The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-01

has sought an eerie, where neither noise nor fOotfall shall disturb.
 Looking from any lofty roof, the l maze of lights is most interesting. You lose the individual possibilities and are 1 unable, except in certain very notable 1 cases, to distinguish the most familiar ] buildings. A widespread glow, which Is affected by the dust cloud increasingly ] rising from the thoroughfares. and seems goldern mist through which points of special brillianey shine with star-like clearness, spreads itself be- low you.
 What is down there where men and women walk and struggle and are mer- "? The insistent demand of imagina- tion cannot be silenced. All the vital interests of million people are down in that shining mist. Over the rivers, arc hes of light guide thousands backward above forward above the dark water where unseen boats seem to be bus jed as torch-bearers swiftly carrying other lights hither and thither. Where does justice wait to baffie or punish vice? Where do evil creatures of the night find places shadowy enough in which to hide themselves?
 But yesterday additional strength was given to the lighting of quiet street not subject to natural suspicion. The first object it unveiled at midnight was a wreck of womanhood, not yet old, too drunken to rise unassisted from the steps on which she had sunk down her tattered hat on the pavement at her feet, her long thick hair falling III coarse locks over her shoulders. Ruin ed, unredeemable by any human agent, blot on her race, disgrace to her sex, why had she chosen to stop before the vivid illumination of that penetrating | light, which showed every pitlful de- tail of her degradation without mercy?
 As she went shouting down the street impelled by the officers determination I to make her move on. there seemed ar
 absolute cruelty in the shadowless ,brightness in which she staggered
 away. Yet to this same pitiless shining
 many a defenceless man may owe the life which darkness might have endang- cred. It is good-no doubt it is not on- ly good, but very merciful- to in-
 crease and multiply the radiance be- fore which evil flies and is afraid.
 And there is certainly a share of beauty in the wide distribution of that which mans genius has given us to this end. Arriving after weary jour- |ney, the gay, shining lights seem like a welcome and give an air of jubila- tion of the city, that has a tinge of
 personal greeting for which we are
 thankful.
 Country lovers cannot help the thoughts which finger about well re-
 membered roadways, where beacons were the cheerful windows of homes
 that looked hospttable, the scented
 sweetness of the air through which
 they gently guided you. The dewy
 August evenings rich in the spicy
 odors that take the place of flowers, lnow gone, were lovely indeed, with
 only these friendly lights and those of
 Heaven to show the way. How bright
 were the open places whence one could Hook at the splendid stars of the
 Archer and the great Scorpion leading
 southward. Such refuges dusky paths
 for tired eyes and ears!
 Fairness makes even one quite coun, ltry-crazed remember also perilous
 drives in gloomy spots where only
 equine wisdom could keep the road
 in safety, and yield assent, however ireluctantly to young voices which be
 seech that no one advocates dark ] driveways. Yet the advent of gas light under the lens at your gate car never cease to be an intrusion, and il remains true that they convert a road
 into a street or "a place, which in thu dear midsummer Is not a coveted pro,
 motion, however matters may look 1T
 icy winter nights.
 One light there Is which has a nys' ! terious beauty as it rises above certain places in the city that know best; tht ! shinging glory of cross upon twt towers that stand where many neet ] comfort sorely, and many are dead t
 the appeal of the voices of men. Thert
 is a strange force in this fiery signal 0 salvation among hundreds and hun ldreds of lamps which have only al : earthly significance. Here is refug
 never closed, defense never asleep, light which never fails to the timid i speaks peace, to the despairing hope
 to the evil-hearted it says Beware" :" I recall wildly the extraordinar, effect upon an old sailor, who comini : up the bay of New York saw the ligh of the setting sun make radiant tn
 cross, just newly placed on the spir of Trinity Church but then completed q did not think about a church Q i anything I had ever seen before h said. II just felt as if we had com , out of a big storm into safe port, :, We had not in that day learned as s people, the power of that blessed sym ! bol in the public places of our emerg - ing country, and it had been a bray f and reverent act to lift it over the pee
 ple's heads to gently greet those com ] ing in from sea. s. v Out of worse dangers and frot t fiercer storms, the lighted cross call 3 l steadfastly to the tempest-tosse r. Idwellers in our city's darkest places s and is as benignant among the light l. with which she guards her strangel y I tempted, heterogeneous population a y It's orgin was supernatural. Yer e wonderful and thrilling tales hay - those bright beacons for their basl f and they are full of teaching, of ths f light which goeth not out by night
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