poor, God helps them. Through heir night there wrinkles the round aerry star of hope, and through the broken window they see the crystals f heaven, but the vicious poor they
 re more to be pitied. Their last light
 as gone out. You excuse yourself rom helping them by saying they are bad they brought this trouble on themselves. l reply. Where I give ten ,.ayers for the innocent who are suf 'cr&g I will give twenty for the guilty sho are suffering.
 Pass on through the alley. Open the ioor. Oh" you say, it is locked?' 70. it is not locked. It has never been ocked No burglar would be tempted go in there to steal anything. The :oor Is never locked. Only a broken
 hair stands against the door. Shove back Go in. Strike a match. Now )ok. Beastliness and rags. See those ..laring eyebails. Be careful now what 'ou say. Do not utter any insult, do
 ot utter any suspicion, if you value
 our life. What is that red mark on he wall? It is the mark of murder
 .'s hard! Look at those two eyes ris- ug up out of the darkness and out .om the straw in the corner, coming oward you. and as they come near you
 our light goes out. Strike another hatch. An, this is babe, not like hose beautiful children presented in
 aptism This little one never smiled. never will smile. A flower flung on
 I awfully barren beach. o Heavenly
 hepherd, fold that little one in thy
 rms! Wrap around you your shawl
 r your coat tighter, for the cold wind weeps through.
 A Hopeless Brow.
 Strike another match. An, Is it pos ,ible. that the scared and bruised face # that young woman ever was looked ito by maternal tenderness? Utter no corn. Utter no harsh word. No ray If hope has dawncd on that brow for many year. No ray of hope ever will lawn on that brow. But the light has zone out. Do not strike another light
 would be a mockery to kindle an ,ther light in such a place as that Pass out and pass down the street.
 Do you know it is in this third watch If the night that criminals do tleirworst work? It Is the criminals watch. At lalf past 8 o'clock you will find them n tLe drinking saloon. but toward 12 o'clock they go to their garrets, they get out their toc,s. then they start on he street. Watching on either side for he police, they go to their work of darkness. This Is burglar, and the alse key will soon touch the store lock; his is an inceEdiary. and before morn ng there will be light on the sky and cry of Fire! Fircw This is an as assin. and tomorrow morning there will be dead body in one of the va ant lots. During tie daytime these ..illains in our cities lounge about. some ,sleep and some awake. but when the third watch of the night arrives, theireye keen, their brain cool their arm strong, .heir foot fleet to fly or pursue. they are ready. Many of these poor creatures were brought up in that way. They were born in a thieves garret. Their childish toy was burglars dark Ian tern. The first thing they remember was their mother bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the police dub. They began by robbing boys pockets, and now they have come to Jig the underground, passage to the eel lar 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 Some one, wishing to make a good Christian point and to quote passage of Scripture, expecting to get a Scriptural passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast out and wretched. "When your father and your mother forsake you, who. then. will take you up?" And the boy said. ''The perlice!'
 The Way of Destruction.
 In the third watch of the night gam bling does its worst work. What though the hours be slipping away and though the wife be waiting in the cheer less home? Stir up the fire; bring on more drinks; put up more stakes! That house that only a little while ago put out sign of copartner- ship will this winter be wrecked on a gamblers table. There will be many a money till that will spring a leak. In the third watch of the night pass down the streets of these cities, and you hear the click of the dice and the sharp, keen stroke of the balls on the billiard table. At these places merchant princes dismount, and legislators. tired of mak- ing 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, 1t was no unusual thing the next
 ilOA HI thC WOOoo hAOhho ooOu' the city, to find the suspended bodies of suicides. Whatever be the splendoi of surroundings. there Is no excuse fol this crime. The thunders of eternal destruction roll in the deep rumble oi that gambling tenpin alley, and as men come out to join the long procession oi sin all the drums of death beat the dead march of thousand souls.
 In one year in New York city there was $7,OOO.00O sacrificed at the gam irg table. Perhaps some of you friends have been snitten of this sin perhaps some of you have been smitter by 1t; perhaps there may be stranger here from some of the hotels. Look out for those agents of inlquity who tarry around about the hotels and ask you, Would you like to see the city P Yes" Have you ever seen that splendid building up townY "No.' Then the villain will undertake tC show you what he calls the "lions" and the elephants" and after a young man, through morbid curiosity o,